Governor Fields Questions About Post-Sandy Relief at Latest Town Hall (via NJSpotlight)
Gov. Chris Christie heard more tales of woe from people still struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy at his latest town hall meeting yesterday. It was the sixth Q&A he’s held in Belmar, as well as the sixth town hall he’s held since the Bridgegate…
Christie confirms cooperation on Bridgegate review by his chosen attorney (via NJ.com)
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s office today confirmed a published report that an internal investigation by an attorney hired by New Jersey is the result of a “comprehensive and exhaustive” review and will give “a full airing of what happened…
Powerful nor’easter likely to deal NJ a glancing blow, spring arrives afterwards? (via NJ.com)
The good news is it could be worse. While a monster of a nor’easter is expected to develop early this week, recent forecast data suggests the storm will remain far enough off the East Coast to spare New Jersey from its worst impacts. “It looks like…
Transcript:
Audience Member: You look better in person than you do on TV.
Governor Christie: God bless you, you want to come home for dinner tonight?
(Laughter)
Audience Member: On that very subject —
Governor Christie: Yes.
Audience Member: — you mention that you’re not a regular guy, you can’t just go out and pick up your dry cleaning.
Posted: March 21st, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Bridgegate, Chris Christie | Tags: Bridgegate, Bridget Ann Kelly, Chris Christie, Flemington, Town Hall Meeting | Comments Off on Christie gets a Bridgegate question
Bob Menendez is banned from Russia (via NJ.com)
Hopefully, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez had no plans to summer in Moscow this year as he’s been banned from Russia. Menendez was one of six federal lawmakers who along with a number of advisors to President Obama, were banned from Russia in retaliation for…
By Greg Kelly
Friday, March 21
• Bobby Bandiera at Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Used Book Sale (Colts Neck) – MORE INFO
• The Odd Couple at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
• Middletown’s Got Talent! – MORE INFO
• Monmouth County Teen Arts Festival at BCC (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• My Fair Lady at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
• Free Tax Preparation Help (Wall Twp, Shrewsbury, Manalapan) – MORE INFO
Highlands St. Patrick’s Parade
• Open House Wine Tasting/Making (Eatontown) – MORE INFO
• Free Tax Preparation Help (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• Date of a Lifetime at NJ Repertory Theater (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• Sylvia at First Ave Playhouse (Atlantic Highlands) – MORE INFO
Posted: March 19th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County | Tags: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County, Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend | Comments Off on Greg’s List: Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend
Attorney General to State Police: Stop photographing protesters at Chris Christie town halls (via NJ.com)
TRENTON — The acting state attorney general and the State Police superintendent today ordered the State Police to stop photographing protesters at Gov. Chris Christie’s town hall meetings “for security or any other purposes.” The order came the…
Task force study on arbitration reform confirms law works – and is essential
Following up on his comments last week that allowing the interest arbitration law to expire on April 1st would have disastrous consequences on towns and property taxpayers, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon will introduce legislation on Thursday that would make the law permanent.
From January 2011, when the law took effect, to September 2013, average raises in contracts, whether through arbitration or negotiations, were 1.86 percent — the lowest in at least 20 years. O’Scanlon was a member of the task force charged with studying the effects of the law since its inception and said there is no doubt the cap has been the single most significant tool responsible for the stabilization of municipal budgets.
“The data contained in the task force report is irrefutable that the interest arbitration law works and is an essential element in helping towns control costs,” said O’Scanlon, R-Monmouth. “The cap on arbitration awards was a critical part of our 2010 reforms and was the most important tool ever enacted to bring under control the never-ending, upward pressure on property taxes and the gradual strangling of local government services. One simply cannot logically argue that we can maintain a cap on property taxes without providing this tool for municipal officials to control their largest expense categories.
By Scott St. Clair
How special that The Star-Ledger has all the time in the world to grill Sen. Cory Booker on his NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket picks and hold him accountable for his “gut thing” upset prediction of Stephen F. Austin over VCU. After all, didn’t New Jersey voters elect him to waste his time and their money this way?
Booker thinks his job consists of sending out marginally obscene Twitter messages, regaling Senate colleagues with how he drove to Hawaii and now gracing us with his round ball wisdom.
Maybe he’s bucking to win Warren Buffett’s $1 billion prize for the perfect March Madness bracket? Hope he wins – and then retires.
On issues facing the nation, he’s MIA. War or peace, Ukraine, excessive federal spending, the National Debt, the mass exodus of people from New Jersey because the place is too damned burdened with taxes to be affordable – where is he?
And how about answering questions that stem from the state comptroller’s scathing report on rampant corruption under his nose and on his watch while he was mayor of Newark? When will The Star-Ledger find time to grill him on that?
On them all he’s nowhere, that’s where. Care to ask him?
Scott St. Clair is the Communications Director for Murray Sabrin for U.S. Senate 2014
Posted: March 19th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2014 Elections, 2014 U.S. Senate race, Opinion | Tags: 2014 U.S. Senate race, Cory Booker, Murray Sabrin, Scott St. Clair | 2 Comments »
Chris Christie prepared for protesters, hecklers at town hall in South River (via NJ.com)
By Erin O’Neill and Jenna Portnoy/The Star-Ledger SOUTH RIVER — Once polished and predictable, the governor’s town hall meetings now have it all: Hecklers, back talking from the audience, pugnacious responses from Chris Christie himself — and…
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