NJ Libertarian News

• NJ Libertarian Party Selects Kenneth R. Kaplan for Governor

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  New Brunswick, NJ - On Sunday, the NJ Libertarian Party State Committee unanimously selected Kenneth Kaplan to be the party’s candidate for Governor. Born in Newark, the 61 year old Kaplan grew up in West Orange but currently resides in Parsippany. He is a graduate from Brandeis University and NYU [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 9:56pm EDT
  

• Kyleigh's Law Website To Be Up By Monday

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  Myself, in conjunction with some other supporters, are setting up a website to educate other New Jerseyans as to what Kyleigh's Law is with the ultimate goal of repealing it. You will be able to visit the site at www.repealkyleighslaw.org. This website will serve as the central point for [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 3:27pm EDT
  

• Majority Of NJ Supports Gay Marriage

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  A Quinnipiac University Poll was taken of NJ voters to gauge the support for gay marriage. The poll found 49 percent supporting gay marriage, while 43 percent are opposed. NJ is ready for gay marriage! To not allow gay couples to marry would be to assign special rights and privileges [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 11:20am EDT
  

• Silence Is Golden

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  $1.5 million is being spent on making a train crossing in Edison silent. Talk about silence costing its weight in gold. This story hits closer to home for me because of two reasons. One, I go over that crossing to and from work and for a month I am going [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 7:50am EDT
  

• Is New Jersey Finally Ready For Medical Marijuana?

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  Our esteemed Attorney General Anne Milgram has stated that the bill to legalize medical marijuana in NJ, that was recently passed in the State Senate, can work. I am usually not enthused by much of the news that I read throughout the day but this article broke that mold. The [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
  

• PRESS RELEASE: NJLP Reacts to Hunterdon County Proposed Tax Increase

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  On Monday, April 14, the Hunterdon County freeholders drafted a proposal to increase property taxes, in order to make up for the budget deficit. Despite the dissent, the freeholders have supported their decision. Matt Holt said, “the tax rate doesn’t mean a damn thing, people. It’s what you raise in [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 7:37am EDT
  

• First Press Release

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  This is the first Press Release sent out by the new Press Secretary of the NJLP, Brian Canares.
  
  NJLP Uses Tax Day Protests to Fuel Recruitment
  
  On Wednesday, April 15, thousands of people joined all over New Jersey to protest the increasingly expansive Federal government. Republicans and Libertarians [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 7:32am EDT
  

• Roackaway Lawyer Fighting Kyleigh's Law

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  Gregg D. Trautmann, an attorney from Rockaway, NJ, is taking the government to court to try to repeal Kyleigh's Law. The law has many egregious provisions the worst of which is that drivers 21 and under would have to have orange decals affixed to their cars so that the police [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2009, 7:49pm EDT
  

• Operation Tea Party Was A Success

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  Myself and a few other Libertarians attended the Morristown and Piscataway Tea Parties. We wore new NJ Libertarian t-shirts which got compliments by many Tea Party attendees. I'll put up the design on the website soon. As Libertarians we got a warm reception at both Tea Parties.
  
  Many protesters' [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 9:02pm EDT
  

• Operation Tea Party

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  Hello Libertarians!
  
  I have gotten a lot of interest from members interested in coming so I want to lay out the plan for everyone. I will be at Molly Maguire's in Clark, NJ (which is right off of Parkway exit 135) at 11:00 AM on the 15th to [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2009, 8:11am EDT
  

• Another Threat to the First Amendment

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  The Township Committee in Neptune NJ is actually planing to consider disscussing whether or not to ban gay pride flags from being displayed on the lawn of private residences. Certain members of the Shark River Hills property owner's association brought their disapproval to the Township with the intent of forcing [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2009, 3:44pm EDT
  

• More Gay Bashing To Be Had

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  National Organization for Marriage is spending $1.5 million in fighting to make sure that gay marriage does not become legal in NJ. They are broadcasting commercials throughout the state advocating an anti-gay marriage position. Do these people have nothing better to do than persecute other people in the name of [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 9:36pm EDT
  

• Loch Arbor, NJ, The Twilight Zone Episode

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  Have you ever seen your property taxes more than double? If your answer is no then you probably don't live in NJ. In Loch Arbor their school taxes are increasing by five fold to send 24 students to a neighboring school district. What is the total amount that Loch Arbor' [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 8:44pm EDT
  

• PolitickerNJ Puts NJ Libertarian News Back On

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  I received a very nice email from Wally over at PolitickerNJ. He disagreed with my previous post and with an email that I sent them but I believe that no bad blood exists between us. They have put the blog back on the blog roll and hopefully this incident will [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2009, 3:58pm EDT
  

• PolitickerNJ Kicks Off NJ Libertarian News From Blog Roll

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  If you take a look at the PolitickerNJ web site you will see in its blog roll sites such as "Blue Jersey" and "Conservatives with Attitude" but you will not see NJ Libertarian News. This blog used to be listed on their site up until recently and for reason [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 11:20pm EDT
  

• A Bit Backwards?

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  Today in the Star Ledger in an article titled "Former governor may sue Corzine over slashed arts funding" Former Republican Gov. Tom Kean is "outraged" that governor Corzine has made a proposal to cut cultural funds to below the minimums outlined by the law and in fact is considering filing [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2009, 11:18pm EDT
  

• German Homeschoolers Seek Asylum In US

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  A German family has fled to the US and is seeking political asylum so that they can home school their kids. In Germany, where sending your children to public schools is mandatory, they were being persecuted by the local law enforcement and government officials for not sending their children to [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2009, 7:29am EDT
  

• NJLP Convention Results

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  The NJ Libertarian Party Convention was a rousing success. It was wonderful to see other Libertarians who saw the future with as much optimism as I do. The speakers were fantastic, including Wayne Allyn Root, Jim Bennett, Howard Kupferman, and Walter Luers. I cannot imagine a better lineup than what [...]
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  Posted: March 29, 2009, 4:23pm EDT
  

• Money And Rights Flushed Down The Drain: NJ Prisons

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  With NJ already being in debt and scrambling to try to scrape up every cent it can get out of the tax payers, Gov. Corzine is starting to look at closing prisons. Right now the state of NJ has a budget set aside of $1.3 billion for the Corrections Department. [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2009, 8:24am EDT
  

• Strip Search Case Going To Supreme Court

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  A case in which a 13 year old eighth grade girl was strip searched at school for prescription drugs is now going to the Supreme Court. Many of the details are disputed so I won't go through a lot of it but what is not disputed is that a 13' [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 9:35am EDT
  

• #5 On The Top 10 Food Trends of 2009

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  Now you may be asking yourself what do food trends have to do with individual liberties and small government? Well, to answer that question I will now unveil the #5 food trend as chosen by The Food Channel... too much focus on nutritional information by both consumers and the government. [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 8:16am EDT
  

• Pres. Barack Obama and Tres. Timothy Geithner Asking For More Power

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  Whenever the most powerful person in the whole world asks for more power you should be very VERY scared. Of course Pres. Obama nor Mr. Geithner are stating that they will misuse and abuse it but in the end they all do. What is really frightening is that all they [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 6:38am EDT
  

• Brazilian Wax Jobs To Be Legal In NJ After All

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  After a contentious few days when news of banning Brazilian wax jobs had spread through NJ, it has been recently announced that the state will not go forward in making the wax job illegal. I guess when the state noticed the backlash from the salon owners and other NJ residents [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 5:58pm EDT
  

• US Deficit Projected To Be Much Higher Than Previously Stated

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  The Congressional Budget Office has projected that the deficit from 2010 to 2019 will be $9.3 trillion, 2.3 trillion higher than previously estimated by Pres. Obama's administration. What a big surprise, Obama underestimated his spending when he plans to increase the size government to the largest it has ever been [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2009, 8:40pm EDT
  

• Obama And Democrats To Push Through Health Care Legislation

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  The Republicans will not have much of a chance to stop the government-sponsored health care plan which Obama had supported during his campaign. The Democrats plan to us a parliamentary procedure to bypass the filibuster, which is the only method with which the Republican minority can stop the legislation, and [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2009, 7:56am EDT
  

• House Passes Bill To Tax AIG bonuses by 90%

  This is for people making over $250,000 a year and applies to all financial companies that have received over $5 billion in bail out money. This is becoming a frightening situation. The US government makes the tremendously awful decision to bail out companies that are supposedly "too big to fail" [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
  

• Congress Passes Obama Initiative To Vastly Increase Service Programs

  Congress just passed a legislation which is expanding government sponsored service programs by a huge margin. Americorps is going to have its positions tripled. And what is this going to cost us taxpayers considering that Americorps is a "volunteer" organization? $6 BILLION! That is billion with a "b". Why does [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 7:29am EDT
  

• Obama Administration Ends Raids of Medical Mariuana Dispensaries

  President Obama has finally done something right. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced yesterday that the Justice Department will no longer be raiding Medical Marijuana dispensaries. The bad news is that this is being done to focus more on other aspects of the drug war such as going after the [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 6:54am EDT
  

• Brazilian Wax Jobs Could Be Banned In NJ.

  I know that this sounds like something The Onion would write as a satire in one of their articles but it is horrifyingly true. NJ officials are proposing to ban Brazilian wax jobs which are a waxing of the genital region. Why are they doing this? Because two clients were [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 10:18pm EDT
  

• Encap: An Example of Incompetence

  The state of NJ got duped into financing Encap, a financial black hole that resulted in the dumping of toxic dirt into the meadowlands. Check out the article in The Record here. [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 9:37pm EST
  

• NJLP in the NJ Herald

  Check out the article at this link http://www.njherald.com/story/news/27ANDOVEROPRA-web. John Paff, our OPRA specialist, made it in the paper again through his tireless efforts to enforce the Open Public Records Act on unwilling municipalities. [...]
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  Posted: January 27, 2009, 9:42pm EST
  

• The NJ Libertarian Party Convention

  Walter Luers and myself will be sending out invitations and an official anouncement concerning the NJ Libertarian Party Convention soon... but here is the unofficial one.
  
  The NJ Libertarian Party Convention, lets make it NJLPC, will be at the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel and Conference Center from March 28th [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 8:58pm EST
  

• Another Ressurection

  After going inactive for a few months I am going to attempt to start up the posting again and continue it. I could use some help in this area as it does take up a decent portion of whatever free time I have. Anybody interested in assisting me please email [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2008, 7:56am EDT
  

• US Is On A Nationalizing Binge

  The US federal government is considering the nationalization of the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae because of the stumbling in their share values and instability. The problem with this, even though it should be obvious is as follows straight from the NY Times (I know, but they got this one [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2008, 7:54am EDT
  

• More NJ News Updates

  I read the Star Ledger, PolitickerNJ, and local papers and blogs to get news of what is going on in and around NJ. What I have stumbled upon on the way is some very scary remarks from people who seem to be out of touch with what America is supposed [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2008, 10:48am EDT
  

• July 4th Weekend

  Happy belated July 4th to everybody. I hope that everyone in addition to enjoying fireworks, beer, and bbq also contemplated on our independence from Great Britain along with that great document, the Delcaration of Independence, that was our founders' first step towards the creation of ou great country.' [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2008, 11:31am EDT
  

• Government Intervention At Work

  For those of you who don't know me I work in the food industry. This means that I deal with OSHA, FDA, USDA, and other government acronyms. But something rather disturbing has occurred that truly scares me in a way that none of these agencies ever had. The state of' [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2008, 9:12am EDT
  

• NJ Once Again Spends More Money Than It Has

  Solar panel installation companies are laying off workers and NJ residents are waiting years for solar panels to be installed on and around their homes. Why? Because NJ has a rebate program to promote clean energy but they don't have the money to back it up. These installation companies have' [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2008, 8:39am EDT
  

• Bob Barr's New Website

  If you haven't seen it yet please go check it out. You can find it at www.bobbarr2008.com.' [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2008, 8:51am EDT
  

• Affordable Housing For Whom?

  Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden) authored the most recent bill that modified NJ's current housing policies. It passed in the senate yesterday by a vote of 21-16. One of these changes was to stop municipalities from paying poor cities to take on the burden of offering affordable housing on their' [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2008, 8:17am EDT
  

• Sit Up Straight, Elbows Off The Table, Now Give Me $9,300

  The City of Newark is spending $9,300 to offer etiquette classes to its citizens. This is the kind of absurdity that is hard to laugh at. Not only is this an insult to the people of Newark but also a wanton waste of taxpayers' money that could go to something' [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2008, 1:29pm EDT
  

• Ron Paul Is Terminating His Campaign

  Congressman Ron Paul has announced that he is putting an end to his campaign for the presidential nomination as John McCain has become the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party. He has made it clear that he is not going to be endorsing John McCain and that he will be [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2008, 8:32pm EDT
  

• Feds Invade New Jersey Waters

  The Press of Atlantic City reported the following:
  
  Saltwater anglers would need to register with the federal government to go fishing next year, and starting in 2011 pay an annual fee between $15 and $25.
  The goal of the proposal is to assemble a better database of recreational fishermen [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2008, 7:57am EDT
  

• US Senate Race In NJ

  This year it is going to be Zimmer vs Lautenberg vs Scheurer. Dick Zimmer is the Republican candidate, Frank Lautenberg is the Deomcratic candidate, and Jason Scheurer is our Libertarian candidate. Last year Jason ran for Assemblyman in the 14th District and distinguished himself in quite a race. Everyone should [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2008, 6:35am EDT
  

• Baltimore City Health Commissioner Planning To Ban Cheap Cigars

  That's right, the city health commissioner has the right to enact health regulations without legislation. This is a lot of power for one man who is not even voted into office by the residents of Baltimore. And the reason to ban the cheap cigars is that they are currently too' [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2008, 4:41am EDT
  

• Orange Protestor Acquitted

  Jeffrey Conway, a man who protested at an Orange town meeting, was found innocent of any charges that could have been brought against him. For months the town government has been going after him in court, and for what? He held up a sign the size of a regular sheet [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2008, 7:15pm EDT
  

• Combo News On NJ Schools

  The NJ school system was in the news today for a couple of reasons. One, Corzine wants to borrow $2.5 billion to restart school construction across the state. Two, NJ schools have received very poor marks on tutoring and transfers. There is very few options for students in bad schools [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2008, 9:46pm EDT
  

• Bob Barr And Wayne Allen Root Ticket Nominated for Presidential Election

  Bob Barr is the Presidential candidate and Wayne Allen Root is the Vice Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. Both were close races with Mary Ruwart coming close for the Presidential nomination and Steve Kubby coming close for the Vice Presidential nomination. [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2008, 9:22pm EDT
  

• Millburn Township Planning To Bail Out Paper Mill Playhouse

  Millburn Township is planning to purchase the land that the Paper Mill Playhouse is built on and lease back to them at a rate that will allow them to stay open. This will cost the taxpayers $9 million. The reason why the Playhouse is in trouble? Mismanagement. The solution would [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2008, 5:43pm EDT
  

• More Eminent Domain Abuse

  The residents of Marine Terrace, Ocean Terrace, Seaview Avenue in Longbranch are currently fighting their town government in an eminent domain case. The residents are trying to fight the township to keep their homes and I thought it was supposed to be the township that is supposed to protect the [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 10:43am EDT
  

• Ticket Quotas

  Ticket Quotas for police departments made it as a news item in today's Star Ledger yet this is not news, this has been going on for decades. The local municipality needs to beef up their budget after increasing their spending and can no longer drain enough money out of the' [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2008, 4:27pm EDT
  

• Special Interest Endorsements

  When I ran for office one of the things I did to plan out my campaign was to make a list of all the special interest groups that I might have been able to get an endorsement from. One of the was Garden State Equality, a NJ gay rights group. [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2008, 7:25am EDT
  

• Sabrin Bergen Line Revoked

  Republicans who were running on the Sabrin line in Bergen county for freeholder were all rejected due to a challenge to their petition that ended in the revoking of enough signatures to get them off the ballot. Murray Sabrin has been urging Republicans that are for reform to run on [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2008, 5:55pm EDT
  

• NJ Libertarian Party Getting a Facelift

  The NJLP has been discussing plans for the future aiming at becoming a powerful presence in NJ. One of the pieces of this plan is to upgrade the website to one that can compete with those of the state Democrats and Republicans. Another is to send out a mailing to [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2008, 6:59am EDT
  

• James Sharpe Found Guilty

  There isn't much else that a Libertarian hates most than corruption spawned by big government. James Sharpe was supposed to be a man of the people, a gym class teacher who spoke against corruption and for the rejuvenation of Newark. But when given the chance he used his position to [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2008, 10:13pm EDT
  

• Birthday Celebration Leads to Arrest

  Dancing, apparently, is now a crime. On April 13th a group of men and women gathered at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C., in celebration of the Founding Father's birthday. The group, comprised of about 20 D.C. residents, planned on quietly and peacefully dancing at the public memorial, which is [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2008, 10:20am EDT
  

• Are You A Nuisance?

  In the last week Trenton Police TAC Unit #2 arrested 18 people. There was one charge that was common among 15 of the arrests, and in 8 of them it was the only charge, and that was maintaining a nuisance. I was not sure what the legal definition of that [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2008, 2:00pm EDT
  

• In NJ U.S. Citizens Are Twice As Likely To Land In Prison As Legal And Illegal Immigrants

  A study has come out showing that in NJ U.S. citizens are twice as likely to land in prison as legal and illegal immigrants. The liberals have been using this as a counter to the conservative argument that illegal immigration increases crime. In this case both sides are wrong. First [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2008, 12:23pm EDT
  

• Mayor Booker Believes Gambling Is A Quality Of Life Issue

  Newark is cracking down on illegal gambling in the form of electronic Keno style games. These used to be legal under an older ordinance but has now become illegal under the Cory Booker administration. The reason for this change in policy? Illegal gambling machines have long been associated with organized [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2008, 9:57am EDT
  

• Bill Of The Day - 4/12/08

  The bill of the day is A223 which requires inmates with sufficient means to pay their incarceration costs. This is real solution to a real problem. One of the bigger money drains is the penal system. [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2008, 6:03pm EDT
  

• The Bill Of The Day 4/11/08

  Today's bill of the day (a new tradition) is S267. If this bill were to pass it would reduce the sales and use tax from 7% to 6%. It was introduced back in January by Senator Joseph M. Kyrillos, Jr. and is still waiting to be reviewed by the Senate [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 6:20pm EDT
  

• Another School Budget Fiasco...

  An audit of the Union City School District showed that they paid $345 per month for each of 39 cell phones and paid bus drivers six hours of overtime a month to charge them. Five drivers were paid overtime ranging from $39,000 to $73,000 per year. This is another example [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 12:36pm EDT
  

• Who Visits This Blog?

  I have used Google Analytics to find out who visits this blog and here is a list of some veerrryyy interesting readers who have visited in the last 30 days:
  

  • lockheed martin corporation
  • new jersey department of transportation
  • state of new jersey
  • state of new jersey department of treasury
  • new york city police department
  • army [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 8:03am EDT
  

• NJ Libertarian Party Makes Progress On Outreach

  The NJ Libertarian Party has gotten its hands on the membership roll of members of the national party that live in NJ. The Libertarian Party sent the NJLP a list of over 9000 names of Libertarians who are not members of the state party. The NJLP steering committee [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 7:01pm EDT
  

• Groups Want To Increase Taxes To Maintain Bloated Budget

  A coalition called Better Choices for New Jersey has formed to call for the increase of taxes with the intention of not needing to cut any items from the budget. The director of this coalition has stated that it would be against the interest of working families. Well I fail [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 2:06pm EDT
  

• Unanue To Drop Out And Be Replaced By Zimmer

  Andy Unanue is dropping out and being replaced by Dick Zimmer, a former Republican Congressman who currently works in DC as a lawyer and lobbyist. Is a DC lawyer/lobbyist what we are looking for in a candidate. No. That kind of record doesn't exactly scream "reformer". He got [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 9:10am EDT
  

• New Writer On Board!

  John Hebble of East Stroudsburg University has joined NJ Libertarian News as a writer specializing in national news. I would like to thank him for volunteering and look forward to reading and commenting on his future posts.
  
  Congragulations John! [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 7:38am EDT
  

• Innocent Mistake Leads to Arrest

  More and more, it seems as though common-sense is taking a backseat to bureaucracy. Recently, an Ohio man, Tom Sturgis, was actually jailed for forgetting to pay for a case of soda at the grocery store. That's right; Sturgis was jailed over the simple mistake of leaving a $4 case [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2008, 11:14pm EDT
  

• Ron Paul Hosting Fundraiser For Sabrin

  Ron Paul will be hosting a Murray Sabrin for Senate fundraiser at the Newark Penn Station Hilton, with tickets ranging from $100 to $4,600. So far Sabrin has raised $357,185.78 for his campaign according to his website. This should act like a shot of adrenaline to Sabrin's [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2008, 9:35am EDT
  

• Let There Be No Vice!

  Atlantic City is currently trying to pass an ordinance that would limit smoking in casinos to smoking lounges where there can't be any slot machines or gambling tables. Right now a compromise exists between the city and the casinos where no more than 25% of the casino floor can allow [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2008, 7:52am EDT
  

• Bills, Bills Bills!!

  I have been searching the NJ Legislative web site and found that they list all the bills currently in committee. I sifted through some of them and found a few I liked and more than a few I didn't like. One bill, S784, raises minimum wage to $8.50, then [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 8:47pm EDT
  

• North Carolina Libertarian Party Gets Enough Signatures For Ballot Acces

  The North Carolina Libertarian Party has collected approximately 102,500. North Carolina requires 69,734 for ballot access for the presidential election. If the petition is found to be valid then this will be the largest numerical ballot access hurdle that any new or minor party has overcome since 1995, when [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 6:47pm EDT
  

• Shake Up Among Libertarian Presidential Candidates

  Since former Congressman Bob Barr has announced that he has going to run for President two Libertarian candidates have dropped out to endorse him, Bob Jackson and Daniel Williams. Former Senator Mike Gravel is also running for the Libertarian nomination for president. With the entrance of Bob [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 5:53pm EDT
  

• Murray Sabrin Files For Senate Race

  
  

  Here is an interview of Dr. Murray Sabrin done by PolitickerNJ. He goes over the issues that are important for him as well as his opinion on the race and hi competitors.

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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 8:05am EDT
  

• Videos From The Heartland Debate

  The candidates are Senator Mike Gravel, Dr. Mary Ruwart, Ms. Christine Smith, Mr. Mike Jingozian, Mr. Wayne Allyn Root and Dr. George Phillies. The following debate tok place at the Missouri Libertarian Party Convention.
  
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 7:59pm EDT
  

• Family Leave Bill Passes In The State Senate

  In NJ where the subsidized health care system is riddled with holes and workers' compensation is managed by incompetent jurists; the huge bureaucracy that is the NJ state government is now supposed to take responsibility for another program which will inevitably be riddled with holes and bogged down by incompetence [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 7:17pm EDT
  

• Undercover Police Should Not Do Traffic Work

  I saw a dirty white jeep pull over another car for speeding. Two men wearing black shirts with "Police" in white lettering across the front and back step out and walk over to the other car and get his license and registration. When I first saw the white jeep I [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 5:57pm EDT
  

• NJ Libertarian News Now Has Its Own Domain!

  You can find us at our original address as well as www.njlibertariannews.com which is our new home on the Internet.
  
  We are also asking for people who are interested in writing and web design and want to get involved in promoting the Libertarian Party to email me. We [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 10:07am EDT
  

• NJ State Run Health Care Program Is Equivalent To Black Hole

  A recent report released by an auditor shows that current state health care programs for the poor are mismanaged on a criminal level due to possible corruption and outright laziness. This is what you must expect from a state government agency. These are bureaucrats who have no interest in helping [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2008, 4:34pm EDT
  

• John Crowley Says No To Senate Run

  John Crowley has made his final decision on whether or not to run for Senate and that answer is no. Where does this leave the rest of the candidates at? It leaves Andy Unanue in a weaker position he was at to begin with. His support was ready [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2008, 3:27pm EDT
  

• Current State Of The Republican Race For Senate

  Here is how the race stands as far as county endorsements:
  
  John Crowley
  Mercer
  Burlington (expected)
  
  Andy Unanue (John Crowley's if he decides to join the race)
  Atlantic
  Camden
  Cape May
  Cumberland
  Hudson
  Monmouth
  Ocean
  
  Joe Pennacchio
  Bergen
  Hunterdon
  Middlesex
  Passaic
  Salem
  Somerset
  Union
  [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2008, 10:02pm EDT
  

• NJ State Waste Continues....

  The state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control spent nearly $650,000 to install new computer software to track liquor licenses, but according to a state audit report it still doesn't work. The whole system, along with the installation, is supposed to cost $1 million and it can't perform a simple [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2008, 6:49pm EDT
  

• NJ Buys Land, Destroys Building, Then Does Nothing

  NJ has agreed to purchase a piece of property for over $1.8 million from a family that built a condominium complex in which not a single condo had been rented out. At first the state of NJ contended that the family and Union City officials conspired to build the building [...]
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  Posted: April 04, 2008, 4:26pm EDT
  

• Somerset County Tells Sabrin That He's Not Welcome

  The Somerset County Republican Organization has informed Murray Sabrin that if he cannot promise them that he is not running an alternate slate of freeholder candidates he cannot participate in their screening process. In other words if he doesn't play ball with the Republican county establishment then his not [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 9:28pm EDT
  

• Goodbye Tobacco And Free Speech!

  The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill that will give the FDA full regulatory control over the tobacco industry. If the bill passes it is expected to dramatically reduce tobacco marketing, ban many flavored cigarettes, and prohibit the labeling of cigarettes as “light” or “low-tar.” It makes me [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 10:13pm EDT
  

• NJLP Shirt Design Pt. 1

  Here is a NJLP shirt design idea. Let me know what you guys think.
  
  
  
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 7:23pm EDT
  

• My Foot In My Mouth!

  Steve Adubato endorsed Rep. Rob Andrews which kind of contradicts my last post. Thought I would point that out before anyone else did. A lot of endorsements have been rolling out in the last day or two and despite the fact that Andrews has been getting a lot of [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 6:14pm EDT
  

• GOP Candidates Uknown And Dems Split On Lautenberg, What Does This All Mean For Us?

  Fairleigh Dickinson University posted the results of a recent poll yesterday that shows how many people don't know who the GOP candidates are. When all voters were polled the numbers stood at Joe Pennacchio being unrecognized by 77%, Murray Sabrin by 84% and Andy Unanue by 90%. [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 9:21am EDT
  

• Funny Shirt Design Pt. 2

  Here is another one I knocked out. I want to come up with one specific to NJ which will be pretty easy with all the ridiculous laws in place. Please send some ideas or your own designs my way and I'll post them to get some feedback.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2008, 9:44am EDT
  

• Funny Shirt Design Pt. 1

  Here is a shirt design I come up with which I thought was kind of humorous. I want to get some Libertarian apparel for the NJ Party. I know that it is not specific to NJ but inspiration hit me and this is what came of it for better or [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2008, 9:25pm EDT
  

• The Predicament Of Mike Gravel...

  Mike Gravel, former Democratic Senator of Alaska and Presidential Candidate, just announced recently that he has joined the Libertarian Party. At first I didn't know what to think because I don't know much about Gravel. I had seen him in the debates once and he seemed bitter and angry but [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2008, 3:56pm EDT
  

• "Operation Stupid"

  The Hudson County Sheriff's Office caught 57 fugitives this month in what was called "Operation Talon". I consider this quite an accomplishment for one County Sheriff's Office. Though the news worthy part of this story is in how they got caught, they cut off their welfare benefits. After finding that [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2008, 2:42pm EDT
  

• Money And Politics

  The GOP in NJ, unhappy with either Sabrin or Pennacchio, went searching and found Andy Unanue to be their candidate for Senate. The GOP leadership didn't like Sabrin because he really is a Libertarian and supports positions that are aligned with libertarian ideals. They didn't like Pennacchio because of a [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2008, 4:26pm EDT
  

• Eminent Domain Abuse In Linden

  A quote from today's Star Ledger states the following:
  

  New Jersey's 15-year-old Local Redevelopment and Housing Law requires that an area be declared blighted before a municipality can use eminent domain to take a property and sell it to private developers.

  
  There is an important piece of information missing from [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2008, 8:15am EDT
  

• Arguments Against Libertarianism

  "they're pathetic losers that will never amount to anything."
  
  "their true political agenda, unsustainable anarchy and chaos."
  
  "trying to hijack the Party of Lincoln (who you don't even agree with either) and focus on building up your own crappy excuse of a party."
  
  "Anyone who uses the [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2008, 6:37pm EDT
  

• Supreme Court Making Decision On The Second Amendment

  The Supreme Court is hearing District of Columbia v. Heller which will decide whether the 2nd Amendment gives rights to bear arms to the people or to the militia, or both for that matter. Right now the NY Times is reporting that a majority of the justices seem to be [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 8:54am EDT
  

• The Argument For Dr. Murray Sabrin

  Dr. Murray Sabrin, a professor at Ramapo College and the Libertarian candidate for governor in 1997, is running as a Republican for the nomination for Senator. He is up against Dr. Joseph Pennacchio, a dentist and current state senator from the 26th legislative district. What separates these two in what [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 3:49pm EDT
  

• First You Couldn't Buy Them, Now You Can't Smoke Them

  In NJ anyone younger than 19 years old cannot buy cigarettes and now they are passing a law that will make it illegal to smoke in public if you are under 19. This is a very sad state of affairs. With all the pressing issues which our great state must [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 2:53pm EDT
  

• Warning!! Univeral Healthcare Coming To Jersey!!

  Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), who's office I drive by quite often since it is near where I work, is crafting a bill that will bring Universal Health Care to NJ. It will force everyone in the state to buy health insurance and will require the raising of taxes to fund [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 8:03am EDT
  

• The LPPA and NJLP Convention

  I attended the joint convention and it was a great experience. I met an array of VIP Libertarians, watched the presidential debate, and got elected to the position of Vice Chairman of the NJ Libertarian Party. I have to thank Lou Jasikoff for all the work he has done last [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 7:29am EDT