South Jersey alliance with Middlesex, Union, Cunningham, Stack and Weinberg makes Sweeney Majority Leader

Nice to see Senate Democrats not fall for the "so called political strength" of a guy who almost lost his home county to a 78-year old write-in candidate who switched parties the day of the filing to run against him!

The Emperor of Wood Ridge has no coattails. Democrats lost every contested race at the local level across the 36th district and Gary Schaer won the Bergen portion by a mere 214 votes!

Had the Republican leadership not been in a political coma, they would have targeted 36 and probably picked up an assembly seat at the very worst.

But Sarlo and crew have been exposed and the district will be targeted by the state GOP and the candidates ironically for the Assembly will be Republicans Sarlo continues to enable in places like East Rutherford, Carlstadt and even North Arlington.

If there is a paper tiger, this is it.

Sarlo beat his opponent in his opponent's hometown of Lyndhurst by hundreds of votes despite Demsanddonts prediction that the recent Party change by the local GOP there would result in Sarlo losing that town, but Sarlo barely survived in North Arlington as the local Dems there were crushed for raising taxes.  Sarlo's problems were local races like that, in Rutherford as well. Like Weinberg, Demsanddonts seems to be a self hating Democrat from Bergen. A remnant from their losing past.  Now Demsanddonts is angry because Sarlo is a young man on the climb, as he (obviously) is not.  So he claps when Sarlo trips. Sad really.  The fact that he fails to see how Weinberg screwed her own county for herself fits with his lack of prescience.

Congratulations to Senator Steve Sweeney. The Senate Democratic caucus made the wise and responsible choice for Majority Leader. It's good to see that once in a while, right triumphs over wrong in Trenton. 

Bergen County Senator Paul Sarlo, overwhelmingly rejected by fourteen of his Senate colleagues from across the state, deserves no sympathy. BergenBoy14 says that Sarlo is a "young man on the climb". That's for sure. His problem is that he has been climbing on top of other people for too long. He is an overly ambitious politician whose lack of critical social and political skills have become all too obvious to everyone but himself.

In legislative district 36, Sarlo's raw lust for power has routinely led him to sell-out local Democrats in favor of the Republican leadership in most of his south Bergen communities. In town after town, you will find local Democrats giving an earful on Sarlo's betrayals.

This is not the kind of person worthy of any leadership post in the legislature. The Senate showed great discretion today in choosing a more capable and responsible leader in Senator Sweeney.

Make no mistake about it. The recent Republican tidal wave in the south Bergen communities of LD36 that saw a 78 year old gadfly with no campaign organization and no money rack up 43% of the vote against the incumbent Senator, was due in no small part to Sarlo's lack of leadership skills, his responsibility for the controversial and discredited EnCap project and myriad other political handicaps.

Some Majority Leader he would have turned out to be.

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How anyone could try to spin Sarlo's sorry showing against a man who recieved zero political support from anyone is mind boggling myopia!

Your opponent was a last minute Democrat turned Republican who was forced off the ballot by Sarlo for lack of required signatures! He then received the support of grass roots Republicans who refused to give your dual job holding hero a free ride through a primary write-in effort that he couldn't prevent!

Earth to Bergen Boy: you ran against and 80-year old man! Four years ago you against a 77 year-old man who spent half the campaign in the hospital!

 Does one have to be indigent or terminally ill to run against the Senator from Sanzari?

Time to wake from your political amnesia!

Sarlo wasn't even the top vote-getter in his hometown where his running-mate had over 200 more votes! Further proof his electoral prowess is nothing more than urban legend!

Paul Sarlo was defeated for leader because he lacks the experience, political ability and electoral success to persuade and manage the majority's agenda.

 Had the GOP had the resources or common sense to analyze the numbers versus accept the spin that Sarlo was unbeatable, this guy escaped political demise because of his ridiculous positions on issues like EnCap, dual-job holding and pay for play tendencies.

The chorus against your boss Weinberg grows.  She cut a deal with Camden and Hudson to screw her home county of Bergen.  That makes her the biggest wheeler dealer smoke filled room pol in the Bergen delegation. What a hack.

No one likes a RAT! This was not North vs South or how one senator sold out her county. That excuse sounds more like a Sarlo sycophant who can't come to grips their beloved quadruple public paycheck holding senator failed and his election numbers with the voters are backing it also.

Sarlo had plenty of time to line up his Majority seat well before the vote. It was more of Anti Sarlo. The other Senators see through him now.

Some need to come to terms that Sarlo is a rat and turned on one of his fellow Senators to save his skin, then he got pissed the press found out how much of a RAT he truly was. Sarlo is a rat...and no one likes a rat! Period.