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Category: Jersey Shore

No Beach for Buono

May. 24 Ashbritt Contract, Barbara Buono, Election 2013, Hurricane Sandy, Jersey Shore, Memorial Day 2 comments

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Greeting from the Jersey ShoreChris Christie’s basking in the glory (albeit while wearing a rain poncho) of a reopened Jersey Shore this holiday weekend. The media coverage is intense and, frankly, the optics are pretty wonderful for an incumbent facing reelection in less than six months.

His challenger’s choice was a little bit less orthodox for the first day of the Shore’s biggest weekend. Barbara Buono spent her Friday in Spotswood, over 30 miles from Belmar’s beaches, accepting the endorsement of an obscure mayor.

I can appreciate the challenge associated with stealing the spotlight from Chris Christie. But to avoid the Shore altogether? You’re telling me not one TV station or newspaper would’ve worked her into the story had she decided to stroll the Belmar, Seaside Heights, Atlantic City or Ocean City boardwalks? And let’s face it… endorsements don’t matter very much. If you’re a GOP’er who lands a boatload of Dem nods? Sure. Picking up one Republican high five from the leader of a city of about 8,000 (in your home county, by the way) isn’t worth the trade off in my humble opinion.

Maybe this strange scheduling is deliberate; she’d likely have to answer some awkward questions. Buono’s own Sandy record is… how should we put this?… confused. She’s said that Christie “did his job” following the epic Hurricane rocked the Jersey Shore and portions of North Jersey while also complaining that Christie was too focused on the storm’s aftermath. Her most substantive contribution to the larger Sandy story was participating in an embarrassingly partisan Ashbritt contract hearing that – surprise! – ultimately went nowhere. 

I’m not going to lie: it’s pretty pathetic, Save Jerseyans. Like a bad tan line from a tan that you’re never going to get, bad weather or not, a full hour away in Spotswood.

Which Jersey Shore Beaches are Open?

May. 24 Jersey Shore 4 comments

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

It’s easy enough to figure out, Save Jerseyans.

Call your favorite Jersey Shore town’s municipal hall, tourism division or lifeguard HQ. Check to see if they have an active FB page. Or, if you’re so inclined, The New York Times launched a pretty cool interactive map last week that indicates, town-by-town, whether your favorite Jersey Shore resort’s beaches are “open for business” over the Memorial Day Weekend holiday. A few beaches still aren’t ready post-Sandy but, despite those very few exceptions, the vast majority of New Jersey’s sands will accommodate tourists as they always have in years past.

Excitement is building at both ends of the G.S. Parkway despite a sour weather forecast. For many weeks now, Governor Christie and Lt. Governor Guadagno have been touring Shore points to raise awareness; the Big Guy appeared on NBC’s Today Show on Friday morning to formally reopen the rebuilt Seaside Heights Boardwalk:

Your Blogger-in-Chief will naturally be at the Shore this weekend, too…

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Wasting Away Again in Christieville

May. 23 Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Chris Christie, Jersey Shore, South Jersey 3 comments

VIDEO: Christie Cuts Ribbon at Margaritaville; Repledges Support for Atlantic City Revitalization

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Enjoy, Parrotheads:

For all things A.C., Save Jerseyans, visit our archives.

Christie Angers Global Warming Cultists

May. 22 Chris Christie, Environmentalism, Hurricane Sandy, Jersey Shore, Ocean County 14 comments

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Planet EarthYou may’ve missed this the other day, Save Jerseyans, but some WNYC reporter asked Chris Christie at his Lavallette presser whether NJ Transit had been under-prepared for climate change ahead of Superstorm Sandy. Yes, you read that correctly. Apparently the reporter had never ridden NJ Transit before or she’d know that its problems predate the global warming fad!

Virtually everyone in the country, however, knows that the Governor of New Jersey has a very low tolerance for dumb questions; he responded NO to the WNYC question, “cause I don’t think there’s been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change…”

Well, first of all, I don’t agree with the premise of your question because I don’t think there’s been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change,” Christie said, as residents and officials from Lavallette clapped. “But I would absolutely expect that that’s exactly what WNYC would say, because you know liberal public radio always has an agenda. And so since I disagree with the premise of your question I don’t feel like I have to answer the rest of it.” (You can hear the full audio at the bottom of this post.)”

Fair enough! But the global warming cultists won’t tolerate dissent; they waited all of 5 seconds before injecting politics into this week’s tornado disaster in Oklahoma. Daily Beast contributor Michael Tomasky heard about the exchange and was positively apoplectic, accusing Christie of having “joined the yahoos” for simply stating the obvious… that there’s no one (including him) can cite specific evidence that Hurricane Sandy had anything whatsoever to do with climate change. Tomasky nevertheless lamented Chris Christie’s lost opportunity to move the GOP in a “sane” direction.

Here’s the only truly “sane” position in this tired debate, Save Jerseyans: we don’t know. Climate change science remains unsettled. And most of the original “hard” evidence upon which contemporary global warming theory is based was apparently fabricated.

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Kryillos Confident, Working It Hard

May. 20 Election 2013, Joe Kyrillos, Monmouth County, State Senate 1 comment

By Art Gallagher | MoreMonmouthMusings.com

Kyrillos campaigningState Senator Joe Kyrillos said he won the U.S. Senate primary without the Bayshore Tea Party support, “by the largest margin in half a century,” and that he is confident that 13th legislative district Republicans will nominate him for another term in the June 4th primary election.

“We’re working hard,” Kyrillos said of himself and his running mates, “probably harder than we need to, but it is energizing and gratifying to meet with so many constituents.”

Kyrillos left the Golden, Arnone and DiMaso Armed Forces Day ‘friend raiser’ yesterday to hit the streets of Atlantic Highlands with Mayor Fred Rast.

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Serving Party? Or New Jersey?

May. 20 Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Cape May County, Election 2013, Frank Balles, Hurricane Sandy, Jeff Van Drew, Jersey Shore, Jim Whelan, South Jersey, State Senate, Steve Sweeney 4 comments

OPINION: Van Drew And Whelan Need To Call Out Sweeney Over Holding Up Sandy Recovery

By Irwin M. Fletcher | The Save Jersey Blog

Democratic State Senator Jim Whelan (D-Atlantic City)

Democratic State Senator Jim Whelan (D-Atlantic City)

Folks, as you may’ve picked up by now, I am not of fan of how Steve Sweeney threw Sandy recovery under the bus for political reasons.

And as ticked as I am at Sen. Sweeney for kicking hurricane victims while they are down, I’m getting just as annoyed with the Jersey Shore’s Democratic state senators, two men who’ve had fantastic access to Sweeney’s ear yet haven’t said a word in their constituents’ defense.

Jeff Van Drew and Jim Whelan represent two districts that got hit very hard by Superstorm Sandy. Their districts are still rebuilding. Businesses are still working on opening their doors, hopefully in time for Memorial Day Weekend but in many cases that’s an unrealistic aspiration. Damaged houses are waiting to become homes again once. People are scared that the summer season will be a total bust, and that their livelihoods will go bust, too.

Yet both Whelan and Van Drew haven’t made a single peep, criticism, or call for action. I guess you can compliment Van Drew and Whelan for their party loyalty if you value such a thing since they’ve put the Democratic Party ahead of their constituents trying to rebuild.

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The Right To Bare Arms, And Then Some

May. 19 Cultural Issues, Jersey Shore 2 comments

By Art Gallagher | MoreMonmouthMusings.com

Adam and EveThe New York City Police Department has reminded its 34,000 officers than women appearing in public “simply exposing their breasts” have committed no crime, according to a report in The New York Times.

New York’s highest court decided in 1992 the law which prohibited females exposing their breasts below the top of the areola violated the equal protection clauses of the Federal and New York Constitutions.  The equal protection clause is part of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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Save Jersey’s Point Pleasant Stroll

May. 18 Jersey Shore, Ocean County 3 comments

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Point Pleasant Beach BoardwalkWell, Save Jerseyans, we had a great time at the NJYRF Convention today at beautiful Point Pleasant Beach. You missed out if you slept in! The skies were gray but spirits were high as enthused 20- and 30-something New Jersey Republicans looked forward to a productive general campaign season over the coming months.

We couldn’t leave town before checking out the Jersey Shore resort’s new $2 million boardwalk (a low estimate, as it turned out), so Brian McGovern, Kristen Luciani, Nicole Sanders and I took a stroll on the boards and ordered up some satisfactorily greasy Shore food.

All in all the progress since October ’12 is pretty remarkable, though there are naturally still many visible signs of Sandy damage everywhere you turn. Small public works and contractor crews can be seen busily tinkering up and down the boardwalk in an attempt to complete ramps, repair storefronts and wire lights before Memorial Day Weekend arrives.

It’s a damn shame the Trenton Dems are playing politics with it! Nothing is sacred to those people, but from what we could tell, the Jersey Shore is definitely “open for business” in spite of the partisan ridiculousness and our beach communities seem ready to accomodate an influx of visitors (and their tourist dollars) in six days’ time. Hallelujah! Just don’t expect the exact same Jersey Shore that your knew growing up; for example, the new Point Pleasant boardwalk utilizes different, stronger materials. Think of it as a metaphor for the entire post-Sandy experience.