Running a multinational corporation like Goya instantly separates him from a career academic and a nationalist dentist in terms of real world experience.  Add to this that he holds an MBA in global business from a top graduate school and you begin to paint a picture of someone who can speak with both firsthand knowledge and authority on the economic issues inherent in a global economy.

It will be interesting to see where he comes down on the issues.  It also bears noting that Lautenberg himself initially ran as a political outsider who had made his bones as corporate kingpin.  Could Unanue be the next incarnation of this persona to succeed the Garden State's most powerful octagenarian?  Just some food for thought ... Goya, oh boy-a!!!  

The Full Murray Army hasn't gotten to this poll yet....they will just as they did to yesterday's poll against Lautenberg. Maybe this time Murray won't send an email to supporters asking them to vote in an unscientific poll..ha.

Murray Sabrin would probably release yet another press release claiming that there is a conspiracy against him were Wally to limit these polls to NJ residents.

Murray@murraysabrin.com to me
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Friends,
Below is my press release announcing the start of our Legalize Freedom College Tour and my op-ed addressing the elimination of a national drinking age from 21. Our campaign to Legalize Freedom is going tremendously as my primary opponent Joe Pennacchio's campaign has been floundering since the release of his fascist manifesto earlier this week. We have received incredible support throughout New Jersey and around the country and if we receive the necessary resources we will defeat the extremely liberal Frank Lautenberg in November. For more information please visit my website www.MurraySabrin.com.

Regards,
Murray

P.S. There is an online poll at www.politickernj.com asking "Who wins a U.S. Senate race between Frank Lautenberg and Murray Sabrin?" - I encourage you to go vote (only once).

credibility, the participants should vote for who they think will actually win. This means that you shold vote for the person who will actually win, and this means that you may have to vote against the person you are supporting.

Sure, but that never happens so you might as well vote for who you support.

i AM disputing that Murray has significant grass roots support.  He has a small coterie of committed zealots who actively populate blogs and websites to create the illusion of widespread support. At the end of the day, it's all smoke and mirrors.  Just like Ron Paul winning county straw polls and then doing about 5% in the statewide primary.  Except for Gloucester, Murray's been consistently runnning 80/20 behind Pennacchio and Pennacchio ain't exactly a rock star candidate.

these polls are a lot like the old little rascals episode where alfalfa asks Mr Hood who is stronger, Tarzan or Flash Gordon.  They don't mean a heck of a lot of anything.  They mean even less when they are manipulated and twisted by a band of hackers.  Unanue's name was in the news for a minute and a half and for the first few hours before the horde descended on the website, he had double digit leads over the presumptive front runner and the guy with all the grass roots support.

if it shows you anything, it's that people are looking for somethng better than the 2 guys already in the race. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UmloI5LumA

:)

....Sabrin supporters vote on PolitickerNJ.com polls.

Whether they vote at the actual polls--remains to be seen.

Did a libertarian-minded youth steal your girlfriend in high school? Or do you like paying high taxes and having huge deficits? Otherwise I cant explain your irrational loathing of the very decent professor Dr. Sabrin.

You obviously possess intimate knowledge regarding the inner workings of the Goya empire.  How did you come about this initmate knowledge?  Please, let us know your bona fides to make such a claim.  Any one who has ever worked in a corporate setting understands that boards of directors often stage coups to remove even the most competent executives for any one of a variety of reasons.  This kind of infighting is common, especially within a family setting. 

Moreover, I made the point that Unanue is uniquely suited to match up with Lautenberg given that he can run on essentially the same message FL ran on when he initially won the Senate seat.  You also conveniently ignore the fact that I specifically mentioned that Unanue holds an MBA in global business.  I see this as an asset in a time when our economy is floundering.  Are you now going to tell me that his father bought him this degree or that the professorial faculty since stripped him of this credential because they preferred Del Monte to Goya? And, for the record, where did I mention Unanue's wealth as a factor in finding his candidacy of potential interest?  I didn't.   

I also qualified what I said by stating, " It will be interesting to see where he (Unanue) comes down on the issues."  I am obviously not blindly pushing Unanue as you imply.  Rather, I am cautiously optimistic about his prospects given that the two current candidates stand little chance of beating Lautenberg, who MUST be removed from office as soon as possible.

is that Ron Paul's message while laudable in many respects does not offset the divisive tactics that Paul and his supporters use.

We need a candidate who can appeal to all of the wings of the Republican party. I don't know whether  Andy Unanue is that person yet, but I do know that Murray Sabrin is not that person.

He's kinda like that kid in high school who used to say "Sure, I gotta girlfriend.  She just doesn't live around here so you don't know her."  Sabrin's people want you to believe that the Sabrinistas are laying in wait all over the state...a silent majority if you will.  That's a joke.  Schundler had a silent majority.  Sabrin has a handful of phanatics.  The fact that Unanue does so well even in this jacked up insiders only poll speaks to the fact that there is ZERO interest in having either of these guys on top of the ticket.  Who wants to run under a candidate who's getting his brains beaten in for advocating legalized drugs and prostitution?  Probably the same party member who wants to run under a candidate who's getting his brains beaten in for advocating the end of medicare and social security.  Put either Sabrin and Pennachio on top and be prepared to watch them lose 70-30 or worse. 

He  did the work and won more conventions and won the line in most counties incl Bergen.  So message to Eric and the Sabrin camp, get over it. The Republican grass roots have for the most part already spoken and will never ever accept being force fed with GOYA food.

http://domapp01.shu.edu/depts/affairs/Setonian.nsf/d5b2806150d5195f85256adc006592cd/f8d1ea4eedde253885256ea800444da0?OpenDocument 

"Joseph Unanue will also be receiving an honorary degree. Unanue is the former president of CEO of Goya Foods, Inc., the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the country. He was president of Goya for 27 years, until he was overthrown by his two nephews, Robert I. Unanue and Francisco R. Unanue.
His nephews voted him off of the company’s three-member board, and then, acting as a two member board fired him as president and CEO, and his son, Andy Unanue, as COO of the company.

“We had been talking about transition and leadership for some time, and natural progression,” Robert Unanue said. “The company decided that it was time for that leadership to come about.”

Robert and Francisco Unanue have filed a lawsuit in Delaware to render their removal of Joseph Unanue from the board valid. They cited in the lawsuit that Joseph had “refused to comply” with the wishes of the board on certain issues.

Joseph and Andy Unanue have filed a lawsuit in New Jersey Superior Court, demanding to be either reinstated or bought-out. The issue that has divided the family so staunchly is whether to allow major retailers such as Wal-Mart to control how Goya prices, displays and distributes its products, which new CEO, Robert Unanue objects to."

There is a difference between winning an online poll and having a broad base of support because if winning an online poll translated into actuall support, Ron Paul would be the Republican nominee right now.

Instead of the two conservatives running currently. 

I don't want Jersey Joe telling me whether I can have an abortion or not and the New Jersey Republican Party has proven it is PRO-CHOICE!  I don't care about any of the other comments or allegations being made about Andy, if he is pro-choice and he has the money to run a campaign that is good enough for me.

I only wish Christie Whitman would run for Senate.

I don't think you understand what the abortion debate is about.  Otherwise I could tell you that you're pro-choice-of-murdering other people.  If a parent doesn't want their child, they can just kill him or her off... it is their choice.  See, that's what you're implying.  The real abortion debate is much more complex.

All of you conservatives are going crazy - you are going to LOSE in the primary.

We finally have a moderate Republican to run against these neantherdals who are going to meet the Ice Age by the time Andy and Rob Ortiz get done with you.

Andy can run as a pro-choice, pro-immigrant, pro-environment Republican calling for tax cuts and he WINS against Frank Lautenberg.  He will be the perfect comparison to Bob Menendez.

I can't wait to see how long it takes for all the counties that got behind Jersey Joe to switch to Andy.

Na na na na, na na na na, heh heh - Good bye Jersey Joe!

Who is that Andy?

    How can GOPgal even half-seriously suggest that it is too bad that Christie Whitman is not a candidate? She ran statewide three times and never got even 50% of the vote. As an incumbent seeking re-election in good economic times, she got a whooping 47% and only got a point more than a then-unknown Democrat. Meanwhile, on her watch, the New Jersey GOP (who had 2/3's majorities in the legislature before she took office) fell steadily toward oblivion. Christie Whitman couldn't get elected dog-catcher these days.

    Folks like GOPgal can pick on pro-life candidates all they want, but the plain fact is that pro-choice Republican candidates have also taken a drubbing at the polls in New Jersey. Tom Kean Sr., running for re-election, is the only pro-choice Republican since Roe v. Wade to get a majority (50%+). Meanwhile, pro-life Ronald Reagan easily carried the state twice. 

Maybe then Jersey Joe will move ahead. Obviously, Wally Edge is holding it off until Andy overtakes Murray in order to annouce his victory. That was hard to figure out. That's why I sought the expertise of Estabrook's (sorry Unanue's) campaign staff. 

I think that you can extend the poll for as long as you want but Hi Ho Joe's stock will never recover the Manifesto he penned for The People's Republic of New Jersey. He even scares Democrats.

"Hollywood is a place whre thy'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul." - Marilyn Monroe (She never knew how profound she was.)

Because some a-wipe with a computer wrote an ANONYMOUS email throwing a bunch of baseless questions out about Unanue that equals "questions being raised about his past?"  So if I send out an anonymous email saying that someone should ask Sabrin if he's ever been charged with domestic violence that's tantamount to "questions being raised about Sabrin?"  Please.  For those of you who want to know something about the Goya issue, see yesterday's USA Today story profiling Goya CEO Bob Unanue (Andrew's cousin):

 http://www.usatoday.com/_ads/interstitial/2008/page/interstitial.htm?http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2008-03-23-bob-unanue-goya-foods_N.htm

 Here's the significant part from a cousin, Bob Unanue, who now runs the company: 

"Unanue faced family conflict head-on about five years ago when relations grew strained among board members. An uncle died, and Unanue and his cousin Francisco disagreed with Joseph — Prudencio's last surviving son who'd been running the company since 1974 — about leadership because they said Joseph had been making decisions without their input. The result drove Bob and Francisco, with the blessing of family shareholders, to oust Joseph and his son Andy from the company.

That rift has been healed, Unanue says, as family members have settled business matters and reconciled. Joseph will soon return to the Goya board, where he will join Bob and Francisco.

"There were differences of opinion as to the direction of the company," he says. "Now, we're all on the same page."

YEAH! Let's legalize crack, pot, illegal drugs, prostitution....AWESOME campaign tag, really gonna beat Frank with that one.