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A veritable who's who of New Jersey Republican power players took to the airwaves yesterday on New Jersey 101.5 FM to join "The Jersey Guys," Craig Carton and Ray Rossi. The GOP guests joined the hosts to hammer Governor Jon Corzine's budget proposal which is loaded with new taxes, higher taxes and scores of programs cuts. It still happens to be almost $3 billion more expensive than last year's state spending plan. Republican Bogota mayor and one of last year's gubernatorial candidates, Steve Lonegan was first up saying if just two democrats in the State Senate stand tough against this...

In January, shock jock Craig Carton caused an uproar by insulting the acting governor's wife. More recently, he took aim at Asian-Americans. On Thursday afternoon, the NJ 101.5 WKXW-FM radio personality switched off his irreverent persona and turned on his serious, public-service side to host a live, two-hour debate among five of the Republicans running for governor of New Jersey. "Hopefully people know that at times we have the ability to be serious and straight and at other times, when it warrants it, to have a good time and not be so straight," Carton said during a commercial break at...