Democrats Paying for Calls to Support Independent in NJ

What do you do when your party has an unpopular Democrat governor on the ticket? You buy phone calls praising the third party candidate in the hopes he'll take votes away from the Republican:

The Democratic State Committee now admits paying for a robocall to Somerset County voters that slams Republican Chris Christie and promotes independent gubernatorial candidate Christopher Daggett.

A Democratic spokeswoman says the party’s chairman, Joe Cryan, was not aware of the robocalls when he denied that the state committee had anything to do with them yesterday afternoon.

Cryan, who told PolitickerNJ.com yesterday afternoon that the Democratic State Committee had “absolutely” nothing to do with the call, could not immediately be reached for comment.

It's a shame the Democrats don't believe in their own candidate enough to spend their money supporting him.