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Optimistic Bush can win here, RNC gives $150,000 to get out vote Sensing an opportunity to win New Jersey for President Bush on Nov. 2, the chairman of the Republican National Committee stopped in Trenton yesterday and handed state GOP leaders $150,000 in campaign cash to help fund get-out-the-vote efforts. RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie also announced Vice President Dick Cheney will visit the state in the next couple of weeks, although an exact date and location have yet to be set. He pointed to upcoming appearances by Rudolph Giuliani and Laura Bush as other evidence that the national party is...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — First lady Laura Bush will visit a Mercer County firehouse Thursday in the first Bush-Cheney campaign event in New Jersey that is not a fund-raiser. She is scheduled to deliver remarks at an 11:15 a.m. Bush-Cheney '04 rally at the Colonial Firehouse in Hamilton.

"The laws of the state of New Jersey do not contain a 'we think we're going to lose so we get to pick someone new' clause," taunted Torricelli's challenger, Doug Forrester.

<p>The Republican shows signs of repeating his run for governor, a run that stepped on party toes.</p> <p>For most politicians, a defeat as one-sided as Bret Schundler's in the 2001 New Jersey governor's race would be humbling enough to send them looking for another line of work.</p> <p>Or at least cause them to lie low for a while.</p> <p>Run for the same office next time around? No chance.</p> <p>That's what the Republican establishment had hoped about the renegade who captured the party's most coveted nomination and then became cannon fodder for the Democrats in November.</p>

PoliticsNJ.com  Updated on 06/12/02 12:01 AM Sheehan, declaring Marshal Law in Bergen, cancels election... The reorganization meeting of the Bergen County Republican Organization was abruptly cancelled tonight when a group of Republicans led by State Sen. Gerald Cardinale surprised GOP County Committee members b nominating Bogota Mayor Steven Lonegan for County Chairman.  Sources say that the incumbent, James Sheehan, may not have had the votes to win and decided he'd be better off postponing the election until next Tuesday.  Sheehan said that he wanted to set up election machines.Cardinale reportedly blames Sheehan for his defeat at the Bergen GOP convention...

With the primary a month away, the three Republican U.S. Senate candidates are poised for a competitive stretch run with the winner possibly being determined during the last weekend of the race. It won't be an easy sprint: Political observers say the candidates, who have been on the stump for months, are still trying to get Republican voter attention in a race that's being ignored by many party members. The candidates must now concentrate on the difficult task of attracting support not just from inattentive party members, but party members who regularly vote in primaries. The battle for the votes...