Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:36:26 PM
New Jersey Democrats blast tea party
By
ALEX ISENSTADT |
3/10/10 4:47 AM EST
New Jersey Democrats are coming out with guns blazing against a tea
party-led effort to recall Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, with the
state party chairman going so far as to brand the campaign racist.
Last week, newly minted Democratic Chairman John Wisniewski blasted the
recall campaign as extremist, saying that it was no accident that it
was targeting Menendez, the only Hispanic in the Senate. And without
mentioning her by name, Wisniewski took a shot at the recall campaign’s
leader, Sussex County tea party founder RoseAnn Salanitri.
“The attempt to recall Sen. Menendez is an affront to the voters of New
Jersey and has no standing in law. One day these folks are trying to
disprove human evolution, the next day they are challenging the
constitutionality of the Constitution,” Wisniewski said in the
statement, making a not-so-veiled reference to Salanitri, who has
spoken out against the theory of evolution. “These are radical people
who chose Menendez off of a list of Democrats because of the sound of
his last name.”
Wisniewski’s withering attack — which immediately appeared on widely
read state political blogs such as PolitickerNJ.com and was fodder for
Charlie Stile’s Sunday political column in The (Bergen) Record — marks
an unusually sharp response to the tea party movement from a Democratic
leader and a clear effort to paint the local tea party activists
pushing the recall effort as far outside the mainstream in a
Democratic-oriented Northeastern state.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34169.html