Loretta Weinberg

WHERE IS GOVERNOR CORZINE, SENATOR WEINBERG, DISTRICT 37 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS JOHNSON AND HUTTLE ON MTA (TUNNEL AND BRIDGE) INCREASES?

WHERE IS GOVERNOR CORZINE, SENATOR WEINBERG, DISTRICT 37 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS JOHNSON AND HUTTLE ON MTA (TUNNEL AND BRIDGE) INCREASES?

WHERE IS GOVERNOR CORZINE, SENATOR WEINBERG, DISTRICT 37 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS JOHNSON AND HUTTLE ON MTA (TUNNEL AND BRIDGE) INCREASES?

Planned Parenthood’s New Jersey Action Committee endorsed the Jon Corzine/Loretta Weinberg ticket today, calling the two “passionate advocates for women’s rights.”

The group praised the Democrats for supporting abortion rights, ensuring access to birth control drugs and emergency contraception and advocating comprehensive sex education.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Chris Christie is pro-life, though his selection of pro-choice lieutenant governor candidate Kim Guadagno kept the state’s largest pro-life group, New Jersey Right to Life, from endorsing him.

Planned Parenthood brought up Christie’s endorsements by what it called “anti-choice extremists,” including the state’s most visible opponent of abortion, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-Hamilton). 

WHERE IS GOVERNOR CORZINE, SENATOR WEINBERG, DISTRICT 37 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS JOHNSON AND HUTTLE ON MTA (TUNNEL AND BRIDGE) INCREASES?

When asked if she would feel comfortable walking around any neighborhood of Newark at night, State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor, said "I wouldn't feel comfortable walking around a lot of places at night that are not Newark."

PARAMUS - Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno is sticking to her statement: she knows what it's like to be afraid to walk across the street in Newark. 

"It's not a gaffe. I've been victimized in Newark twice in the last five years because I work in Newark," said Guadagno, the Republican lieutenant governor candidate, about her choice of words that gave Democrats an opening to take a shot at her and gin up their inner city base. 

About six months ago and in 2003, Guadagno said, her car was broken into and her purse and other belongings stolen just outside the Newark campus of Rutgers Law's Newark campus, where she teaches legal research and writing part-time.   She also worked in Newark as a former Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Guadagno's comment last week was met with a quick response by U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-Hoboken) and several Democratic Newark council members, who painted her as an out of touch suburbanite whose comments served to undermine the city's revitalization. 

Rather than backpedal, Guadagno tried to flip the out of touch label onto Corzine. 

"I think that anybody who says that Newark doesn't have a problem with crime isn't living in the world that we're living in," she said.  "Everybody knows that the population of Newark in the last 40 years has virtually been cut in half. That's because we're not paying enough attention to our cities.  The way we're going to do that is to, one, recognize there is a problem.  Clearly Jon Corzine doesn't know there is a problem.  Shame on him."

Christie has taken pains to emphasize his commitment to the state's large cities, attempting to mitigate Corzine's built-in urban turnout by appealing to city residents on education and crime issues. 

Guadagno praised Mayor Cory Booker's anti-crime efforts, but criticized council members for "having drivers and body guards when they go back and forth to work every day - at taxpayers' expense."

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-Hoboken) is playing a key role in a statewide effort to increase voter turnout among Latino voters for Gov. Jon Corzine's re-election campaign.  This weekend, Menendez presided over a meeting in New Brunswick that was attended by over 200 statewide Latino leaders, including U.S. Rep. Albio Sires (D-West New York), State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Newark), Assemblywomen Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D-Camden) and Annette Quijano (D-Elizabeth), Assemblyman Albert Coutinho (D-Newark) and Vincent Prieto (D-Secaucus), Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz, Paterson Mayor Joey Torres, and Passaic Mayor Alex Blanco.

Voters likely to participate in the 2009 election for Governor of New Jersey have virtually no idea who is running for Lt. Governor, according to a Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll.  State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck), Gov. Jon Corzine's running mate, has upside-down statewide favorable of 9%-11%, with, 80% of likely voters not knowing who she is.  Christopher Christie's running mate, Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, has favorable of 8%-4%, and 89% of voters are unfamiliar with her.

Frank Esposito, the former Kean University professor and acting president who is running for Lt. Governor on a ticket with Independent Christopher Daggett, has statewide favorable of 6%-3%; 91% of likely voters don't recognize his name.

Among undecided likely voters, Weinberg's favorable are 4%-3%, with 92% having no opinion; Guadagno is at 3%-2%, with 95% don't recognize her.

WHERE IS GOVERNOR CORZINE, SENATOR WEINBERG, DISTRICT 37 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS JOHNSON AND HUTTLE ON MTA (TUNNEL AND BRIDGE) INCREASES?

WHERE IS GOVERNOR CORZINE, SENATOR WEINBERG, DISTRICT 37 ASSEMBLY MEMBERS JOHNSON AND HUTTLE ON MTA (TUNNEL AND BRIDGE) INCREASES?