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: Dave Friedland, Legislator

: By Anthony Olszewski

: In the 1960's and 70's, Dave Friedland was the quintessential New Jersey politician. As Hudson County's version of the Renaissance man, he was a poet, lawyer to the Teamsters, legislator, scuba diver, fugitive, and, finally, inmate. 
: Dave Friedland also possessed remarkable powers of persuasion. 

: One day, on the New Jersey State Assembly floor, David Friedland worked himself into a frenzy prophesizing the doom that would befall New Jersey, Society, yea, the Universe, if a certain bill passed. 

: "Women will no longer bear children...The sun shall cease rising in the East...Stars shall come loose in the night sky and fall into the ocean... 

: His speech was cut short by a lunch break. As Dave Friedland was about to leave the building, an aide, out of breath, came running up to him. 

: "Sir, you've got a phone call."
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: Not breaking his stride, without turning to look at the functionary, "Tell them, I'll call back." 

: Braking by pressing his heels into the marble floor, the aide grabbed Dave Friedland, by the sleeve. 

: "You've got a call." 

: Assemblyman Friedland knew what a call was. He immediately turned and hurried to his office. Pushing past a minor multitude of favor and job seekers, David Friedland made his way to a back room. Dave closed and locked the door before picking up the phone. 

: J.V. Kenny, political boss of Hudson County for two generations, was on the other end.

: "Are you out of your mind! That's my bill! I've been working all year to get that thing passed! What are you doing! Stop it! STOP IT! STOP IT!!!" 

: And then hung up. 

: Later that afternoon, after lunch, as the Assembly re-convened, Dave Friedland rose to speak. 

: "Now that I've pointed out the few minor flaws, imperfections, merely cosmetic blemishes so-to-speak, of this fine bill, let me now relate all its good points, the benefits, the bounty, the cornucopia...." 

: The bill passed. 

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: In a strange confluence of Hudson County politics and the dazed and confused zeitgeist of the '70s (Was the geist, zeit or polter?), as a campaign promotion, Dave Friedland proposed printing his name on packs of rolling papers! In a further stroke of warped genius, he intended to have a different campaign promise on each individual sheet. An aide convinced him that the druggie "constituency" probably did not include many voters



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