Dear Friends, Patriots and Warriors of Truth --
Brian Blomquist, reporting exclusively in the New York Post for Sunday, May 27th, states that federal investigators are getting very close to asking for indictments against New Jersey's Robert Torricelli, the flamboyant Senator known as "the Torch," for his combustible temperament. According to sources interviewed by Blomquist for this front-page article, Torricelli is "the most corrupt politician in America. We're going to indict him soon."
The full story as posted on the Internet can be accessed at:
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/31292.htm
For those readers from around the world who are not familiar with the New York Post, it is a Murdoch-owned tabloid-style newspaper. It has been growing steadily for the last few years, and has increased circulation dramatically since adding a Sunday edition.
The other two major New York papers, especially tabloid rival The Daily News -- have either been stagnant in growth or losing readers (News). The losses of readers and the staff turmoil at the Daily News has been a soap opera story of its own for two full years now. To the extent that any one newspaper can be said to represent Faction 1, in both philosophy and operations, the Daily News is the prototype. It seeks to appeal to the educated middle-class consumers of New York City, and of Long Island, which means its readership is heavily Jewish and liberal.
The New York Post, on the other hand, has built a broader base by writing to its long-standing audiences in the New York metro area, who are principally conservative Democrats; and by deliberately including the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn and in suburban Westchester County. The Post appeals to cops, fire-fighters, and those unionized workers once called "Reagan Democrats." It has, for several years now, been the most bitter opponent of the First Pillar of the New World Order, the United Federation of Teachers in New York City.
They and their maximum leader, Randi Weingarten, "honored" Bill Clinton recently with a lavish banquet and a humanitarian award. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been conspicuously absent from the side of her "hubbie" since finagling her election victory in 2000, but she is equally well regarded by the UFT and the readership of the Daily News, especially by the Hollywood aristocrats who populate the Hamptons during the summer months.
The Post also sells well in parts of New Jersey and Connecticut, and can be had on a next-day basis as far north as New Hampshire.
Senator Robert Torricelli is not just a hustler from New Jersey: as the Post reports, he was the "head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee." However, the multiple problems his former friend David Chang has caused for him, and an investigation into the spending habits of the Bergen County Democratic Party -- its records having been seized by federal investigators recently -- are causing his Democratic colleagues in the Senate to avoid him. The Post says, "Torch" Is Toast.
Faction 1, representing the banking and financial elites of the New World Order -- and their collaborating minions who dance around the campfires of various and sundry Satanic cults, and the fellow travellers of Democratic Socialist cells in the House of Representatives -- would be hard-pressed to replace Torricelli any time soon. The slaughter of the Dot Coms makes it unlikely that another Maria Cantwell can arise to spend her or his own money with abandon, on a Senate campaign. New Jersey has both domestic media outlets and New York City media, making its campaigns extraordinarily expensive to finance.
The Republicans in New Jersey are not as Stupid as their Stupid Party colleagues in Vermont, but it remains to be seen if they could field a decent challenger to Torricelli in the next election.
Right now Democrats are hoping that they will win the Governor's race in New Jersey, which will give them the option to appoint a short-timer to replace "the Torch" if he flames-out before the primaries, next year. Torricelli can be indicted, but short of a felony conviction under the federal "false statements" laws, he cannot be deprived of his vote in the Senate or prohibited from attending its sessions. The accusations of bribery carry much harsher penalties, but are also harder to prove: Torricelli is therefore most vulnerable not for taking money, watches, or Italian suits, but for lying about on the mandated federal disclosure statements every Senator and every candidate for the Senate must sign and file.
Watch the Torricelli proceedings carefully: it is a safe bet that this "friend of Bill" will not go gently into that good night of political obscurity and poverty.
