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• Sources: Sayegh poised to enter Paterson mayor's race next week

  —Politicker NJ

  Paterson Sixth Ward Councilman Andre Sayegh has scheduled a "big announcement" next Thursday, Dec. 17th, at St. Anthony's Church. Sources say he's getting in the 2010 mayor's race. Right now, there are two men in the May contest: two-term incumbent Mayor Jose "Joey" Torres and Council President Jeffrey Jones. The 35-year old Sayegh, [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:32am EST
  by Max Pizarro

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• Perhaps as payback, maybe to weaken his statewide standing, GOP mulls challenge to Pallone

  —Politicker NJ

  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 [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:40pm EST
  by Matt Friedman

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• Both current U.S. senators were appointed

  —Capitol Quickies

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  One interesting wrinkle behind the political theater over whether Democrats will change the rules for filling U.S. Senate vacancies is that both incumbent senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, took office as gubernatorial appointees to fill a vacancy.

  Menendez was appointed in 2006 by freshly minted Gov. Jon Corzine to replace [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:05am EST
  by Michael Symons

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• Keyport candidates to face off in run-off

  —MiddletownMike

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  From the Asbury Park Press-
  
  KEYPORT — It's back to square one in the razor-thin election between Democratic incumbent councilwoman Christian Bolte and Republican challenger Edward Burlew after an official recount by the Board of Elections Tuesday afternoon shifted one of provisional ballots over to Burlew, creating a [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:24am EST
  by Middletown Mike

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• Consultant charged in robocalls

  —Politics Patrol: Bob Ingle

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  Anne Milgram

  A paid political consultant has been charged with impersonation in connection with "robocalls" that attacked two Republican incumbents in the June primary for the Assembly's 40th District. Attorney General Anne Milgram's office said Kevin Collins, 39, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was charged with violation of [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:54am EST
  by Bob Ingle

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• Is Pallone vulnerable?

  —Politicker NJ

  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, [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:23pm EST
  by Jeff Michaels

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