Drawing a contrast between himself and his opponents, Toms River Councilman Carmine Inteso, Jr., promises that serving as mayor will be his only job if he's elected. Inteso is a Republican running as an Independent against Democrat Richard Strada and Republican Thomas Kelaher.

Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, who is leading a grass roots campaign in New Jersey to draft Al Gore for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, says that the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the former Vice President is "one more demanding reason" why Gore should run for President.

At a pep talk at a Barack Obama canvassing event in Jersey City today, U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, Obama’s northeast regional co-chair, had a friendlier audience than at last month’s Democratic State Convention.

At the convention, when Rothman took the podium to stump for Obama (and some would say knock Sen. Hillary Clinton), he drew scattered applause and some boos from an audience that had just hours before heard Clinton give a rousing speech. Obama didn’t attend. This time, his audience was made up of about 60 Obama volunteers, who met in Van Vorst Park before going door to door to hear pep talks from two of Obama’s most prominent New Jersey supporters: Rothman and Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

Today’s event in Jersey City had a counterpart in Camden County, where State Senator and Congressional candidate John Adler, an early Obama backer, was called in to rally the supporters.