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Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 06:41:50 PM EDT
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Details are scarce, but Reuters reported earlier today that Congressman Don Payne's plane was attacked while leaving Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia:
Somali insurgents fired mortars towards U.S. congressman Donald Payne as he left the Somali capital on a rare visit by a U.S. politician to the anarchic Horn of Africa nation, police said.
"One mortar landed at the airport when Payne's plane was due to fly and five others after he left and no one was hurt," Abukar Hassan, a police officer at Mogadishu airport, told Reuters.
Good news that no one was injured. More information will no doubt follow.
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Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 05:59:18 PM EDT
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Cash on Hand from the FEC quarterly filings:
| Rob Andrews (NJ1) | $2,429,899 |
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| Rush Holt (NJ12) | $623,200 |
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| Frank Pallone (NJ6) | $3,105,223 |
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| Bill Pascrell (NJ8) | $1,031,440 |
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| Don Payne (NJ10) | $751,399 |
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| Steve Rothman (NJ9) | $1,838,631 |
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| Albio Sires (NJ13) | $132,605 |
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Your politics 101 quiz: Which of these Congressmen is thinking of running for the U.S. Senate?
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 09:35:07 AM EST
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New Jersey takes another step towards enacting a policy to provide clean needles to IV drug users to curb the spread of HIV. With today's long-awaited vote, NJ stands to become the very last state in the union to enact a needle exchange program. With HIV transmissions as high as some third world countries, this step is long overdue here in the Garden State. Today's vote will "also would provide $10 million for drug treatment and provide those exchanging needles with information and referrals for HIV testing, drug abuse treatment and health and social service programs."
Also on tap in Trenton, a property tax standoff between Governor Corzine and the Union labor movement in the state. Thousands of union members are expected to descend on the statehouse. Says said Lynn Maher, a spokeswoman for the state's teacher's union, "the message is: We are not the problem. School employees, public employees, did not cause the property tax problem." According the the Star Ledger, the frustrated Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday fired off a letter to legislative leaders challenging them to send him whatever pension reform measures they can pass, and then he will sort it out with his veto pen. "I encourage you to the lead the Legislature forward," Corzine wrote to Senate President Codeyand Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr. "Make your best judgment and move forward, but do not allow this issue to slow or impede our shared and overarching objectives."
How many people will die in the Darfur region of Sudan today? As heir aparent to lead the Africa subcommittee, Rep. Donald Payne vows to make the ongoing genocide in Sudan his number one priority. Namely, he wants to fly some reconnaissance planes over Darfur to get a lay of the land, then send in unmanned drones to seek and destroy the janjaweed troops with blood on their hand.
In an interview with Blue Jersey, Rep. Payne concedes such action is a bold step but "but someone has to stop this genocide and we have to do something to show (the killers) enough is enough. At some point, enough will have to be enough." Check out the Darfur interview here.
New Jersey continues to face uo to the toxic legacy of its past. Philly Inquirer: As many as 300 long-closed municipal landfills, including others laden with toxic waste, lurk beneath New Jersey's landscape, closer to homes than many people realize. Yikes.
According to Pam's House Blend, Lt. Laurel Hester is the obvious favorite for blog-o-sphere's Queer of the Year. (Vote here) Pam also notes that the movie ("Freeheld") about Hester's death-bed struggle for pension benefin for her widow is slated to get some serious attention at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Clearly Laurel Hester's struggle and legacy live on.
NJ.com reminds us of the ongoing battle between Gov. Corzine and PA Gov. Rendell over dredging of the Deleware River. Unless the impasse can be overcome, Rob Andrews suggests a Congressional law to dissolve the Deleware River Port Authority (which is led by Rendell) and replacing the agency with an outfit more ammenable to the needs of New Jersey.
Did I miss something? What's on your mind this mild December day??
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Sat Dec 09, 2006 at 02:39:45 PM EST
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we are not going to allow people to be killed and murdered simply because their skin is black--Rep. Payne
I had the opportunity to interview New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne, who is next in line to chair the subcommittee on Africa and Human Rights in the new Democratic Congress. For the millions of people in the Darfur region of the Sudan, Congressman Payne's chairmanship can't come soon enough. As you know, all hell is broken loose in Darfur. It's a full-blown genocide, a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Donald Payne promises to make the genocide in Darfur a top priority. He has some bold ideas to end the dying as well as the smarts (and the foreign policy chops) to address Darfur head on. And pretty soon, he'll most likely have the clout as well. So check out the interview and see for yourself why Congressman Payne is out last best hope to break the current cycle of genodice in Darfur.
(the really juicy stuff is below the fold)
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