this week and turned the lights off it would be like Murder on the Orient Express - he’d have 50 slashes in him. “If Drewniak can’t explain what he did at dinner with David, he’s going to be gone, because the press corps in New Jersey hates him with a passion,” says a Democratic strategist. Drewniak is on the hot seat after it emerged last week that he got dinner with former Port Authority official and Christie friend David Wildstein two days before Wildstein resigned. In addition to Fink and Ghebreghiorgis, Sammy Ravello and Jamaal Bowman, round out the democratic field challenging Engel.There’s a fair amount of Schadenfreude this week among the New Jersey press corps, as they wait for the other shoe to drop in Chris Christie’s Bridgegate scandal and wonder if it’s Michael Drewniak, Christie’s press secretary and his “id,” as one official calls him.
The problems with our democracy are never going to be solved by less democracy.” This is not how our democratic process should work. It appears that Andom’s campaign is engaging in an effort at candidate suppression. There was clearly no attempt to see if these signers were registered voters, nor was there a review of their signatures by checking them at the board of elections,” Fink said.įink also noted: “In the midst of a pandemic, were employees of the BOE required to come in to check the thousands of signatures that have been challenged would unnecessarily put these workers in harm’s way.” He went on: “It is clear that Andom’s staffers did not put in the slightest effort to find out if what they were alleging is true. They have every right to do so, but a review of the challenges to my petitions, as well as those of the other candidates, shows a clear attempt to frivolously state that 95% of all signatures were illegible. “People associated with Andom’s campaign challenged my campaign petitions along with those of two of our other opponents.
Since Chris Fink and his two challengers have handily met the signature threshold, it seems that Ghebreghiorgis cares more about disrupting democracy than defending it.
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The Chris Fink for Congress campaign honors the importance of ensuring that petitions are free of fraud and that candidates for public office demonstrate the support of the communities they aspire to represent. What is Ghebreghiorgis thinking when he puts lives at stake to review petitions that are well above the required threshold? Chris Fink filed over three times the number of signatures required, and the other two opponents whose petitions Ghebreghiorgis’s campaign objected to are also within that range. The 16th Congressional district includes –xxĪndom Ghebreghiorgis’ campaign filed objections to Chris Fink’s and two of their opponents’ petitions on March 30th. Fink is one of four democratic challengers to Congressman Eliot Engel on June 23.
Unfortunately, in some contests, it’s cutthroat politics as usual.Ĭhris Fink, Democratic Congressional Candidate in the June 23rd Democratic Primary for NY’s 16th Congressional District, is calling the petition challenges to his and his rivals’ petitions frivolous as well as dangerous to the government workers who have to review the bogus and irresponsible claims. Some candidates have agreed to work together during Coronavirius by agreeing not to challenge each others petitions. Believe it or not, election season is underway and for those seeking office for the first time, it is not an easy task to get voters to sign a petition to get them on the ballot.
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