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: MARSHAL BACKS BAD GUYS OFF-RUN 'EM OUT OF TOWN NEXT

: Urban Times News
: April 11-April 17, 2003

: By J.A. Andrews

:     Jersey City-It was like showing a 
: cross to a vampire. "The bad guys just can't 
: stand to see that badge," said Jersey City 
: Mayor Glenn Cunningham. When a cam- 
: paign ad appeared that included the mar- 
: shal's badge he used to wear, Cunningham's 
: political opponents reacted like any normal 
: bad guys would, says the former US 
: Marshal and US Marine. Cunningham is 
: running for the State Senate in the 31st 
: District.
:     It is not just symbolic, explains 
: Cunningham. "The real reason they hate to 
: see that badge is the background check. In 
: order to become a US Marshal I had to go 
: through a background check by the FBI that 
: took as long as it takes to have a baby: nine
: months. They checked me 10 ways from 
: Sunday," said Cunningham, the former US 
: Marshal. "They found out things about me
: that I did not know myself. If there had 
: been the least little thing in my past, any- 
: thing at all, I would have gotten knocked 
: out of the box. But, of course, there is 
: nothing and I did become a US Marshal. 
: That is why the bad guys cannot stand to 
: see the symbol. It stands for everything 
: they are not and cannot ever be."
:    Cunningham included a likeness 
: of the US Marshal's badge he used to wear 
: in his campaign ad in a local newspaper that 
: also showed him in uniform when he was a 
: US Marine. Cunningham says that he got a 
: phone call from an official with the US 
: Marshal service in Washington, DC. The 
: official said that his office had gotten a 
: phone call from the office of Congressman 
: Bob Menendez D-13. Menendez later 
: denied to the local paper that carried the ad 
: that he had made the call or that the call had
: come from his office. It was evident that 
: the US Marshall's service had gotten a com- 
: plaint either directly from Menendez or
: someone in his office or indirectly through
: the Hudson County Democratic 
:  Organization which he and his attorney 
:  Donald Scarinci dominate. Scarinci i, 
:  Treasurer of the Menendez for Congress 
:  and the Hudson County Democratic 
:  Organization also. Regardless the exact ori- 
:  gin of the call, the US Marshal's service fell
:  compelled to contact Cunningham.
:    "I had three choices then," said 
:  Cunningham. "Either I give in and take the 
:  badge out of the ad or I refuse to take the 
:  badge out of the ad. I would not consider 
:  either of these two alternatives. The other 
:  choice was to include a disclaimer in any 
:  future ads saying that no endorsement of 
:  my candidacy for 31st District Senate seal 
:  is implied. So when you see future cam- 
:  paign ads there will be a disclaimer of 
:  endorsement. And then we'll run the bad 
:  guys out of town. I wonder why they did 
:  not call the Marine Corps also, while they
: were at it. I really did serve in the US 
: Marine Corps, too," said Cunningham with 
: a grin. "Maybe they would like a disclaimer 
: from the Corps too." Regardless exact 
: details and legal fine points, there is no love
: lost between the good guys and bad guys in 
: this real-life political melodrama z


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