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Steve Lonegan unites New Jersey Republicans

When Senator Frank Lautenberg died in June, it was a foregone conclusion in New Jersey politics that Newark Mayor Cory Booker would look to take his seat. If Booker wanted it, the seat was his. After all, New Jersey had not elected a Republican to the United States Senate in more than 30 years. Similarly, the state had not leaned Republican in the Presidential election since 1988.

Enter, Steve Lonegan, the former mayor of Bogota, NJ, a tough talking, confident politician who has watched the margin of error between him and his opponent shrink in recent weeks.

With the election only hours away, Republican Lonegan believes that the liberal-leaning state will choose old-fashioned conservative values over a man who he refers to as the “poster child for a poll-driven, speech coach, consultant-trained candidate,” the senatorial candidate told Rare in a phone interview over the weekend.

Lonegan’s has contrasted his campaign with the notion that Cory Booker is not a genuine politician, but rather a self-contained puppet of the Obama administration. New Jersey needs a “leader, not a Tweeter,” his campaign slogan goes. The line references his opponent’s massive online following and widespread national name recognition, a presence that Lonegan believes should trouble the people of New Jersey.

Lonegan believes that Booker should focus more on the state’s problems and not “[run] around Hollywood and San Francisco trying to hang out with a bunch of movie stars.” The idea that Mayor Booker is pre-occupied with his own brand and image has been a hallmark of rhetoric during the four-month long campaign. Lonegan decries Booker as an “example of another politician whose own self-promotion at the expense of the taxpayers has come before his commitment to govern.”

While many in the state have applauded Booker’s connection to his citizens, Lonegan doesn’t buy it. He believes that Mayor Booker’s track record in Newark indicates that he is unfit to hold a higher office. Lonegan is quick to point out his opponents failures and refers to Newark not as a city in northern New Jersey, but as a “black hole.”

“Robberies have hit a 14-year high, where murders are off the charts and crime is up,” Lonegan said. “High school dropouts rates range from 15 percent to 17 percent, unemployment has hit 14 percent.”

“It just demonstrates that when you don’t pay attention to your business, and anyone who has run a business knows, that when you neglect your business, it falls apart. And Newark is falling apart,” Lonegan added.

Though the Republican candidate admits that the country is divided, he is proud of his ability to bring the party together. Lonegan boasts marquee Republican names on his side through his entire campaign.

“I have brought together the entire Republican Party, from Governor Christie, to Governor Palin, to Governor Perry to Rand Paul, to Tom Coburn,” he said. “The entire party from the tea party, the conservatives, the pro-life, not so pro-life, the pro-gun, not-so pro-gun.”

At a recent campaign rally, Governor Palin spoke on Lonegan’s behalf, repeating his signature phrase: “New Jersey needs a leader not a Tweeter.”

According to the candidate, the Republican unity has brought in outsiders as well. Polls show Lonegan leading among New Jersey independents.

“[People] recognize that the real threat to our liberty is Barack Obama and his administration,” Lonegan said. “It’s not fellow Republicans or independents; it’s the Obama administration. There is a huge contingent of conservative Democrats, those are the working union men and women, guys that go to church on Sundays and go shooting on Saturdays, and like to hunt and fish and they are Boy Scout leaders and football coaches. Those are my voters.”

Despite the candidate’s gravitas and tough talk, recent polls still show Cory Booker holding a commanding double-digit lead. Already a tough road to a win, Lonegan’s chances were further wounded in recent days by allegations from his opponent and the New Jersey Star Ledger, that while mayor of Bogota, Lonegan received hundreds of thousands of dollars in a state bailout. Lonegan refers to this issue as one from the “junk pile of ideas,” and describes the allegations as “absurd.” According to Lonegan, the funds he received were mere “pennies” in comparison to funds Booker’s Newark receives regularly.

The spotlight on Lonegan’s Bogota scandal allows him to continue his comparison to Newark, he shared.

“All the money gets poured into what I call the big black hole in Newark, just like the big black hole in space that sucks things in and nothing comes out of,” he said.

“That’s what has happened, billions of tax dollars have been poured into the coffers of Newark, never to be seen again and there is no improvement. If you poured those billions in and Newark became this utopian city, that would be different. But all of a sudden it has disappeared, in the pockets of politically connected hacks.”

Only the polls will reflect how New Jerseyans feel about Steve Lonegan. The citizens of New Jersey are not looking for “someone who is going to agree with them on everything, they want someone who is going to speak with honesty and principle,” Lonegan shared.

Whether the people agree remains to be seen.

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Christie: Yankees 2016 jersey "outrageous"

There’s no chance devout New York Mets fan Chris Christie will don the Yankee pinstripes.

Christie was a special co-host of the “Boomer and Carton in the Morning” radio show on WFAN Monday. Co-host Craig Carton offered the New Jersey governor a Yankees jersey with “Christie 2016″ on the back, which Christie refused to try on.

“Let me just say there’s no chance,” Christie said when he saw the jersey. When he saw the 2016 on the back, he added, “Now there’s two reasons there’s no chance.”

Christie, who said he has been a Mets fan since he was 7 years old, refused to stand up and take a picture with the jersey or try it on. He also assured Mets owner Fred Wilpon that he would never wear the jersey.

“I just want to say this to Mr. Wilpon, who’s out there. There’s no chance I’m ever putting this on, hanging it anyway sir. I am with the Mets. This is outrageous,” Christie said.

Carton also gave a second nod to Christie as a presidential candidate in 2016, presenting him with a second jersey that said “President Gov. Christie 2016″ on the back.

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New Jersey Governor Christie nudged by gun rights group in key primary state

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in Chicago, Illinois, June 14, 2013.

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By David Jones

NEWARK, New Jersey | Sat Aug 3, 2013 12:12am EDT

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) – A gun-rights group in the bellwether presidential primary state of New Hampshire has warned New Jersey Governor Chris Christie that signing gun control bills passed by his state’s Legislature could have consequences if he runs for president in 2016.

The Pro-Gun New Hampshire coalition urged its members this week to call and email Christie to ask him to veto the proposed laws, posing a political dilemma for Christie as he seeks re-election in November in the Democratic-leaning state while also eyeing the national stage.

Christie has a September deadline to sign a number of firearm-related bills seen by their supporters as necessary for tackling gun violence, and the gun rights group is targeting four of those measures.

One bill would ban .50 caliber rifles, another would require police to report lost and stolen firearms to a federal database, a third would create a system for instant background checks during gun purchases and a fourth bill would ban gun sales to anyone on a watch list of militants.

“This is an acid test,” said Sam Cohen, executive vice president of Pro-Gun New Hampshire, which describes itself as the state’s largest gun rights group.

“If he decides to support these horrible bills, then we in New Hampshire are going to do everything we can to tell our voters not to vote for him in the New Hampshire primary,” Cohen said.

Christie, a rising star in the Republican Party who rejected appeals from fellow Republicans to run for president in 2012, said in a television interview in January that he would be “more ready” to campaign for the White House in 2016 after finishing his work as the governor of New Jersey.

New Hampshire, which has played a significant role in past elections by holding the nation’s first presidential primary, is known to have a strong libertarian streak. The state allows nearly every resident to obtain a concealed weapons permit unless he or she is a convicted felon.

A spokesman for Christie did not return calls.

Brigid Harrison, a professor of political science at Montclair State University in New Jersey said Christie had been careful about tipping his hand on gun control, because he is running for re-election in heavily Democratic New Jersey but understands the pro-gun values of anticipated Republican primary voters in the 2016 race.

“What we’ve seen is him walk a fine line by delaying decision-making,” Harrison said.

State Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in this month’s special election to replace the late Frank Lautenberg, said Christie had been carefully weighing his political future with regard to his position on gun control.

“Yes, he is going to pay attention to the threats that are being issued by the gun rights groups,” she said.

Oliver added that severe gun violence in New Jersey cities like Newark, Trenton, Camden and other urban areas made gun control a serious issue in the state.

“If he could take politics out of the equation, I do believe Governor Christie would sign some of those bills,” she said.

Christie in June vetoed a bill that would ban state pension fund investments in firms that sell or make assault weapons.

(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis; and Jackie Frank)

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New Jersey income tax collections up, jobless rate down in April

Thu May 16, 2013 5:39pm EDT

(Reuters) – New Jersey’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.7 percent in April and personal income tax collections rose 29.1 percent to $ 2.23 billion from the same month last April, state data show.

The revenue increase, along with the third consecutive monthly decline in the jobless rate, are good news for New Jersey’s economy, which has struggled to recover from the recession.

So far this fiscal year, New Jersey has taken in $ 9.6 billion in personal income tax revenue, 12.8 percent greater than the same period last year, state Treasury Department numbers showed on Thursday.

Total revenues were up 20 percent in April compared with the same month last year and up 6.9 percent for the fiscal year-to-date to $ 20.7 billion.

New Jersey’s rise in April personal income tax collections was about on par with a Thomson Reuters sampling of other U.S. states, which had a median 24.4 percent increase, excluding California’s dramatic 74 percent spike.

Across the country, however, the improvements might not continue as a still-shaky economy, tax cuts in some states and federal budget woes could depress revenue growth.

The good news also comes with another hitch: The surge stems in part from taxpayers who pushed income ahead into 2012 to avoid federal tax hikes that took effect in January, according to the report this month from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, an independent research group in Albany, New York.

“The temptation will be (for states) to treat it as recurring revenue available to support ongoing spending, or available for tax cuts,” wrote the report’s authors, Don Boyd and Lucy Dadayan. “Caution is in order.”

In New Jersey, Christie has renewed pressure on state Democrats to implement a tax cut, similar to one they prevented last year because the state’s revenues had not improved enough.

(Reporting by Hilary Russ. Editing by Andre Grenon)

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New Jersey Hostage Situation: 2 Dead and 4 Children Held Hostage By Armed Man in Trenton, NJ

New Jersey Hostage Situation 2 Dead and 4 Children Held Hostage By Armed Man in Trenton NJ

Police were called yesterday to administer a “well-being check” on Friday but once inside the home they found the decomposing body of 42-year-old Carmen Kelly. The police say the suspect, Kelly’s boyfriend, pulled a gun on them in the house and barricaded himself inside by threatening to kill the other four children.

Trenton Police Sgt. Robert Carrier told USA TODAY that the standoff began when Kelly’s relatives asked the police to check on her since they had not heard from her for some days. A day later, “a small army of police” are surrounding a South Trenton, NJ home as they attempt to negotiate with him to release the remaining children according to Mercer County Prosecutor Joe Bocchini.

The suspect’s identity has not been released as authorities continue to negotiate with him. The SWAT team has been present since yesterday afternoon, and crisis negotiators from the city and state are assisting local police to end the standoff without any further deaths.

A state police swat team member readies a robot to enter a home where a man had barricaded himself on Friday in Trenton, N.J. (Photo: Scott Ketterer, AP) 

The police have not confirmed that the children inside are hostages, but according to Ray Kelly, the murdered woman’s cousin, two girls aged 17 and 14 as well as a boy in his early teens and a four-year-old boy remain inside the house with the suspect. The suspect is communicating with the negotiators but as of this publishing there is no confirmation of whether he is cooperating. 

The entire block has been evacuated as a precaution leaving other residents of the neighborhood barred from their houses and the area is cordoned off. A neighbor described the neighborhood as “decent” where residents are all employed, though it is plagued with some gang activity.

“We’re working on it and as soon as there’s a peaceful ending to this we’ll let everybody know what happened,” said Det. Will Rodriguez of the Trenton Police Department.

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