Doin what they do best. Democrats and corruption. Like hot fudge and ice cream.
Democrat us senator Mendez under his third FBI criminal probe. But you can be Democrats are still going to vote for him!
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/03/new-jersey-democrats-menendez-00064419When one of New Jersey’s political power brokers saw the news that Sen. Robert Menendez was under federal investigation — again — he called around to get a sense of how serious it was.
He was incredulous. How could Menendez (D-N.J.), having survived an indictment and two previous investigations over the past 16 years — the last just five years ago — find himself and his party in the same place again, two years before his own reelection?
“It’s unimaginable that it could happen again,” the power broker, who was granted anonymity to discuss the senator’s legal perils, said in an interview.
Publicly, Democrats in Menendez’s home state are rallying around their senior senator as details of the latest investigation begin to emerge: Federal investigators are focusing on a New Jersey company that was awarded exclusive rights to export halal meat to Egypt, The New York Times reported. Any connection to Menendez remains unclear.
Privately, it’s a different story.
Some New Jersey Democrats are expressing deep frustration the 68-year-old, three-term senator could once again be under an ethical cloud. Most consider Menendez an effective senator, but some are beginning to believe his legal troubles threaten to outweigh that. Others refuse to address the question altogether, insisting they’re too focused on Tuesday’s midterm election to worry about it.
Menendez, who rose from the cauldron of urban Hudson County Democratic machine politics to become chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has acknowledged the investigation but said he does not know its scope.
Soliman said Menendez intends to seek reelection in 2024.
