Sunday, April 30, 2017

The Upcoming Insipid New Jersey Primaries?

Jack Ciattarelli at an April, 2013 Town Hall Meeting

According to an article in Sunday’s The New York Times, the interest being demonstrated by Garden State voters to the gubernatorial primary elections which will be held on June 6, are of little interest.
That’s too bad, but not unanticipated given that rarely do primaries garner much attention.

Moreover, the Times story used up most of its ink naming and discussing the Democrat candidates, giving negligible attention to the other side of the aisle.

The only reference to the GOP was that of Democrat front runner Phil Murphy’s criticism of “the transportation plans of Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, one of two main candidates running in the Republican primary,” according to Nick Corasaniti, writer of the Times report.


Did Mr. Corasaniti not research the name of the other of the “two main [Republican] candidates,” Jack Ciattarelli, or is he simply being dismissive of him? 
It’s below-par journalism to mention the name of Kim Guadagno without mentioning Jack Ciattarelli, her chief opponent in the Republican Primaries. 

Nick Corasaniti may think of Jack Ciattarelli as a long shot unworthy of mention, but everyone’s name in this contest deserves ink-space in the presumably venerable and competent reportage of the New York Times.

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