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Electricity wholesaler PJM, which supplies power to NJ, has been charged by its Market Monitor with undermining oversight that potentially could affect electricity prices

Menendez-Brownback Darfur resolution passed just last week

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has introduced a resolution calling on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to stop using propaganda (menendez.senate.gov/pdf/senatefyromresolution080707.pdf).

Newark, NJ – United States Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and United States Representative Frank Pallone today joined with child health advocates and beneficiaries of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) to call on Congress to approve the reauthorizing measures that will be before both the House and Senate this week. In New Jersey, S-CHIP, known as FamilyCare, provides health benefits for 126,000 children and over 80,000 adults, who would otherwise not have coverage.

Includes vital provisions to keep NJ children and working families from being cast into the ranks of the uninsured.

The 33rd district Democratic ticket in 1987 was Jackman for Senate, Menendez and Kenny for Assembly. The two Assembly seats had been won by the Republicans in 1985.From the West New York home of a Hudson County legend, Christopher Jackman, Silverio "Sal" Vega will announce his candidacy for State Senator in the 33rd district.  Vega, a freshman Assemblyman and the May of West New York, will be joined by the Hudson County Democratic Organization candidates for State Assembly: former Hoboken Councilwoman (and unsuccessful '05 mayoral candidate) Carol Marsh, and Nicole Harrison Garcia, the wife of indicted former Assemblyman and Union City Mayor Rudy Garcia.

The HCDO is backing Vega over Assemblyman Brian Stack, the Mayor of Union City, for the Senate seat currently held by Bernard Kenny, who is not seeking re-election. 

Rudy Garcia's wife is now running on the HCDO line for State Assembly.One indication of how upside-down Hudson County is these days: the wife of former Union City Mayor/Assemblyman Rudy Garcia will run for the State Assembly on the Hudson County Democratic Organization line, while Nicholas Chiaravalloti, a top aide to U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, could wind up running for State Assembly against the HCDO.

Nicole Harrison Garcia and former Hoboken Councilwoman (and mayoral candidate) Carol Marsh will run for Assembly in the 33rd district on a slate with Senate candidate Sal Vega, an Assemblyman and the Mayor of West New York. On a slate headed by Senate candidae Brian Stack, an Assemblyman and the Mayor of Union City, the Assembly candidates would be Hoboken Councilman Ruben Ramos and West New York Commissioner Caridad Rodriguez, an aide to Congressman Albio Sires.

One of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez's top staffers, Nicholas Chiaravalloti says he is mulling a bid for State Assembly in the 31st district. The Bayonne Democrat, who serves as Menendez's State Director, says he will decide within the next 24 hours if he will take on former Assemblyman Joseph Chiappone and former State Senator/ex-Acting Jersey City Mayor L. Harvey Smith, who are expected to run on the Hudson County Democratic Organization line with Senate candidate Sandra Bolden Cunningham. Chiarvalloti could wind up on a ticket with Assemblyman Louis Manzo as a candidate for State Senate.

NEWARK - New Jersey’s United States Senators were coy on Monday when about who they would like to see as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.

“I’m very happy with my job now,� Sen. Robert Menendez said with a laugh. “Oh, you mean, who do I like among the existing candidates?�

That’s right.

Menendez wouldn’t commit to anyone.

“They’re all incredibly talented,� he said.