Senate race puts spotlight on Menendezs scandals

-Source-The New York Post- In a scene from a recent campaign ad Democratic US Sen. Bob Menendez casually dressed in a button-down shirt open at the collar walks through working-class Union City NJ where he grew up in a family of Cuban immigrants. I never forgot my roots" says Menendez 64 pointing a finger at the camera. But the folksy part of the clip ends abruptly interrupted with a blaring voice-over dripping with sarcasm: Is he kidding?" The political commercial goes on to detail Menendezs cozy relationship with a millionaire benefactor flashing images of a private jet clinking champagne glasses and sultry models all scenes from a lavish globe-trotting lifestyle a world away from the modest houses covered with aluminum siding and neat driveways of Menendezs old neighborhood. Its one of a handful of negative TV spots paid for by a super PAC whose Web site ShamelesslyCorruptMenendez.com reminds voters that New Jerseys embattled two-term senator faced a historic federal corruption trial in 2017 where he had been accused of accepting bribes from his friend Salomon Melgen in return for political favors for him and a bevy of beauties with many of the details first revealed by The Post.