TRENTON, NJ – Far-left progressive Democrat Andy Kim isn’t sleeping well these days. He said he’s riled up over the arrogance and corruption that plagues his own political party. That admission comes amid one of the biggest political corruption scandals to hit the U.S. Senate in decades after New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez was indicted in federal court on bribery, corruption, and extortion charges.
In order to cure his insomnia, Kim has announced he will run against Menendez next year.
“When he had that kind of defiant tone and I’m not going anywhere, it did not sit well with me,” Kim said. “It kept me up all night long. I did not get a minute of sleep all night Friday and Saturday.”
Kim said he was annoyed by the sheer arrogance of Menendez, who has earned the monicker ‘Gold Bar Bob’ by Fox News host Jesse Watters after the FBI found gold bars and cash stuffed, hidden away in the embattled senator’s home closet.
“It sounded like he’s saying he owns this seat, that’s not true, it belongs to the people of New Jersey,” Kim said.
Kim isn’t the only person vying for that seat. Rumors are swirling that Tammy Murphy, the wife of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy also wants it.
In response, Kim has called for the abolition of the party line in New Jersey to increase his own chances of getting the seat out from under Murphy’s grip on New Jersey Democrat politics.
First, Kim has another election to worry about.
One of his top staffers, District Director Ben Giovine is running for mayor of Toms River, New Jersey’s 8th largest city. Kim has some answering to do after Giovine chose to run with a local pastor who has condemned homosexuality and woman who has been criticized for racist posts on social media using the ‘n-word’.
To date, Kim has been quiet on his own problems with his staffer, but as that race heats up, Kim will most likely have to come to grips with a candidate in a race that could get very heated in a key Republican stronghold.