Top Democrat Resigns After Investigators Find He Made Crude

Eight months. That’s how long Dale Caldwell lasted as New Jersey’s lieutenant governor before an internal investigation found he sexually harassed a staffer and broke state ethics rules "on multiple occasions." This isn’t a political hit job. It’s a Democrat administration tripping over its own feet just a few months into the governor’s term.

The timing matters. Governor Mikie Sherrill rode into office on promises of clean government and “the right team.” She picked Caldwell. Now she owns his mess. The same media that treats every Republican scandal as a five-alarm fire will likely shrug this off as a personnel change. But if a Trump appointee had done this, the headlines would have run for a month.

To be fair, the system worked: the investigation happened, and Caldwell resigned. Good. That’s the standard Republicans can support. But the silence from the left is telling. They demanded Kavanaugh’s head on a platter over an allegation. Here, the finding is official, and the response is a quiet shuffle.

Conservative voters should remember this. Democrats specialize in lectures about morality until they have to clean up their own house. Sherrill doesn’t get a reset button. She gets eight months of a failed judgment call, and we’ll see if she ever answers for it.