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FEMA Flood Map Update

Jun. 14 Big Government, Hurricane Sandy, Jersey Shore 3 comments

Report: New Flood Maps to Be Released On Monday

By Art Gallagher | MoreMonmouthMusings.com

BeachMiddletown Patch is reporting that FEMA will release new flood maps for Atlantic, Hudson, Monmouth and Ocean Counties on Monday, June 17.

As expected, the new ‘preliminary’ maps will result in less homes being located in ‘V’ zones than were so rated in the maps released by FEMA in December following Superstorm Sandy.  V zones are areas along coasts that are subject to inundation by the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event with additional hazards associated with storm-induced waves.

Many of the properties located in V zones in the December flood maps will be in ‘A’ zones in the maps being released next week, according to a statement by U.S. Senator Bob Menendez as quoted by Patch.

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Heard on the Belmar Boardwalk

May. 23 Bob Menendez, U.S. Senate 3 comments

Menendez Said What?!

By Art Gallagher | MoreMonmouthMusings.com

Menendez DancingThe boardwalk’s reconstruction began on Jan. 9. It required more than a half million screws, Mayor Matt Doherty said.

“I never thought I’d be so happy about a half million screws,” said Menendez, who noted Belmar plays a special role in the lives of the state’s residents. “We have preserved that New Jersey birthright.”

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Was Menendez Falsely Fingered?

May. 17 Bob Menendez, U.S. Senate 6 comments

By Art Gallagher | MoreMonmouthMusings.com

Bob MenendezThe FBI’s investigation into allegations that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez was provided prostitutes by his benefactor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, has hit a dead end. 

Now the feds are trying to find out who made the allegations, according to a report in The Washington Post.

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Menendez Spikes Thatcher Resolution?

Apr. 16 Bob Menendez, Foreign Policy, U.S. Senate 17 comments

REPORT: Embattled New Jersey Senator Allegedly Holding Up Senate Resolution Honoring Iron Lady

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Reid and Menendez PresserMultiple sources are reporting that Senator Bob Menendez (D-Dominican Republic) is holding up a vote on a resolution honoring the late Margaret Thatcher; he is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

A report from The Hill suggests the fight is ideological. Apparently, the GOP and Menendez’s committee can’t agree on the language. It doesn’t take much imagination to predict the possible points of contention. To be fair, Menendez did issue a gracious statement following her passing:

Margaret Thatcher was a dynamic force as an ally to the United States in winning the cold War and overcoming the despotism and repression suffered by hundreds of millions at the hands of Soviet communism. She was a persuasive, transformative leader who shaped world events with the power of her personality. A grocer’s daughter, she was known, affectionately and deservedly as “The Iron Lady. Margaret Thatcher’s life and legacy of leadership will endure for many generations to come. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and with the people of Great Britain and the world as we mourn her passing.”

Admirable though those sentiments might be, Save Jerseyans, this story is yet another sad example of why The New York Times called for Harry Reid to take away his gavel.

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Menendez at Issue in NH Race?

Apr. 09 U.S. Senate 8 comments

Report: Menendez Fundraising Email Surfaces in Granite State Senate Contest

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

MenendezBob Menendez remains at the center of his own donor flap, Save Jerseyans, but that apparently hasn’t stopped him from fundraising for other U.S. Senate Democrats.

WMUR-TV New Hampshire politics reporter James Pindell tweeted today that a Menendez email went out to supporters of incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen over the weekend. The kicker? Menendez reportedly said that Shaheen “shares” our “values.”

New Hampshire Republicans will have fun asking Shaheen which values, exactly, she shares with the scandal-plagued New Jerseyan. Shaheen faces reelection in 2014.

Menendez was already fertile attack territory for the Granite State GOP. Back in March, the New Hampshire GOP called on Senator Shaheen, who is also a member of Menendez’s Foreign Relations Committee, to return a $7,500 from the Senator’s New Millennium PAC.

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Allegations Taking Their Toll

Mar. 29 Bob Menendez 6 comments

New Polls Suggests Allegations Facing Menendez Substantially Affecting His Standing with the Public

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Menendez on TVHarper Polling released the results of a comprehensive survey Thursday afternoon, Save Jerseyans.

Most of its findings were unremarkable. Christie is crushing Buono, the Kean name still has currency in a GOP primary, New Jerseyans generally approve of the Sandy recovery efforts overseen by Governor Christie, etc. and so on.

The most interesting tidbit: 84% of respondents had “seen, read or heard anything in the news recently about Senator Robert Menendez” and, of that pool, 48% had a diminished opinion of him as a result.

Will any of this affect his career? Unlikely. Don’t look for justice on this earth! He’s not up for reelection until 2018. Who knows where we’ll be or what we’ll be talking about by then. What this poll does confirm for me is that it MATTERS when the media doesn’t do its job. Could the revelations and allegations concerning his relationship with Florida donor have impacted the 2012 race? We’ll never know for sure. The relevant point is that some folks in the Fourth Estate were determined never to find out. They know who they are, and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Click here to read the full poll results.

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Daily Caller Digs In

Mar. 23 Bob Menendez 9 comments

News Website Responsible for Breaking Menendez Travel/Prostitution Allegations Continues to Stand By Its Story

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Tucker CarlsonIn case you missed it this week, Save Jerseyans, The Daily Caller and its founder Tucker Carlson vociferously defended itself against reports that its reporting on Bob Menendez’s Dominican Republic vacations was based on bad information. Specifically, information that was allegedly paid for by someone/some entit(ies).

Tucker dug in and was pretty darn blunt about his position:

The Daily Caller never paid anyone, was never asked to pay anyone and of course never would pay anyone for this story.”

Click here to read the rest of the DC’s side of this story. I have a feeling this one’s not over yet…

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Bob Still Dodging Tough Questions

Mar. 19 Bob Menendez 5 comments

Menendez Runs from Another Journalist as Flight-Related Allegations Continue to Percolate

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

The lovely Celia Bigelow of Breitbart.com caught up with none other than Senator Bob Menendez at Penn Station last Thursday evening, Save Jerseyans. She asked a simple question when he disembarked from the train: “With the whole scandal and everything, why won’t you just come out and say where you were Easter Sunday 2012?”

But as the New Jersey press corps found out at January’s Chamber dinner in Washington, D.C., Hudson Bob is disinclined to answer tough questions:

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