2018 General Election Elected 52 — 47

 

He touches all the bases but one –‘

That’s Tomasz Malinowski https://www.malinowskifornj.com/ for those interested in origins.  He was born in Poland to a Polish mother so he is not going to be President.  He does have a good chance to be a Member of Congress.

Tom Malinowski moved to Princeton, NJ forty-six years ago with his mother when he was six.  He grew up in Princeton, graduated from the local high school and is now targeting one of the New Jersey Republican Congressmen who did not retire. He is separating himself from a strong Democratic primary field.

Tom Malinowski has an American political family history through his stepfather.  In the early sixties, Blair Clark was a vice president of CBS News.  Later, he managed Eugene McCarthy’s presidential campaign. 

One family story is too colorful to ignore.  Tom Malinowski’s aunt (step aunt),  AnneMartindell, defeated a New Jersey state senator in 1973.  She was greeted with skepticism.  Pols said she would not be welcome in “back room meetings” because, as a woman she would not be comfortable with four letter words.  Her response: “That’s a load of shit.

Tom Malinowski’s family political history goes back much farther.  Blair Clark’s father was a federal judge appointed by Calvin Coolidge.  Clark’s grandfather was a US Senator and Secretary of War during the Grant presidency.  Clark’s great grandfather was Simon Cameron, former U.S. Senator, Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln, and a candidate for the 1860 Republican nomination.   Cameron was one of Lincoln’s Team of Rivals.  

Tom Malinowskihas built a little political history of his own.  He interned for New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley.  He went west for university and earned a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley.  He worked for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then left to earn an M.Phil. from Oxford.

Tom Malinowski continued his international focus.  He worked for the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and then the Ford Foundation.  He worked in the State Department writing speeches for Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madelaine Albright.  Under Clinton he became Senior Director of the National Security Council managing international communications and writing foreign policy speeches for the President.

With Democrats out of office, Tom Malinowski became the head of the Washington office of Human Rights Watch.   For over a decade, he was a leading opponent of the US use of torture, of tyranny in Myanmar, and of groups like the Taliban.  He urged that the US demand that the Taliban accept women’s rights prior to any negotiations. 

Tom Malinowski became an assistant Secretary of State under President Obama with a portfolio to address human rights. He tried to help religious minorities targeted by ISIS and members of the LGBT community throughout the world.  He helped manage sanctions against North Korea and against Russian officials.  He was expelled during a visit to Bahrain after meeting with an opposition group.  He was a conscience for US foreign policy.

Congress could use a conscience. Tom Malinowski https://www.malinowskifornj.com/ would more than do. Let’s sustain a Democratic wave and restore integrity and a commitment to a foreign and domestic policy that integrates human rights and American interests.  That wave can happen if we support Democratic candidates now.

Legislative Special Election (Even last minute donations help) ……Arizona 08  Northwest of Phoenix — physician and cancer researcher HeralTipirneniis in a special election on April 24tomorrow.  It would be an upset if she wins, though recent polls show a tie vote.  Win or lose, this contest will happen again in November.  Help her now and/or help her later…….