Max Pizarro's Video Blog

"Are you all from Brooklyn? Then you're all Democrats, right?"

Up onstage with 12th district GOP state Senate candidate Jennifer Beck and her running mates for the Assembly, Declan O'Scanlon and Caroline Casagrande, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani called for less government and more people power.

Rudy Giuliani told Republicans today that he expects the Democratic nominee to close up shop in New Jersey -- and that he'll continue to campaign for the state's fifteen electoral votes through November 2008.

The Republican mayor, Robert Kleinberg, reminded senior residents at Greenbriar that he's been responsive to them, and knows three-quarters of them by name.

Democrat Jonathan Hornik wants to develop commercial ratables on part of the site of the old Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital and enlist a grants writer to help reduce local property taxes.

Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, the GOP candidate for State Senate in District 12, challenges Democratic Party leadership to kill any plan to sell or lease toll roads during the legislature's lame duck session.

State Sen. Ellen Karcher says over the course of the campaign, her opponent has demonized children in Abbott school districts Newark and Camden.

State Sen. Ellen Karcher says Beck's conflicts of interest have cost the taxpayers money.

Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck says the Democratic-led legislature raised the sales tax from six to seven cents in order to give taxpayers a bigger rebate check.

In arguably the most bitter senate campaign of the general election season, district 12 competitors Democratic Sen. Ellen Karcher and Republican Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck Wednesday evening made their closing arguments before a spill-over audience in Marlboro’s age-restricted Greenbriar Community.

Karcher said she lit a fire in her first term in office in Trenton, while over the past two years, Beck has kvetched and complained. Karcher contrasted herself as a big picture public servant against Beck, whom she portrayed as a private-interest opportunist whose past work has cost taxpayers millions.