Posts Tagged ‘New Jersey’

From nj.com:

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno has kicked former Olympic track and field star Carl Lewis off the election ballot — again.

Guadagno, serving in her capacity as secretary of state, refused to certify Lewis as a candidate for state Senate, according to a letter to local county clerks filed in federal court today.

Her reason: a federal appeals court order to keep Lewis on the ballot while a case challenging his candidacy is considered by a judge only applied to the June Democratic primary — which Lewis won uncontested — and not the November general election.

“Although the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered Mr. Lewis name to appear on the primary ballot, that order was carefully circumscribed and limited only to the primary ballot — the sole issue before the Third Circuit at the time of its order,” Guadagno wrote.

Lewis attorney William Tambussi today called Guadagno’s decision “brazen” and said he would ask U.S. District Court Judge Noel Hillman to order him back on the ballot. A hearing is scheduled for Friday. “It just disregards everything that’s gone before her and before the voters,” he said.

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From nj.com:

While Gov. Chris Christie is traveling the nation to support Republican candidates, his presence in the Statehouse is also helping his party at home, according to the latest fundraising reports released today.

An Election Law Enforcement Commission report on the “big six” fundraising committees — those controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties, and each party’s political leaders in the Senate and Assembly — shows Republicans outraised Democrats $834,300 to $623,487 in the quarter that ended Sept. 30 .

It’s the first time Republicans have won a fundraising battle in about a decade.

Democrats hold control of both houses of the state Legislature, but Christie broke an eight-year Democratic lock on the governor’s office when he was elected last year. For the first nine months of 2010, Democrats had outraised Republicans $1.7 million to $1.5 million. But at this time last year, when the money was flying much faster because of the races for governor and Assembly, the Democratic committees had raised $6.3 million — more than triple the Republican total.

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From wcbstv.com:

On the surface the news looked pretty grim for Garden State residents on Tuesday – thanks to an unanticipated drop in tax revenues of $402 million this year and $365 million next year.

But a new budget hole of nearly $800 million is not going to give Gov. Christie a single new white hair. At least this time, the governor’s message is “gotcha covered.”

“We’re very confident we’ve been able to close the additional budget gap in (fiscal year) 2010 and in (fiscal year) 2011 we’re going to be able to solve that problem without any new taxes at all and without any real significant cuts,” Christie said.

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From APP.com:

More than 130 citizens have signed up for the chance to tell New Jersey lawmakers how they’d solve the state’s woes.

Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver and Republican Leader Alex DeCroce have responded to the heavy turnout by splitting Tuesday’s hearing into three parallel groups. The idea is to limit the amount of time residents will have to wait before testifying.

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From nj.com:

Democratic and Republican leaders in the New Jersey Assembly have struck a conciliatory tone as the new legislative term begins.

Democratic Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver, who becomes the first African American woman to lead the Assembly Tuesday, says partisan politics will take a back seat to the priority issues of “jobs, the economy and property taxes.”

Republican leader Alex DeCroce also vowed to tackle the state’s fiscal mess as a team. He says the chamber’s 33 Republicans are ready to put aside their partisanship.

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