A Smear By Any Other Name Is … – You may or may not be able to tell a person’s race from his or her speech (see “You Talkin’ To Me?” two posts below), but you can certainly tell the profession … if it’s politics.
Responding to the Senate Ethics (?) Committee’s severe admonishment of Sen. Robert Torricelli, Atlantic County (N.J.) Democratic chairman Chuck Chiarello said the Democrats would just have to work harder. To defend Torricelli, or remind voters that at least he’s on their side, etc.? No, according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, to dig up dirt on Douglas Forrester, his Republican opponent.
And Chiarello suggested that Democrats would continue digging into Forrester’s business practices: “Everybody has some baggage, so there’s a lot of counter-integrity work that’s going to happen over the next couple of months.”
