![]() He and his regional ally South Jersey Democratic leader George Norcross III have the best, longest standing connective tissue to DiVincenzo of anyone in the contest.Īny signal that Sweeney can’t get Essex or any demonstrable sign of the senate president’s absolute untenability in Northern New Jersey opens the possibility of a gubernatorial candidacy by Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D-6) or Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-7), an establishment swing to Murphy, which is why the former ambassador to Germany has to be careful with the perception that he’s Codey’s candidate, a source noted, or – and the power players feel this last option creates the fewest problems – a “clear the field” Booker candidacy.Īs long as Menendez is in Fulop’s corner, however, the North Jersey mayor has critical, wildcard access to real support. Sweeney, of course, is banking on Essex to supplement what he starts with in South Jersey. ![]() Senator Bob Menendez to land other Northern counties, Essex among them. Possibly an annoying deprivation, that lack nonetheless would not kill Fulop’s candidacy, who wants to leverage what his allies see as Hudson support and the considerable political influence of U.S. If Codey works his will on public sector labor for Murphy, can he successfully deprive Fulop of a key piece of support? Last week he displayed his labors to coax public sector labor into his corner, after his championing of public sector pensions and benefits reforms put his relations with those unions into deep freeze.Īs Sweeney tries to pacify public sector labor leadership, Codey – if he doesn’t run for the job himself – has the ready argument of his own record to entice public sector workers to back Murphy instead of Fulop.Īn ironworker by trade, Sweeney will have the support of the building trades. Meanwhile, the senate president appears to be fighting hard to remain in the game. ![]() Their shared story is a testament to family, to home, and to the power of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and even time itself.The senator/former governor and DiVincenzo are longstanding political rivals, whose separation facilitated South Jersey Democrats’ deposition of Codey off the throne of senate power and propelled Sweeney to replace him in the first place. With his journals guiding her, she grows ever closer to the man she barely knew as a child. Inspired to retrace his steps, she sets out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. Reading this rare firsthand account, his granddaughter Dawn MacKeen finds herself first drawn into the colorful bazaars before the war and then into the horrors Stepan later endured. The Hundred-Year Walk alternates between Stepan’s saga and another journey that takes place a century later, after his family discovers his long-lost journals. In his desperate bid for survival, Stepan dons disguises, outmaneuvers gendarmes, and, when he least expects it, encounters the miraculous kindness of strangers. Just before killing squads slaughter his caravan during a forced desert march, Stepan manages to escape, making a perilous six-day trek to the Euphrates River carrying nothing more than two cups of water and one gold coin. Gradually realizing the unthinkable-that they are all being driven to their deaths-he fights, through starvation and thirst, not to lose hope. ![]() He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government’s mass deportation of Armenians into internment camps. In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian’s world becomes undone. An epic tale of one man’s courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter’s quest to tell his story
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