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• HALFACRE TO HOLT: “JOIN ME IN A CALL FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO GLOBAL WARMING SCANDAL”

  Republican Congressional candidate calls on Holt to condemn fellow scientists for altering data and suppressing opposing views
  
  Fair Haven Mayor Michael Halfacre, NJ-12 Republican Congressional candidate, today called on his opponent, Rush Holt, to call for Congressional hearings into the revelations that scientists at England’s University of East [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• Most Prefer "Merry Christmas" Over "Happy Holidays"

  From Rasmussen Reports:
  
  Amidst all the holiday shopping craziness, most Americans at this time of year want to see holiday signs that wish them a "Merry Christmas."
  
  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of adults prefer "Merry Christmas," while 22% like "Happy" [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:35pm EST
  

• Happy Thanksgiving

  America has much for which to be thankful. The unequaled freedom enjoyed by our citizens has provided a harvest of plenty to this nation throughout its history. In keeping with America's heritage, one day each year is set aside for giving thanks to god for all of His blessings. On [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

• Governor-Elect Chris Christie Announces Additional Transition New Jersey Sub-Committee Members

  TRENTON, NJ – Governor-Elect Chris Christie announced today additional members of the Transition New Jersey sub-committees, including Military and Veterans Affairs, State, Banking and Insurance, Community Affairs, Gaming, Sports and Entertainment, Agriculture and Authorities. These sub-committees will conduct a top to bottom review of their respective government department and agency.
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:08pm EST
  

• Aggravation Taxes

  Some MMM readers know that I don't make my living as a blogger. It would be nice, maybe someday.
  
  For the meantime I am a small business owner in New Jersey. My principle business is leasing commercial vehicles to other small businesses. I am also a used vehicle dealer' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:23am EST
  

• Climategate: Falsified Research Scandal Rocks the UK

  Written by Robert Romano
  Tuesday, 24 November 2009 08:24
  "[T]he criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability."--Karl Popper, "Science as Falsification," 1963.
  Karl Popper must be rolling over in his grave.
  
  As world leaders prepare to meet in [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:32pm EST
  

• Global Warming Hoax Exposed

  By Alan Caruba
  
  The revelations that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) doctored the data supporting the global warming claims of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) means that EVERYTHING attributed to or based upon “global warming” is invalid.
  
  It [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  

• Sarlo to Baroni: "That's Bulls**t Bill"

  Senator Paul Sarlo, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Mayor of Wood Ridge lost his cool today when he couldn't get one of his cronies confirmed for a third government paycheck, according to Bob Ingle.
  
  Ingle quotes the double dipping Sarlo with at least four "bullsh**ts", one' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:46pm EST
  

• Governor-Elect Chris Christie Announces Additional Transition New Jersey Sub-Committee Members

  TRENTON, NJ – Governor-Elect Chris Christie announced today additional members of the Transition New Jersey sub-committees, including Corrections and Homeland Security, Energy and Utilities, Environmental Protection, Healthcare, Human Services and Children and Families, Law and Public Safety and Transportation. These sub-committees will conduct a top to bottom review of their [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:24pm EST
  

• Kyrillos: Trenton Must Listen to Pleas of Discouraged Business Owners

  Senator Joe Kyrillos, senior Republican on the Senate Economic Growth Committee, noted the New Jersey Business and Industry Association’s annual survey of current economic conditions shows business owners don’t believe that recovery will come in 2010. More importantly, survey respondents gave “record low marks to New Jersey as a place [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:55pm EST
  

• Quinnipiac: NJ Voters Want Christie To Cut Spending

  New Jersey voters support 75 - 21 percent, including 70 - 26 percent among Democrats, a wage freeze for state workers to help balance the state budget, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today, three weeks after Christopher Christie toppled Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine. A wage freeze wins 75 [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:55am EST
  

• Governor-Elect Chris Christie Announces Transition New Jersey Sub-Committee Members and Transition Counsel

  TRENTON, NJ – Governor-Elect Chris Christie announced today members of the Transition Counsel, as well as members of the Economic Development and Growth, Education, Treasury, Labor and Workforce Development and the Office of the Governor Transition Sub-Committees. These sub-committees will conduct a top to bottom review of their respective government [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:49pm EST
  

• Colts Neck Longhorn Escapes To Marlboro

  The Asbury Park Press is reporting that three Texas Longhorn steer escaped from a Colts Neck farm and headed to Marlboro.
  
  Marlboro police put down two of the steer but haven't found the third. Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornick has not ruled out lassoing the cow himself.[...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:18am EST
  

• No Ruling Out Hornik

  Marlboro Mayor Jon Hornik told Politickernj that Democratic party members have asked him if he would be consider running for governor in 2013. He said he hasn't ruled it out, nor has he ruled out challenging 12th district Senator Jen Beck.
  
  The Democratic mayor attributes his success in' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:24am EST
  

• A Letter To President Obama

  November 9, 2009
  
  
  President Barack Obama
  The White House
  1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
  Washington, D.C. 20500
  
  Dear President Obama:
  
  On September 11, 2001, the entire world watched as 19 men hijacked four commercial airliners, attacking passengers and killing crew members, and then turned the fully-fueled [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

• 10 Things You Should Know About Harry Reid’s Government-Run Health Care Experiment

  RNC Research:
  
  1. $493 Billion In Tax Increases On Health Insurance, Medical Innovation, Payroll And Small Businesses Would Pay For The Bill. (Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)
  
  2. Americans Won’t See Benefits Of This Health Care Experiment Until 2014, But They Start Paying [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:44am EST
  

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:58am EST
  

• Guidelines Push Back Age For Cervical Cancer Screenings

  The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has issued new guidelines for PAP smears, saying that women should delay their first test until age 21, and be tested less often than in the past, according to a report in the New York Times.
  
  "Arriving on the heels of" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• Christie: "One way of another, change is coming."

  N.J. Governor-elect Christie tells local officials to expect 'a continued period of pain'
  
  The era error of "What's in it for me" is over. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:55am EST
  

• Those Boobs In Washington

  
  By Grace Cangemi
  
  I can’t remember the last time I was this angry. The federal government, those folks that want to take over my “health care” says I should wait to get a mammogram. They have, with this guideline, begun the first step in denying [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:47pm EST
  

• Senate Health Care Bill Will Bust the Budget and Hurt Patients

  Washington, D.C., November 18, 2009—The Senate health reform proposal released today by Majority Leader Harry Reid contains no mechanisms that are likely to reduce the annual rate of health care cost inflation, but could jeopardize patient care, according to analysts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Despite claims to the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:20pm EST
  

• Phatom Congressional Districts Getting Stimulus Dollars

  The phantom congressional district scandal that has been in the news the last couple of days is growing.
  
  Watchdog.org is reporting that there are 440 phantom districts throughout the country that have somehow received $6.4 billion to stimulus slush, including 18 districts in New Jersey.[...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:18pm EST
  

• Corzine: The gift that keeps on giving?

  Rumors are running rampant that Frank Lautenberg will resign his U.S. Senate seat and that Jon Corzine will resign as governor to go back to the Senate. All this would have to happen before Chris Christie is sworn in as governor on January 19, 2010.
  
  If such a scenario [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:28am EST
  

• Tolls On A Turkey Path

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:35pm EST
  

• Christie Asks Corzine To Take Urgent Action With Respect To The Budget

  Governor Elect Chris Christie sent the following letter to Governor Corzine today:
  
  
  November 16, 2009
  
  Honorable Jon Corzine
  Governor
  State of New Jersey
  State House
  Post Office Box One
  Trenton, NJ 08625-0001
  
  Re: URGENT ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:47pm EST
  

• Rible Takes Name Out Of Consideration For Sheriff

  
  Assemblyman Dave Rible(R-11), the newly elected Minority Whip, has informed Lieutenant Governor Elect Kim Guadagno and Monmouth County GOP Chairman Joe Oxley that he prefers not to be considered as Guadagno's replacement as Monmouth County Sheriff.
  
  Rible told MoreMonmouthMusings that he believes he can do' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:58pm EST
  

• Holt and Pelosi: Perfect Together

  
  Photo: Mike Dill/For The Times of Trenton
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gerard A. Compito, MD, Princeton Radiology Associates, Representative Rush Holt and David C. Youmans, MD, Chairman UMCP Department of Radiology take a tour of the University Medical Center at Princeton where Pelosi spoke about [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:52am EST
  

• Tragedy At Fort Hood

  
  By Allen West, first published at Red County on November 8, 2009
  
  This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  

• Bloggers: Rock Stars of the '60s and Bruce?

  
  
  In a guest column at InTheLobby, Richard A. Lee, Communication Director of the Hall Institute of Public Policy-NJ and a former journalist, argues that songwriters of the sixties were the alternative media of the day. They were raising issues and questions ahead of [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:05pm EST
  

• Halfacre Takes Holt To Task For Supporting ACORN

  OUT OF TOUCH HOLT CONTINUES TO DEFEND ACORN
  
  Halfacre:”172 Democratic Congressman voted for something that was unconstitutional??”
  
  Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre, a Republican Congressional candidate in NJ-12 in 2010, today took Representative Rush Holt to task for his continued support of controversial community-action group ACORN, calling the [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:36pm EST
  

• Rasmussen: 60% in NJ Say Most Christie Supports Were Voting Against Corzine

  From Rasmussen Reports:
  
  Sixty percent (60%) of New Jersey voters say most of Republican Chris Christie’s winning support last week came from those who were voting against his opponent, incumbent Democratic Governor Jon Corzine.
  
  A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Garden State finds that [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:19am EST
  

• Governor-Elect Christie Announces Chairs of Transition Task Force on Budget and Taxes

  Trenton, NJ – Governor-Elect Chris Christie today named two budget and fiscal experts to chair a special Transition Task Force on Budget and Taxes and asked them to get to work immediately on developing recommendations to help address New Jersey’s fiscal challenges.
  
  The Governor-Elect named Richard H. Bagger [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:37pm EST
  

• Governor-Elect Chris Christie Announces Transition New Jersey Leadership Team

  Trenton, NJ – Today, Governor-Elect Chris Christie announced his Transition New Jersey Leadership Team, which is being led by former Attorney General David Samson. The Transition Team is made of bi-partisan leaders in both the public and private sector who will bring their combined management experience, knowledge and know-how to [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  

• Journalists, Bloggers and Reporters Need To Be More Demanding With Public Pollsters

  By Adam Geller, National Research Inc.
  
  
  I’d like to contribute a few thoughts on the performance of the public polls during the recently concluded New Jersey Gubernatorial race. On this topic, I bring a unique perspective, as the pollster for the Christie campaign, and I’d like to [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:53am EST
  

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

• Do You Support Health Care Reform?

  Tell Senator Menendez. He has an online poll here. [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:06pm EST
  

• Impact of Election on Monmouth County Politics

  *With the return of the Monmouth County Freeholder Board to GOP control, the smart money is betting against Deputy Freeholder Director John D'Amico seeking re-election in 2010. D'Amico wants to be in charge. That is not likely ever to happen.
  
  D'Amico's seat and that of Rob Clifton are up [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:56pm EST
  

• Christie Meets With Government and Business Leaders At The Shore

  Governor Elect Chris Christie and Lieutenant Governor Elect Kim Guadagno visited with Ocean County Mayors and Monmouth County business owners yesterday.
  
  In his meeting with the Mayors, Christie reaffirmed his committment to "gut COAH" and to reform the culture of DEP, according to the Asbury Park Press.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:10am EST
  

• WE Did It.

  Monmouth and Ocean county voters made the difference in electing Governor-elect Christie.
  
  Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray has a geographical analysis of the election results at InTheLobby.
  
  Here's what Murray has to say about Monmouth and Ocean:
  
  What the heck happened in Monmouth and Ocean? Let’s' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:52am EST
  

• Dispatches from San Juan.

  A Road Map for Republican Victory.
  
  By the blogger known as Teddy Roosevelt
  
  
  The Republican Party has been fighting with itself trying to decide which road leads back to power. Is it the road to the right or the road down the so called middle? Can a [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:32pm EST
  

• Pallone Is Vulnerable. Will He Face A Credible Challenge?

  
  
  For better than a decade, the GOP has given Frank Pallone a free pass back to Congress because he couldn't be beat.
  
  Now, despite his $4 million war chest, he can be beat.
  
  As one of the prime sponsors of Obamacare, Pallone' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• TOM KEAN CALLS ON GOVERNOR CORZINE TO IMPOUND UNSPENT FUNDS

  Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean today called on Governor Jon Corzine to immediately impound all unspent funds. This year’s budget is running almost $1 billion behind in anticipated revenues. A projection by the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services (OLS) estimates the structural budget deficit for FY 2011 to be almost [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:42am EST
  

• Congressional House Calls

  A Message from the NJ Tea Party Coalition:
  
  Patriots,
  
  Congress will vote on Healthcare Reform this week. Today, we have sent 2 busloads to Washington, DC for a "Congressional House Call"
  
  If you were unable to attend the trip to Washington, please consider making a “Congressional [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:23am EST
  

• The Best "Terrible" Campaign In History

  How does a Republican beat a Democratic incumbent who can outspend him/her 4-1, in a deep blue state?
  
  Even as they were announcing his unpredictable early victory last night, pundits were still being critical of the Christie campaign.
  
  "Terrible, awful, not pretty, etc." is how many continue to [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  

• Sweet Victory

  
  After a long and celebratory night, waking up this morning I know I am not alone in feeling a sense of optimism that I haven't felt in quite some time.
  
  Congratulations and thank you to Chris Christie, his family, and his team.
  
  There's lots [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:01am EST
  

• Shameless and Desperate

  Politickernj is reporting that the NJ Democratic State Committee is still making robo calls for Daggett today.
  
  Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll (R-Morris Twp.) said he received one at his home within the last hour.
  
  "I just got one of those pro-Daggett calls from the DSC," said Carroll. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:44am EST
  

• Dems Admit To Making Dagget Robo Calls To Somerset County Voters

  The New Jersey State Democratic Committee has confirmed to Politickernj that they paid for Robocalls urging Somerset County voters to vote for Independent candidate Chris Daggett.
  
  The story, first reported here at MoreMonmouthMusings, has become national news. Already MSNBC, The National Review, BigGovernment.com (the folks [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:13pm EST
  

• Speaking of influence....

  ...the article that Tommy DeSeno and I wrote about the gubernatorial race is featured on FoxNews.com.
  
  And BigGovernment.com credited MoreMonmouthMusings with breaking the story of the Daggett robo calls paid for by the NJ State Democratic Committee.
  
  No joke.
  
  None of that matters if Christie [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  

• It's Over: CHRISTIE WINS!

  
  Despite the fact that the voting machines have not opened, that the opinion polls are all over the place, and despite the fact that Monmouth University's Patrick Murray reports that mail-in ballots are coming in predominantly from areas that are predictably pro-Corzine, the editorial board of' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  

• Survey USA-WABC:Christie 45%, Corzie 42%, Daggett 10%

  Another poll another result.
  
  Safe bet...Tuesday will be a late night. [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  

• Monmouth-Gannett: Slight Shift Back to Corzine

  A Monmouth-Gannett poll released today shows the gubernatorial race shifting back to Corzine, 43%-41% over Chris Christie, with Independent Chris Daggett stuck at 8%.
  
  Monmouth's poll released yesterday had Christie with a 1% lead.
  
  This morning's Quinnipiac poll has Christie up 2%, a shift from last week's' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:19pm EST
  

• A Message From Steve Lonegan

  Released first to Save Jersey.
  
  A time for choosing
  
  It's been a long year. Many conservatives have been confused about what to do in the race for Governor of New Jersey. Some establishment Republicans didn't help matters with things they did or didn't do.
  
  But that's' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:20am EST
  

• Quinnipiac Poll: Race Swings Back To Christie

  A Quinnipiac poll released this morning has Chris Christie defeating Jon Corzine in tomorrow's election by 2 points, 42% to 40%, with Independent Chris Daggett with 12%.
  
  Last week Quinnipiac had Corzine up by 5%.
  
  Monmouth/Gannett is expected to release the results of their weekend polling early [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:05am EST
  

• A Message From Bret Schundler

  In Tuesday's election for Governor, I'd like to encourage you to vote for Chris Christie.
  
  Please also encourage others to vote for him.
  
  When I was the Mayor of Jersey City, I spent years fighting to pass legislation that would bring full private and public school' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:48am EST
  

• A “Daggett” To Chris Christie’s Heart?

  By Tommy DeSeno and Art Gallagher
  
  What do they call it in New Jersey when 44 politicians are arrested for corruption at the same time? Thursday. Jersey politics are so dirty it can make a Chicagoan wince.
  
  With public affairs in such sorry shape, the Garden [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:17am EST
  

• NJ Democratic State Committee Paying for Daggett Robo Calls

  UPDATE: The Star Ledger also has this story at NJ.com including a recording of the phone call, complete with the New Jersey State Democratic Committee's address in the disclosure.
  
  
  New Jersey voters are reporting getting phone calls echoing Chris Daggett's TV commercials, slamming Chris Christie and urging [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 3:41pm EST
  

• Christie's Closing Statement: Welcome Back New Jersey

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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:15pm EST
  

• Monmouth- Gannett: Christie 43%, Corzine 42%, Daggett 8%

  UPDATED 12:05 PM
  
  A survey of 1,041 likely New Jersey voters taken Wednesday October 28 through Friday October 30 by the Monmouth University polling institute shows the New Jersey gubernatorial race in a virtual dead heat: Christie 43%, Corzine 42% and Daggett fading back to single digits at 8%.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:38am EST
  

• 1961: Kennedy-Hughes; 2009: Obama-Corzine?

  By Alan Steinberg, Originally published at Politickernj
  
  Almost exactly 48 years ago, November 2, 1961, five days before the 1961 New Jersey gubernatorial election, President John F. Kennedy spoke at a rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate, former Superior Court Judge Richard J. Hughes at the Trenton War Memorial. [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:34am EST