Fun in New Jersey - State Senator Edward Durr

From the London Daily Mail:

Icing on the donut! Dems now face state NJ Senate defeat at hands of TRUCKER who spent just $153 of his $10,000 GOP donations on campaign (and $66 of that was at Dunkin!)

• • Edward Durr is a 58-year-old truck driver for furniture store Raymour & Flanigan
  • As of Wednesday afternoon Durr leads in the state senate race for New Jersey's 3rd Legislative District by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent
  • He's up against NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney, who is the longest-serving legislative leader in New Jersey's history and has been in senate since 2002
  • The last time Sweeney had to defend his seat in 2017, nearly $20 million was spent in what is known as one of the most expensive legislative races in US
  • Democrats have struggled statewide in the blue stronghold, with the race for governor still too close to call after Murphy was expected to easily win
  • Out of the $153, Durr spent $66.64 at Dunkin Donuts to buy food and drinks for his 'staff' and $86.67 for flyers and business cards

A Republican truck driver who spent just $153 on his campaign may manage a stunning upset victory against the longest-serving legislative leader in New Jersey history in the state's elections on Tuesday.

The defeat could be another embarrassing upset for the Democrats following a night where they lost the Virginia gubernatorial election, struggled in the race for New Jersey governor and performed dismally in votes across the country.

As of Wednesday afternoon, GOP candidate Ed Durr was leading Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney in South New Jersey's 3rd Legislative District by 52 percent of the vote to 48.

Sweeney, an Ironworks union official and one of the most powerful politicians in the state, has been a state senator for nearly two decades. He became Senate President in 2010.

Sweeney's problem is that he is part of the corrupt machine.  As long as the machine kept to itself and didn't get in the news that often, people were content to let it keep running things.  In the last couple of years, the machine got delusions of grandeur and thought that it could control everything. That may have sounded good to the other cogs in the bubble but it did not play well in Peoria (or Newark)

Similar thing almost happened here two years ago - the entrenched governor was running and a guy who was the police chief for a small town in Eastern, WA ran a minimal campaign and got 43.12% of the vote.  People are getting really tired of this shit.