Editor's Note: Here are some mid-August thoughts about political doings in New Jersey.

Does anyone care where the governor lives?

Probably not.

Still, it's news that Mikie Sherrill plans to move to Drumthwacket sometime this month.

While the mansion along Route 206 in Princeton is the official governor's mansion, not many recent governors have lived there. To find one who did, you need to go back to Jim McGreevey in the early 2000's.

The governors who followed lived at home and just used the mansion for ceremonial events.

Whenever something happens in politics, some wonder if there is a backstory.

In other words, does Sherrill's relocation from Montclair to Princeton mean anything other than the obvious - an easier commute to Trenton.

The governor, of course, does not drive herself but even while being ferried around, New Jersey traffic does not vanish.

The guess here is that no ulterior motive is afoot.

This move is about convenience, pure and simple - along with the fact a mansion is a pretty nice place to live. It's not as if she's moving her family to a hovel.

An emailed question to Sherrill's office about when the move will actually happen has not been answered.

Guess they don't want people crashing the house-warming party.

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Speaking of Sherrill, the governor was in Jersey City a few days ago for an event and had reason to mention Steve Fulop, the former mayor.

The relevance was the city's poor fiscal condition that the state budget has tried to alleviate.

Sherrill said the state had to do something to help the residents of the city, who through no fault of their own had a "very bad mayor."

It is unusual for a governor to be so nasty about a member of her own party.

Ah, but there is history here.

Fulop, you recall, ran for governor in the 2025 Democratic primary against Sherrill and lost. So did four others, including Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark

Just about a year ago, however, there was an event in Essex County in which Baraka endorsed Sherrill.

Fulop never did, that "very bad mayor."

No one in politics forgets anything.

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The best House race to watch this year in New Jersey has to be CD-7 - the match between Tom Kean Jr. and Rebecca Bennett.

A national outlet paying attention is the Jewish Insider, a DC digital news site that " covers U.S. politics, business, and philanthropy with a Jewish angle from Capitol Hill to the campaign trail and the conference circuit."

It recently mentioned the CD-7 race with an interesting angle. It reported - favorably - that Bennett has no plans to campaign with, or for, Democrat Adan Hamawy in nearby District 12. Hamawy has gotten heat for his past ties to a man implicated in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

A Bennett spokesperson said she's totally focused on her own race.

That's good to hear, but raising the question is kind of a stretch, no?

Bennett is not an incumbent. She is challenging a GOP incumbent in a district with more registered Republicans than Democrats.

She certainly has enough to do.

So, why would she even consider campaigning  for someone else in the first place?