Conservative Principles Now

Outgoing Passaic County Freeholder Director Tahesha Way, a Democrat defeated in an upset in November, was nominated today as an administrative law judge.

The nomination was filed by Gov. Jon Corzine along with 14 others for various judgeships and one prosecutor position after Corzine broke an impasse with Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie and his party allies over appointments and nominations.    

Bashed on the street early for not projecting the energy to match and mete out the kind of verbal punishment opponents say Mayor Cory Booker deserves, retired municipal Judge Clifford Minor said that's not his style, and though he knows also he won't have the money to keep up with Booker next year, he intends to win his long-shot challenge. In his particular low-key, grassroots way. "No, I'm not fired up like Sharpe James, but I don't think you need to run heated campaigns in order to win, and I don't believe you have to run a negative campaign," Minor told PolitickerNJ.com. "My strength is going to come from grassroots support, and there's recent evidence of that kind of support offsetting the money advantage. Gov-elect Chris Christie was absolutely well under the numbers of Governor Corzine in terms of money. Look at Mayor (Mike) Bloomberg, who had a much closer race than he anticipated, while significantly outspending the challenger. "I'm grasroots, I'm not afraid of the community," added Minor, a former police officer and prosecutor. "I don't need 15 cops to walk with me on the streets. I'll be knocking on doors and walking. That's worth more than the $8 million that he (Booker) has." Minor admits the incumbent may be a good politician, but seriously questions the younger man's ability to manage the sprawling power center of Newark. Although this is his first political campaign, he says he personally effectively administered Newark Municipal Court. It wasn't paying for itself, and when he left, he left it solvent, he says.