Al Gore

TRENTON - Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) sported an "Obama" button at the Mercer County Democratic Convention on Saturday and affirmed his support for the presidential candidacy of the junior senator from Illinois.

Assemblyman Reed Gusciora’s early legwork to get former vice president Al Gore into the 2008 presidential race ran amok when Gore flatly said he wasn’t going to run.

The left Gusciora, a prime co-sponsor of the state’s Global Warming Response Act, without his optimum green candidate.

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.

Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani continue to be in a statistical dead heat for New Jersey’s fifteen electoral votes, with Giuliani leading 45%-44%, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. Clinton and Giuliani continue to hold huge leads in the February 5, 2008 presidential primaries.

On the Democratic side, Clinton leads Barack Obama by a 46%-15% margin, with 11% for Al Gore and 7% for John Edwards. In the GOP primary, Giuliani leads Fred Thompson, 45%-12%, with John McCain at 8% and Mitt Romney at 6%.

Former Vice President Al Gore joined Gov. Jon Corzine on Friday for the signing of New Jersey's global warming law
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora wants former Vice President Al Gore to be the next president. So he's launching a statewide grassroots movement to muster the necessary New Jersey delegates to put Gore's name in at the Democratic National Convention next summer.

Forget about a draft Al Gore movement now. It's too late, Gusciora contends. Gore supporters, says the veteran progressive legislator, need to organize and take their cause straight out of the February, 2008, Democratic primary to the convention in Denver.

That little old, disrespected Superfund-wasteland-mobland spillzone otherwise known as the State of New Jersey was due for some respect, and so was Jeff Tittel.

Former Vice President Al Gore will be at the Meadowlands tomorrow when Gov. Jon Corzine signs the Global Warming Response Act.  The new law will make New Jersey the second state  to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through an aggressive plan to drastically cut global warming over the next half century.  Sponsors of the legislation, including Assemblywoman Linda Stender and State Sen. Barbara Buono, will join Corzine and Gore at the signing. 

Gore is in New Jersey to attend the Live Earth Concert for Climate Change.