They don’t have the votes in the senate tonight to legalize recreational marijuana tomorrow but the front office kept leaning to try to extract the 21 votes required to get it done.
They seemed to be stuck at 17 or 18, depending on who you asked, and a source said Senate President Steve Sweeney’s (D-3) people wanted Governor Phil Murphy to bench press the final three or four votes.
It looked grim, as the neophyte governor attempted to button hole upper chamber lawmakers with time ticking down.
His hail mary appeal?
Republicans.
And one recent Republican-turned Democrat.