Source: A Democratic Party Notoriously Uncomfortable with Democratic Governors
It is a peculiarity of the NJ Democratic Party that it has never been much at ease with a strong Democratic Governor. You know better than I the reasons for this. But it is true.
This bias is presently accentuated by Sweeney having been in effect Christie’s handmaiden. This is not said disrespectfully but as in Sweeney as Democratic Kingpin getting whatever he wanted or deserved as Senate President. So how does an outsider like Murphy prevail in such a culture of resistance to Democratic Gubernatorial leadership…with a sitting Democratic Senate President, an axe to grind, who feels he IS the Governor?
The degree of difficulty was high.
This is all personal. And all vendetta, playing off a weird NJ Democratic history of putting their Governors in their place.
Going back to Byrne…
….the one exception being a South Jersey Governor! …which led to ten years in the desert. To him, everything was given. The exception proves the point. You understand these things.
The sun will come up tomorrow. And Murphy will be there. This is sort of existential politics.
Being a devotee of the law of unintended consequences, who knows how it goes? But it’s different.
Wow! It really is odd that we had so much drama between fellow Democrats? as they battled over the millionaire’s tax that I thought? most Democrats – even conservative ones – favored? Maybe we actually have Demublicans representing our Garden State – Demublicans who truly miss their old Republican “leader,” Gov. Christie!