It's Sarlo!
By Wally Edge
Senate President Richard Codey has begun telling State Senators that he will pick Paul Sarlo as the new Senate Judiciary Chairman -- with an announcement that could come as early as tomorrow. Sarlo would assume the post in January when John Adler resigns to take his seat in Congress. Judiciary is considered one of the most powerful committees in the Legislature, with considerable clout over the Senate confirmation of gubernatorial nominations, including judgeships. Sarlo, who is also the Mayor of Wood-Ridge, will become the first non-lawyer to run the Judiciary Committee since the early 1970's, when the Senate Majority Leader (then a one-year term) also ran Judiciary.
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Way to go Codey
Nominating a dual-office holder who so obviously has ENCAP written all over him as the chair of the Judiciary Committee..
Real Ethical move by Codey there.
Choices
who would you suggest as a better choice backwards?
Re: Choices
Girgenti,Smith, and even crazy Nia Gill. If none want it then let Baroni do it. Nobody questions his ethics and Democrats have great respect for him.
Odd
This is just an odd choice for Codey, but it also lets Sarlo begin to rebuild his reputation after the damaging embaressment of not becoming Majority Lader. Let's just hope Sarlo can keep his attention on one nominee for more than 30 seconds and prove to us all he is not the lightweight more interested in headlines rather than policy he has so obviously become.
Minority members don't chair committees
Dick Codey is going to pick a Democrat and I don't have a problem with a non-lawyer serving as head of that committee.
Baroni has no chance. What has he ever done anyway?
Sarlo is fine.
Vote Column "A"- All the way!
Nia Gill should revolt!
This is an embarrassing pick for a progressive state like NJ with a reputation for being a leader in the law. He looks 12.
The Crown Prince of EnCap?
Codey must not want another term as Senate President. This buffoon is a half a heartbeat away from being Joe Coniglio's cell mate for the next 10-15 years. He sponsored all of the bills that allowed EnCap to play shell games and then got his company in on the action. I for one would like to know why Christie hasn't gone after this guy for his Wayne Bryant/Joe Coniglio like role in EnCap?
Plus he's not a lawyer
I guess Codey was mooning Nia Gill and George Norcross. Codey has decided that Encap doesn't equal public relation debacle? Interesting. I wonder who's giving Codey advice lately. Chris Christie will put this Sarlo's man's picture in a mailer before you know it!
tetete
Blogovich and all of his stomach turning pay to play arrogance and criminal behavior -he was on a wild crime spree of shocking proportion
looks, feels and smells just like Joe Ferriero and company...
It's very heartening to see Patrick Fitzgerald on the case and presence on TV: he is a brilliant US attorney, a fiercely proud and totally self made first generation Irish American (his father was a senior doorman...) and a stand up guy who is brimming with character, integrity, courage, spirited energy, rigorous intelligence, American idealism and enthusiasm...
When the kids are in the room you can actually point to US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on the TV screen or on the front page of the newspaper and tell them his story: who he is, how he earns a living, what he really and truly stands for...
is working on and doing with his life.
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b. If the members of the electoral college shall have been nominated and elected as representing different political parties, any vacancy occurring shall be filled by the elector or electors representing the same political party as the absent elector; and if there shall be no elector present representing the same political party as the absent elector, then such vacancy shall be filled by a majority of the electors present, who shall choose some person of the political party which the absent elector represents.
c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, in any year in which, on July 20, the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" is in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes, and the State of New Jersey remains a member of that agreement, any vacancy in the college of electors shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of