A would-be Republican Senate candidate won’t be challenging Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) because of traffic problems.
The candidate, ex-FBI agent Rob Turkavage, was unable to file for the Republican primary to face Booker in November because he got stuck in traffic as he was trying to get to the Trenton office of the state Division of Elections before the 4 p.m. filing deadline on Monday, according to the Star-Ledger of New Jersey.
Turkavage said he got stuck in traffic on Route 9.
“I’m stuck in traffic,” Turkavage told the New Jersey newspaper.
Turkavage said he had collected the necessary 1,000 signatures to run but was too busy to turn in the petition earlier.
“To make a long story short, I called them to see if I could get down there. They said if you’re not there until 4, don’t bother coming,” Turkavage said.
Traffic problems, of course, have been an ongoing theme of politics in New Jersey this year. At the center of the George Washington Bridge scandal that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) continues to face questions over is an email from a top aide, Bridget Anne Kelly, suggesting that traffic congestion on the bridge was a deliberate act of retaliation.
“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Kelly wrote in the Aug. 13 email.
(Photo credit: Turkavageforussenator.com)
