{"id":196607,"date":"2008-04-09T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/new-jersey-dem-establishment-struggles-to-squash-upstart-challenge-to-lautenberg\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:36:00","slug":"new-jersey-dem-establishment-struggles-to-squash-upstart-challenge-to-lautenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/new-jersey-dem-establishment-struggles-to-squash-upstart-challenge-to-lautenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Dem Establishment Struggles To Squash Upstart Challenge To Lautenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Republicans will not be running a serious candidate for New Jersey senate, so the real action will be in the Democratic primary, which will pits Frank Lautenberg against Rob Andrews.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be interesting, we are already having members of the NJ delegation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickernj.com\/matt-friedman\/18236\/congressional-democrats-condemn-andrews-candidacy\">condemning Andrews for running against Lautenberg<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/gloucester\/local\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-9\/120772054269540.xml&amp;coll=8\">Andrews wants to have seven debates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is the fact that Lautenberg is something like 132 years old (OK, actually 84), which would suggest that his finishing his term is somewhat problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the sense I get is that Andrews is part of the South Jersey machine, and he voted for the authorization of forces bill, but I&#8217;m in way over my head teasing this one out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Republicans will not be running a serious candidate for New Jersey senate, so the real action will be in the Democratic primary, which will pits Frank Lautenberg against Rob Andrews. It&#8217;s going to be interesting, we are already having members of the NJ delegation condemning Andrews for running against Lautenberg, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}