Word: jersey
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June 8. Carter should run strongly in New Jersey (with 108 delegates) and Ohio (152). In Ohio, his chief opposition comes from delegate slates pledged to several favorite sons and a favorite daughter. In New Jersey, uncommitted delegates, their hearts with Humphrey, are still trying to mount an effective challenge. Humphrey encouraged them in three appearances in the Atlantic City area last week, insisting that "primaries do not always reflect what is happening in the party." Brown will also campaign for New Jersey's uncommitteds...
Rockefeller also faces unexpected opportunities. He is quietly trying to gain influence over neighboring state delegations in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey. Together with New York, they stand to have at least 300 uncommitted delegates, out of 1,130 needed to nominate. Rocky's aim is to keep those delegates in Ford's camp or, if the President appears to be losing, prevent them from stampeding to Reagan?and then use them as bargaining chips for his still unclear purposes...
...Tully case, which Sprague took for no fee "as a matter of principle," the hit man claims to have been shortchanged by New Jersey state prosecutors after turning state's evidence against members of the Newark-based Campisi mob. Tully, 36, says the prosecutors promised him at least "one day less" than the lowest Campisi sentence. Instead, he got 15 years while the other gangsters avoided trial and bargained for terms as low as three years...
...Kafkaesque justice. More important, he looks upon it as a chance to fight against his pet outrage: slipshod standards in the criminal justice system. "I want to attack the plea bargaining in this case," he says angrily. "I want to make a mockery of what the state of New Jersey has done...
...pledges; they said the other candidates no longer had any chance. Humphrey did not openly disagree with them, but he felt unconvinced by their argument. As the group broke up, one of the participants read him a prepared statement that said that Humphrey would enter New Jersey. It included a line noting, accurately, that Carter had challenged him to come in. Humphrey, the statement said, was going to oblige him. Humphrey liked that touch, but told them he wanted to sleep on the decision. Most of the group guessed that he had been persuaded...