Thank you, Jimmy Carter
By Wally EdgeAmong the eight New Jersey donors to the U.S. Senate campaign of Jack Carter in Nevada are Robert DelTufo and Anne Martindell. DelTufo, who contributed $2,000, was appointed U.S. Attorney by Carter's father, President Jimmy Carter, in 1977; and Anne Clark Martindell, who was named U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand by Carter in 1977, gave $500. Carter won the Democratic nomination last night to challenge freshman GOP Senator John Ensign.
DelTufo, whose late brother, Raymond DelTufo, had been President Dwight Eisenhower's pick for U.S. Attorney in 1954, served as New Jersey's federal prosecutor until 1980. He sought the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1985 (losing to then-Essex County Executive Peter Shapiro) and served as Attorney General of New Jersey under Governor James Florio from 1990 to 1994.
Martindell's late brother was Blair Clark, was a foreign correspondent for CBS News, Associate Publisher of the New York Post, and Editor of The Nation magazine. In 1968, he managed Eugene McCarthy's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Anne Martindell was elected to the New Jersey State Senate in 1973, defeating GOP incumbent William Schluter.
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The thing I think of most whenever Jimmy Carter's name comes up
The thing I think of most whenever Jimmy Carter's name comes up is how thirty years later, we're still cleaning up the mess he made in Iran.
Jimmy Carter is hands down the worst president of our modern era and quite possibly the worst in our nation's history. Now he wants his offspring to pick up where he left off.
To be perfectly honest with you, as a Republican, this couldn't make me happier!
P.S., Click below to see my favorite Jimmy Carter moment.
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Carter is looking better year after year. Sure, he could not re
Carter is looking better year after year.
Sure, he could not read popular opinion. But many of his insights turned out to be the right way, and we are only seeing this again now. (Energy efficiency, honesty in government, etc.)
Frankly, I am tired of the Carter-smearing, which seems now to be going on over a quarter of a century.
Things were not as bad as the Republicans made them out to be in 1980. And honestly, the Republicans did very little to "change" anything that would not have happened during the time after 1980.
I hope you keep preaching that message hoofin. Go as left as you
I hope you keep preaching that message hoofin. Go as left as you can. It will only make the smile I will have on my face come November that much bigger!
Carter was an honest man. Much more integrity than we have in t
Carter was an honest man. Much more integrity than we have in the white house now.
I wonder if the Shah would feel the same way if he were still al
I wonder if the Shah would feel the same way if he were still alive today?