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Before she launched an uprising in the Burlington County Republican Organization, outgoing Chair Dawn Lacy thought she had secured the support of Sen.-elect Phil Haines. But Haines reneged - and Lacy criticized him for that on Saturday.

"Silence is not the same as unity," Dawn Lacy tells an assemblage of the party's county delegates at a special meeting in Mount Laurel on Saturday, moments before they vote for Bill Layton as party chair.

Newly chosen as chair of the Burlington County Republican Party, Bill Layton calls on Sen.-elect Phil Haines to stand with him as part of a unified front.

Speaking to an audience of New Jersey Peace Action activists who on Saturday celebrated their organization’s 50th anniversary, former National Guard squad leader Camillo Mejia of Miami called for an end to the war in Iraq.

"My initial reaction was we had not justified an invasion of that country... I was afraid to protest a war that had not begun yet, and I did not want to be the one dissenting voice," said Mejia, who went anyway in 2003 on orders from his company commander and out of a sense of duty.

Steve Quain, campaign spokesman for state senate candidate Assemblyman Bill Baroni and Assembly candidates Adam Bushman and Tom Goodwin, goes over the ground game in Republican Party HQ in Hamilton.

Elizabeth Meyers, campaign spokeswoman for state Senate candidate Seema Singh, Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, and Assembly candidate Wayne DeAngelo, goes over the ground game at Democratic Party HQ in Hamilton.

The Republican dean in Monmouth County, district 13 state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos, says the Democrats wouldn't be able to handle the responsibilities of asset monetization.

District 13 State Sen. Joe Kyrillos works the room in Middletown in Bachstadt's Tavern, where he held a rally here today attended by his own running mates and other GOP candidates, including County Clerk Claire French and Sheriff's candidate Kim Guadagno.

Mike Premo, campaign manager for Democratic Sen. Ellen Karcher, describes the ground game as part of his candidate's GOTV effort.

Tom Fitszimmons, campaign manager for Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, describes the ground game as part of his candiate's GOTV effort.