MARTINSVILLE – Mikie Sherrill came to Somerset County this evening and immediately tried to turn her opponent’s presumed advantage in these parts into a deficit.
Republican Jack Ciattarelli hails from Somerset.
So, in a roomful of Democrats, on a mountaintop overlooking the rest of the county, lights twinkling in the distance, Sherrill promptly made a tactical maneuver.
“You know Jack,” she said.
As if they didn’t want to.
Surrogates drilled down on the point.
Yes, they know him, said Henry Goodhue, president of the Hillsborough Education Association, leading a band of NJEA diehards in a bulging ballroom at Martinsville Gardens.
At the microphone in the front of the crowd, Goodhue represented Steve Beatty, president of the NJEA.
In 12 years as a labor leader, he said,…
