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...Jersey Torricelli's ethical lapses have put him in a swamp of bad publicity, but he's got money and a machine behind...
...withdrawal hit the airwaves, Republican lawyer Benjamin Ginsburg's Blackberry pager began vibrating. "I'm glad it was on silent instead of beep," thought Ginsburg who was taking a sensitive deposition. The Beltway veteran, who helped George Bush prevail in the 2000 recounts, was quickly enlisted to keep Torricelli on the ballot-a supreme irony since Republicans had been demanding his resignation...
...would replace Torricelli? The decision fell to Gov. McGreevey who controlled the state party apparatus. "First, we tried to find out who wanted it," McGreevey told TIME. A comedy of errors on Monday and Tuesday, though, prevented a seemless hand off: Bill Bradley, the ex-Senator, unreachable for hours on a vacation out west, declined. Two congressmen first expressed interest and then withdrew. When rumors that a state senator might get the nod, Washington Democrats made it clear they wouldn't fund an unknown. Meanwhile, Frank Lautenberg, the 78-year-old ex Senator, wanted in. Corzine, the reserved Wall Street...
...Wednesday, Republicans begged New Jersey's Supreme Court to block a Lautenberg candidacy but it quickly declined to do so. On Thursday, Ginsburg marched to the U.S. Supreme Court to file an appeal. For his part, Torricelli, weirdly relaxed, stayed at his farm. He spent time on the Internet looking to adopt a St. Bernard puppy something he'd been talking about for awhile. He also told friends that he'd never run for office again and that he was eager to start joining corporate boards. In the post-Enron era it's hard to imagine too many companies rushing...
...Clinton often worried about how he would "make myself useful" when he left office. Lately he has shown how. He was there last month to give Andrew Cuomo a nudge out of the New York Governor's race. And it was his go-ahead that New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli sought last week when scandal forced him to quit his re-election bid. "If he's on the phone," says a Democratic strategist, with a laugh, "you probably don't want to take the call. He's the Tony Soprano of tristate politics." Or at least...