Greg’s List: Things to Do in Monmouth County This Weekend, June 8-10, 2018

By Greg Kelly

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Friday, June 8

• Oh What a Night of Doo Wop & Rock N Roll at Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Canterbury Fair (Rumson) – MORE INFO
• Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical at Axlerod PAC (Deal) – MORE INFO
• Doo-Wop and Rock N’ Roll at Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Bayshore Greek Fest (Holmdel) – MORE INFO
• Denis Coughlin & Belmar Blvd. (Belmar) – MORE INFO
• Bluegrass Mini Golf at MP (Oceanport) – MORE INFO
• Simulcast Racing at Monmouth Park (Oceanport) – MORE INFO

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Hugin releases video featuring supporters from all 21 NJ counties

Six hours before the polls close in the NJ GOP primary for U.S. Senate in which he is the heavy favorite for victory, Bob Hugin of Summit released a video on facebook and youtube featuring supporters from all 21 counties in New Jersey.

Watch closely or you might miss Assemblywoman Serena DiMaso representing Monmouth County.

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Murphy could hold sports betting bill as a chip to play in budget negotiations

The William Hill Sports Race & Sports Book at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey. Photo By Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO.

Dennis Drazin and his partners at Monmouth Park were ready to accept sports bets on Memorial Day weekend.  They wisely didn’t after Senate President Steve Sweeney announced he was inserting a provision in the state legislation regulating sports betting that would prohibit anyone who took bets before the regulations were passed from getting a license.

Sweeney was looking out for the Atlantic City Casinos who weren’t ready to take bets yet.   In the meantime, Delaware passed their spots betting regulations and bets will start being taken there today.  New Jersey loses out again.

What was considered a two or three week delay while legislation was passed now threatens to deprive New Jersey’s racetracks and casinos of sports betting revenue, and the related jobs, for a third or more of their summer season.  According to a report on Politico, Governor Murphy is prepared to hold the sports betting bill as a chip to play as he negotiates his first state budget with the more moderate Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin.

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Vote in the Primary Today, Polls are open from 6 a.m. till 8 p.m.

The mayor from Jaws is still the mayor in Jaws 2. It is so important to vote in your local elections.

— Adam Goodell (@adamgoodell) October 21, 2017

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Quick Action by Congressman Smith and Mayor Reid Keeps Manasquan Inlet Open This Summer

Pt. Pleasant Beach officials; Councilman Andy Cortes, Mayor Stephen Reid, Council President Bob Santanello meet with Congressman Chris Smith and Ray Bogan, legal counsel for the Marine Trades Association of New Jersey, Recreational Fishing Alliance, and United Boatmen of New Jersey, at the Manasquan Inlet. June 1, 1018

Quick action by Pt. Pleasant Beach Mayor Stephen Reid and Congressman Chris Smith will ensure that the Manasquan Inlet remains navigable for commercial and recreational marine traffic this summer.

Unexpected shoaling that threatens to block marine traffic has developed in the inlet since January when the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers performed their regularly scheduled survey.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Congressman Chris Smith Endorsed By NJ Building Trades Unions

Congressman Chris Smith chats with members of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 9 after receiving the endorsement of the NJ Building and Trades Council

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ-4) received the endorsement of the NJ State Building & Construction Trades Council during a ceremony at the Local Plumbers and Pipefitters #9 training facility in Manalapan this morning before approximately 100 union members and managers.

During his remarks, William T. Mullen, President of the 150,000 statewide council, said that all 15 local unions that comprise the council voted to endorse Congressman Smith for reelection. “It’s unanimous,” Mullen declared. Read the rest of this entry »

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Greg’s List: Things to Do in Monmouth County This Weekend, June 1-3, 2018

By Greg Kelly

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Friday, June 1

• Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical at Axlerod PAC (Deal) – MORE INFO
• Lion’s Strawberry Fair ‘18 (Oceanport) – MORE INFO
• E.T. Concert with NJSO at Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• F-Series Gearup Challenge at Raceway Park (Englishtown) – MORE INFO
• Green Underground (Belmar) – MORE INFO
• Ocean Twp. Town Wide Yard Sale – MORE INFO
• Eatontown Town Wide Yard Sale – MORE INFO
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Center Players (Freehold) – MORE INFO
• Art Exhibit: Decoupaged Bottles by J&N Soto Designs (Shrewsbury) – MORE INFO

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Menendez math: $58,000 = $1,000,000

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez is arguing that the $58,000 he reimbursed to Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen for private jet flights, prior to his corruption trial, covers the almost $1 million in extravagant gifts and contributions that the Senate Ethics Committee ordered he repay, according to report at Politico.

“I think the Ethics Committee was unaware that there were a series of payments that were made before they continued their review,” Menendez said.

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Murphy cancels his ‘Ask the Governor’ appearance on NJ Public Radio

Governor Phil Murphy chickened out of his Ask the Governor radio show this evening because he could not control the questions, according to a tweet by Nancy Solomon, Managing Editor of New Jersey Public Radio and WNYC.

#Askgovmurphy call in show is canceled. @GovMurphy refused to go on air if we stuck with plan to have Politico reporter @Linh_Tat on the show to ask questions. We wanted to focus on school funding. We refused. He canceled. @MattFriedmanNJ

— Nancy Solomon (@NancySolomon2) May 24, 2018

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Congratulations to Senator Gopal…

…for complying with the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as interpreted by U.S. Judge Naomi Buchwald, and unblocking MMM’s Art Gallagher before U.S. Senator Cory Booker unblocked Save Jersey’s @MattRooneyNJ.

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