Another non-event: Assembly races
By Wally EdgeThere is a decent chance that Republicans will not pick up any Assembly seats on Election Day; that would be the first time since 1955 that neither party picked up or lost Assembly seats, and the first time in a gubernatorial election year since 1925.
The most competitive Assembly race in the state is in District 1, where Democratic Assemblymen Nelson Albano and Matthew Milam are seeking re-election in a Republican-leaning district. The incumbents have a huge cash advantage, thanks to a powerful South Jersey Democratic fundraising organization. Battles to unseat Democrats in districts 4, 14, 22, and 36 are uphill. No Republican incumbents appear especially vulnerable.
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Milam and Albano are good for 1st District
First District voters are smart. For two successive campaigns the Republicans have hired a "Slick Billy" ,out of towner, to try to con the people of the 1st District.
Bill Pascoe ran Asselta's campaign into the ground, and he is doing the same this year for the two light weights Donohue and McCann.
Both Albano and Milam have represented the District well. Both a fiscal conservatives who understand the value of the middle class workers in their District.
They also understand that the GOP idea of laying off state workers who work in the state prisons and developmental centers in the District is a shortsighted way to handle budget problems.
Pascoe ,as an outsider in the District, is not even aware of this fact.
Albano ,Milam, and their State Senate counterpart Jeff Van Drew have worked hard for the people of the 1st District.
Once again the Democrats will send Slick Billy away with a loss.
if that aint insider baseball
And its painfully obvious that you are somehow connected to the campaign. "The Van Drew Team" is laughable. They will win, and these two will even get my vote over their happless opponents, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Milam and Albano do as thye are told. Whatever Jeff tells them to do they do. Whatever the winds tell Jeff to do he does, unless of course norcross puts down the hammer and then he listens to that. Jeff Matt and Nelson are all "good enough" for the powers that be in Trenton, but not one of them is a good Democrat (to be fair the jury is out on Milam). All three of these guys bucked the Governor at every turn, and why? Because it was politically expeiant not because it was the right thing to do.
The LoBo factor
Pascoe didn't run Asselta's campaign into the ground, LoBiondo never let him get behind the wheel to begin with. And no republican is going to win in D1 while LoBiondo is in D.C. The last thing he wants is a nervous Van Drew running for Congress, which he will do if his runningmates lose and he gets a sense his State Senate seat will be targeted next. LoBo and Status Quo, perfect together.