By Matthew Arco | November 8th, 2012 - 12:39pm
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SOMERSET – Gov. Chris Christie may still be having regular phone conversations with President Barack Obama on the storm recovery efforts in the state, but he’s yet to touch base over the phone with Mitt Romney.

The governor told reporters he exchanged recently emails with the former Massachusetts governor, but has yet to talk to him on the phone following the Republican’s failed bid for the White House.

“We exchanged emails last night,” Christie said Thursday. “We have not spoken on the phone yet.”

The Back Room

Source: Menendez unhappy with O'Donnell as chair

Add U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's name to the list of Democrats around the state unhappy with the choice of Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell as state party chairman. 

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Wake-Up Call

Morning News Digest - May 23, 2013

PolitickerNJ.com interview: Jason O’Donnell Confident he has the votes to be the next Democratic State chairman, Jason O’Donnell said his objective will be to drive the core message of the Democratic Party. “My main objective is to bring Democrats home,” said O’Donnell, 41, an assemblyman from Bayonne. “If we...

Op-Ed

Time to have the talk we hope to avoid but can’t

By Tedford J. Taylor No topic is a less likely conversation-starter than our eventual deaths. Still, there is a lot to talk about. When polled, about 90 percent of people presented with end-of-life scenarios prefer the prospect of dying at home with... Read More >

Contributors

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Quote of the Day

Quote of the day

"That's state money and the speaker has never raised an objection to that, and now all of a sudden she objects to her own bill. She's objecting on a basis she hasn't objected before on the TAG Grant program. Let's face it everybody, this is just politics. It's election year and it's politics." - Gov. Chris Christie, on Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-34).

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Poll

What did you think of Barbara Buono's television ad?
That's top quality work right there. Look for the polls to tighten.
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Nicely produced ad, but if it doesn't move her in the polls, it will have been for naught.
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