The Rookies

Democratic State Senate candidate Seema Singh had some trouble achieving at last one of her strategic objectives last weekend while campaigning at the Irish Music Festival last weekend at the Hibernian Lodge in Hamilton Township: she appeared a bit frustrated by her inability to buy some bottled water. Singh asked a volunteer manning the Guiness booth: "Is that all you sell at this fair, beer?"

In Burlington County, the newly installed heir to the Republican throne summoned GOP Municipal Chairs to a meeting on Saturday, but only about half of them showed up. Lobbyist Bill Layton is running the show these days following the resignation of Col. Michael Warner as the GOP County Chairman. In the old days, when Garfield DeMarco and Glenn Paulsen ran the show, local party leaders would not dare to skip a county leadership meeting.