Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle, is that New York Yankees announcer Michael Kay with Parsippany (NJ) Mayor James Barberio? Oh wait, according to the Star-Ledger caption, "Governor Chris Christie appears with Parsippany Mayor James Barberio in front of Parsippany Town Hall where Christie announced he was introducing a commission to repairs his botched pension reform.""Gov.
Garden State voters love Governor Krispy for his unflinching fiscal realism."The Center says New Jersey could get on track if the governor and legislature produced forecasts together, worked with outside experts, and opened up those discussions to the public."-- from a report by WNYC News's Jessica Gouldby KenPerhaps the reason we're hearing all this talk about a "comeback" for New Jersey Gov.
If you''ve been following the narrative over the last couple of weeks here at DWT you may have figured out that my new favorite book-- after Elizabeth Warren's A Fighting Chance-- has been The Invisible Bridge by historian Rick Perlstein. Maybe I'm so fascinated by it because I was living overseas for so much of the time he was writing about-- having felt living in a Nixon-led America not compatible with my personal sense of dignity or honor.
Norcross and Christie, the two grotesque crooks who run New JerseyEarlier today we mentioned, in passing, an insurance-related dust-up in the South Jersey congressional race for the open NJ-03 swing seat being vacated by Jon Runyan. It pits multimillionaire insurance executive Tom MacArthur against Burlington County Freeholder Aimee Belgard, a Democratic.
In 2006, Blue America backed Kirsten Gillibrand for Congress when she ran against corrupt, drunken wife-beater John Sweeney. We helped her raise consciousness about what a crook Sweeney was and we helped her raise money and we even got the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Rickie Lee Jones to do a song for her campaign which got a ton of airplay on the local radio stations.
In October you'll be able to dig this post up and say, "Wow, those DWT folks sure knew what was up before anyone else." Fact of the matter, we've been predicting an eventual Chris Christie plea bargain since January when the Bridge-gate scandal started spiraling out of control.
Ras Baraka beat the bosses to become the new mayor of Newark. Here he is flanked by his parents, Amina and Amiri-by David KeithWhen Barack Obama ran for President the first time, I was in High School. Being that age, I was able to be witness the effect his candidacy had on a new generation of voters and political observers.His candidacy inspired everyone around me. Adolescents and young adults who grew up watching coverage of George W.
Linda Greenstein is the Democrat who betrayed valient progressive Babara Buono when she was running for governor by running TV ads showing her and Chris Christie working together happily. Now she's a candidate in the primary in NJ-12, hoping to replace Rush Holt.
