Judge pulls Sarlo opponent off ballot

I guess we now live in a totalitarian regime!!!! Let the Judges decide that we can only have one candidate! I wonder who else is on the ENCAP payroll? Nice going you crooks!

 One would have to be on the ENCAP payroll in order to afford to appeal this one!!

This really can't be serious. Over one signature we remove a candidate? Wow...so much for the democratic process. The future is not very bright for New Jersey if our bullies on the bench continue to pander to their cronies. What a mess. This is just another example of why we are the laughing stock in this country...

I hope Sarlos cellmate is just as unforgiving as the legal wizard of a judge was in thhis case. 1 SIGNITURE!!!

WHAT A JOKE!!!

Democrats by nature are schemers and inherently corrupt themselves. Sarlo and his camp remind me of a basket of snakes so when they act like snakes I'm not surprised. As Republicans we pride ourselves in believing in less government.This is just another example where that belief would be put to good use.I've got a good idea.... Check the judges offshore accounts.

HOW MUCH MONEY R U STEALING FROM TAXPAYERS

YOU CROOK!

GREAT IDEA OF FAIR AND JUST GOVERNMENT

WHAT NEXT, LOCK PEOPLE WITH A VOICE UP?

I BET YOUR AN ENCAP LACKEY!

Corruption...Scandal...Political Bias in the democratic party? That would be a big YES on all three accounts. Here's just another perfect example to further illustrate whats completely wrong with our current political state.

Walkdown..."stupid" I believe you are in need to be hooked on phonics. "U" is spelled thusly: "YOU" and "R" is spelled "ARE". The 101 signatures is an allusion to the English 101 class you need to take.

 I say don't "walkdown"...when you can just Step Up and that's what we are about to do!!!

Uncle Reltih

If the judge had applied the law in 2002, Lautenberg would have never been placed on the ballot. Law says "shall be 51 days." Oh well, just a technicality, right? The decision to allow Lautenberg on the ballot was "to provide the voters of New Jersey with a choice for U.S. Senate." Guess that doesn't apply here.  Or, how about not being able to bond to fund general revenue. Just a technicality, right? Democrats are hypocrites, plain and simple. This decision wreaks of sewer-like stench. And further down the tubes we go.

Are you kidding me???????

How can we sit here and allow this to happen. How can democracy be allowed to reign free when we have restrictions on allowing fair races in our state.

If Guy wasn't so busy picking a fight in 40 that we don't need maybe he could have focused on getting someone and enough signatures for Guarino. Guess this decision of 1 signature to rid him off the ballot will be ok if the shoot down Cunnigham with here messed up paperwork - lets see if there is a double standard for the dems and reps.

Isn't there usully when its a question of some signatures a 3 day window to go get the required amount? Any lawyers out there have the details on that?

What is better? Running as an I could appeal to a lot of voters and would just require signatures - running as an R write in will be a little harder and what happens if you don't get the votes? Can you do both file and have people try and write you in?

The double standard in NJ politics rolls on... Based on the precedent set in the senatorial race a few years ago when a judge allowed the Democrats to dust off Lautenberg and challenge Forrester (when Toricelli left in shame) this judge should allow Guarino to challenge Sarlo on the same premise and allow for a fair contest. Clearly they are afraid of the fallout when the truth about the Xanadu project comes out in the election. Republicans in this state need to grow a backbone and fight the fight and stop worrying about taking the higher ground all the time. Nice guys finish last. Speaking of Guy, he is a complete and utter embarrassment and should be removed from his position

Me thinks thou protest too much!

Where do I begin? First off, District 36 is not District 28 or 34 or 5. It is a moderately Democratic area where President Bush won outside of Passaic City. There is no reason why three candidates could not be found by good party chairs. A former Democrat is fine, but one who is 78 with no name recognition? This guy wasn't Carmen Orrechio switching parties (who I believe could still win by the way as a Democrat or Republican). Anyway so with Bergen being the majority county, Bergen's GOP leader should have picked a nominee. There should have been a list of potential Senate candidates, not last minute panicking. Moreover, who gets 101 signatures? In a safe Democratic district, John Girgenti got over 500! What is with these people? Yes Guarino must and should run, but once again Guy Talarico and unfortunately Paul DiGaetano have put their own ambitions over building the GOP. I used to like DiGaetano but he should have taken the lead here. As for Guy, I think he lost his map of Bergen South of Route 4, and instead is trying to push his slate of sheer losers down the throats of Republicans in Northwest Bergen. Joe Ferriero could not imagine a better way to destroy the GOP unless he really is paying for Talarico. Yet the Bergen Dems are now scared. Why? Because they know that the voters are sick of their fascist tactics and empty promises. They have now cow-towed to a woman they openly revile in Loretta Weinberg, and she has sold her true supporters out by getting in the dirty political bed of the BCDO. How long before Teaneck and Englewood are overwrought with the pay-to-play massacre wrought on the rest of the county? The BCDO knows things like Red Faction and the BCRI are the future of the Republicans in Bergen. They know the backlash is coming, and once young, moderate Republicans and allies of Steve Lonegan bury the hatchet (as they seem to be) and unite, the Democrats misrule is finished. Already in towns like Fair Lawn and Woodcliff Lake the Democrats are on the wane. It is only a matter of time.

Hey JC- Tell that to Senator Forrester

1. Why is the GOP doing nothing in a district they can win? 2. These Republicans in Bergen are only guaranteeing Republicans will lose at the local level with no top-of-the-ticket lead-in. In effect, they are cutting there own throats by cooperating with the likes of Sarlo & Ferriero. 3. Sarlo is completely untested and the guy is getting nothing but streams of bad press regarding encap, dual job-holding, VLT's. The list is endless. 4. Why would someone with $500K in the bank work so hard to have no competition? Because they believe they can lose.

I think Sarlo would have spoken to a reputable news organization, but since the Record is just a mouthpiece for the BCRO there is no need. No matter what he says it will be twisted and turned until the statement resembles a baseball stadium pretzel... The guy could cure cancer and the record would blame him for not curing it sooner. They are a shameful representation of the news media. As for Demsanddonts comment, I would have to disagree, emphatically. Sarlo is not only well known in South Bergen, he is quite popular. Guarino's name on a ballot won't do anything in Rutherford.

They clearly believe in liberal ideals and yet insist on bringing down those who believe in the same things locally. when the republicans were in control of BC there was almost never a negative editorial... they could do almost no wrong. They were incredibly corrupt. How do you explain those asinine contracts with regard to Bergen Pines and the carousel. The Record only started crying fowl when the dems came in and tried to fix it.

Some competition would have been healthy.

On the other hand the law is what it is and if the signatures are off; I can't blame the judge for his ruling.

It seems that the bottome line is that both the BCRO and the BCDO are some combination of incompetent and/or corrupt.

So what else is new? We have a White House that "enjoys" the same status.

I suspect that the hunger for real honest government transcends all "establishment" party lines.

In a political universe in which there is zero legalized bribery (i.e. campaigns financed by people trying to buy politicians) the partisan divide becomes far more narrow and the quest for common ground becomes far more hopeful/possible.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

How about that moron of a Chief of Staff, Chris(I have four state jobs)Eilert, it was his idea to have the kid removed...........Paul gets bad advice all the time from Chris(I havent had a girlfriend in ten years) Eilert..........or was it the other moron who is drunk in Hoboken every weekend..........