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| House Financial Services Committee member Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, adds a grade of F to a 'report card' on social programs and tax hikes for wealthy Americans. |
Adam Gussen, the deputy mayor of Teaneck, gets no respect from The Record's editors -- even after he was chosen by Democrats to challenge Rep. Scott Garrett, a conservative Republican who has helped divide Congress and the country.
After the primary election on Tuesday, readers couldn't find a news story reporting Gussen's triumph in the 5th Congressional District, which includes more than half of Bergen County.
Ambulance chasers
In fact, Wednesday's Bergen Edition contained only a vote-total table, showing "Gussen" got more votes than "Castle" in the Democratic primary, and there was no mention of Gussen in a subsequent editorial about the election.
Of course, before the election, The Record had endorsed Jason Castle over Gussen.
Kelly's kiss of death
In today's paper, the first, full mention of the Gussen victory appears in Mike Kelly's column on the Opinion front -- a sure kiss of death from the editors.
If you're looking for strong opinions from a columnist, the deeply conservative Kelly will disappoint you.
Today, as in the past, he pushes around hundreds of words and makes himself out as a political prognosticator, claiming "Garrett is heavily favored to win" over Gussen in November.
Obama's coattails
Kelly doesn't raise the possibility Gussen will be swept into office on President Obama's coattails.
Compare the single paragraph about Gussen in today's edition to the continuing bombardment of analysis and commentary on the victory of Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, over his fellow Democrat, Rep. Steve Rothman, D-Englewood (A-1 and O-1).
On O-1, next to Kelly's tripe, political science Professor Brigid Callahan Harrison loses readers almost immediately with a column under the headline, "The beer equation."
Who the F wants to have a beer with a congressional candidate?
I'm voting for someone honest who is looking out for the best interests of New Jersey, and who pushes for campaign finance reform to eliminate all the corruption and greed that perverts lawmaking.
Another selfish official
Rothman lost because he put his own selfish interests above those of the voters, and tried to hold onto his seat in Congress instead of going after that moron Garrett.
Locals are yokels
Don't look for much municipal news today from Hackensack or many other towns in Sykes' Local section.
The so-called Hackensack reporter, Stephanie Akin, reported and wrote a short story about a stabbing in North Bergen (L-6).
Akin also shares a byline with Shawn Boburg, her boyfriend and the Port Authority reporter, on an L-1 story about a teenager killed in a fall off the Palisades.
The headline states incorrectly, "Fort Lee teen dies in fall on Palisades." He died when he fell off the cliffs, not "on" the cliffs.
Akin also shares a byline with Shawn Boburg, her boyfriend and the Port Authority reporter, on an L-1 story about a teenager killed in a fall off the Palisades.
The headline states incorrectly, "Fort Lee teen dies in fall on Palisades." He died when he fell off the cliffs, not "on" the cliffs.
Road Warrior John Cichowski wastes an entire column on a couple of drivers who got into hot water with E-ZPass (L-1).
Blinded by the sun
On the Business front, Your Money's Worth Columnist Kevin DeMarrais boasts about his savings from solar panels, but fails to provide telephone numbers or Web sites where readers can get information on having panels installed on their own homes (B-1).
Elisa Ung's column, The Corner Table, explores the difficulty restaurant owners face when they can't count on profits from a liquor license to help cover the expense of serving "organic" or naturally grown or raised food (BL-1).
Of course, Ung doesn't acknowledge that her restaurant reviews often keep readers in the dark about the origin of the food she samples -- as if she is protecting chefs who charge a lot for such conventional ingredients as a $45 steak filled with harmful additives and hormones.
Travel klutz
Travel Editor Jill Schensul -- who has made a career of portraying herself as a klutz -- had me chuckling today with the anecdote that begins her cover story on summer vacation road trips (T-1).
She wrote:
"In the Schensul family, the road trip never really began until 'the baby' [Jill] threw up on someone's fur coat."
I chuckled until I realized that no one in their right mind would be wearing fur in the summer.
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