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- Christie: 'You call it fear, I call it respect'
- With Healy out and Fulop in, does Mukherji head to Trenton looking over his shoulder?
- Buono seeks to energize the women's vote
- Sweeney tees off on Buono campaign over chairman's choice
- Buono Senior Advisor Currie to Democrats: stop the food-fighting and back Buono
Bramnick: Dems haven't done enough to rein in spending
TRENTON - Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick has a simple answer for what should happen to longtime Democrats who didn't do enough to rein in spending and tax increases.
"They should be sent home in November," he said during a press briefing Monday on the GOP legislative agenda.
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 >Kean decries Sweeney's tactic of pulling bills from agendas
TRENTON - Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, (R-21), of Westfield accused Senate President Steve Sweeney Monday of letting "politically charged emotions" get in the way of the people's business, as evidenced by his removal of Republican-sponsored bills from various committee agendas.
The bills pulled from today’s agendas include ones on the closure of landfills, child pornography, beach replenishment, the Jessica Lunsford sex offenders bill, and others.
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 >Lottery 'privatization' proposal could be a bump in fiscal road, OLS says
TRENTON – If there’s a hiccup in the state’s plan to privatize parts of the New Jersey Lottery, the budget revenue shortfall over the close of the next fiscal year could surpass $1 billion, according to the Office of Legislative Services.
David Rosen, OLS’ budget officer, told Senate lawmakers he’s uncertain whether the administration’s anticipation of receiving an upfront $120 million general fund infusion from the lottery privatization will come to fruition.
Read More >Christie grabs another $950k in air time
Gov. Chris Christie has purchased another $950,000 in television air time, according to a source familiar with the buy.
The campaign will continue running its current advertisement, a 30-second spot taking Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono to task for her tax record, for the near future, the source said.
Read More >Sweeney tees off on Buono campaign over chairman's choice
The state's highest elected Democrat had harsh words last night for the presumptive party gubernatorial nominee, her top lieutenant and the new chairman of the state party.
Senate President Steve Sweeney lashed out at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono for her choice of Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell to head the state party. Sweeney said O'Donnell will simply be a puppet for former state party Chairman Joe Cryan, who is a top advisor to Buono and an O'Donnell ally. Both men were involved late last year in a failed attempt to overthrow the Assembly speaker.
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The Back Room
I got you babe...
Presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee Barbara Buono today released an internet ad featuring cameos from a couple of Bono's and a Cuomo.
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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"The frustration is she might as well have named Joe Cryan her choice for state party chair because Jason O'Donnell is simply a beard for Joe Cryan." - State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3).
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