Quinnipiac says it isn’t close. According to the first post-Labor Day public polling results, garnered from interviews with 875 “likely” New Jersey voters, Democrat Phil Murphy leads Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno by 25-points (58 – 33) percent. Guadagno wins Republicans by a 78 – 16 margin. Murphy wins every other category including white men […]
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy recently laid out his proposed plan for a series of costly tax hikes. Under Murphy’s plan, taxes would rise by $1.3 billion, according to estimates provided by campaign officials. Murphy proposes raising the personal income tax, legalizing and taxing the sale of marijuana, and changing the way personal and corporate […]
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The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) released a study this week — Garden State Gotcha: How Opponents of Citizenship Verification for Voting Are Putting New Jersey’s Noncitizens at Risk of Deportation — and the results are eye-opening, Save Jerseyans, particularly as New Jersey voters prepare to elect a new governor. PILF conducted a six-month review of New Jersey counties’ voter […]
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NEWARK — A former senior policy advisor for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said he wasn’t trying to conceal what he was doing when he used his personal email account to discuss visa applications sought by Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen. On the witness stand in U.S. District Judge William H. Walls’ fourth-floor courtroom Tuesday morning, […]
Median household incomes were higher in 2016 than ever before, surpassing a record set nearly two-decades ago in 1999, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Those in America’s middle class earned an average of $59,039 in 2016, up nearly $1,000 from the 1999 high of $58,655. The figures for 2016 mark the second […]
Posted with permission from The Dan Cirucci Blog — People keep asking us about the upcoming New Jersey statewide election. And we’re not quite sure how to respond. It’s almost like we want to say: There’s an election coming up in New Jersey, really? Because the last time New Jersey had a gubernatorial election with a […]
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TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appeared together in New Jersey last week at a private fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association — during which they touted Republican gubernatorial nominee Kim Guadagno, an RGA spokesman confirmed. Christie and Walker — longtime friends, both former RGA chairmen, and former rivals in last […]
A 90-day state pilot program that allows Ocean County residents who either purposely or inadvertently received unwarranted Medicaid benefits a chance to withdraw from the program and avoid criminal prosecution starts on Tuesday. The program, launched by the Office of the State Comptroller, comes in the wake of 26 arrests in Lakewood on fraud charges. […]
Faith-based groups – Christian nonprofits, specifically – have been busy bees of late, providing more aid to hurricane victims than even FEMA, the federal agency that’s supposed to swoop to the scenes of natural disasters, assess the situation and speed the recovery and rebuilding process. Just goes to show: Where charity ex-ists, government is not […]
It is unjustifiable to ever use public money in the democratic election process. That is why, in 2007, our State Senate and Assembly unanimously approved bill S222 designed to bar donations from public institutions the legislation to then-Governor Corzine for his consideration. One of those “Yea” votes came from my opponent in this November’s election, […]
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After a surprisingly disappointing Election 2016 result, North Arlington Republicans opened their new headquarters Friday night with plenty of fanfare. The strength of the local party always plays a crucial role in election outcomes for a town where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-1. This year? Control of the council in the smallish southern Bergen County community is […]
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NEWARK — On the third day of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s federal bribery trial, a former senior policy advisor for the senator testified he helped advocate for tourist visas for two of his co-defendant’s three foreign girlfriends, and one of the women’s sisters. When initial applications for two of the women were denied, Mark Lopes […]
TRENTON — Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, the Republican nominee in this year’s race to succeed her boss, Chris Christie, as New Jersey’s governor, has released a sweeping plan to reform ethics laws and increase transparency in a state long plagued by tales of political corruption. Among Guadagno’s ideas: pushing for term limits for elected officials, […]
Phil Murphy remains the favorite to succeed Chris Christie in January, Save Jerseyans. The Democrat statewide candidate usually is. Let’s see how far he’s out in front after Labor Day. How he got the Democrat nomination is therefore a lot more interesting than anything he does — or fails to do — between now and […]
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16-years ago, New Jersey lost 746 of its own when Islamic terrorists attacked New York City, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, cousins, clergymen, coaches, bosses, friends, fiances, mentors, heroes and humanitarians. All brutally murdered for the “crime” of living free. In fact, 539 New Jerseyans remain designated as […]
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You have to admire the loyalty which Cory Booker (D-Twitter) has shown to his ally Bob Menendez, Save Jerseyans. I guess? Even one MSNBC host was forced to admit that the case against the indicted Democrat Senator is “overwhelming” as his trial got underway in Newark this week, but Booker sat in the front row […]
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