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SOURCES: N.J. Gay Marriage Vote Planned for Thursday Matt Rooney | December 2, 2009 According to Save Jersey sources, N.J. Senate Democrats plan to hold a gay marriage vote next Thursday. Expect a session vote on Monday. The rationale? Gay marriage faces a steep uphill climb in the legislature, but Democrat leaders may feel the need to appease powerful liberal constituencies within their own party. Ahead of next Thursday's vote, Republican support is solidifying against a gay marriage provision. From the New Jersey Family Policy Council: New Jersey Family Policy Council Founder & President, Len Deo issued the following statement...

Fearing a potentially devastating Democratic loss, the highly controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) group and its affiliated organizations are gearing up to tip the scales and re-elect embattled incumbent in the hard-fought New Jersey gubernatorial race, sources tell Newsmax. "Acorn is heavily involved in Gov. Jon Corzine's get-out-the-vote operation, but is maintaining a low profile at the insistence of the Corzine campaign," Matthew Vadum, senior editor of the conservative Capitol Research Center think tank, tells Newsmax. "If Corzine manages to win reelection, he doesn't want the victory tainted by his close association with Acorn." Wall Street...

I've been watching the numbers change at Intrade for the last few days. IIRC, Corzine was at 66 last Friday. Today he's at 45, which I guess translates to more likely to lose than win. Hoffman's numbers took a dive after the Dede endorsement of Owens, but are now back in the healthy range. Last price 66. Bob McDonnell has been in the high 90s throughout.

CAMDEN, N.J. — In a final campaign swing on behalf of the only governor seeking re-election this fall, President Barack Obama on Sunday pitched Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine's bid as a key component for the White House to make good on its political promises. "He's one of the best partners I have in the White House. We work together," Obama said. "We know our work is far from over."

WABC TV in New York carried a story about one of Jon Corzine's close aides ( I missed the name) being arrested. He was stopped for talking on cell phone and the police found 15 viles of drugs. Anyone know anything more. Of course this is being smothered. This is not even on WABC TV's web site hmmmmmmmmmm

New evidence that Corzine is in trouble, so he calls on, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Just for Men...

"Jon Corzine is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." Okay, Jonathan Tamari didn't use those exact words when he wrote an incredibly fawning Philadelphia Inquirer article about Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey who is running for re-election but the words he did use sure come close to that sentiment. See, Corzine's problems weren't really because he presided over a massive budget deficit.The real problem was his difficulty in proper communication...at least according to Tamari: In his formal introduction to Trenton, his inaugural speech, Corzine read from notes, barely looking up, absorbed...

Jon Corzine this afternoon released records from his charitable foundation, including details on more than $3 million donations made last year. Corzine spread his wealth around the state and beyond, including contributions to organizations connected to Newark power broker Steve Adubato and his son. The North Ward Center, founded by Adubato, received $15,000, on top of the more than $1 million Corzine has given the organization in the last 10 years. Caucus Educational Corp. run by Adubato's son, television personality Steve Adubato Jr. received $1,000. The foundation's finances returned to the headlines this week after The Star-Ledger reported that Corzine...

Anyone in his right mind would now have to rate next month’s gubernatorial election in New Jersey as a tossup. After all, virtually every poll shows the race within the margin of error, and some recent surveys show Gov. Jon Corzine (D) leading GOP challenger Chris Christie. Moreover, climbing out on a limb to give one of the candidates an advantage in a virtual dead heat isn’t the best way to guarantee that your percentage of “correct calls” remains high so that you can send out a press release after the elections to brag about how astute you are. But...

Earlier this year, Republican Chris Christie looked like a really safe bet to beat New Jersey’s incumbent governor, Democrat Jon Corzine. The polls in July showed Christie with a lead ranging from 7 to 15 percentage points. Of course, since then the former U.S. attorney has had millions of dollars’ worth of negative ads dumped on his head; one estimate calculates that Corzine is spending a million a week on television advertising. One result is unsurprising — Christie’s lead has dwindled to a mere 3 to 4 points in most polls — and another is somewhat surprising: Even with that...

The gubernatorial race in New Jersey has not changed fundamentally recently, no matter what you may read in poorly produced Associated Press stories distributed by the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic National Committee or Gov. Jon Corzine's (D) campaign.

With polls showing a drop in Barack Obama's job rating and sinking support for the Democrats' health care plans, there is evidence of collateral damage where you might not expect to find it, in the standing of Democratic governors. Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell is suddenly getting negative job ratings in both the Quinnipiac and the Franklin and Marshall polls -- his lowest marks in seven years as governor. Ohio's Ted Strickland, who has spent most of his first term working amicably with Republican legislators, scores under 50 percent in the latest Quinnipiac poll and has only tenuous leads over two Republicans,...

The first response from Gov. Corzine’s camp to GOP gubernatorial nominee selection of Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno as a running mate is in. “While we applaud Christie for picking a woman, Republicans still have a top of the ticket that will not protect women’s rights in Trenton,” said Corzine’s new press secretary, Elisabeth Smith. “Whether it is refusing a woman’s right to choose, denying handgun legislation that would protect our children and keep our streets safe, or opposing paid family leave that allows mothers to take time off and attend to their newborns, this Conservative Right-Wing Republican ticket is...

From the perspective of Steve Lonegan supporters, New Jersey voters just offered a clear verdict that will doom their state to another miserable four years of Gov. Jon Corzine. They rejected a full-spectrum conservative for a lightweight political neophyte, a wannabe white knight with mud on his boots, who will be hoist with his own petard and painted as a laughable hypocrite. From the perspective of Chris Christie supporters, Republican voters offered a clear verdict: They rejected a fire-breathing ideologue who would repel independents as few other statewide candidates ever had before, and nominated a tough guy who has the...

New Jersey is unexpected turf for a Republican comeback, but Chris Christie's GOP primary victory Tuesday sets him up with a good chance to topple Governor Jon Corzine in one of this year's few big elections. The Governor's approval rating hovers below 40%, as he pays the price for a decade of runaway liberal governance. Voters elected the former Goldman Sachs CEO after he promised to get the state's finances in order, but spending, taxes and debt all keep rising. According to the Tax Foundation, New Jersey had the highest local-state tax burden in the country last year, and it...

      It is well known that Jon Corzine's numbers are collapsing in New Jersey. But that's not the only state.For example, look Governor Deval Patrick in Massachussets, as tested by SurveyUSA. He has 28% approve and 68% disapprove. This is flat across region. Even Dems net out at -11, with 42%-53%.Now look at this poll out of Michigan, H/T Race42008's Kavon Nikrad. Any credible Republican beats the sitting Lt. Gov.I haven't surveyed all the states, but it feels like someting is happening.

For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant business empire. Billionaire Penny Pritzker helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior, overseeing her family's 50% ownership stake. She now serves as Barack Obama's national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her -- and perhaps to the campaign. Superior was seized in 2001 and later closed by federal regulators. Government investigators and consumer advocates have contended that Superior engaged in unsound financial activities and predatory lending practices. Ms. Pritzker, a...

What is good for the goose evidently isn't so good for the gander when it's New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine doing the honking about New York City's congestion-pricing plan. Leading up to yesterday's deadline for New York state lawmakers to vote on the proposal, Corzine weighed in last week by saying that he was dismayed by the scheme and would bring suit against New York if it went ahead with the proposal to charge motorists $8 and truckers $21 to drive into the most heavily trafficked parts of Manhattan; the N.J. governor was angry as well that the fees...

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, in explaining his state's abolition of the death penalty, announced that he knew "from my heart and from my soul" that no murderer should be put to death. As it happens, I know from my heart and from my soul that not putting any murderer to death is a cosmic injustice; it cheapens the worth of human life and greatly diminishes the revulsion society feels toward murder. So, what does this mean? Does it mean two intelligent and decent people have very different hearts and souls? (This question assumes that pro-capital punishment readers will acknowledge...

That Southern charm may soften the appearance of the actor-senator’s hardened conservative views. Last month brough the moment in the presidential campaign I’d been dreading. The popular conservative from my home state, fellow Tennessean Fred Thompson, entered the Republican primary. The pundits and “insiders” have dismissed the actor and former senator even before he declared his candidacy on late-night TV. Some claim he’s a Hollywood lightweight, but I’ve heard that before (Ronald Reagan). Some dismiss him as a Southern simpleton, but I’ve heard that before (George W. Bush). And I’ve even heard some claim he has a wealth of sexual...