BOB WIPES MUD OUT OF HIS EYES
2006-10-03
Source: The Jersey Journal
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rss feedU.S. Sen. Robert Menendez slammed the campaign of his Republican challenger, Tom Kean Jr., yesterday for enlisting disgraced former Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski in what he called a "campaign of smear."
"I think it speaks volumes of Tom Kean Jr.'s campaign," said Menendez, referring to published reports that a researcher for the Kean campaign struck up a pen-pal relationship with Janiszewski, who's serving time in Kentucky prison for extortion, in the hopes of dredging up dirt about Menendez.
"This (Kean's) campaign . consorts with those who are in jail in order to pursue the politics of smear," Menendez added.
Touting his credentials as a corruption buster, Menendez, in Jersey City to accept the endorsements of two statewide firefighter unions, remarked, "There is only one candidate in this campaign who stood up to a corrupt political machine, testified against it, wore a bullet-proof vest and was ultimately responsible for sending that regime to jail," a reference to the regime of the late Union City mayor, William V. Musto.
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