Jane Frotten, Anna Little’s campaign Treasurer, just called to report that the campaign has received $4,731 via the website since we declared a MONEY BOMB last night.
Let’s keep it going! Every donation helps keep Anna on TV and radio through Tuesday. All of the polls indicate that the more people know Anna the more support she picks up.
Donate here. Donate again if you can, financially and legally. $2400 per person is the maximum donation allowed by law.
Email this post to your friends and family and ask them to donate. Click here and the post will open as its own page. Copy the url from your browser and copy it in your email. Put this link on your facebook and twitter pages.
Patrick Murray, director Monmouth University Polling Institute told the Wall Street Journal that Anna Little’s election to Congress from New Jersey’s 6th district “could well happen” in a piece published online today.
In New Jersey, 11-term Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone has seen his lead over the Republican tea-party favorite Anna Little narrow rapidly as undecided independents have broken in Ms. Little’s favor.
“If Little wins, it will represent a complete annihilation of the Democrats in this race, and it could well happen,” says Patrick Murray, who directs the state’s Monmouth University Polling Institute. Across the state, he said, “independents are going for Republicans more than I’ve ever seen before.”
Murray produced two widely quoted polls on the NJ-6 race earlier this month. The first had Frank Pallone leading Little by 12%, the second by 7%.
As the campaign moves into its final days, the Little’s grassroots fueled campaign is has caught the media’s attention. WNBC and MSNBC covered the race this week. Peggy Noonan featured Little in her widely read WSJ column earlier this week. Noonan’s weekly WSJ column is usually reprinted in the NY Post on Sunday. News12 hosted a debate, a “conversation” they called it, between the candidates last evening which will be rebroadcast tonight and tomorrow night at 8.
Notable exceptions to the media coverage of the NJ-6 race are the New Jersey daily newspapers and their websites. CNN’s website is relying on this blog, Poltickernj and Blue Jersey for its local election news in both the 6th and the 12th districts due to the dearth of coverage from APP.com, MyCentralJersey.com and NJ.com.
Posted: October 30th, 2010 | Author:Art Gallagher | Filed under:Frank Pallone | Tags:Frank Pallone, Health Care | Comments Off on Pallone: Health Care Is Not Obama’s Bill or Pelosi’s Bill, It’s My Bill!
Anna Little and Frank Pallone went head to head in the News12 studio live last evening. If you missed it, it will be replayed at 8PM tonight and Sunday night.
Pallone twitted that the debate makes our choice on Tuesday very clear. Frankie’s finally catching on.
You didn’t hear? Yes, Frank “I’m on your side” Pallone, aka Phoney Palloney aka Falsetto Frankie got his wife a $144,385 job in “government relations” at the EPA. She started the job in June of 2009 while you and I were struggling with the worst economic times in our lives.
But I digress. Anna Little is going to win this race. Let’s make sure of it by raising enough money to keep her on TV and on the radio all weekend and all day Monday until Chris Christie arrives at Bachstadt’s. (I did tell you that Christie is coming to the rally at Bachstadt’s Monday night, didn’t I? He is.)
Let’s raise $50,000 in the next 72 hours. Click here and donate. $10, $25, $100, $1000, $2400 (the max per person), whatever you can.
Email this post to all of your friends and family and ask them to do the same. Link this post on your facebook page and twitter it. Click here to get this post to open as its own page. Copy the link into an email and send it to everyone with a personal request.
The way things are going, The Soprano State will have more sequels than Sly Stillone’s Rocky movies.
Just in the last month we had Toms River Regional School District Superintendent Michael Ritacco’s indictment for taking millions in kick backs. We’ve seen Frank Pallone, Steve Rothman, Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg put Americans’ health at risk in exchange for campaign contributions. We’ve seen Rush Holt exposed promulgating phony science to bamboozle Congress out of out of millions of dollars for his employer, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
There’s more material to come, perhaps as early as this afternoon. MMM is fact checking a tip on a pay to play scheme by a Monmouth County elected official who has a stack a soap boxes he’s broken while preaching against such behavior. We’re told the APP has had the same tip for a few days. We got it last night. Maybe they’re still fact checking too. Stay tuned.
(HIGHLANDS, October 28) – Republican Congressional challenger Anna Little today maintained her campaign’s focus on Frank Pallone’s recent silence on his role in the passage of the government takeover of health care, frequently referred to in New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District as “PalloneCare.””Back in the spring, when he thought it was going to be popular, my opponent infamously said of the government takeover of health care, ‘This is not Obama’s bill. This isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s bill. This is MY bill,'” said Little. “But now that the public has learned more about what’s in it, and it’s not nearly as popular as he thought it was going to be, he’s gone radio silent – why, his campaign web site’s ‘On the Issues’ section doesn’t even MENTION health care!”
“Sadly, this is not surprising,” said Little. “All we’ve heard from Frank Pallone is distortions of my views, rather than an explanation for the votes he cast for a failed trillion-dollar stimulus package, a failed cap and trade policy that would raise everyone’s electricity bills, and the government takeover of health care.
“Of course, it’s perfectly understandable – if I had cast a vote to cut Medicare by $500 billion, reduce patient choice, put government bureaucrats between doctors and their patients, and raise taxes, I probably wouldn’t want to draw attention to it, either.
“But that’s the big difference between Frank Pallone and me – I would never have cast that vote in the first place!
“In five days, New Jersey will vote, and we’ll have a chance to send a fresh face to Washington,” said Little.
“If you think we’re headed in the right direction, then Frank Pallone is your man,” said Little. “But if you think we’re moving in the wrong direction, if you think you’re ready for a change, then I need your vote – because you cannot change Washington without changing the people we send to Washington!”
With Anna Little leading Frank Pallone by 20+ points in Monmouth County and closing the gap in Middlesex County where the County ticket of Hackett and Kane for Sheriff and Clerk and Freeholder candidates Frank, Rickards and Rosenthal are running strong campaigns, the outcome of a nail biter could very well depend on the turnout in the Union County City of Plainfield where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of 11,028 to 876, with 6,230 Independents.
Frank Pallone appears to be betting his career on a strong Plainfield turnout. He opened a satellite congressional office there, at taxpayers expense, two weeks ago, after ignoring the city for 22 years. Politickernj reports that Democratic Assemblyman Jerry Green and Union County Democratic Chairwoman Charlotte DeFilippo have targeted a turnout of 30% of Plainfield’s 18,134 registered voters.
Pray for rain in Plainfield. Turnout the vote in Monmouth.
In a decision that could impact development throughout New Jersey, a state appeals court struck down part of the Fort Monmouth Redevelopment plan, according to a report in the Star Ledger.
Ruling in favor of affordable housing advocates, the court said that the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority (FMRPA) failed to take a regional approach to planning for the fort’s redevelopment and leaves the housing decisions to the three municipalities where the fort sits, Oceanport, Eatontown, and Tinton Falls.
Unless successfully appealed by the Christie Administration, the court decision will impact development in the Highlands Region in the northwest portion of the state, the Meadowlands and the Pine Lands. The Star Ledger reported that the Attorney General’s office declined to comment.
Neither Frank Pallone or Rush Holt have commented. Fort Monmouth is being closed next year, its military operations being moved to Aberdeen Maryland, because Pallone and Holt were negligent in there representation of their districts during the BRAC process which lead the decision 2005 decision to close the fort.
