Rep. Pallone fires up disillusioned Democrats

ASBURY PARK - What was billed as a congressional town hall seemed at times like a group therapy session for heartbroken Democrats and progressives still trying to grasp how enough Americans could have possibly voted for Donald Trump to elect him president.

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. D-N.J., came before a friendly gathering at the West Side Community Center on Dewitt Avenue this Saturday to boost morale and offer hope for the future to an audience who had mostly been invited to be there by the congressman’s political operation.

Pallone said he believed in abolishing the Electoral College, among other things, but called on those present to think local and focus on the future. He counseled a standing-room only crowd to focus their energies on New Jersey’s gubernatorial and legislative races this year, particularly in the state’s 11th legislative district which overlaps a portion of his 6th congressional district.

Pallone explained that Republican politics today was being driven by theology, revision and ideology.

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