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Wow, that's all I can say about this one. This is probably not the way that Chris Christie wanted to go in to GOTV weekend before the primary, getting ripped on NJ 101.5. First brother Todd tried to call in to answer their questions off air, but the Jersey guys wanted none of that. Then Chris called in toward the end of the show to talk about campaign advisor John Inglesino and allegations whether he was hired by Republican Sen. Joe Pennacchio in order to earn state pension credits. From the second Christie got on the line, the Jersey Guys...

Steve Lonegan, the firebrand former mayor of Bogota, N.J., and current dark-horse gubernatorial candidate, is waiting in “the vault.” When he first suggested this as the location for our interview, I had assumed he was speaking figuratively. But subtlety is not the rebel Republican politician’s style, and the vault turns out to be exactly that: an empty, fortified vault in the back of what used to be a bank—that is, before it became Lonegan’s makeshift campaign headquarters here in Oradell, N.J. It is an unusual setting to discuss Lonegan’s underdog bid to win the Republican party’s nomination for governor this...

Check out the MicroPoll link: http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpresult/501693-169959 With 267 participants, Lonegan leads 62% to Christie's 22% and Merkt's 16%! Eight States Favoring Lonegan, vs. only PA favoring Christie (but with only 40% of the total vote!) and MD favoring Merkt. NJ favoring Lonegan with 62% of the poll vote; NY with 63% (despite Giuliani), other 6 states (AZ, IL, GA, NC, SC, and VA) each give Steve 100% of their votes!

<p>U.S. Senate candidate Douglas Forrester has pulled out to a clear lead in the Republican June 4 primary election, according to a KYW/Courier-Post poll released Wednesday.</p> <p>Forrester, a self-made millionaire who heads an employee benefits company, leads the three-candidate field with 33 percent of the likely Republican voters polled by SurveyUSA. State Sen. Diane Allen, R-Burlington, has 25 percent. State Sen. John Matheussen, R-Gloucester, trails with 14 percent.</p>

<p>John Matheussen once argued that owners of assault weapons should be allowed to keep them. But today he supports smart-gun legislation that would prevent weapons from firing for anyone but their rightful owners.</p> <p>Matheussen is the only one of the three Republican candidates for U.S. Senate who opposes abortion rights. Yet he says abortion is not the driving issue in the June 4 primary election.</p>