Want access to post press releases? To sign up, use this form. You must be logged in.
ZIMMER SAYS: "NO RECESS FOR SEN. LAUTENBERG WHILE GAS PRICES ARE AT RECORD HIGHS"
By ZimmerforSenateZIMMER SAYS: "NO RECESS FOR SEN. LAUTENBERG WHILE GAS PRICES ARE AT RECORD HIGHS"
- U.S. Senate Candidate Calls On Motorists to Help Send a Message to New Jersey's Senior Senator -
Fair Haven, NJ – U.S. Senate candidate Dick Zimmer today criticized Senator Frank Lautenberg for joining his Senate colleagues in a July 4th recess when New Jerseyans are struggling with $4 gas prices.
“While gas prices in New Jersey continue to top $4 per gallon, the U.S. House and Senate adjourned last week for their Fourth of July Recess without acting on any meaningful legislation to increase the supply of American-made energy and reduce gasoline prices,” said U.S. Senate candidate Dick Zimmer. “Congress’s refusal to address soaring energy prices is just another example of how Washington doesn’t work. And our senior Senator is unfortunately part of the problem."
The last time Frank Lautenberg was elected to the Senate (2002), gas prices in New Jersey were $1.35 per gallon. Now New Jerseyans are paying more than $4 per gallon. And Lautenberg has failed to do anything about the high prices at the pumps. What's worse, Sen. Frank Lautenberg has accumulated a disturbing record during his 24 years in Washington by voting for giveaways to the oil and gas industry and against tax relief at the pump (see attached).
Zimmer asked motorists to send him their gas station receipts. Zimmer plans on delivering the receipts to Senator Lautenberg to demonstrate just how much motorists are paying every day at the pumps.
“I ask that motorists join me in sending Senator Lautenberg a message demanding immediate action on high gasoline prices,” Zimmer concluded.
###
Contributors
Wally Edge
The race for governor helped give PolitickerNJ.com our best month since the site launched on February 1, 2000.
As compared to the four weeks ... >
Bob Torricelli
The contest for Governor of New Jersey might be the most visible but in the long term it might not be the most important. Long after our youngest ... >
Michael Patrick Carroll
Political discourse in America contains much in the way of intellect or intellectual honesty. One considers the Federalist Papers with wistful awe: ... >
Jeff Michaels
Governor-elect Christopher J. Christie. How sweet it is for the thousands of volunteers who worked since February to support this great man for NJ ... >
Richard LaRossa
With a convincing win in defeating an encumbent Governor, why were there no coattails? >
Alan Steinberg
Within 24 hours after the election of Chris Christie as Governor, the battle was joined between the Governor-elect and the New Jersey Education ... >
Dr. Joseph Marbach
I am often asked by my students, friends and even reporters why campaigns in New Jersey are so nasty and why candidates rely so heavily on negative ... >
Carla Katz
It was a dark and stormy November night. An icy wind whistled through leafless moonlit trees. A loud thud is followed by a piercing scream. A ... >
Joey Novick
OK, aside from the governor’s race, the House Health Care Bill (H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act). was the big news of ... >
Murray Sabrin
According to the latest SurveyUSA and Rutgers Eagleton polls, independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett has the support of 19% and 20% of ... >
Poll
Hot Topics
Most Active Stories
- Christie elected Governor, defeats Corzine by 106,000 votes; GOP picks up one Assembly seat
- Yudin basks in Bergen wins
- Corzine's Middlesex meltdown
- Christie names Samson and Chiesa to head transition team
- Christie says first executive order will freeze unfunded mandates and regulations
- GOP leaders rejoice in Christie's ability to unify, while Dems still skeptical
- Next GOP target: McNerney
- Gusciora blasts bosses for not focusing more intently on Corzine re-election
- Woodbyrne: Here's how we won
- Amid rumors of departure to Christie cabinet, DeCroce re-elected minority leader
- Yudin basks in Bergen wins
- Christie elected Governor, defeats Corzine by 106,000 votes; GOP picks up one Assembly seat
- Next GOP target: McNerney
- Amid rumors of departure to Christie cabinet, DeCroce re-elected minority leader
- Woodbyrne: Here's how we won
- Christie says first executive order will freeze unfunded mandates and regulations
- On a bad night, Democrats pull off huge win in 1st district
- GOP leaders rejoice in Christie's ability to unify, while Dems still skeptical
- Corzine concedes loss in bid for re-election
- Christie names Samson and Chiesa to head transition team
- Quinnipiac: Christie leads 50%-40%
- Quinnipiac poll has Christie ahead by 4 points as Corzine gets closer
- Christie, in West New York, takes questions
- Gore makes his case for Corzine
- Potential LG rivals Allen and Weinberg ally for county committee reform legislation
- Final debate schedule
- Torricelli on making perfection the enemy of good
- Autistic man seeks Assembly seat in 37th
- Jeb Bush attends Christie fundraiser
- Correction: Weiner departure was not his own idea
Quote of the Day
"Please. I wouldn't have enough paper. So let’s not even bother writing one. This is now about governing. I won. The one thing I could never understand about people in politics was winners who are sore winners." -- Gov.-elect Christopher Christie, on putting together an enemis list.
“He’s a nice man with good intentions, but in the end he’ll be remembered for timidity. Being a business titan and issuing orders from the corner office is a lot different than having to cajole and persuade people in politics and having the toughness and fortitude to see your vision become reality.”-- Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University, on Gov. Jon Corzine.
Recent Press Releases
- Nov 6 2009
- Nov 2 2009
Syndicate
