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New Jersey GOP state Sen. Joe Kyrillos is demanding Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez release his schedule and all travel documents from this spring. Kyrillos’ demand is in response to allegations from two Dominican Republic women who claim Menendez paid them for sex around Easter time this year at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic. The two women claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100. “Like the recent Secret Service sex scandal in Colombia, the allegations reported today are deeply disturbing and raise serious...

The New Jersey race for U.S. Senate this year pits state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, a universally respected player in Trenton and a key figure in the state Republican Party for a decade, against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat who is one of the state’s smartest and most capable politicians.

SEX SCANDAL TO HIT CAMPAIGN... STORY SAID TO INVOLVE POWERFUL SENATOR, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE. DAILY CALLER PLANS LATE NIGHT RELEASE...

Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year. In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100. The women spoke through a translator in the company of their attorney, Melanio Figueroa. Both asked that their identities remain obscured for fear of reprisals in the Dominican Republic. When shown a photograph...

Middletown, November 1... The Kyrillos Campaign today released the following statement in response to allegations made against Senator Bob Menendez: "Like the recent Secret Service sex scandal in Colombia, the allegations reported today are deeply disturbing and raise serious questions," said Kyrillos Campaign Communications Director Meaghan Cronin. "Senator Menendez must do the right thing and help settle this matter by immediately releasing his schedule and travel documents from the time the alleged incidents occurred. The people of New Jersey deserve answers today."

On the one hand, the allegation made by the Daily Caller that Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., flew to the Dominican Republic and paid two women for sex seems just what this campaign season really needs -- a sex scandal. On the other hand, it's not much of a scandal. Menendez is divorced, after all, and laws against soliciting prostitutes are honored more in the breach. To be sure, the senator is being accused of reneging on the transaction, paying only $100 after having promised $500 to one of the young ladies in question.

A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez today responded to allegations that the Democratic senator paid for sex with prostitutes while on a trip to the Dominican Republic, stating that the story is false and the product of the "rightwing smear machine."

New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has been allegedly caught in a sex scandal involving underage prostitutes, according to published sources. Senator Menendez, who is divorced, allegedly used taxpayer dollars to pay for the hookers from the Dominican Republic.

Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year.

Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year. In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic. They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/01/women-sen-bob-menendez-paid-us-for-sex-in-the-dominican-republic/#ixzz2AwoqBTJ1

Dominican hookers, to be specific. This is what we’re hearing about the sex scandal involving a “powerful senator” in a headline being touted by Drudge, with a story by the Daily Caller promised late tonight. UPDATE: Shortly after the Drudge Report headline went up, my associate Ali Akbar got a tip that the story involved Sen. Menendez of New Jersey and at least one prostitute with whom he trysted on a taxpayer-funded trip to the Dominican Republic. Within one hour, Akbar had confirmed this with other sources, and we understand that numerous reporters in D.C. have heard similar reports. UPDATE...

Consultants say Menendez story lacks staying power The Daily Caller broke a story on the Drudge Report Thursday alleging New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez paid prostitutes for sex during a trip to the Dominican Republic. According to the story, Menendez agreed to pay two women $500 each for "sex acts." In the end, according to the women, Menendez only doled out $100 each. It is an "October Surprise," and one that in most circumstances would have damaging effects. But crisis management experts caution this scandal lacks key components necessary to catch fire and push Menendez off the 14-point lead...

Middletown, N.J. — It takes Joe Kyrillos, a 52-year-old state senator, 15 minutes to reach his table at the New Monmouth Diner. It’s late in the afternoon and the crowd has thinned, but two silver-haired grandfathers want a word, and a young mother with a child at her knee has a question. Waitresses hoisting heavy trays of burgers and Cokes brush past Kyrillos as he moves from booth to booth, talking politics.Kyrillos is running for the U.S. Senate against Senator Bob Menendez, the Garden State’s junior senator and the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. As a Republican...

For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Del Pellegino NJ4Napolitano@gmail.comEffort to Draft Judge Andrew Napolitano to Run for U.S. Senate Against Bob Menendez in 2012 is Launched As the national political maneuvering for a nominee to oppose President Obama in 2012 slowly gains momentum, many in New Jersey are looking not only at changing the direction we are currently headed in by replacing one leader for another in the White House. They are also looking to help turn this nation around by replacing one of the individuals who represents our state in the U.S. Senate. And the man they seek to do that...

The nominee for U.S. attorney in Puerto Rico — who is investigating corruption allegations against the district’s sitting governor — is being held up in secret in the Senate amid a vicious political battle that could reshape the future of the island. An anonymous senator placed a hold on the nomination just prior to last week’s enactment of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, which requires that the names of senators objecting to proceeding to a confirmation vote on a nominee or legislation be fully disclosed within six legislative days. Holds are procedural tools used by a...

Procedural snares and ``killer'' amendments threaten to disrupt the fragile coalition in the Senate that's holding together the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. immigration policy since 1986. Supporters are scrambling to address the legislative obstacles before debate resumes next week. Opponents plan to try to derail the legislation by using procedural delays and offering poison-pill amendments that may split the coalition that sustains the measure. Passage of the legislation would give 12 million undocumented immigrants a chance at legal status while handing President George W. Bush a victory on his top domestic priority. ``This is a delicate balance. The wheels...

New Jersey Democratic lawmakers complain there are deep flaws in President Bush's proposed budget plan. Democratic Senator Bob Menendez complains the Bush budget cuts Homeland Security, mass transit and education funding. He tells Millenium Radio he has been wracking his brain to think about who in New Jersey would like this budget. Menendez says he cannot think of anyone who would be satisfied. Congressman Rob Andrews says the budget will mean higher property taxes for Jersey residents who will see their local towns having to make up the difference for less Federal Funding. But Republican Frank Lo Biondo says the...

A deal with a federally funded non-profit allowed then-Rep. Bob Menendez to collect substantially more rent for his old house than he got in prior years, when the property's annual losses reached $10,000, records show. Menendez's arrangement with the politically connected organization meant the rent he charged for the Union City property jumped by nearly 50 percent from 1989 to 1994 despite a pronounced real estate slump that had emptied some of Hudson County's best office buildings. Whether the non-profit North Hudson Community Action Corp. paid Menendez more than the space was worth is a key question in the federal...

IF YOU SUPPORT PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION, stay home on Election Day, or vote for a third-party candidate. This will help Bob Menendez get elected to the United States Senate, where he states he will block any judges who do not commit to abortion on demand. Indeed, his winning will result in viable, healthy babies continuing to be killed in the womb. IF YOU OPPOSE PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION, vote for Tom Kean on Election Day. He has said that he will support President Bush's judicial appointments as long as they commit not to legislate from the bench. This will result in...

Poll gives Kean 36% to Menendez's 25%, with 37% undecided.