Christopher Myers

Senate President Richard Codey will record an automated phone call targeting senior citizens in Ocean County on behalf of Democratic congressional candidate John Adler.  The calls will begin next week.  Adler's decision to use the popular Codey to seek senior votes comes as Republican Christopher Myers seeks to make Adler's use of a controversial budget item controlled by Codey an issue in the race for Jim Saxton's House seat.

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The Courier-Post has endorsed Democrat John Adler for Congress in New Jersey's third district.  Adler faces Republican Christopher Myers, the Mayor of Medford, for the seat held since 1984 by Republican James Saxton.

"We believe Adler's platform is the better of the two. Both candidates are capable of doing the job, but we believe Adler will do the job best; he gets our endorsement," the newspaper wrote.

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Democrats will pick up congressional seats of retiring Reps. Jim Saxton and Mike Ferguson as part of a national trend that will net them seven U.S. Senate seats and sixteen House seats national, according to James Pindell, the editor of Politicker.com's Pindell Report, which provides independent analysis of federal and state races.

Pindell says that Democrat Frank Lautenberg will win re-election to the U.S. Senate and that Barack Obama will carry New Jersey and win its fifteen electoral votes.

"In two Republican-leaning districts, Democrats John Adler and Linda Stender are going to Congress," said Pindell. "Democrats have momentum and they're winning just about all of the marginal races."

The Pindell Report has the Senate at 58-41, and the House at 252-180.  The Senate races in Alaska, and House races in Florida, New Mexico and Kansas, remain toss-ups.

"The economy, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush combine to push Senate and House races that were toss-ups last week into the Democratic column," said Pindell.   "While the Democrats will control the White House and both houses of Congress, they won't get the 60 Senate seats they need for a filibuster-proof majority." Read More >

Nobody can accuse Gov. Jon Corzine of not being politically active this election cycle.

He's become one of Barack Obama's point men on the economy, campaigning for him in Philadelphia and Florida and just yesterday appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" as a surrogate. But when it comes to the campaigns of New Jersey Democrats who are engaged in tight federal races, Corzine has largely played a background role, having made only a couple brief campaign appearances with 7th District congressional candidate Linda Stender and none with 3rd District candidate John Adler.

Nationally, Obama can use Corzine's image as the economically savvy Goldman Sachs CEO. That idea no longer applies in New Jersey. Throughout the campaign, Corzine has been to Republicans what President Bush has been to Democrats: a public figure to rally the troops against, though to a lesser than Bush.

Tonight, Corzine will attend Sen. Hillary Clinton's fundraiser for Stender, but it's not open to the press or general public. Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray thinks the Democrats want to keep it that way.

"Neither George Bush nor Jon Corzine helps any candidates in those races," said Murray. "So the more Jon Corzine stays out, the better it is. George Bush is the lesser popular of the two figures, so the Democrats want to keep that focus on George Bush and they don't want it muted or neutralized by bringing Jon Corzine into the picture."

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John Adler and Chris Myers debate on NJN this weekend. Jim Hooker was the moderator.
Tonight on Reporters Roundtable, NJN political reporter Jim Hooker will host a discussion of the Assembly Economic Relief Bill, Gov. Corzine’s economic stimulus speech, the latest New Jersey presidential polls and Bryant Trial testimony.

Discussing the issues will be Kevin McArdle of Millenium Radio; Cynthia Burton of the Philadelphia Inquierer; The Bergen Record’s John Reitmeyer and The Press of Atlantic City’s Derek Harper. 

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With less than a month before voters go to the polls in the hyper-competitive 3rd and 7th congressional districts, Republicans unleashed what is likely to be their theme for the remainder of the campaign: tying Democratic State Sen. John Adler and Assemblywoman Linda Stender to a controversial program that they characterize as a slush fund.

Medford Mayor Chris Myers, who's running against Adler in the 3rd District, stood with Republican State Chairman Tom Wilson and provided documentation that Adler and Stender both helped municipalities in their districts apply for the Property Tax Assistance and Community Developments grants program - known to insiders as the "MAC account" - that were not publicized beforehand, and were allegedly handed out in a non-transparent way.

Myers alleged that Adler - contrary to his denial that he had any influence over the way the funds were used - was belied by letters written by the Haddonfield borough administrator, the Haddon Township police chief and the Cherry Hill mayor, who all wrote that they were made aware of available grant money from the program through Adler's office.

"Welcome to John Adler's Trenton. It's a culture of corruption," said Myers. "I was just appalled - I'm not a creature of Trenton. I'm a small town mayor."

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John Adler's congressional campaign raised expectations on Friday when they said they would "announce a major endorsement today.  There was some buzz that Adler was rolling out Diane Allen, a popular Republican State Senator from Burlington County who is feuding with local GOP leaders and has not formally endorsed Republican Christopher Myers.  But in the end, the Adler hype was disappointing: their major endoremnt is from Outdoor Alliance, an environment group that lacks enough members in the third district to make their support substantially more meaningful than the multitude of other groups takin sides in the contest for Jim Saxton's seat.

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George W. Bush will be in Colts Neck today to raise money for GOP congressional candidates Leonard Lance and Christopher Myers.  This is the President's first political trip to New Jersey this cycle, and his second visit this year.  On March 28, Bush was in Freehold Township in an appearance to promote the White House's "Hope Now" alliance, which was formed to provide relief to homeowners facing foreclosure. 

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President Bush cancelled his appearance at Republican fundraisers in Florida and Alabama today to meet with economic advisors.  Vice President Richard Cheney filled in for Bush at the Alabama event. There has been no announcement by the White House regarding Bush's plans to travel to New Jersey on Monday to help raise money for GOP congressional candidates Leonard Lance and Christopher Myers.

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