(New Jersey Senate Candidate) Menendez Plays to His Base, in South Florida

[Judi Lynn]

Menendez Plays to His Base, in South Florida
By DAVID W. CHEN
Published: September 28, 2006

MIAMI, Sept. 24 — He shook hands with supporters at Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho in Little Havana. He was given the keys to the affluent city of Coral Gables, Fla., at a reception attended by more Republicans than Democrats. He received two proclamations from nearby towns, including one with a Republican mayor who declared Sunday “Senator Bob Menendez Day.”

Yes, that Senator Robert Menendez, the Democrat from New Jersey.

“I want to keep a Republican majority, but not if it means losing Bob Menendez,” said Ana Navarro, a Republican political consultant who helped organize three Menendez for Senate fund-raising events at the historic Biltmore Hotel on Sunday. “He’s part of our extended family.”

At home in northern New Jersey, Mr. Menendez comes across as a textbook Democrat, with a 100 percent scorecard from the League of Conservation Voters, Naral Pro-Choice America and the National Education Association. But in South Florida, a place Mr. Menendez has visited dozens of times over the last two decades, Cuban-Americans and others hail him as a freedom fighter for his fervent anti-Castro views, and revere him as an adopted son who has done well for himself.
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“I know we’re here for a greater cause than the party,” Mr. Menendez said at another reception.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/nyregion/28menendez.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Leilani]

1. Maybe he should run for the Senate

from Florida if that's his base.

[DainBramaged]

2. You don't get it, do you?

Tom DeLay went all over that country to raise money for his campaigns. Does that mean he was going to run anywhere but Texas?

[Leilani]

3. Wrong

I get it, just fine, thanks.

I think Corzine made a terrible choice with Menendez.

[DainBramaged]

4. Do you live here? I do. I think the choice is correct

And if you don't like it, vote Republican November 7. Oh, and go interfere with a Republican race, not ours.