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Well, there you have it! Liberal Steve Addabado on WABC Radio this morning stated that Bob Menendez, part of the Axis of Weasel of New Jersey corruption, should win because he "favors no restrictions on abortion" and that is what New Jersans like! I was born in New Jersey and I don't consider myself to be blood thirsty. I prefer Brett Schundler to any Democrat and many Republicans and wish he were running, but Keane, who would have voted for John Roberts and Sam Alito for the Supreme Court, is far superior to Menendez. If Jersans don't stop this Axis...

A researcher working for Republican Tom Kean Jr.'s campaign became pen pals with a jailed Democratic political boss in an effort to dig up damaging information on Kean's opponent, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez. Former Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski, now serving time in a federal prison in Kentucky on corruption charges, offered political history and strategic advice to the Kean campaign in a chatty, friendly letter obtained by The Star-Ledger. "Political intrigue is ... well ... intriguing," Janiszewski writes in the opening, summing up the unlikely alliance between himself and an agent for a Republican campaign. The letter, dated June...

1.) If the election for United States Senator were held today, whom would you support Robert Menendez, the Democrat or Thomas Kean, Jr., the Republican? Thomas Kean, Jr. 46% Robert Menendez 41% Undecided 13%

Menendez's building: The story doesn't measure up Thursday, October 05, 2006 A house is the most costly thing that most people will ever buy, so most of us tend to pay close attention to all transactions surrounding homeownership. In 1984, for example, I bought my first house, a bungalow in Toms River. I still recall the purchase price, the initial mortgage payment and the fee I paid my lawyer. So I find myself wondering how an intelligent person could go through a real-estate transaction of any sort and have no memory of it. Yet that seems to be the case...

Menendez dumps key adviser caught on tape seeking 'favors' Posted by The Star-Ledger September 27, 2006 22:56 U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's closest political adviser was secretly recorded seven years ago boasting of political power and urging a Hudson county contractor to hire somone as a favor to Menendez, according to a transcript obtained by The Star-Ledger. Tonight Menendez's campaign says he has severed his ties with the adviser, Donald Scarinci, after learning of the taped conversation. Menendez and Scarinci were childhood friends and Scarinci, a prominent attorney with extensive contracts in state and local governments, has been a key fundraiser...

New Jersey Democratic chairman Joe Cryan this morning pledged "absolute" support for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's campaign, which late yesterday severed ties with a top campaign fund-raiser who was overheard in a taped telephone conversation repeatedly asking a Hudson County vendor to make a hire as "a favor" to Menendez. "I can absolutely unequivocally assure you we are working harder to get him elected," said Cryan in a telephone interview from a dentist's chair. "This is nothing we didn't expect. We're going to win this thing." Menendez is in a close race with Republican state Sen. Tom Kean, who has...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate race in New Jersey, which a Republican hasn't won in 34 years, remains virtually tied with less than two months before Election Day, a poll released Wednesday shows. Among likely voters, including those leaning toward a candidate, Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr. holds a 48-45 percent edge over Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, the Quinnipiac University poll showed. Six percent remain undecided. This survey of 688 likely voters has an error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Among the 1,233 registered voters surveyed, Menendez has a 41-38 percent edge. This survey has an error...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate race in New Jersey, which a Republican hasn't won in 34 years, remains virtually tied with less than two months before Election Day, a poll released Wednesday shows. Among likely voters, including those leaning toward a candidate, Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr. holds a 48-45 percent edge over Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, the Quinnipiac University poll showed. Six percent remain undecided. This survey of 688 likely voters has an error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Among the 1,233 registered voters surveyed, Menendez has a 41-38 percent edge. This survey has an error margin...

New Jersey’s Democratic elite has developed a well-worn reputation for cockiness. And for good reason: Since 1972, only two Republicans—Tom Kean Sr. and Christine Todd Whitman, each elected and re-elected governor—have won statewide elections in New Jersey, and only once did their victory margin exceed one percentage point. But cockiness also explains the predicament that Garden State Democrats now face: Six weeks before what figures to be the most Democrat-friendly midterm election in a generation, it is very possible—if not probable—that they will squander what should have been one of their party’s safest Senate seats. Through scandals that would have...

Looks like the New Jersey Dems are getting desperate.

For pure entertainment value, not much can compete with the blood sport of New Jersey politics. Last week federal investigators launched a probe into whether U.S. Senator Robert Menendez illegally benefited to the tune of more than $300,000 from a rental-income deal he had with a nonprofit agency that received millions of dollars in federal contracts. Even liberal good government groups agree that the relationship may have violated congressional conflict-of-interest rules. The allegations have sparked a mini-panic among state Democratic operatives, who not so long ago thought Mr. Menendez -- who was appointed by Jon Corzine ... had the November...

Like most successful politicians, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez has rarely ducked a TV camera during a campaign. But the Democrat, who this week dropped several hundred thousand dollars on a TV ad buy, declined an invitation to debate his opponent, Republican state Sen. Tom Kean Jr., next month on "Meet the Press," the nationally televised Sunday talk show. "We are turning down 'Meet the Press' so that we can focus on local affiliates, local reporters and appearances before New Jersey voters," spokesman Matt Miller said. The Star-Ledger reported last week that federal investigators have subpoenaed records of a rental deal...

New GOP attack on Menendez Wednesday, September 13, 2006 By DEBORAH HOWLETT NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE Republican state lawmakers yesterday filed a new ethics complaint against Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, accusing him of using his seat in Congress to protect the value of a stock he owned. Aides to Menendez called the complaint "baseless" and say it's part of a mud-slinging effort by "lackies" of his Republican challenger, state Sen. Tom Kean Jr. Advertisement State Sen. Diane Allen, R-Burlington, and Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, R-Sussex, claim Menendez violated House ethics rules by working to prevent a $3.5 billion merger of...

Jersey Turns, Dems Panic; Torricelli, Anyone? By Steve Kornacki A powerful clue that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez might ultimately be forced to withdraw from his bid for a full term in New Jersey emerged last Friday, when he addressed the question head-on just hours after the world learned that he is the subject of a federal criminal investigation. “The answer is no,” he said. That may sound a touch familiar to New Jerseyans. It was, after all, around this time four Septembers ago that Senator Robert Torricelli’s re-election campaign—besieged by similar speculation—spent a weekend attaching a simple, defiant message to...

GOP asks Supreme Court to decide NJ ballot issue Just like 2000, justices could affect course of national politics 10/04/2002 By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - Once again, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have the future of national politics in their hands. Rather than the presidency, control of the U.S. Senate could wind up on the high court docket this time. Republicans on Thursday asked the justices to intervene in a New Jersey ballot dispute, saying the state Supreme Court acted illegally when it allowed a last-minute replacement candidate for Sen. Robert Torricelli....

(Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) released the following statement on September 30, 2002, one week after he traveled to New Jersey to campaign for Sen. Torricelli's re-election.) "I respect Senator Torricelli's decision to end his campaign for re-election. He has been a valuable member of our caucus and an untiring fighter for the families of New Jersey. His articulate leadership on foreign policy, education and the environment and his determination to lower taxes for middle-class families made him a leader in the Senate, and his efforts as DSCC chairman in 2000 were critical to a electing a Democratic Senate...