I posted a diary on Saturday with pictures of the great reception Senator Weinberg received in Moorestown while raising awareness for breast cancer. The Corzine campaign put out a video with some comments from women who were with the Senator:I think it's a really well done video and like I said Saturday, Weinberg got a great reception. People seemed to appreciate the talk about the mammogram issue. Meanwhile, the Governor kept the focus on mammograms as well, hosting a roundtable today:
"While I have worked to expand healthcare to cover more kids and passed the paid family leave law to ensure workers can care for sick relatives or newborns, Chris Christie would side with the big insurance companies by giving them free-rein to drop coverage for critical procedures like mammograms," Corzine said during a roundtable discussion today with breast cancer survivors to mark National Mammography Day. "The insurance companies don't need a governor, New Jersey families do."
They had Monmouth County Freeholder Amy Mallet, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age nineteen,there as well to talk about the importance of mammograms.
I decided to take a drive over to the street fair in Moorestown today where Lieutenant Governor Candidate Loretta Weinberg was walking around and talking to attendees. Here's a report from Lisa, posted over at the Corzine Blog:
We are feeling so great about the event today that we are going to carry it forward. As you know, we have been having women- women phone banks every Wednesday evening. Beginning this week, we are going to have our Women's phone banks include a "Mammos Matter" theme. We will be outfitting our local field office with pink tablecloths, pink pencils as well as eating pink food. Women are responding to the need to keep the NJ mandate for insurance companies to pay for our Mammograms. They are responding to the need to keep Jon Corzine as our governor.
As we walked Moorestown today we visited the "Soft Pretzel Factory" on Main Street. They have a large pink ribbon in their window, so it was a natural stop for us. Senator Weinberg was gracious and purchased us some delicious soft pretzels. During the month of October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month) ,The Soft Pretzel Factory is donating half of their proceeds to the Susan B. Koman Foundation. I stopped in and asked if they would make us some pretzels in the shape of breast- cancer awareness ribbons. They said of course. We plan to keep these in stock at our field office and serve "pink" mustard with them.
I enjoyed my pretzel compliments of the Senator and although I didn't have pink, I wore my red Rutgers shirt since that was the closest I had and it's homecoming day too. Here is a picture right as the Senator arrived:
There were classic cars that lined Main Street in Moorestown including this one promoting breast cancer awareness as well:
The rain as she arrived could not dampen people's spirits as Weinberg appeared to get a very good reception from what I was able to see. I'll put more pictures below the fold.
