Tuesday was primary day in New Jersey and for those looking for any seismic shift in the political winds, you won’t really find anything to analyse. The media wants to paint the story as the Tea Party against incumbents: Incumbents sweep New Jersey Congressional Primaries (NY Times) N.J. congressional incumbents win primary elections despite tea [...]
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May 11, 2010
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The Status Quo Reigns in West Orange
By jdfreivald in Election day, Elections, west orange95% of the districts are in, totaling 16,203 votes in the Council race. Here are the tallies. Rodolfo D. RODRIGUEZ 1,861 11.49% Jill TEKEL 1,100 6.79% Jerry GUARINO 3,125 19.29% Victor CIRILO 3,308 20.42% Joe KRAKOVIAK 2,810 17.34% Susan McCARTNEY 3,987 24.61% That’s McCartney 679 votes ahead of her partner, Vic Cirilo, who is 183 [...]
April 22, 2010
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NJ Voters Send a Message
By Dennis in Burlington County, Christopher Christie, Elections, NJEA, New Jersey Taxes, budget cuts, educationOn Tuesday voters sent a message loud and clear to the status quo education establishment in New Jersey. For too long in our state, education has been the primary driver for pushing up local taxes. The arguments are always the same (‘it’s for the kids’) and opponents have been branded as ‘anti-children’ should they have [...]
August 30, 2008
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Democrat Fowler – a low class act
By Dennis in Democrats, Elections, gustav, presidential electionsIt has always been pathetic the way the Hurrican Katrina situation was handled, before, during and after the tragedy. It was sad before that years of Democratic corruption siphoned millions of maintenance dollars from the levies. It was sad that a large numbers of citizens were living in near poverty in utter reliance on the [...]
February 18, 2008
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NJ Government Gone Wild – "The Soprano State"
By Dennis in Elections, local governmentI couldn’t help but borrow the Trentonian’s front page headline today as it is too good to pass up. The headline refers to a story about a book written by Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure entitled The Soprano State-New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption If the book is half as good as the article about it, [...]
February 12, 2008
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Corzine Toll Plan Affecting Senate Races
By Dennis in Corzine, Democrats, Elections, NJ Legislature, New Jersey Taxes, StateGotta love this… “Maybe if we had a more effective U.S. senator, the governor wouldn’t have to borrow $40 billion,” Pennachio said. I didn’t live in New Jersey under Christie Whitman’s administration, but apparently she beat up Democrat Bill Bradley during the Senate race in 1990 because he didn’t repudiate Gov. Florio’s tax hikes — [...]
February 5, 2008
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Can Obama pitch an upset in NJ?
By Dennis in Democrats, ElectionsThe last two days, the Obama folks were out in force at the train stations. Not sure what that means but one would normally expect the “machine” candidate to get their people out whipping up their voters. They were still working at 6:45 tonight in Trenton reminding people there was only one hour to go. [...]
February 5, 2008
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Sounds Lovely, But Exactly What Are You Talking About?
By Dennis in Democrats, Elections, federalI’m still on John Kerry’s mailing list, and today the Obama campaign used it to send the following email. When you read it, consider that this man is a Senator running for President, and that this is his outreach to the Democratic base. Hello Jake, When Michelle and I talked about my running for president, [...]
February 5, 2008
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A Historical Perspective on "Super Duper Tuesday"
By Dennis in Elections, history, primaries federalOne of my favorite podcasts ever — or broadcasts, for that matter — is called “My History Can Beat Up Your Politics”. Over at myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com, Bruce Carlson gives a historical perspective on everything from the role of Vice President Cheney to the importance of the Iowa Caucus to the rumblings of war against Iran. He’s [...]