LIVE from the Senate Gallery

by: Jeff Gardner

Thu Jan 07, 2010 at 02:41:08 PM EST

The scene is tense, notwithstanding the dismal scorecard published in the Star Ledger today. When hope is all you have, hope persists.

So far, I've seen Gov. Codey in his chambers across the rotunda, and Sens. Sweeney and Girgenti enter separately and exit thru a side door upstairs, and now Bateman and some others are entering downstairs.

The show should be about to start. Hope.