Congressman John Adler |
Around three dozen members of a South Jersey Democrat group met in May at the Camden County Democratic Committee Headquarters in Cherry Hill. Freeholder Jeffrey Nash warned the assembled crowd of volunteers and legislative aides that Obama's economy would make the mid term election difficult for the Democratic majority.
He told the democratic activists they had to get out the vote for Democrats. Then Steve Ayscue a paid consultant took the floor with a bearded, flame-haired man few had seen before. The latter was Geoff Mackler, dispatched from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to lead freshman Rep. John Adler's re-election campaign. Ayscue and Mackler had a plan to ensure Adler's victory.
They just needed volunteers. To give Adler an edge, Ayscue had recruited a then-unidentified man to run as a third-party candidate.
The one thing they did not count on was their scheme being exposed. That exposure placed Democrat Congressman John Adler into an embarrassing position.
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