Gov.-elect Chris Christie has been announcing the members of his various transition team committees this week; in due time, those names and some backgrounders on the members will appear in this space.
Most of the people are known primarily to the political community. But today's appointment of the members of the [...]
Monday's action in the state Senate:
Thirty bills advanced -- 23 sent to the Senate floor, seven sent to the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee for consideration because they could have an impact on state spending. Five bills that were on the committee agendas were held without a vote, including one -- [...]Here's the boxscore from Monday's Assembly meetings:
Twenty-seven bills advanced -- 19 to the Assembly floor, and eight were sent to another committee for further consideration. Thirteen of those Assembly bills were introduced Monday and voted upon before their text was even posted online (though two existed in their Senate version). Something [...]It's Wednesday, Nov. 25th -- Thanksgiving Eve, 2009.
Quinnipiac University issues results of a poll asking New Jersey voters their opinions on same-sex marriage, which could come up for a vote before the legislative session expires Jan. 12th. U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez visits the Community Food Bank of New Jersey in Hillside, [...]The Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards just voted unanimously to dismiss an ethics complaint filed against Sen. Brian Stack, a Democratic senator and the mayor of Union City, in mid-2006 by conservative activist Steve Lonegan.
Lonegan filed ethics complaints related to grants from the state budget against 34 lawmakers, and [...]
While it remains to be seen how Democratic lawmakers and Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie ultimately work together, they're at least saying the same things about fiscal matters for the time being.
Senate Majority Leader-designate Barbara Buono took it a step further Monday, when she talked about seeing the partisan flip in' [...]
Assemblyman John McKeon, D-Essex, has proposed legislation that would effectively take away Gov. Chris Christie's ability to pick a new U.S. senator of his choosing, should, for instance, Sen. Frank Lautenberg not complete his term.
Lautenberg will turn 86 four days after Christie's Jan. 19th inaugural, and that has raised concerns [...]
It's Tuesday, Nov. 24th, 2009 -- probably the last busy day of the news week, with Thanksgiving just around the corner.
The New Jersey Business & Industry Association releases the findings from its 2010 Business Outlook Survey. Glum, glum, glum. Health & Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard updates reporters via teleconference about [...]Among the bills dropped into the hopper Monday, the first day back after a five-month recess, is one from Senate President Richard Codey that would give Gov.-elect Chris Christie an extra three weeks to propose the first state budget.
State law says the budget is to be transmitted by the fourth [...]
A state appeals court today affirmed the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit filed three years ago against the state's school funding formula that sought to declare the state's school aid effort unconstitutional and order 25 school districts to let students withdraw from public schools and attend other schools, private [...]
Nearly five months since the state Legislature last met, Gov. Jon Corzine Friday afternoon signed two dozen bills it sent to his desk way-back-when. They're all listed below the jump. Among them is one establishing a pilot program requiring instruction in personal finance to high school seniors, a priority of' [...]
Seven Assembly committees are back in session today, the first time bills are being considered since June. A dozen of today's bills haven't yet been introduced but are scheduled for votes. Democrats will also meet behind closed doors to pick their speaker for the session that starts in January; the [...]
The state Senate swings back into action today with the swearing-in of Sens. James Beach and Michael Doherty to complete unexpired terms; the vote for a Senate president for 2010 and 2011, most likely Sen. Steve Sweeney; six committee meetings; and the introduction of lame-duck session legislation.
Here are some highlights [...]
It's Monday, Nov. 23rd, 2009, and the Legislature's finally coming back to town.
Gov.-elect Chris Christie, joined by Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno, conducts a media availability with Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell at the headquarters of AE Polysilicon in Morrisville, Pa., across the Delaware River from Trenton. Democrat Jim Beach and Republican Mike [...]Today is Saturday, Nov. 21st, 2009.
Gov. Jon Corzine participates in the Department of Children & Families reception for National Adoption Month in Newark, then speaks at Julia Traphagen School's Blue Ribbon Celebration in Waldwick. The Delegate Assembly of the New Jersey School Boards Association conducts a program looking at what's in [...]
A state Superior Court judge now serving as a Family Court judge in Mercer County was censured this week by the Supreme Court for intimate emails he repeatedly sent a former law clerk, even after being ordered to stop, from his judiciary account.
Judge Lawrence [...]
The second of Gov.-elect Chris Christie's recurring lines from his Thursday speech to the New Jersey State League of Municipalities were his repeated references to "the center of the room" -- part of his call for officials to work cooperatively, rather than from their political poles, to address issues.
"The problems" [...]
The second co-chairman of Gov.-elect Chris Christie's budget and taxes task force is Richard H. Bagger, 49, who was in the state Legislature from 1992 through 2003, including a stint as chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, and is now an executive at the pharmaceutical [...]
Here's what's up in state government and politics for Friday, Nov. 20th, 2009.
The Burlington and Mercer vicinages of the state judiciary hold their annual Adoption Day programs. It will include 17 adoption proceedings in Mount Holly and six in Trenton. National Adoption Day is celebrated annually throughout the United States [...]Here's Gov.-elect Chris Christie's extended riff from his Thursday speech to the New Jersey State League of Municipalities convention about changing the mindset in Trenton, one of the many things he'll need to alter as he hopes to balance a severely deficit-ridden budget through spending cuts.
"The entire country is facing'" [...]
Among Gov.-elect Chris Christie's first moves in his transition was creating a Transition Task Force on Budget and Taxes, which will recommend ways to deal with the current year deficit, the projected gap for FY2011 and the state's long-term debt and looming costs for benefits for public retirees.
After pummeling him for months and years on end, state Republicans -- now hoping to maximize cooperation from his outgoing administration, no doubt -- have broken out the catch-more-flies-with-sugar approach in their commentary about Gov. Jon Corzine.
For sure, they're not calling a recount. But there have been multiple instances from' [...]
It's Thursday, Nov. 19th, 2009.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities continues its annual conference in Atlantic City. Gov. Jon Corzine gives the keynote speech, and Gov.-elect Chris Christie will also address the crowd. Also at the League of Municipalities convention this afternoon, conference attendees can meet with officials from Lt. [...]Gov.-elect Chris Christie's transition office has established its website.
It has the standard stuff, such as a section with press releases and bios of both Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno -- as well as places to submit resumes in search of a job in the administration or[...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie is traveling to Texas today for the Republican Governors Association's annual conference, being held near Austin.
He'll attend a conference session this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. our time, a news conference with Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (the RGA chairman) at 7 p.m. and' [...]
The state Election Law Enforcement Commission this week added campaign donations received by municipal candidates to its searchable database.
Previously, copies of reports filed by municipal candidates have been posted online, but not in a sortable format. Currently more than $5.5 million donated to 377 different primary fundraising committees [...]
On consecutive days last week, Attorney General Anne Milgram announced settlements of civil lawsuits brought on behalf of the state's pension funds.
Last Thursday, the state announced that former Tyco International Ltd. board member Frank Walsh Jr. agreed to pay the state $5.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging securities [...]
Remember all the hullabaloo from the recent governor's race, driven by Gov. Jon Corzine's campaign, about the future of mammography coverage should Chris Christie's health insurance proposals ever be adopted? Corzine said the state's mandated coverage would be in jeopardy for women under 50, a claim Christie vehemently denied.
How would [...]
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 2009, and here's a review of the docket for New Jersey government and politics.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities continues its annual conference in Atlantic City. Sessions include a discussion among four former governors (Brendan Byrne, Jim Florio, Don DiFrancesco and John Bennett --' [...]The governor's race concluded two weeks ago, but the drip-drip-drip of developments regarding some of its key storylines continue this week.
Attorneys for independent Chris Daggett's campaign asked the state Election Law Enforcement Commission to investigate "robocalls" apparently paid for by the Democratic State Committee to registered Republicans in at least [...]
The Democratic National Committee, as it said it would, announced plans Monday to launch radio ads criticizing 32 House Republicans from districts that backed President Barack Obama last year who voted against the health-care reform bill two weekends ago.
Among them are Rep. Leonard Lance of Hunterdon County (hear the ad [...]
The initial Senate committee agendas for Monday's return to action in the Legislature were issued this morning.
Among the first committees to meet will be the Senate Judiciary Committee. Currently, the docket includes the following:
Joseph Spicuzzo, the Middlesex County sheriff and leader of that county's Democratic Party organization, to replace former [...]While this has got little to do with politics, although higher education spending is a legitimate issue in state government, below are a few if-you're-distracted links to coverage USA Today provided last week about college football coaches' salaries.
Here's the USA Today story, and here is its database.
Rutgers University' [...]
It's Tuesday, Nov. 17th, 2009.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities opens its annual conference in Atlantic City. The New Jersey Farm Bureau wraps up its 91st annual meeting at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village. Former gubernatorial candidate Doug Forrester, president of Integrity Health, and Toms River Regional Schools superintendent Michael' [...]Gov.-elect Chris Christie and his top budget aides met with three top officials in Gov. Jon Corzine's Treasury Department, including state Treasurer David Rousseau, for three hours today before the news conference.
Christie budget adviser Robert Grady -- who now works at a private equity firm but has worked in government' [...]
It's Monday, Nov. 16th, 2009 -- which, between holidays for Election Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, marks the beginning of the only uninterrupted week of work in the state capitol in the month of November. Except for the part of the week where establishment Trenton decamps to Atlantic City for [...]
Though the election is over, the polls just keep on coming.
Rasmussen Reports today issued results of a Nov. 9th survey of 500 likely New Jersey voters, in which 60% say Gov.-elect Chris Christie's support in last week's election came from people voting against Gov. Jon Corzine (aka, Anybody But Corzine), while [...]
The state Senate and Assembly, which have been in recess since June, have finally released their meeting schedules for the lame-duck post-election session -- which seems to be getting a much later start this year than usual, as the majority Democrats regain their bearings after their loss of the governor's' [...]
It's Friday, Nov. 13th, 2009, and here's a quick glance at the goings-on in state government:
Gov.-elect Chris Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno hold a media availability in the Clubhouse Lobby at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford this afternoon. The Commission on Higher Education meets. Rutgers University administrators, representatives of the [...]Here's a link to the Pew Center on the States report that tags New Jersey as having one of the 10 worst fiscal situations among the states.
Here's some of what it says about the Garden State:
"New Jersey is playing catch-up after years of fiscal mismanagement and a daunting structural" [...]
Remember all the talk this past summer about Gov. Jon Corzine possibly plucking entrepeneur and former 'The Apprentice" winner Randal Pinkett as his lieutenant governor running-mate? Didn't happen, of course. Pinkett wound up as chairman of the Democrats' "Yes We Can 2.0" effort to lure young'" [...]
It's Thursday, Nov. 12th, 2009.
Gov. Jon Corzine and Gov.-elect Chris Christie attend the Archdiocese of Newark Archbishop’s Mass for Law Enforcement Personnel at Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno also attends. Corzine and Christie also hold a private meeting to discuss, among other topics, the [...]In an email to supporters sent over the weekend, independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett, who finished a distant third last week, indicated that he's not planning to exit the political stage. Daggett received more than 136,000 votes, unofficially, surpassing the 114,172 that Libertarian candidate Murray Sabrin attracted in 1997. His 5.8 percent of [...]
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 2009. It is Veterans Day, and state offices are closed to mark the holiday.
Gov.-elect Chris Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno are in Holmdel for the 11 a.m. Veterans Day ceremony at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, on the grounds of the PNC Bank' [...]
The Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America, the online continuation of Barack Obama's online campaign of 2008, are attempting to turn votes against the health care bill cast by Republican Reps. Leonard Lance and Frank LoBiondo into political liabilities -- all the while, of course, skating past the fact [...]
More than 24,000 people who cast ballots last Tuesday skipped over the governor's race -- meaning that for every 100 actual voters, one didn't cast a vote for the state's chief executive race that was at the top of the ticket.
Put another way, more people skipped the race than voted' [...]
It's Tuesday, Nov. 10th, 2009, and here's a bit of what's happening in state government.
The state Supreme Court hears arguments, including an Open Public Records Act case involving the Asbury Park Press. The New Jersey Transit board of directors meets. The New Jersey Conference of Mayors opens its new West State Street [...]While 'yes' votes carried the day on the open-space ballot question, the 'no' votes didn't actually finish second.
Unofficial election results indicate that 'no' actually finished behind the 'undercount' -- the thousands of people who go into a polling place and skip a particular office or question on the ballot. It's [...]
Lost in the attention paid to the governor's race -- as it was for most of the campaign season -- was the narrow victory of state Public Question No. 1, the $400 million proposal to borrow money to preserve open space, farms, flood prone properties and historic sites.
The final results [...]
It's Monday, Nov. 9th, 2009, and here's a quick glance at the day in state politics and government.
A group called Transportation for America issues a report that says pedestrians account for 22 percent of traffic fatalities in New Jersey and that the state should spend more of its available federal [...]
The regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency that covers New Jersey will be run by someone from another state for the first time since 1993.
Judith Enck, New York's deputy secretary for the environment, was announced yesterday as the pick by EPA Administrator Lisa [...]
The Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute says Tuesday's election results will, as expected, drop New Jersey from its brief visit to the top 10 states for women in its legislature. The state did elect a woman, Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, as its [...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie is along the Shore today for two public appearances, beginning at the top of the hour in Toms River.
Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno hold a roundtable discussion with Ocean County mayors at 11 a.m. at the Toms River Municipal Building. They'll later travel north to North' [...]
Gov. Jon Corzine acknowledged Thursday that "October revenue collections are coming in below targets and may continue to erode in the months ahead" as he directed his Cabinet officers to identify another $200 million in budget savings by Dec. 1.
In mid-October, the Treasury Department had announced $205 million [...]
Today is Friday, Nov. 6th, 2009, and here's a glance at what's going on in a still-slow state politics scene:
Princeton Public Affairs Group hosts a post-election luncheon at the Forsgate Country Club in Monroe, to discuss the 2009 election and the upcoming legislative session. Participants include Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts [...]Another day of relatively light news regarding Gov.-elect Chris Christie's transition into office.
My Home News Tribune colleague, Sergio Bichao, who covered Christie's walk through downtown Woodbridge today, said the Republican announced that his brother, Todd, and advisor William J. Palatucci will co-chair the inaugural committee to "organize different events surrounding" [...]
A state appeals court today affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by conservative activist Steve Lonegan against the state's plan to borrow $3.9 billion for school construction.
Lonegan said the appropriation-based contract bonds violate the state constitution because voters didn't approve them. The courts' [...]
The gubernatorial race was barely over and the votes not even counted when television ads in support of gay marriage started airing on News 12. The issue may come up for a vote in the lame-duck session that ends while Gov. Jon Corzine -- who says he would sign such [...]
With some Republicans already pointing to Gov.-elect Chris Christie as an roadmap for the national Republican Party's road to a resurgence, Christie Wednesday said at his event in Newark that he has "no idea, no idea" if there are lessons to be drawn from the race for the party at' [...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie, whose first official event since claiming victory was in Newark, today tours Main Street in Woodbridge with Democratic Mayor John McCormac, who was state treasurer under Gov. Jim McGreevey, who used to be that township's mayor.
Christie recorded surprising wins in Middlesex County and in Woodbridge, some of' [...]
Among the points of interest in Trenton with the pending inaugural of Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie is how he'll deal with a Legislature controlled by Democrats -- 23-17 in the Senate, 47-33 in the Assembly (a one-seat GOP gain Tuesday). Here's what Christie had to say about the subject, which' [...]
It's Thursday, Nov. 5th, 2009. Here's a quick glance at today's actvity in state government and politics, which is still recovering from other hours-long delirium after Tuesday's victory or being shellshocked by Tuesday's loss.
Gov.-elect. Chris Christie told reporters Tuesday that he would be making more announcements today about his transition office [...]
David Samson, who was attorney general under Democratic Gov. James E. McGreevey, will chair Gov.-elect Chris Christie's transition committee. Samson, 70, is registered as an unaffiliated voter and lives in Caldwell. He's now back at the law firm he founded in 1972, Wolff & [...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie is making his first appearance since claiming victory at this hour -- an assembly at the Robert Treat Academy charter school in Newark, where school founder (and Democratic Party power broker) Stephen Adubato just led the students in a shouted-out economics lesson to "Governor Chris," as they're' [...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno will visit the Robert Treat Academy charter school in Newark this afternoon, his first public appearance since winning election.
[...]Chris Christie surged in South Jersey. He was the first Republican candidate for governor since 1997 to win in Atlantic and Salem counties; since 1993 in Burlington County; and since 1985 in Gloucester County. He also won Middlesex County, which hadn't voted for a Republican for governor since 1985.
Christie's performance [...]
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 4th, 2009. There are 207 weeks and six days until the next gubernatorial election.
The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University hosts its traditional post-election "morning after" program to analyze the election results. Panelists include Kathleen Donovan, a Republican who currently serves as Bergen County clerk, [...]Republican gubernatorial nominee Chris Christie won today's vote in Gloucester County, according to unofficial returns. That marks the GOP's first win there since 1985.
Christie drew 39,674, or 47.3%, to Corzine's 36,842, or 43.9%. Independent candidate Chris Daggett drew 8%.
[...]A spin through the websites of the various county clerks that put election returns online and have posted updates tonight show Chris Christie leading Gov. Jon Corzine by around 8 percentage points.
Christie is at 217,064, Corzine at 182,462. (I don't have on-the-fly numbers including the 10 independents, headed by Chris' [...]
According to the Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey analysis of the National Election Poll exit poll done by Edison Research, the economy and jobs ranked tops among the issues that determined voters' decision today.
The economy and jobs was named by 33% and property taxes by 27%. They were followed by corruption' [...]
The first hard numbers of the governor's race are in, courtesy of Gloucester County, where the mail-in votes (and one of 232 precincts) have been counted.
They show Jon Corzine at 3,911 votes, or 49.5%, Republican Chris Christie at 3,133, or 39.7% and independent Chris Daggett at 769 votes, or [...]
Nearly 185,100 vote-by-mail ballots were requested, and 143,202 had been returned to the counties as of this evening, said state Division of Elections spokeswoman Susan Evans.
Those votes have been counted as the day goes along and will be included in preliminary, unofficial election returns announced by the counties and state [...]
If you're looking for a barometer of how the night's election returns are going, really any place can do.
So long as you know how that city, town or county has voted in the past, you can compare this year's results to those and make an educated guess as to how' [...]
A spin through the New Jersey Democratic State Committee's campaign finance reports underscore just how seriously the national Democratic establishment is taking the outcome here.
More than $400,o00 has been funneled into the New Jersey party from Democratic state parties in 19 other states (plus the Ohio Association of Public School [...]
The Keep It Green campaign has spent nearly $600,000 to promote passage of the one statewide public question on next week's ballot -- a plan to allow the state to borrow $400 million to fund the purchase of open space, farms, flood-prone lands and historic sites. That includes $113,000 of [...]
Jason Cullen is among the independent candidates for governor. He never called me back, so I don't really have much to relay in terms of information for a short profile of him. He's the only one of the 10 independents to call himself a conservative. He says cities and towns' [...]
It's Election Day 2009. Get out and vote, or forfeit your right to complain for the next four years.
Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine votes at the Elks Club in Hoboken at 6:30 a.m. Republican nominee for governor Chris Christie votes at Brookside Fire House in Mendham at 7 a.m. Republican candidate for [...]From the state Department of State:
Polling places in New Jersey will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on November 3. The New Jersey Division of Elections recommends that voters with flexible schedules visit polling places during off-peak hours between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Any voter in line [...]
Both Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican candidate for governor Chris Christie spun out web ads based off a New York Times story late last week in which the incumbent seemed to touch the "asset monetization" third rail and the challenger was described as backing off campaign promises.
Both say they were [...]
Alvin Lindsay Jr. retired in June as a teacher in the Atlantic City schools, where he mostly taught special education. He's now in a second career of sorts -- independent candidate for major elected offices.
Last year, Lindsay was one of four independent and third-party nominees for [...]
If you've requested a mail-in ballot but haven't sent it back yet, don't mail it now. Too late for that. Hand deliver it to your county board of elections by 8 p.m. tomorrow, or go to your polling place the regular way on Tuesday.
"It is important for voters who have'" [...]
The governor's race remains incredibly close in the final Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll of the fall campaign, with Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine narrowly ahead of Republican Chris Christie, 43% to 41%, and independent Chris Daggett at 8%.
The lead is statistically insignificant, as is the shift between the results [...]
Quinnipiac University's final pre-election poll suggests Republican Chris Christie has swung back into a narrow lead, 42% to Jon Corzine's 40%. Corzine had been ahead by 5 points in the previous Q-Poll, released last Wednesday.
Independent Chris Daggett is at 12% in the Quinnipiac results. Among Daggett supporters, 38' [...]
Today is the final day that applications can be filed with the state Department of the Treasury for homestead rebates or the 'senior freeze' program for 2008.
Eligible homeowners can file for homestead rebates by phone at the following toll-free number: 1-877-658-2972 or online at this site. Eligible tenants can [...]
Public Policy Polling has out its final pre-election poll, and it shows Republican Chris Christie building back some of the lead he's lost since the summer. Public Policy Polling -- a Democrat-leaning firm from North Carolina doing polling in New Jersey this year though it's not affiliated with any clients -- has [...]
It's Monday, Nov. 2nd, 2009 -- the eve of what's shaping up to be New Jersey's closest gubernatorial election since 1981. Today on the trail, Gov. Jon Corzine and his running mate are mostly focusing their aim on friendly zones in voter-rich North Jersey, while Republican Chris Christie and his' [...]
It's Sunday, Nov. 1st, 2009 -- meaning we've made it to November. Which shows that time flies whether you're having fun or not.
President Barack Obama visits New Jersey for two Democratic rallies. The first at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden at 1:15 p.m. The second is at the Prudential [...]Boo! Today is Halloween 2009. Here's your treat: Just three more days until the election.
Former Sen. Bill Bradley makes two campaign stops with Gov. Jon Corzine and running mate Loretta Weinberg, at the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Hamilton Square with 14th District Assembly candidates Wayne DeAngelo and Linda Greenstein [...]Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells announced this morning, at an event at Rutgers University, that more than 100,770 vote-by-mail ballots have been cast and received by county boards of election.
In all, county clerks have issued 179,142 vote-by-mail ballots, through yesterday, Wells said.
Voters can still vote by mail-in ballot, although [...]
Oodles of poll results keep flowing in the New Jersey governor's race, and they will through Monday. RealClear Politics says the average of the recent polls has Gov. Jon Corzine ahead of Chris Christie by 1.3 percentage points -- and that includes a peculiar Suffolk University poll that had Corzine [...]
Joshua Leinsdorf has this claim to fame, at least, among the 10 independent and third-party candidates running for governor: He's held an elected office before.
Leinsdorf, 64, earlier this year finished up three terms on the Princeton regional school board, covering 2000 to 2009. He also served on a community school [...]
New Jersey school children overwhelmingly 're-elected' Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in the 2009 gubernatorial New Jersey Mock Election, according to results announced Wednesday night.
Corzine had 47.15% of the vote. Republican Chris Christie had 31.75%, independent Chris Daggett 13.57% and seven other independent and third-party candidates 7.52%. (Independents Gary Steele [...]
It's Friday, Oct. 30th, 2009. Polling places open their curtains in 100 hours (adjusting for the switch the Daylight Standard Time this weekend -- fall back, gain an hour sleep!).
One day after being joined on the trail by former Gov. Christie Whitman and former Assembly Speaker Jack Collins, Republicans Chris' [...]Campaign-finance reports released today by the state Election Law Enforcement Commission show that Gov. Jon Corzine gave another $2.7 million of his own money to his re-election campaign earlier this week.
The checks -- $1.2 million on Monday and $1.5 million on Tuesday -- bring his contribution to his general election [...]
Gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Kaplan is a lifelong New Jerseyan and a long-time Libertarian.
Growing up, his family was in the retail business, owning a men's clothing store in Orange. He practice law briefly and been a commercial/industrial real estate broker for most of his professional career, and he owns his own [...]
Gov. Jon Corzine's campaign has for months been emphasizing his efforts to expand preschool in New Jersey public schools and criticizing Republican Chris Christie for likening such programs to babysitting during the GOP primary. But they've stepped up their emphasis even further this week, following remarks last week from Christie' [...]
Today is Thursday, Oct. 29th, 2009 -- and if you didn't know there were just five days left until Election Day, you'd certainly believe it after looking at the jam-packed schedules below of the candidates for governor and their running mates.
Independent candidate for governor Chris Daggett gives what his campaign [...]Independent Chris Daggett is back on the air with the closing-argument TV ad of his run for governor, again deploying the (sort of) look-alikes for Jon Corzine and Chris Daggett to use humor to cloak a critical message about his rivals and promote his tax plan.
Here's the 30-second version running [...]
Socialist Party USA gubernatorial candidate Greg Pason says he has the left wing of the political spectrum all to himself in this election. That isn't always the case, but the Socialist Workers Party and Green Party each don't have nominees for the governor this year, for the time in [...]
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