Greg’s List: Things to Do in Monmouth County This Weekend, July 19-21, 2019

By Greg Kelly

Friday, July 19

• Ocean Grove Tent Tour – MORE INFO
• “Next to Normal” by Holmdel Theatre Company – MORE INFO
• Twilight Seining at Sandy Hook – MORE INFO
• My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra at Monmouth U. (WLB) – MORE INFO
• “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at Brookdale PAC (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• “Hello Dolly!” at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
• Voyager One by NJ Repertory Company (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• Newsies: The Broadway Musical at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO

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Chris Smith’s Lyme Disease Amendment Passes House, Tells DOD IG to Investigate ‘Weaponization’ of Ticks

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The full House of Representatives passed an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) which directs the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense to investigate the “possible involvement of DOD biowarfare labs in the weaponization of Lyme disease in ticks and other insects”  from 1950-1975.

According to Smith, he was “inspired to write the amendment”—now part of the House-passed 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—by “a number of books and articles suggesting that significant research had been done at U.S. government facilities including Fort Detrick, Maryland and Plum Island, New York to turn ticks and other insects into bioweapons.”

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Police SUV and NJ Transit Train Collide in Long Branch

A Long Branch Police vehicle collided with a NJ Transit train late this morning at the Brighton Ave crossing.

facebook video via The Link News

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Feds Used Rep Smith’s Law To Snag Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted financier pedophile, will learned today if he will remain incarcerated pending the outcome of his trail on charges of Sex Trafficking Conspiracy and Sex Trafficking.

Epstein is charged under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 which was authored and shepherded through Congress by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ-4).

MMM asked Smith to comment on the Epstein indictment and the TVPA’s impact on prosecuting human trafficking.

“Nearly 20 years ago, I wrote the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which is being used in the Epstein prosecution, to give law enforcement better tools to prosecute, convict and jail human traffickers—and to help rescue and protect victims, who are mostly women and children,” said Smith who also authored four subsequent laws reauthorizing, strengthening and expanding America’s anti-human trafficking programs.

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DWI Check Point In Sea Bright On Friday Night

Sea Bright: The Monmouth County #DWI Task Force will conduct a checkpoint from 9p Fri – 1a Sat on Ocean Ave. Task force members & officers from the Sea Bright PD will pull vehicles from the NB lanes into the Sea Bright Boro parking lot to determine the driver’s sobriety. #mcponj pic.twitter.com/qWhYt2kkw2

— Monmouth Prosecutor (@MonCoProsecutor) July 11, 2019

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Governor Murphy’s Statement on Potential ICE Raids in New Jersey

Governor Phil Murphy issued the following statement on Thursday evening:

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Greg’s List: Things to Do in Monmouth County This Weekend, July 12-14, 2019

By Greg Kelly

Friday, July 12

• Summer Concert, Car Show & Fireworks (Manalapan) – MORE INFO
• Brookdale PAC: “The Merry Wives of Windsor” (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• “Hello Dolly!” at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
• Voyager One by NJ Repertory Company (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Carnival of Curi-Oddities (Asbury Park) – MORE INFO
• “Bird Tales” Art Exhibit (Belmar) – MORE INFO
• “Woodstock at 50: Summer of Love” Exhibit (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• Vincent DiMattio: DreamPaths & Napkin Drawings at Monmouth U. (WLB) – MORE INFO
• Atlantic Cinemas Movie Night (Atlantic Highlands) – MORE INFO

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Golden Responds To AG’s ICE Letter

Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden took a respectful tone in his response to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office strongly worded rebuke of his extending the County’s 287 (g) agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).

In a letter dated July 9 to Veronica Allende, Director of the Division of Criminal Justice in the AG’s Office, Golden promised to provide the information demanded in Allende’s letter of July 8 and enlisted the support of ICE to also provide information to the Attorney General’s Office.

Golden touted the success of Monmouth County’s 287 (g) agreement with ICE, which he said has been in  place since 2010 and is only instituted at the jail:

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Sheriff Golden signed 10 year deal with ICE

Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden

Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden quietly extended the County’s 287 (g) agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency on March 8, 2019, apparently in defiance of the Murphy Administration’s Sanctuary State Policies as implemented by State Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal’s Immigration Trust Directive.

Golden’s agreement with ICE, and that of Cape May County Sheriff Robert A. Nolan, were reported last night by NJ.com.

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Int’l Assembly Adopts Smith Resolution to Educate Children on Human Trafficking Threat

1 in 4 Trafficking Victims Are Children

Teaching children to recognize, resist and report any attempt to recruit or coerce them into human trafficking

WASHINGTON, DC—An international parliamentary assembly of leading lawmakers from 54 countries today unanimously adopted an anti-human trafficking initiative authored by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) to further protect children by teaching them about the risks of human trafficking.

   Smith offered his “Educating Schoolchildren to Avoid Human Trafficking” resolution at the 28th Annual Session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCEPA) held in Luxemburg July 4-9th and attended by more than 250 international, voting lawmakers including a bipartisan delegation of 17 representing the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

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