A news by yahoofreeshop:Speaker Oliver is in a tight spot. She owes her job to the Essex connection…and now those same forces are aligning against her. It may be only a matter of time until they really move against her. For good........
Like I said to all who would listen ten months ago when I was asked what I thought about the Speaker in waiting…she is not to be underestimated. And one of these days she is gonna tell the powers that be her answer is no. Her personality is not suited to taking marching orders even when given by those who employ her........
Let’s back up a little. All last week a long and tedious negotiation was underway to reform arbitration awards. On Thursday Lou Greenwald Sheila Oliver and Stephen Sweeney held press conference to announce that they had reached a deal on an arbitration bill. The Gov didn’t like it because it had no hard cap like Republican Declan O’Scanlon’s bill does. OScanlon and Greenwald had been meeting with Chief Counsel Jeff Chiesa to hammer out a deal everyone could live with. When those negotiations fell through the Dems cut their own deal and went public..........
On friday I’m told that a Republican lawmaker called Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo who works hand.in.hand with Big Chief Steve Adubato from Newark’s North Ward. When this Republican gave him a bit of a hard time Joe D hit the phones.....
Fast forward to Monday’s Democratic Assembly Caucus. When Oliver tests the room to see if there are enough votes to move Greenwald’s arbitration bill the entire Essex delegation tells her no.Bill is shelved. The Democrats once again appear in disarray.
The unions say hey we were against this from the beginning…this latest crumble has got nothing to do with us. Dems thought they had the votes but the Gov’s reach runs deep in the county of Essex which lived up to it’s mantra of Essex First......
I think it was the 80′s hit The Breakfast Club where Mr. Vernon warned a young Judd Nelson not to mess with the bull or he’ll get the horns. The horns are awfully sharp in Essex these days..........
And while we are talking about the “Breakfast Club let me just take a moment to vent about Emilio Estevez who was great in that movie and was also a fantastic Kirby Kager in St. Elmo’s. But The Mighty Ducks franchise was truly an affront to the civilized world. He oughta be brought up on charges and tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity for those films..........
