"Step back and look at this year's campaign, and you can count plenty of low moments like that.

"It's been painful to watch poor Assemblyman Gordon Johnson (D-Bergen) try to explain away his repeated donations to psychotic anti-Semite Lyndon LaRouche.

"'I knew LaRouche to be kind of a nut case, to be extreme,' Johnson says. 'But I didn't know about the anti-Semitism. I apologize for that.'"

"By that logic, it's okay to donate money to a nut case, as long as he's not a bigot."

Tom Moran in the Star Ledger, Sunday, November 4, 2007