TRENTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee has taken up the marriage equality legislation in what is likely to be a very long session.
State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) – one of the bill’s prime sponsors – appealed to the senators by recounting her own 39 year marriage to her [...]
Trenton Councilman Manny Segura today said he would formally enter the race for mayor of Trenton at 1 p.m. this coming Sunday, Dec. 13, at Roman Hall.
"We need new leadership in the mayor's office," said Segura, a two-term councilman who spoke to PolitickerNJ.com shortly after Mayor Doug Palmer, who has [...]
TRENTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee just approved Bedminster Mayor Robert Holtaway to the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council.
Holtaway’s nomination was meant to be heard two weeks ago, but was withdrawn by Gov. Jon Corzine. That incensed some of the Republicans on the committee – especially state [...]
TRENTON -- Supporters of marriage quality packed the Statehouse complex today, forming a long line to the committee room where the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote to move the legislation on to the full senate.
Garden State Equality Chairman Steven Goldstein said his group turned out 1,100 supporters [...]
WEST NEW YORK - Seeking a special recall election of Mayor Silverio "Sal" Vega, Dr. Felix Roque today led a march of his supporters up 60th Street and submitted to the town clerk what he says are 6,000 legitimate signatures.
"Our town is decaying," Roque railed on the sidewalk outside [...]
TRETON -- State Sen. Christopher Connors (R-Lacey) says he remains unlikely to run for Congress, and will likely make his decision formal by the end of the week. “It was never my ambition to run for Congress. I’ve gotten a lot of calls from constituents. I’ve gotten a lot of [...]
A Superior Court Judge ruled today that Nidia Lopez is a legal resident of Jersey City and can keep her City Council seat, the Jersey Journal is reporting. Two of Lopez's opponents in the May municipal race had alleged that she was ineligible because she had taken tax deductions available [...]
Both houses of the New Jersey Legislature are in session today.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the marriage equality bill, and for the second time in two weeks, the nomination of quadruple-dipper Nicholas Fargo to the Hudson County Board of Taxation.
The Assembly is expected to swear in their [...]
The Hunterdon County Republican Committee met today to choose a successor to replace Freeholder Erik Peterson, who resigned Tuesday to become a member of the State Assembly.
Peterson took the place of Senator Michael Doherty, who stepped up to take the place of Leonard Lance, who became a member of [...]
Reporters Roundtable with Michael Aron
Angela Delli Santi of the Associated Press, John Reitmeyer of The Record, Phil Gregory of WBGO/WHYY and Matt Friedman of PolitickerNJ.com (me) discuss the marriage equality bill, Gov.-elect Chris Christie’s press conferences and staff picks, and the State Commission of Investigation’s report on municipal worker [...]
Former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and political associate Ronald Manzo pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges today, the Jersey Journal reports.
Elwell, who won the Democratic primary for reelection and was set to run in the November general election, resigned shortly after he was charged in July. He is [...]
The story of the day may be Dunstan's McNichol's report that New Jersey is paying $657,000 a month - about $22,000 every day - to the Bank of Montreal "for an interest-rate swap approved by state officials and linked to bonds that were never sold."
"The interest rate swap, an [...]
Let’s just say sister Susie was going to sell seashells at the seashore --- in New Jersey.
Here is what she might have to go through in the Garden State, to sell seashells at our seashore. [...]
In appointing Rich Bagger as Chief of Staff, Governor- elect Chris Christie has made an absolutely superb appointment. Bagger will obviously be making a considerable financial sacrifice by leaving Pfizer to join the Governor’s office, but New Jersey is certainly the better for it. [...]
Bergen County Freeholder Julie O'Brien, who just narrowly lost re-election, remains in office until next month. But her name has already surfaced as a possible candidate for the seat of Freeholder Tomas Padilla, who will not run again next year.
"I've heard people throwing my name out there, too," said [...]
Assemblyman Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield) said he feels "a little inadequate" next to his fellow Westfield resident, Richard Bagger, who was named today to serve as Chief of Staff to Gov.-elect Christopher Christie.
"He has all the skills like your mom and dad teach you, but I didn't get them all," [...]
Al Santoro, the Executive Director of the Ocean County Democratic Party, pleaded guilty today to federal corruption charges, admitting that he took cash payments from a cooperating witness in exchange for promising to introduce him to public officials.
Federal prosecutors said that Santoro’s prosecution is connected to Operation Bid Rig, [...]
Gov.-elect Christopher Christie has named former State Sen. Richard Bagger as his Chief of Staff and former Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Chiesa as his Chief Counsel.
Bill Stepien, who managed Christie's campaign to oust Gov. Jon Corzine, will serve as Deputy Chief of Staff, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney [...]
Gov.-elect Christopher Christie is expected to announce that former State Sen. Richard Bagger will be his Chief of Staff.
Bagger, 49, served as an Assemblyman from 1992 to 2002, and as a State Senator from 2002 to 2003. He resigned to accept a promotion at Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company [...]
Senate President Richard Codey (D-Roseland) says that the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider marriage equality legislation on Monday. The legislation must be approved by the panel before going to the floor for a vote of the full Senate. Steven Goldstein, the chairman of Garden State Equality, the state's largest gay [...]
Gov. Jon Corzine has dropped his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Department of Justice for records relating to Gov.-Elect Chris Christie's time as United States Attorney. "The campaign has ended and the voters chose Chris Christie. The Corzine for Governor campaign will not be pursuing [...]
Let’s be Democrats…and support Marriage Equality.
It’s what we do.
This is from the DNC Platform, adopted at the National Convention just a year or so ago: [...]
Bergen County GOP Chairman Robert Yudin says that State Sen. Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge) should vote against the nomination of Joseph Spicuzzo to the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority when it comes up for a vote by the full Senate. Sarlo voted to release Spicuzzo's nomination last week.
"Gov.-elect Christopher [...]
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch) has a lot going for him.
A 20-year incumbent with $4 million cash on hand - by far the largest war chest of the state's congressional delegation - Pallone is the powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Health subcommittee. He serves in [...]
If the legislature is going to change the way the governor appoints U.S. senators in the event of a vacancy during the lame duck session, it will have to be tweaked the current legislation.
Outgoing Senate President Richard Codey (D-Roseland) said today that he will not post a bill [...]
Unsuccessful Jersey City council candidate Michael Manzo pleaded guilty today to accepting a $5,000 bribe from an FBI informant posing as a developer.
Manzo, a 53-year-old former arson investigator with the Jersey City Fire Department, admitted taking the money in exchange for helping the informant, Solomon Dwek, win approvals for [...]
Fair Lawn Councilman Ed Trawinski officially took himself out of the running for Bergen County Executive next year.
“It’s going to sound like baloney, but it was really humbling to me that I was elected to a third term – albeit not the third consecutive term – in a town that [...]
The Newark Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Commission (LGBT) wants Mayor Cory Booker to lobby Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge) on marriage equality when he headlines a fundraiser for the Bergen County Democrat tonight in Hackensack.
"We hope that Mayor Booker uses this opportunity to share with Senator [...]
Assembly campaign spending was down this year by 28% from four years ago – the last time there were contests for all 80 assembly seats and the governorship.
All told, assembly candidates raised $18 million and spent $15.8 million this election cycle, according to 20-day post election-reports filed with the [...]
Assemblyman John McKeon (D-West Orange) said he did not think about changing the way the governor appoints U.S. senators until after Republican Chris Christie was elected to the state’s top office, but that does not make it wrong.
Asked about the bill today, Christie erupted into a jokingly self-described [...]
Orange Mayor Eldridge Hawkins wants to confer with local party people before making a statement of support - or lack of support - for Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo, who's running for his third term next year and fighting the specter of a banged up - and incensed - Senate President [...]
Never a stranger to straddling polar opposites in Newark's urban imbroglio, West Ward Councilman Ronald C. Rice now finds himself up against the countywide Codey-DiVincenzo political taffy pull, which may result in the former backing a challenger to the two-term county executive up for re-election next year.
The political forces of Essex County [...]
Governor-Elect Chris Christie says that his inaugural ball will be toned down to match the economy.
“I don’t feel and Kim doesn’t feel comfortable with the idea of having some really fancy black tie ball given what’s going on in the state. We’ll have a dignified celebration that night,” he [...]
Assemblyman John McKeon's (D-West Orange) proposed legislation to change the way the governor appoints U.S. senators in the event of a vacancy has drawn outrage from top Republicans, including Gov.-elect Christopher Christie.
"It's garbage. It's political lying," said Christie during an eventful press conference in which he also rallied against [...]
Essex County Freeholder Samuel Gonzalez has been charged with ballot fraud in the case of his wife's 2007 senate campaign, according to state Attorney General Anne Milgram.
Five more people, including Gonzalez, husband of Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Newark), were indicted today for election fraud in connection with absentee ballots they collected [...]
Dr. Felix Roque runs his own pain relief center in his hometown of West New York, a service he says he now wants to extend into the political world as he eyeballs City Hall and plans to extract Mayor Silverio "Sal" Vega from power.
"When I see a car accident, I [...]
At an event that will never be ajudged as the model for Roberts Rules of Order, the municipal chairs of the Essex County Democratic Committee lined up last night in near unanimity behind the re-election of Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo.
Of the 26 chairs either in attendance at a Monday night Nanina's [...]
In a strongly worded letter, more than 200 top Democratic activists are calling on Democratic legislators to enact marriage equality legislation.
"New Jersey has a proud history of supporting civil rights. It was this legacy that encouraged many of us to become involved in politics. We believe that allowing committed [...]
Governor Jon Corzine raised and spent about $27 million on his unsuccessful reelection effort – down significantly from four years ago, according to 20 day post-election reports released today by the Election Law Enforcement Commission.
Of Corzine’s $27 million, $25.3 million came from his own pocket in the form of self-loans [...]
Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes is not up for reelection until 2011, but one potential Republican challenger has already surfaced: Robbinsville Mayor Dave Fried.
“I can tell you that lots of people have asked me. It’s always nice to be considered for things, but right now I’m very focused on [...]
Twenty lieutenant governors and seconds-in-command succeeded to governor from 2000 thru November of 2009. Several of the largest states by population are lead by former lieutenant governors. An average of one in every four governors first served as lieutenant governor or first in line of succession. A study showed no [...]
Despite apparent comments to the contrary, former Eagles tackle and newly signed San Diego Charger Jon Runyan will indeed retire from football at the end of the season to run for congress, says Burlington County Republican spokesman Chris Russel.
“He was trying to be playful and just having a [...]
Assemblyman John McKeon (D-West Orange) today announced legislation meant to keep both U.S. Senate seats in Democratic hands in the event of a vacancy.
McKeon’s measure would give the governor 30 days to appoint someone from the same political party as the senator who, for one reason or another, is [...]
A superseding federal corruption indictment against former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini further exposes the city's allegedly corrupt political underbelly. Beldini, arrested in July and in August indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, now faces two additional counts of attempted extortion and three counts of [...]
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy says that state Sen. Brian Stack (D-Union City) was wrong when he said that the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO) has not done enough to reach out to minority candidates.
“I couldn’t disagree with him more,” Healy, who chairs the HCDO, said on Tuesday while [...]
U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-Harding) is the eighth richest member of the House of Representatives, according to data compiled by Roll Call.
Frelinghuysen has a minimum net worth of $18.15 million, but owing to the vagueness of House financial disclosure forms, his actual worth is probably significantly higher.
Frelinghuysen, who belongs to [...]
Two weeks ago, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) announced that Senate action on climate change (i.e., the cap-and-trade greenhouse gas bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in June, 2009) would be postponed until Spring, 2010. For all practical purposes, however, this means that cap-and-trade greenhouse gas [...]
Back in 1974, when NYC was facing a mounting financial crisis, then-Mayor Abe Beame went to then-President Ford and asked for financial help from the Federal government. His answer from the president came in the form of this now famous Daily News headline: “Ford to NY: Drop Dead.” [...]
Reporters Roundtable with Michael Aron special 20th anniversary edition
The four former Statehouse reporters from the first Roundtable show two decades ago return to reminisce with host Michael Aron: Jim Goodman of The Trenton Times; David Wald of The Star Ledger, currently spokesman for AG’s office; Sal Paolantonio of the Philadelphia [...]
Yes, I know, I know.
Since it’s Thanksgiving week, I decided that no one could really be a Putz of the Week this week. So, I decided to go with two Mensch mentions instead. [...]
Hours after he was signed by the San Diego Chargers for the rest of the football season, former Eagles tackle Jon Runyan today announced that this will be his last season in the NFL and that he will run for Congress next year.
"Yesterday, I received an offer to pursue my [...]
Former Eagles tackle Jon Runyan, a prospective congressional candidate against U.S. Rep. John Adler (D-Cherry Hill) next year, is in San Diego today trying to finalize a contract with the Chargers, ESPN.com reports.
Runyan, 35, said that he was “very serious” about running in the 3rd Congressional District earlier this [...]
JERSEY CITY -- Governor-Elect Chris Christie said that Assembly Majority Leader-Elect Joseph Cryan (D-Union), the head of the state Democratic Party, “stuck out like a sore thumb” at a press conference with other incoming legislative leaders yesterday.
While most of the other leaders said they were not willing to “waver” [...]
Former assembly candidate Joseph Caruso said he had nothing to do with the robocall political consultant Kevin Collins was charged with yesterday.
“I had no clue about this until after it happened, and even when I found out about it I thought [Assemblyman Scott] Rumana did it… It hurt my reputation, [...]
In a conversation today with PolitickerNJ.com, Assemblywoman Nelllie Pou (D-North Haledon) would not rule out running for the chairmanship of the State Democratic Committee, but stopped short of saying she definitely plans to pursue the office.
"That would be a great opportunity for me and a great honor," said the veteran legislator and appropriations committee [...]
New Jersey voters overwhelmingly support a wage freeze and layoffs of public workers to balance the state budget, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released this morning.
By a margin of 75% to 21%, voters support wage freezes. A smaller number, but still an overwhelming majority, support layoffs: 61% to 33%. [...]
I have a Blackberry device that I am not completely thrilled with. It’s clunky and not intuitive like an IPhone, which I would rather have. In fact, the regular message on all my Blackberry emails is “I have a Verizon Blackberry, but I would rather have an IPhone.” [...]
As pundits and party leaders look to next year’s Congressional elections in NJ, it appears that freshman Democrat John Adler is the most vulnerable incumbent. Despite actually calling himself a “conservative” Democrat, his vote for ultra-liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Leadership will render that innoculation strategy suspect, [...]
A veteran New Jersey political consultant who has run into controversy before was charged today with impersonation and violation of the Fair Campaign Practices Act.
Kevin Collins, 39, allegedly was responsible for automated phone calls in support of District 40 Republican primary challengers Joe Caruso and Anthony Rottino. In the call, [...]
TRENTON - Assemblyman John Wisniewksi (D-Sayreville) intends to make a formal play for the chairmanship of the State Democratic Committee only if and when sitting Chairman Joe Cryan officially says he's done.
"Chairman Cryan will reach out to members of the state committee and at that point I would anticipate he will move [...]
TRENTON -- After a day in which everything ended up as planned, Democrats formalized their new leadership lineup and showed it off at a press conference this afternoon.
“It will be a tough act to follow Dick Codey in this role,” said Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney (D-West Deptford), who [...]
TRENTON - No one wanted to deliver the news as they broke from the caucus chamber and headed out of the area, but state Sen. Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge) was blunt.
"It's done," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) appeared, and just before he disappeared. he said a press conference is imminent. [...]
TRENTON -- State Sen. Kip Bateman (R-Branchburg) had harsh words for Gov. Jon Corzine today over the withdrawal of a Somerset County nominee to the Highlands Council.
“He can’t leave soon enough, in my opinion,” said Bateman.
Bedminster Mayor Robert F. Holtaway, a Republican from Bateman’s legislative district, showed up to [...]
TRENTON - The door to Senate President Richard Codey's (D-Roseland) chamber opened and Gov.-elect Chris Christie emerged with Codey.
Christie went downstairs.
The sitting Senate President headed in the other direction around the backs of the chairs in the gallery on his way to the Democratic caucus room and a party vote [...]
TRENTON -- Some prominent members of the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO) would like to see state Sen. Sandra Cunningham (D-Jersey City) kicked off the organization line, but state Sen. Brian Stack (D-Union City) is not one of them.
“I’ve always had a good relationship with Sandy. I know how [...]
TRENTON -- The Assembly Democrats today selected Sheila Oliver (D-East Orange) as their new speaker and Joseph Cryan (D-Union) as the new majority leader.
Oliver replaces retiring Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden), while Cryan, who currently chairs the state Democratic Party, replaces Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Trenton), who until last week [...]
TRENTON - The irony is that Garden State Equality activists pack the gallery here in the Senate chamber for the swearing-in ceremony of uber conservative state Sen.-elect Mike Doherty (R-Washington Twp.).
They are in attendance today to ramrod gay marriage through the corridors of both houses prior to Gov. Jon Corzine's [...]
Five months after his nomination was first set to be considered, Middlesex County Sheriff Joseph Spiccuzo’s was cleared by the Senate Judiciary Committee for a seat on the Sports and Exposition Authority.
The hearing was not without some controversy, however. Spicuzzo’s nomination passed on a party-line vote, except for state [...]
TRENTON - State Sen. Ronald L. Rice (D-Newark) drops his gavel, ending the Senate Community Affairs Committee meeting and as he heads for the exit, he's asked if he believes Senate President Richard Codey (D-Roseland) has a fighting chance in the Democratic caucus this afternoon.
"I don't think so, at this point," says [...]
TRENTON - Garden State Equality activists just mobilized at their West State Street headquarters, received a megaphone buck-up from their leader, Steven Goldstein, and headed for the Statehouse.
"We progressives are fired up, and not just the gays," Goldstein said in a weekend email blast to supporters, which he amplified here this morning. [...]
In an email to Democratic legislators on Friday, state Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) told them that if they vote in favor of gay marriage, “neither the wrath of God nor of voters will descend upon you.”
Citing last week’s Eagleton poll that cited more New Jerseyans supporting gay marriage than [...]
“My work is done here. Winfrey has finally succumbed,” announced Novick at a press conference, pumping his fist in ‘win’ style. Novick was a huge Phil Donahue fan, and used to watch him everyday. Back in 1986, when the Oprah Winfrey Show took over the time slot [...]
There has been a lot of talk about putting the issue of marriage equality on the ballot in New Jersey. This is something that Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose , Senator-Elect Michael Doherty, and Assemblyman Michael Patrick King would like to see. “Let the people decide,” they say. [...]
On the Record
Michael Aron hosts Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden), Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce (R-Parsippany), Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney (D-West Deptford) and Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr (R-Westfield) to discuss the budget crisis and the election.
Airs: Sunday at 9am and 11am, Monday at 6:30am [...]
Former Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joe Ferriero’s attorney has filed to have Ferriero's corruption conviction overturned.
Defense lawyer Joseph Hayden said he filed about a dozen arguments in federal court, chief among them challenging Ferriero's conviction for conspiracy to defraud Bergenfield of co-defendant Dennis Oury’s honest services. Oury, who was Bergen [...]
Former Republican assembly candidate Stepfanie Velez-Gentry made national headlines for her unusual occupation, but she would be willing to put that job aside if offered one by the incoming Chris Christie administration.
“I would absolutely be interested,” she said. “I want to help make changes in the community, and if [...]
Gov.-Elect Chris Christie today named the 19 issue subcommittee chairs for his transition team.
The 19 chairs include the 10 members of Christie’s transition team that have already been announced, but whose specified roles have now been made public. Newcomers include state Sen. Marcia Karrow (R-Raritan), who was defeated by [...]
Incoming Bergen County Republican freeholders Rob Hermansen and John Driscoll will be outnumbered by Democrats 5-2 on the board, but they plan to propose some bold initiatives as soon as they are sworn in - ideas that will probably be met by a tough crowd.
Driscoll and Hermansen want [...]
Ronald C. Rice tweeted not so sweetly about soon-to-be Senate President Stephen Sweeney.
Well, we were able to obtain the rest of the tweets---in fact, there was an entire conversation tweeted between the future Senate President and the current Newark Councilman…. [...]
It’s on.
Chris Fifis, the Lumberton Democratic Chairman who is the favorite of South Jersey Democratic leaders to become chairman of the Burlington County Democrats, put out a statement officially acknowledging his candidacy for the chairmanship in response to Assemblyman Herb Conaway’s (D-Delanco) decision to run for the post.
“I remain [...]
While his fellow party members took a frontline beating from Chris Christie on Election Day in Monmouth County, Mayor Jon Hornik quietly won two out of three council seats in Marlboro to preserve his majority in western Monmouth's largest, most voter-concentrated town.
"Gov. Jon Corzine lost Marlboro by over 30%, but I think [...]
Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver (D-East Orange) told The Star-Ledger today that Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Trenton) has dropped her campaign to become assembly speaker.
Oliver, who is expected to ascend to the speakership as part of a deal between north and south Jersey Democrats to install state Sen. Stephen Sweeney (D-West [...]
Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr. (D-Delanco) wants to be the next chairman of the Burlington County Democratic Committee, setting up a potential contest to lead the troubled organization.
“What made me decide to run was that we have a need for a county party that functions. We have a lot of [...]
New Jersey voters repudiated Governor Jon Corzine's policies of the past four years on November 3rd. Republican Chris Christie and Independent Chris Daggett received nearly 55% of the votes cast.
The anti-Corzine voters played it safe on Election Day, pulling the lever for Christie instead of Daggett who had a [...]
New Jersey residents narrowly support legalizing same-sex marriage but do not consider it a high priority, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released this morning.
By a 46% to 42% margin, New Jersey residents think same sex couples should have the right to marry, while 12% are unsure. If the legislature [...]
State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck) wants Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney (D-West Deptford) to “honor the commitment he made to me” on the marriage equality bill she sponsors.
Weinberg issued a statement this evening in response to Sweeney’s comment at the League of Municipalities today that “the main issue [...]
ATANTIC CITY - Ready to be the next Senate President, state Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) just told a crowd of mayors, council people and govenrment types that now is not the time to drive marriage equality through the legislature.
"It's an important social issue," Sweeney tells NJN Chief Political Correspondent [...]
Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore met with ex-Eagles tackle Jon Runyan yesterday, who told him that he is "strongly leaning" toward running.
But Gilmore, who said he had a "nice conversation" with Runyan, is not sold on him as the candidate to take on freshman U.S. Rep. John Adler [...]
ATLANTIC CITY - NJN Chief Political Correspondent Michael Aron has a panel on a stage here in one of the break-out-rooms of the Atlantic City Convention Center.
It's a familar group of legislative leaders, but in place of Senate President Richard Codey (D-Roseland) sits Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford).
The [...]
ATLANTIC CITY - The legislative leadership transmogrifications are evident at the Atlantic City Convention Center, even if the good government intentions are nowhere visible outside whatever sessions convene behind closed doors.
A lot of people are talking about Senate President Richard Codey's party last night.
"An Irish wake," is how Sierra Club Executive Director Jeff [...]
ATLANTIC CITY - The members of Christie's transition team will break into specified groups tomorrow, according to team facilitator and counsel Brian Nelson of Shrewsbury.
"We're going to have a smaller number of groups to examine the issues than Gov. Corzine had four years ago," Nelson told PolitickerNJ.com.
Proving Gov. Jon Corzine's loss in his [...]
ATLANTIC CITY - Trenton Councilman Manny Segura hasn't made a formal annoucement regarding next year's mayor's race, but if he runs and wins he says he would only serve for two terms - max.
"Longevity is a killer in this line of work," said the councilman, down here for the 94th [...]
Governor-elect Chris Christie is in Texas today for the Republican Governors Association’s annual conference.
Christie will attend the conference’s plenary session outside of Austin at 4:30 this afternoon before heading to a 6pm press availability with RGA Chair Haley Barbour -- the governor of Mississippi -- and Virginia Governor-Elect Bob [...]
Seems like everyone makes their money here, and then moves to Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Some to avoid high property taxes and higher auto insurance rates.
Some ‘cause, I guess they have to. [...]
Up against a politically and geographically connected frontrunner, Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) this week continues to call assembly people in the Democratic caucus in an effort to secure backing for the speakership, according to party sources.
A veteran legislator and former Democratic state party chair, Watson Coleman naturally headed [...]
