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Paterson Council President Davis endorses re-election of Gov. Christie
A Democratic Party Leader in one of New Jersey’s largest and most Democratic cities, Paterson Council President Anthony Davis today threw his support behind Gov. Chris Christie.
"Governor Christie believes in putting progress before politics and knows that’s what people in every part of New Jersey expect from their leaders,” said Davis, standing with Christie in the First Ward’s D’Classico Restaurant. “I know that he cares about Paterson and our unique issues – not as a Democratic, Republican or Independent city, but because he believes in a government that acts for all of its citizens. And I know that because he has built relationships that have nothing do with politics and everything to do with leadership and solving problems.”
Davis cited the governor’s attention to key reforms, including changes to New Jersey’s teacher tenure system, mandatory drug court for nonviolent offenders, and gun buyback initiatives led by the Christie Administration.
Read More >Buono: O'Donnell's energy and skill set right for the job
TRENTON – Presumptive Democratic Gubernatorial nominee Barbara Buono asserted her choice of state party chair as good for the party and good for her candidacy and denied O’Donnell divides the party.
Her view has pitted her publicly against Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3), a fight she dismissed today as “inside baseball.”
Sweeney ally Senator Jeff Van Drew worries O’Donnell will reopen old battle lines, between those Democrats favoring the Gov. Chris Christie-backed public workers pension and benefits overhaul, and those who opposed the overhaul.
In the legislature, Sweeney drove the overhaul.
Read More >Turner slams media over Christie love
TRENTON - Veteran state Sen. Shirley Turner (D-15) criticized the mainstream media for trying to get in good with Gov. Chris Christie rather than pulling apart the facts of his tenure.
"It's hard to get coverage because the mass media is trying to suck up to the governor," Turner told a roomful of American Federation of Teachers AFT) sympathizers,
Turner spoke vigorously in support of Buono's candidacy, but acknowledged her early trouble tryuing to gain traction for a face-off with media darling Christie.
"She's not going to be able to fundraise at the same level as the governor," Turner admitted.
Read More >Buono says she is going up next week on network and cable TV
TRENTON - Appearing today at Thomas Alva Edison College, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono told a crowd of mostly public sector workers that her campaigg is going up next week on network and cable television.
"We need to let him know he's wrong," Buono said of her opponent, incumbent Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who's already up on television.
"He's running scared," Buono said of Christie, in explantation of the governor's early ad blitz.
A source told PolitickerNJ.com that the Buono campaign has not yet purchased the TV time, but Buono was clear that next week she will be up on TV.
Read More >Van Drew backs Sweeney in state chair debacle
Like Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3), state Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D-1) wanted another choice for state party chair - and remains hopeful of a change.
"You really should have a chair that unites the party," said Van Drew. "I wish we could have reached consensus."
Presumptive Democratic nominee for Governor state Sen. Barbara Buono chose Assemblyman O'Donnell (D-31) to serve as state party chair.
A firefighter married to a school teacher, O'Donnell strenuously resisted Sweeney's public worker pension and benefits overhaul championed by Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
The issue revealed the deep divisions between so-called public and private unions.
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Buono Senior Advisor Currie to Democrats: stop the food-fighting and back Buono
John Currie, dean of the Democratic Party county chairs, said he gave his word to Barbara Buono that he would support her choice for state party chair and he won't back down.
As Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3) continues to trash Buono's choice, Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell (D-31), Currie said Republican Gov. Chris Christie's laughing at the party and called on Democrats to stop the food-fighting.
"She (Buono) deserves the support of the entire party," said Currie, long-serving chairman of the Passaic Democratic Committee, and now a senior advisor to the Buono campaign.
Currie sees Buono as the only person who had the guts to run for governor and now Democrats must support her and her choice for party chair.
Read More >Three Healy candidates drop out of Jersey City Council runoff
Jersey City Council candidates Peter Brennan, Omar Perez and Jerry Meyers won't be on the ballot in the Jersey City runoff elections next month.
All three ran on the Team Healy ticket and all three bowed out of the second round.
Brennan and Perez ran as at-large candidates. Meyers ran for a Ward B seat.
Read More >Christie on Fulop: 'A bright and hard-working guy'
LAVALLETTE – Steve Fulop’s lopsided win over Jerry Healy in the Jersey City mayor’s race last week won’t impact the gubernatorial election, Gov. Chris Christie said today.
“I don’t see there being any implications for the governor’s race,” Christie said. “The fact is people in Jersey City wanted to make a change.”
Incumbent Healy was the only candidate for mayor in a field of four who announced his support for Christie’s opponent, state Sen. Barbara Buono (D-18).
Fulop hasn’t endorsed Christie’s opponent and shows no signs right now of inserting himself into gubernatorial politics.
Read More >Christie gets into it with Associate Justice Albin
LAVALLETTE – Gov. Chris Christie today jabbed at Associate Barry Albin of the state Supreme Court over the justice’s remarks at the annual conference of the State Bar Association in Atlantic City.
“When one judge is punished for issuing an unpopular decision, other judges take notice and may be less inclined to invite controversy, perhaps at the expense of the fundamental rights of some disfavored group,” said Albin, as quoted by the Star-Ledger.
Christie famously banished Justice John Wallace from the court in 2010 instead of re-upping him, politically motivated decision, Albin suggested.
The governor punched back at the chief justice this morning.
Read More >Christie says Lavallette open for business
LAVALLETTE – Democrats are killing each other while Gov. Chris Christie embraces the Jersey Shore.
School children brandishing little American flags flocked to the boardwalk here, where Christie said he plans to prowl this beach and others all week to remind people they can come here this summer.
The ravages of Hurricane Sandy still abound: a house twisted off its foundation here, a storefront boarded up there, but “large sections don’t look a damn bit different” than they did pre-storm.
Read More >The Back Room
Cho to face Maguire in CD 5 primary
Roy Cho, a mergers and acquisitions attorney and former New Jersey gubernatorial aide has filed to run for Congress in the 5th Congressional District.
Read More >Wake-Up Call
Morning News Digest - May 21, 2013
Christie no longer ‘Today’ show cohost Gov. Chris Christie is no longer scheduled to co-host an hour of the TODAY show, rather the incumbent governor seeking re-election in the fall will sit down “for an extended interview,” according to the program’s spokeswoman. New Jersey’s governor was originally slated to...
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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 >
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