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 [...]
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. [...]
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' [...]
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.
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.
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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
*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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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' [...]
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' [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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%. [...]
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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N.J. Governor-elect Christie tells local officials to expect 'a continued period of pain'
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Tell Senator Menendez. He has an online poll 
Another poll another result.
