The state is facing a staggering budget gap of around $10B dollars and Democrats in the legislature want to add almost $18M in more spending! Here is the story from Assemblyman Rible.
Assemblyman Dave Rible, R-Monmouth and a member of the Law and Public Safety Committee, said the [...]
A new Rasmussen poll on healthcare shows that support for the Democrat’s plan for reforming (strike that) destroying our healthcare system has reach a new low.
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level [...]
Assemblyman Joe Cryan (D-Union) has been elected Majority Leader. He replaces Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman [...]
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 [...]
Matt Rooney | November 21, 2009AP: WASHINGTON – Invoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing [...]
So, is it really going to be Democrats who walk away from the altar? Really?
After the long and romantic courtship of the state's gay and lesbian electorate. After the invites [...]
The likely next Senate President was quoted yesterday saying that now is not the time to drive marriage equality through the legislature. The remark absolutely was a surprise.
According to Politico, Democrats are becoming increasingly alarmed about their standing with independents. In the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections, Republicans Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie both won independents by roughly a 2:1 margin.
Independents now also have an extremely unfavorable view of this Congress. [...]
The pinch hitting history: Seven years ago. Lautenberg for Torricelli. Torricelli resigns in scandal 31 days before the election. State law says a candidate must withdraw 51 days before an election in order for a new candidate to be named. Democrats take it to the NJ Supreme Court and 51 [...]
From Andrew Malcolm at the Los Angeles Times:
Wow, for somebody who's supposed to be such a political joke, an Arctic ditz and eminently dismissable as a serious anything except maybe a stay-at-home hockey mom, Sarah Palin is sure drawing an awful lot of attention from Democrats and eager critics.
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The latest Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll contains a piece of information that probably sent Jon Corzine & Co. to the locker room. New Jersey 101.5 FM radio's audience considers itself to be mostly politically independent -- 29 percent are Democrats and 18 percent Republican. In [...]
