Steve Lonegan

Congress is confronted by many critical issues.  We, as a nation, face serious and perplexing problems.  On the domestic front, the battle rages between those of us who support individual liberty and those who promote the collectivist state.  In international affairs, the Iraqi conflict needs a solution.  So does the tragedy in Darfur. There are grave doubts about the continued viability of Social Security left as it is.  The list goes on.

Americans for Prosperity Foundation Kicks Off “Taxpayer Minute� Radio Ad Campaign in New Jersey

TRENTON -- The New Jersey chapter of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation today launched the first installment of its "Taxpayer Minute," a one-minute radio commentary featuring the group’s state director Steve Lonegan speaking out on state fiscal issues. The Taxpayer Minute ads began airing on stations around New Jersey and New York City today.

Americans for Prosperity Says Corzine’s Election-Year Budget is a “Taxpayer Nightmare�
Budget Needs to Be Pared With “Meat Axe, Not a Butter Knife�

Steve Lonegan, executive director of Americans for Prosperity’s New Jersey chapter, today blasted Governor Jon Corzine’s election-year budget as “built on Enron-style accounting -- continuing the growth of big government while postponing a massive $2.5 billion deficit until after the election.�

Americans for Prosperity Says Corzine’s Election-Year Budget is a “Taxpayer Nightmare�
Budget Needs to Be Pared With “Meat Axe, Not a Butter Knife�

Steve Lonegan, executive director of Americans for Prosperity’s New Jersey chapter, today blasted Governor Jon Corzine’s election-year budget as “built on Enron-style accounting -- continuing the growth of big government while postponing a massive $2.5 billion deficit until after the election.�

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ...

End the charade on ethics panel

Editorial, Asbury Park Press, October 25, 2006

The unseemly behavior exhibited at Monday's legislative ethics panel meeting offered further evidence that such panels should consist of only public members. This particular panel should be disbanded and folded into the State Ethics Commission, as recommended nearly a year ago in an ethics reform study commissioned by then-acting Gov. Richard J. Codey.

The meeting was dominated by legislators who spent most of their time bickering along partisan lines, accomplishing next to nothing. It was the panel's first such meeting in 17 months. With the ethical lapses that seem to surface daily in Trenton, that alone is unconscionable.

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CALIGUIRE STANDS SILENT AS LONEGAN AND GOP OFFER CHILLY RECEPTION TO BOGOTA'S LATINOS

Latino American Democratic Association Calls on GOP Candidate Todd Caliguire to Denounce lonegan's Last Stand

HACKENSACK - Today the Latino American Democratic Association called on GOP county executive candidate Todd Caliguire to denounce recent comments made by Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan regarding a Spanish-language billboard posted by McDonald's

Bill Thomson, the former Chairman of the New Jersey Christian Coalition, is actively seeking support for a possible challenge to Bergen County Republican Chairman Guy Talarico in June. Thomson was the Campaign Manager of Robert Schroeder's campaign for the GOP gubernatorial nomination last year. Talarico, a former Assemblyman, has been facing considerable criticism for his leadership of the Bergen GOP, which has suffered considerable losses in recent years. Douglas Forrester, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in 2005, lost Bergen County by more than 34,000 votes and Republican Freeholder candidates lost by more than 20,000 votes. In 2004, Republican Sheriff Joel Trella was defeated for re-election by nearly 40,000 votes.

Other possible challengers to Talarico include: Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, GOP operative Kevin Collins, and Oakland Councilman Mathew Kazmierczak.

-- "Wilson and DeCroce Must Step Down in wake of 2005 debacle."
LONEGAN: NJGOP NEEDS TO REBUILD WITH NEW, CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP.

Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan said today that the massive ten-point Corzine landslide victory over Doug Forrester coupled with a minimum one seat Assembly loss was a message that the state Republican Party needs to rebuild with new, conservative leadership and said the first step were resignations from State GOP Chair Tom Wilson and Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce.

NJ Right to Life and Doug Forrester Singing the Same Tune on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Forrester Kowtows to Right Wingers with Subtle Anti-Cure Language

Doug Forrester says in his ads that he "supports stem cell research" but when he talks about it he uses the same right wing language as NJ Right to Life, a group that vehemently opposes stem cell research.

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
Doug Forrester 108,941 (36.0%)
Bret Schundler 94,417 (31.2%)
John Murphy 33,800 (11.2%)
Steve Lonegan 24,433 (8.1%)
Bob Schroeder 16,763 (5.5%)
Paul DiGaetano 16,684 (5.5%)
Todd Caliguire 7,463 (2.5%)

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
Jon Corzine 207,670 (88.1%)
James Kelly 19,512 (8.3%)
Frank Tenaglio 8,596 (3.6%)