Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 09:21:31 AM EDT
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| Today's news roundup is brought to you by Tom Kean Jr, Karl Rove and lots and lots of pot.
On Monday, Herb Jackson, reporter for The Record, interviewed Tom Kean Sr about his involvement with the fictitious and revisionist 9/11 movie. Q: There's a theory on the bluejersey.net blog that you're trying to blunt the criticism of the Bush administration on terrorism to help your son's campaign for Senate. What's your reaction? Kean Sr sets up a false dichotomy:A: And two years ago, that's what I decided to do when they approached me? [Laughs] I figured out at that point my son was running? I must have been very, very smart to do that. I don't think the producers would go along with that. Hey, look. If people look at this and think the Clinton administration's to blame, then that's not the point and the series has failed. Hahahaha! It must be funny for him to be a cheerleader for a movie that desecrates the history of our country. But this is also about the choices he's making today, even after clear evidence that the movie is full of fabrications. And just because he didn't realize and won't admit that ABC's sole purpose for involving him in the project was to lend credibility to a partisan hack job doesn't make it true (why didn't they also invite commission vice-chairman Rep Lee Hamilton to help consult?).
 Speaking of hacks, Karl Rove will be holding a $2000/person fundraiser for Tom Kean Jr next Monday (see the invitation). Bob Menendez responded:Rove demands absolute loyalty to George Bush’s agenda, and if pro-war Tom Kean Jr. is elected, that is exactly what he will get. Tom Kean Jr. supports George Bush’s war in Iraq, he supports his plans to privatize Social Security, and like Bush, he has opposed stem cell research when it counted. No matter what he says a few weeks before the election, his record shows he stands with George Bush and his fundraising just seals the deal. Kean Jr. is running up quite the tab with the Bush administration, and if it ever came time to pay the bill, it’s New Jersey that would pay the price.” Junior will take Rove's dirty money (and campaigning advice), but he found another excuse to avoid actually attending and being seen with Rove at the event.
Three scientists at Princeton University have found a way to hack an electronic voting machine in under a minute. They are able to rig the machine so that in test mode, it appears to function correctly, but after the election, the votes are switched around, leaving no evidence behind of malicious code being used. The scientists conclude that "a voter-verified paper trail is the most important safeguard that can make e-voting machines more secure."
On Oprah Winfrey's show next Tuesday, Jim McGreevey reveals that his affair with Golan Cipel began while his wife was still in the hospital after giving birth to their daughter. According to one audience member, "McGreevey recounted going to the library as an Irish-Catholic adolescent to look up homosexual in a dictionary. When he saw terms such as perverse and psychiatric disorder in the definition, he said, he realized he didn't want to be that and quickly learned to repress the feelings he knew the church and his community would abhor."
Bob Menendez and Tom Kean Jr have agreed to three debates in October - two on TV on Oct 8 and 15 and a third of NJ 101.5 either on Oct 11 or 17. For some reason, the stations decided they will air the debates at 8:00 am, so for the three of you who end up watching, let us know how it goes.
State Senator Lesniak spoke before the NJ Death Penalty Commission, urging that the death penalty be replaced with life in prison.In 1982, I voted to reinstate the death penalty in New Jersey. I was wrong. Thank God, no one has been executed to date. And thank God, no innocent person was executed. As the saying goes, 'There but for the grace of God....
The SEIU, with 28,000 members in New Jersey, endorsed Linda Stender for Congress yesterday.
Two brothers were arrested yesterday for growing a 3,000 square foot plot of pot, near Livingston Ave and Rt 280, "toward the rear of the Prudential corporate complex." |
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