Obama to pick Mueller to run N.J. campaign
By Wally EdgeBarack Obama's presidential campaign is expected to announce today that Tricia Mueller, the national political director of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, will serve as New Jersey state director.
Mueller, who had the backing of Gov. Jon Corzine - a supporter of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - beat out Bob Decheine, the Chief of Staff to one of Obama's earliest and leading New Jersey supporters, Rep. Steve Rothman.
The 34-year-old Mueller was political director of the New Jersey Regional Carpenters Council for seven years before being promoted to national political director of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters last year.
Editor’s note: The Obama campaign denies our report that Mueller has been picked to run the New Jersey campaign. "The Obama Campaign has not made any staffing decisions at this time. New Jersey voters are ready for change in Washington, D.C. and in the coming weeks, the Obama Campaign will continue to build and mobilize our grassroots support in the state,” Gannett Tseggai told PolitickerNJ.com in an e-mail at the request of Rothman’s office. Despite the denial, PolitickerNJ.com strongly stands by our original report. A decision has been made, and the Obama campaign notified several top Democratic officials of Mueller’s appointment on Thursday.
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Clintonites won in NJ!
So much for Obama's change in NJ. Welcome to the politics as usual with a clintonian twist. Rothman is going down. Clintonites will never forgive him for his support of Obama. Does it mean that other Obamanites in NJ are going down as well?
Oh Please!
Apparently Wiel thinks "change" means giving the reigns of a statewide campaign to someone with no campaign experience. I'd rather have someone who knows what they're doing. Mueller is an excellent choice.
What A Joke
Another liberal youtuber that only John "Im More Hated than W." Corzine could love. The Obama campaign is losing steam fast because they cannot relate to blue-collar Dems from Avenel to Yardville.
A White female union hack
that supported Clinton. That will rally the troops!
NJ Taxpayers getting Nailed
again by a carpenter union Hack. Is her message is NO Bama , No Peace ?
Mueller solid choice
Tricia Mueller is a solid choice for the post and frankly the more talented of the two under consideration.
But it is annoying that the Gov. and his staff were forcing their choice on the Obama campaign. They need to eat a little humble pie.
The Mueller appointment
Is this really the choice of Corzine, or the choice of Norcross?
In the end, what difference does it make to anyone except maybe Ms. Mueller?
She will certainly be under the microscope tryint to deliver a state that isn't as "blue" as people think. Obama lost 64 of the 70 towns in Bergen County. What is Ms. Mueller's strategy to win Bergen County?
Ms. Mueller may be the first Democratic operative to lose statewide for president since 1988 and there isn't a thing she can do about it.
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You Got it Wrong Wally....
See http://www.bluejersey.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=8402
Quote. "Despite news stories saying Barack Obama has picked South Jersey labor leader Tricia Mueller as his NJ State Director, the Obama campaign is denying that's true. Obama campaign spokeswoman Gannet Tseggai:
From Frederick Douglass
Between "Iraq" and a Hard Place
I hope Obama's people give the above posts some consideration. Union is Toxic in NJ. We will loose the independants, Hands Down. Thinking out loud, Corey Booker, Mark Alexander (with a populist infusion) or Rothman's pick make more sense to me. But we need someone, and soon.
Lento is pathetic.
Do you get paid by the "post" to apologize for everything that is wrong with the most corrupt party in all of America?
Nick Lento, full-time Democratic Party apologist will continue to enable his corrupt Democrat Party no matter how low they seek.
Hey Nick, you think they'll do the same for you or throw you under a bus?
Watch out for tread marks and don't hold your breath!
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Obama and NJ
Obama will EASILY win in NJ as long as he doesn't appear too close to NJ Democrats - and that includes Corzine. As a former Constitutional law Professor, Obama understands that the foundation of our democracy is based on the ideal that "We the People.." must participate in deciding our future and solving our problems. NJ citizens are desperate for such a president. A president who values educating our children over WallStreet. NJ government institutions - environment, transportation, labor, education and health - can only be described as frauds. They don't serve the people - they are more concerned with so called economic development that serves the few.
If Obama needs a campaign manager to run the campaign in NJ, he should choose someone from California. A state who values the environment and is committed to the ideal of a transparent government.
For NJ, we need to reestablish our priorities and hold elective officials accountable. We can learn a lot from California.
Dear "Demsanddon'ts"....a Challenge for You!!!
What's really "pathetic" is the possibility that anyone in their right mind would be foolish enough to vote for John McCain in November.
Actually, I suspect that the establishment of the Democratic party, certainly in NJ, probably hates much of what I have to say; especially the bits that call for 100% public financing of campaigns and an end to political bossism/pay to play.
What I'm for are the core values of the Democratic party and of the US Constitution.
The evidence is totally overwhelming that monied/powerful interests have bought out the elites in BOTH parties.
The Bush administration is absolutely corrupt and any open minded intelligent informed person with any common sense knows it.
McCain has sold out on the TORTURE issue, for God's sake! The man is shameless.
Barack Obama is not perfect; but compared to the alternative, he is good. Very good indeed.
Your attempts to needle me are funny, since it is more likely you who are "paid by the post" since you're the one operating in the dark.
If you ever find the courage, drop me a line at unboughtandunbossedATgmail.com (the AT = @) and use your real name; I'll be happy to meet with you, on the record, and make a video of, say, 90 minutes of a discussion between us....and put that up in toto on the web for all to see.
Come on up from gutter of anonymity. Until you can do that, you're just another kibbitzer throwing BS from the peanut gallery......and if you're being paid; then your even less, eh?
Who knows, if you're for real, we may find that we do share some views after all!
From Frederick Douglass
Typical "hysterics: from a liberal
Lento the Liberal can't answer the question I posed, so he wants to meet me and do what?
Look at your pathetic posts:
* Defends Corzine
* Defends Katz
* Defends numerous corrupt Democrats
* Attacks Christie for doing his job and convicting people like Sharpe James, et al...
Nick, how does it feel to be "used" in your blind loyalty to a party embedded in corruption?
Who ever mentioned McCain?
Why are you trying to change the subject?
Look at my picture, I'm hardly a Republican.
Have you not seen my picture before?
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This is good!
Demanddonts once said: "Hillary Clinton is not the answer, unless the question is, How to get John McCain elected president." I've been a fan ever since. Nick, you have regurlarly said things I agree with (and disagree with) and I commend you not only for your candor but for wading into subjects before having fully formed an opinion, it proves to me that you are not an authoritarian.
Not to be too rhetorical, but I think we can all agree we have some difficult days ahead of US. We have a power structure in NJ that has us in a proverbial head lock and I'm not quite sure how we get out of it. A debt burden that is staggering. A rudderless self-serving Governor whose now cuddling up to the same interests he once shunned. No wonder we are more inclined to point fingers at each other.
I think we can find a way forward and I think the candidacy of Barack Obama offers US the opportunity to make a real change. Change for conservatives whose perception of corruption, while sometimes warped, is none the less based in reality. Change for progressives who see the the ideals of progress die at the hands of beurocratic power brokers. So I wish there was some way we could meet, and if Obama picks the right campaign director I suspect we will. And that's the video I'd like to see.
Best regards to all.
Dems.....
Bottom line is we seem have disagreements.
If you can abstain from ad hominem characterizations ("hysterical" etc) for a few seconds.
I find it interesting that you claim to be a Democrat yet you use the word "liberal" as if it were a curse. Is there any elected Democrat, past or present, that you find in harmony with your views? (Anyone can put up a pic or claim to be anything when they're anonymous.)
Try quoting me directly. Then say, specifically, what (ideas/proposal/opinions/etc) you disagree with in the quote and why you disagree.
That's called making a rational argument. Think you can handle that?
Simply calling me "names" makes you look inept, at best.
Meanwhile, I'd still be glad to make a video of us discussing our disagreements in a public place and putting that up for all to see. The challenge stands. Do you?
From Frederick Douglass
Liberals.
You're make my point by responding in a very "liberal" way....
Being liberal or esposuing liberal views is fine. It doesn't mean all Democrats agree with that point of view. Liberals, like conservatives represent the fringes of both political parties.
Being conservative doesn't mean Republican. McCain is hardly a right-winger, but you'll continue to try to make that claim.
You continue to quote Frederick Douglass. Was he a Democrat? No.
Power concedes nothing? Who are you referring too? The Democrats who run New Jersey and have so for about a decade? That's my point.
You defend the corrupt. You don't change it.
Here's a list of Democrats I support:
* John F Kennedy
* Lyndon Baines Johnson
* Henry "Scoop" Jackson
* Hubert Humphrey
* Sam Nunn
* Paul Tsongas
* Bill Clinton
* Harrison "Pete" Williams
* Bill Bradley
* Frank Guarini
* Henry Helstoski
* Joe Minish
* Steve Sweeney
* Bill Musto
* Tommy Smith
* Joe Le Fante
* Chris Jackman
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You make vague assertions...
You make vague assertions that I "defend the corrupt"; that's bullshit, pure and simple.
Again, go back and look through the many hundreds of comments I've made on line over the last few years (under my own name, I may add) if you can find some bit where I'm defending corruption, please link to it and quote it in context and make a case based in that substance.
As it is, you're just being a jerk who seems to have some kind of personal/political/petty axe to grind.
Here's a little something I had to say this morning in re the Ferierro machine in Bergen County. http://www.bluejersey.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=8413
By the way, Mr/Ms Democrat, how do you feel about the Democratic credentials of Senator Loretta Weinberg? Or is she just another "liberal" that "defends corruption" in your perverse political vision?
I somehow doubt that a staunch Ronald Reagan fan like you (surely you won't deny that fact, eh?) was a very big fan of Hubert Humphrey and LBJ who were all about using the power of government to improve the lives of the poor and the powerless.
As for which "party" Douglass was a member of; that's not relevant to the validity of the quote.
My agenda is not driven by and hard and fast
"loyalty" to any established party; but by a set of values and goals.
I would have surely voted for TR's "Bull Moose" party when he ran on that platform.
Anyway, again, try reading my comments from this morning http://www.bluejersey.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=8413 and then, if there's any part of that you disagree with.....feel free to quote it and make an argument there on Blue Jersey or here, if you don't have what it takes to comment there.
From Frederick Douglass
I don't read the liberal nonsense
Posted on BlueJersey, a swamp of wharped thinking on the left.
As for Reagan, he received nearly 60% of the vote in 1984 and carried 49 states. Most able bodied Democrats even supported him over the hapless Mondale.
Even Barack Obama praised Reagan's impact on government & politics only to be twisted by the likes of you.
I've met HHH. I voted for him twice for president.
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OBama Never "Praised" Reagan You Liar
Obama noted that he was a "transformational" president, and so he was. Obama never praised what Reagan did in tems of Reagan's policies; he just acknowledged that Reagan was effective in changing America.....and that's true.
Sadly most of the changes have fallen flat and screwed things up.
We are now reaping the results of the Reagan years, he sold out America and he sold out ordinary working people. Reagan had a great personality; but that's all.
Most of his presidency he didn't even fully know what was being done in his name due to his incipient Alzheimers.
You're a right winger, it's obvious, don't deny it. Be proud of your right wing Reagan/Lonegan beliefs, as it is you come across as a total hypocrite.
From Frederick Douglass