Menendez endorsed by nurses, ministers
2006-10-12
Source: Press of Atlantic City
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rss feedSen. Bob Menendez picked up key endorsements Wednesday from a group of nurses unions and from leaders of the Black Ministers Council.
Both groups could play a crucial role getting voters to the polls in a tight Senate race between Menendez, a Dem-ocrat, and his Republican challenger, state Sen. Tom Kean Jr. At separate press conferences in Trenton, both groups cited Menendez's support for an increase in the federal minimum wage as a reason for the endorsement.
"We're thrilled," Menendez said of the endorsements. "And we're thrilled because of who these people are."
Meanwhile, Kean's campaign launched a new ad, airing on New York television markets, that replays a taped conversation involving Menendez fundraiser Donald Scarinci. In the tape, Scarinci tells a psychiatrist that Menendez would afford him "protection" if he rehired a doctor he had fired a year before. The ad refers to Scarinci as a Menendez "lieutenant."
Menendez has said Scarinci used his name without his knowledge.
Kean's only public appearance came at a Trenton event honoring the third anniversary of Danielle's Law, which requires people who work directly with the developmentally disabled to call 911 in the event of a life-threatening situation. Kean sponsored the New Jersey law. Menendez has sponsored a federal version of the law that has not yet passed through the U.S. Senate.
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