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Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 10:38:44 AM EDT
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Much of the talk in New Jersey regarding contested Congressional seats this Fall has centered around District 7, where Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Stender is running against Republican State Senator Leonard Lance to fill the House seat vacated by retiring Republican Congressman Michael Ferguson (R-7). The most likely Democratic pick-up, however, is actually in District 3, where Democratic State Senator John Adler is battling Republican Christopher Myers to fill the seat of retiring Congressman James Saxton (R-3). Adler has raised approximately two million dollars for his run and as a popular State Senator from Cherry Hill who is well-respected for his policy-making abilities and breadth of knowledge regarding State and Federal issues, he is a formidable opponent of Mr. Myers, the Mayor of Medford, New Jersey and Lockheed-Martin Vice-President.
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Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 09:36:50 AM EDT
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The conventional wisdom is that the recently announced federal probe into the dealings of former Corzine friend, Carla Katz, with the local CWA which she had led, will score United States Attorney Chris Christie political points with Republicans, Independents, and some anti-Corzine Democrats. Governor Corzine has been battling to keep emails between Katz and himself from becoming public and Katz is already under investigation by the national CWA for alleged improper conduct. Christie's federal investigation promises more negative Katz headlines, more unfavorable publicity for the Governor, and positive publicity for Mr. Christie. However, Mr. Christie's possible gubernatorial ambitions may actually be undermined by this probe.
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Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 10:27:16 AM EDT
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This is a transcript of Andy Unanue, the current savior of the NJ Republican Party's effort to win a statewide race, where he defends himself against the charge of being drunk on the job by saying he was just hung over.
Q: Did you hear some testimony regarding your drinking alcohol [on the job]?
A: Yeah.
Q: Were you ever drunk in the office at GFI's [Goya Foods] headquarters?
A: No
Q: Were you ever drunk in any other offices where you worked?
A: No.
Q: Were you ever hung over in the office?
A: Sure, yes.
"Sure, yes." he says. As if this were a normal occurrence for an officer of a major corporation to show up to the office hung over.
If that's what he did while managing the family business, imagine what he would do in the US Senate.
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Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 10:36:58 AM EST
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Update: The results are in, and Ron Paul trounced:
Novick says there were 207 total votes (I'm only counting 176). Duncan Hunter's votes aren't included below...he got about 7 votes, plus some people may have left early.
Ron Paul: 72.7% (128)
Fred Thompson: 15.3% (27)
Rudy 9ui11iani: 8.0% (14)
Mike Huckabee: 2.3% (4)
John McCain: 1.1% (2)
Barack Obama: 0.6% (1) (Joey Novick, who paid to attend the straw poll, wrote in a vote for Obama, though they did not announce it in the totals.)
Ever wonder what the other side is doing? Joey Novick is going to tell us.
Will Rudy pull his fat out of the fire - or is he fried?
Update (Juan) - some fun tidbits: Question: Should we be in The UN? "Sabrin: "Paul supports withdrawing from the UN, and making them condos on the east river. That will handle the homeless problem in NYC."
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Huckabee on UN withdrawal: "About the UN. It needs to reigned in, We pay too much. We need to make the oil rich nations to pay more. I work in midtown NYC. And I can't get to my office when the NYC police are escorting someone from an oil rich nation to the UN, who is going to criticize us. That has got to stop." Waaahhh! For someone in politics, they sure are a bit thin-skinned. Gosh, imagine someone criticizing us! Oh the horror!!! Clowns, stay out of the kitchen.
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Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 12:16:54 PM EST
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Something interesting is going on at the Courier News' blog section.
Joan Greiner, the wife of defeated Flemington Borough Councilman Phil Greiner, has got herself a blog. And, boy is she using it to paint an interesting picture of Flemington.
Her husband lost the election to me. Close-I won by about 4 votes. And now the Council has a Democratic majority. Mrs. Greiner feels that, somehow, I have ruined the whole temperament of Council, since 2007 was a productive and fairly cooperative year. She labors under the delusion that the three Republicans who were up for re-election were somehow entitled to their seats, and that I got in the way of that lovely peace by seeking to disturb the beauty of a 3-3 even split.
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Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 11:24:11 PM EST
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Many of our elected officials on the State, County and local level are using their public office to financially reward themselves at taxpayer expense. One example of this profiteering is elected officials, who are also attorneys, obtaining public business for themselves and their law firms by directly or indirectly using their position to do so. This business is often obtained without competitive bidding. As a result, these elected officials and their firms are getting rich and we taxpayers are paying for it.
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Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 10:51:19 PM EDT
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A recent Quinnipiac poll revealed that nine out of ten New Jersey voters believe that corruption is a "very serious" or "somewhat serious" problem. However, a sizeable majority of voters polled said that the issue would not sway their vote to the Republican column despite the announcement of several recent high profile corruption cases against prominent Democrats. What does this mean for New Jersey residents?
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 11:15:57 PM EDT
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Cross-Posted from ShapTalk.com:
Officials of both political parties should have learned a lesson from 2004 when key Democratic politicians, including Governor Jim McGreevey, jumped on board with Governor Howard Dean, only to see Dean implode soon thereafter, leaving them with little influence over Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic nominee. Apparently, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Approximately one month ago, a long line of Republican officials publicly announced their support for Rudy Guliani for President. Recently, a significant contingent of Democratic officials, including Governor Corzine, publicly backed Senator Hillary Clinton for President. Both groups of elected officials will find themselves on the outside looking in should the political winds afoot blow in an unexpected but likely direction.
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 10:55:39 PM EDT
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Cross-Posted from ShapTalk.com:
Fifty years ago, women would typically vote for the candidates their husbands voted for or would not vote at all. Times have thankfully changed and women now have a significant role in campaigns and elections. Whether it be the soccer moms of the 1990's or the security moms post-9/11, the role of women in politics has taken on greater importance, especially in the last decade. As a significant voting block, women have become critical to the election hopes of any politician. However, the number of women serving in elected office continues to be dwarfed by the number of men who serve. In New Jersey, on the Republican side of the aisle, something is being done to address this problem: the Christine Todd Whitman Excellence in Public Service Series. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party currently has no comparable program.
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Sat Feb 24, 2007 at 02:00:00 PM EST
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It's well documented that the former Republican majority in the House demanded absolute loyalty on the part of its members, and Mike Ferguson (NJ7) was no exception. Regularly his constituents -- and Blue 7th members -- would contact his office with pleas for a vote and Ferguson would go the other way, voting with his political bosses instead of his constituents. He had a more than 91 percent rating for voting with the conservative leadership, yet described himself as a moderate.
Now we know why. In yesterday's Princeton Packet, Ferguson actually admitted that he voted against his constituents and conscience because he was ordered to by the Republican majority.
This is the first time Mr. Ferguson has been in the minority since he was initially elected to the House of Representatives in 2000, from a district that includes Montgomery and Rocky Hill.
The "silver lining", he said, is that being in the minority allows a bit more freedom "to vote the way you want to", since the Democratic majority now bears the responsibility to muster the votes necessary to govern. "When you're in the majority, sometimes you vote for things you don't totally support," Mr. Ferguson said.
Well, now we need to find out. What things did Ferguson vote for that he -- and his constituents -- didn't support. Even more, what bills passed by just one vote that a Ferguson vote of conscience rather than a vote for Party Leadership would have changed.
For instance, Ferguson voted against an amendment that would have increased funding for care for wounded veteran while at the same time defunding the base closures that will cost NJ 15,000 jobs. That amendment failed by just one vote. Ferguson's vote.
Do we want a Congressman who thinks for himself no matter who is in power or one who can only vote the right way when his party bosses aren't telling him what to do?
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Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 08:44:14 PM EST
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I think I need to catch up on NJ Politics, the kind in Trenton. Not being very familiar with the folks in Trenton I thought the peeps @ bluejersey might give me a leg up on the worst of the worst.
Specifically, who's the most vulnerable, the most extreme, who is just wrong on the issues & why, who is going to retire, who deserves to lose next year. Or even who's worthy of a rant.
I have taken the liberty of posting a hopefully complete list of Republicans in Trenton @ my NJ BLUE BUX blog.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 at 01:21:32 PM EDT
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This is according to today's PoliticsNJ.com.
Mike Ferguson, standing up for family values, woo hoo!
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 at 05:03:03 PM EDT
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Saying he was "deeply sorry," Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from Congress today, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former congressional pages under the age of 18.
A spokesman for Foley, the chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, said the congressman submitted his resignation in a letter late this afternoon to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 at 12:24:23 PM EDT
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Hot off the press, we get a release from the Assembly Republicans (careful with your mouse, the ink is still wet). The release claims that the bonified valiant Republicans have saved the day with $2.2 billion in cuts, so that we need not raise the penny sales tax!
To think that just yesterday Senator Bob Littell was sounding like Doomsday was upon us! The tosser could have just picked up the phone and given a ringy-dingy to his buddies DeCroce et al. in the Assembly!
Anyway, tucked into the cute release is this: Republican Budget Officer Malone and fellow budget committee member O'Toole said that this cut list has been the product of a deliberative, bipartisan five-month long budget process.
"Our budget committee met for five months and both Democrats and Republicans have meticulously studied the Corzine spending proposal," said Malone, R-Burlington, Ocean, Monmouth and Mercer. "As a result of that process we have been able to identify areas where we can achieve legitimate savings in this budget."
"Republicans and Democrats on the budget committee have utilized the budget process to uncover waste and to determine what programs we can cut," said Assemblyman Kevin O'Toole, R-Essex, Passaic, and Bergen. "These cuts reflect the hard work of the budget committee toward making responsible, thoughtful spending reductions."
WOW! So, here is the $20,000 question.
If indeed these cuts are of a "bi-partisan" nature, why aren't Democrat signatures on this press release?
Bonus snark: If I were a certain Senator, I would ask for "the details" of these cuts. Cuz contrary to the promise at the end of this release : A detailed list of the proposed spending cuts by department is attached to this press release. The list will also be made available today on njassemblyrepublicans.com.
It ain't there yet. The short list they provide in the release adds up to $513 million in cuts. Which leaves us with nearly $1.7 billion in detail-less cuts.
UPDATE: And neither is this press release. It's there now.
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