This blog entry was written by Juan Melli of BlueJersey.com


This week's Englewood edition of the Suburbanite has a piece about Michael Wildes' state senate campaign (LD-37) titled "Campaign manager's claim contradicted." It refers back to a press release the campaign put out last week where his Assembly running-mate Ken Zisa praised US Attorney Christie for "treading carefully and deliberately" while trashing the presumption of innocence when he claimed "Where there's subpoenas, there's fire."

The article [pg 1, 2] points out that their press release is factually wrong, but that's not the shocker. The interesting stuff is near the end where it gets pretty funny and yet dizzying. Try to follow along.

First, Wildes plays the ignorance card, saying he knew nothing about it.

When asked about the news release, Wildes first denied having seen it [...]

I guess that's one way to run a campaign. Deny, deny, deny. But wait, then he got "confused", changed his story, and runs away from the statement.

then said he had been "confused," that he had seen it but explained that third-party staff writers had the authority to use his quotes. "I only verify my factual statements."

Way to accept responsibility there. And what the heck are "third-party staff writers"? Is that where the buck stops in this campaign? But wait, there's more. Then he completely throws the rest of his campaign team under the bus.

Wildes said if there was a question as to validity of the other information contained in the release, it would have to be taken up with the person who wrote the release.

Really classy. Anything to get elected...