UPDATE: Under pressure from rank-and-file democrats and the presidential campaigns themselves, the State Committee reversed course and is now seeking an open primary in New Jersey. In other words - We won!
They say all politics is local, and that includes Presidential Politics. Despite the DNC's effort to level the playing field nationwide for all candidates, at least in New Jersey, the state party apparatus still wants to control who gets access to the ballot, and where they appear.
Following an unprecedented arm-twisting campaign, the party establishment here is nearly united in support of Hillary Clinton for President. That, no one denies. So, when the NJ Democratic State Committee sent a letter to the Division of Elections about ballot preferences, do you think it was designed to level the playing field?
The answer is no, and the full story, as I wrote on Blue Jersey earlier, is below.
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