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And here it is
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NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney is narrowly trailing right now to an opponent whose entire slate spent reported spending $153 as of 11 days before the election.
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Wow it's beginning to look like apocalyptic and conspiracy theory-laden political rhetoric that paints opposition as "enemies" could spur some unhinged people to commit violent acts.
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This guy killed a teen drunk driving when he was 20 years old. Now he's running for Congress and... allegedly still drunk driving
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So if you have “ny/nj” in your Twitter bio you’re in NJ, right?
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Trump commuted Menendez co-defendant Salomon Melgen's 17-year prison sentence for Medicare fraud. When a prank caller impersonating Menendez reached Trump, Trump told him "we're proud of you" and congratulated him on beating his previous indictment.
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Sen. Bob Menendez is on trial. Democrats lost the county line. And now George Norcross and crew are indicted. The most momentous year for NJ politics since I started covering it in 2007.
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NJ Gov. Murphy, Assembly Speaker Coughlin and Dem State Chair LeRoy Jones call on Menendez to resign
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NJ Assembly just voted to legalize marijuana, 49-24 and 6 abstentions, mostly along party lines. State Senate vote coming soon.
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Currently winning the Ulster County, NY “I Voted” sticker contest with 94%. Thanks, Reddit.
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Got some news about to pop that's going to add another crazy element to Giuliani's Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference
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Confirmed Tammy Murphy is suspending her Senate campaign. It's over.
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"Our position in Edison Township is that they’re not welcomed here. They’re not. They’re illegal and they belong on the other side of the boarder... We don’t want them in Edison, period. That’s the bottom line.” — Edison Mayor Sam Joshi (D).
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It's spelled C-I-A-T-T-A-R-E-L-L-I. You may need to learn that.
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Quick, NJ. Cuomo's distracted. Take back the statue.
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Megan Coyne, one of the two women who made the
@NJGov
account famous, recently started at the White House
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Today my wife Emily opened The Lost Bookshop in Delhi, NY. She poured herself into it and it’s beautiful.
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New Jerseyans need to change their pronunciation of either "Morrestown" or "Morristown" because right now they're indistinguishable.
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Menendez apparently plans to run for reelection w/o Democratic support. In the 2018 primary, an unknown, unsupported candidate got almost 40% against him, after he survived a far less-serious corruption trial. That time, he had the many advantages that came w his party's backing.
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Remember when Bob Menendez threatened Hudson County officials with knowing where "all the skeletons in closets are"? Three weeks later, most of them are backing his son for reelection. Not saying it's a conspiracy. Just that those are two things that happened.
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I'm sure we'll hear lots of criticism of the GOP establishment from its most right-wing activists. But they pushed the party to embrace the school culture war issues. And they flopped big time.
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NJ rank-and-file Democrats are rebelling against the boss-driven nominating system that Tammy Murphy's candidacy is utilizing.
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“I’m gonna take a pass for the time being, but it’s good to see you." —
@GovMurphy
today when I asked him if the 501c4 political group his wife chairs should disclose its donors.
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I'll try to predict the future. This is the image we'll all think about when we reminisce about this inflection point in NJ politics.
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This is so beautiful I almost cried.
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Also worth noting: A bill (S420) (!) to make daylight savings time permanent in NJ just cleared committee.
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Tammy Murphy last week called the amount of money in politics "disgusting." Until shortly before launching her campaign she ran a dark money group that repeatedly refused requests from myself and others to publicly disclose its donors.
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If you want an idea of where NJ Dem support for Menendez stands, consider this: The day of his 2015 indictment, he had statements of support from them immediately lined up. Today, they've all so far been publicly silent.
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By a 4-1 margin, New Jerseyans see domestic terrorism as a bigger threat than foreign terrorism.
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This is looking like a close race in NJ. Turnout in Republican strongholds is big.
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It's just wild how fast support for the line is collapsing.
🔥🔥🔥
BREAKING: New Jersey Attorney General views county organization lines as unconstitutional, and the state won't defend it in court.
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Some personal news in the interest of transparency: I've moved far from NJ. But I'm not leaving this job. And I'll still be closer to New Jersey than, uh, some people who have no problem getting an infuriating number of scoops.
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I don't get it. Was NJ supposed to keep weed illegal so dogs can keep working?
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NJ politics needs to stop doing big things on Sunday afternoons. Really annoying.
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Ok. That's enough. Time to stop giving this guy a platform.
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Watching an interview with
@jack4nj
where moderator says New Jerseyans are "packing up and leaving the state in droves." Census data showed pretty strong population growth. But this has now become an article of faith in some circles no matter what the data says.
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Hey
@AsburyParkPress
, this is even more stupid than your "Is marijuana worse than cocaine?" online poll from a while back. And it's leading your website.
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Culture wars. Huh. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing, apparently.
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Announcement: Just adopted a new pup. I think her name is Fern. We’ll see. I think she might even be cute.
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I'm gonna start a soda brand called Barnegat and offer a diet version called Barnegat Light
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In Newark and Camden, residents protest trash incinerators. In Princeton, well….
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NJ has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. According to the CDC, it has the third lowest gun death rate.
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A certain
@nj1015
drive time host is whining about suppression of free speech . Meanwhile he still has the prime slot at NJ's biggest radio station and still has a Twitter account. And he blocked me
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Yes! I finally made it!
Decent New Jersey Reporter setup. Books. Dog. Wifi May be a little iffy. 8/10
@MattFriedmanNJ
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George Norcross sitting in the front row of Platkin press conference
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I think this is actually true, which is just amazing
More Senators, both republicans and democrats, have forcefully denounced how John Fetterman dresses than have called for Menedez to resign for being corrupt.
This is a perfect snap shot of what is wrong with Washington and why people outside the beltway have no faith in DC.
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This is Congressman Matt Gaetz. Do not believe his denials.
People on this website trying to claim that there's "more to" New Jersey than the part of the Turnpike you see in the credits for The Sopranos: No one believes you.
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Respectfully,
@wildstein
, I am not the 69th most powerful person in New Jersey. I'm definitely not anywhere near that. But anyway... nice.
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A bill that would bar NJ from sharing drivers' information with other states so they can fine them for alleged violations caught on speed or red light cameras just passed the Senate 40-0.
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Menendez didn't take questions. So I guess we can all agree that wasn't a press conference, but rather a public statement
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R.I.P. The Line
BREAKING: Federal judge GRANTS
@AndyKimNJ
's preliminary injunction request to toss the county line in June primary. Order not out yet.
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DeGise called the Journal "an attack dog for the radical left" because his daughter didn't stop after an accident, didn't pay parking tickets, lives in an income-restricted apartment despite $200k in income, tried to pull political connections with a cop....
Hudson County exec lashed out at newspaper's coverage of daughter's hit-and-run with a false narrative.
@TomDeGise
@Amy_DeGise
@Degise_Amy
@HudCoTweet
@JerseyCity
@JerseyCityPD
@StevenFulop
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This app used to be the best tool I knew for tracking real-time news of huge events. That's clearly no longer the case.
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Watching all this footage again, I can't help but feel so frustrated that mainstream politicians continue to deny that what you're seeing is what happened.
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Newark's population is above 300,000 for the first time since the 1980 Census. And while it grew slightly from 2000 to 2010, this is the first time its population increased substantially since the mid-20th Century white flight
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Is this the most NJ crime ever?
someone very mysteriously dumped 3-400 pounds of pasta in the woods in old bridge, nj …… i need to know everything
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I don't know why every major network isn't airing the vote right now. Not just cable news. Gotta show democracy goes on.
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A lot of reporters have taken shit over the last four years for accurately reporting the dangers of Trump's rhetoric.
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I planned to take today off but I had to work because events this massive in NJ politics only happen…. several times a year.
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Weed legalization clean-up bill passes Senate 22-12. Now just one step away — final Assembly passage — from Gov. Murphy's desk.
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Menendez kept Dem support during his last corruption ordeal. But that was a far less strong indictment than this one. Based on the questions I've been asking NJ Dems for the last year about Menendez, I definitely wouldn't bet on them sticking with him through this one.
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A very important personal announcement as well as a public service announcement in today's NJ Playbook.
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So nuts that the NJ Legislature is on the cusp of passing legal weed legislation but still can't agree on a decriminalization bill.
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Wasserman is a New Jersey native. He knows what he's talking about.
I've seen enough: Gov. Phil Murphy (D) defeats Jack Ciattarelli (R) in the New Jersey governor's race.
#NJGOV
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Millicent Fenwick, seen here looking really cool, was one of the first co-sponsors of a medical marijuana bill in 1981. That's right, 1981.
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This is a problem. It’s bad for everyone, but especially the NJ GOP.
New poll: 77% of New Jersey Republicans think Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.
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Dogs are so special and important. I miss my guy so much. Thanks everyone for all your kind words this week.
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Jersey girls, and to a lesser extent boys, still don't want to pump their own gas
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NJ's official 2020 population is 9.29 million. That's higher than at least I expected, and an example of why we need to stop citing the United Van Lines survey. The 2019 Census estimate was 8.82 million.
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Yes. Why is New Jersey being hit by WINTER storms right now, in the winter?
This winter, New Jersey has experienced multiple winter storms within days of one another, and we're not even close to being finished. Why?
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.
@GovMurphy
's signing of legal weed today fulfills his pledge to get it done within the first 1,134 days of his administration.
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Josh Gottheimer has become one of the county line's biggest defenders and played a key role in getting Middlesex County Democrats, nowhere near his district, to hire a prominent attorney to defend it. Why? It's all about running for governor in 2025.
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Starting next year the NJ minimum will be $15.13. Before taxes, and if they didn't spend any of it, it would take a minimum wage earner 31,725 hours to accumulate the amount of cash found in Sen. Menendez's house.
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NJ reporters have written extensively about the line and how political bosses wield it.
In any other place in the country,
@AndyKimNJ
would be reported as the clear frontrunner in this race.
The only reason he isn’t is when reporters accept the power of undemocratic forces, instead of exposing and questioning them.
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Remind me: What were those guys with Tiki Torches chanting?
"They want to replace the American electorate with a Third World electorate that will be on welfare."
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Tim Helck, my father-in-law, died last week. He was a sweet and brilliant man. It was Covid-related. Sudden and shocking. I can’t do him justice in a tweet. Read my wife on her dad here:
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Sad news for the NJ public and press: Layoffs at News 12 NJ. I'll hold off on the names for now, but it looks like a pretty big number for such a small station.
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My wife and I just celebrated the 20th anniversary of our first date, so of course we got some photos taken and made it all about the newest member of our family, Gus.
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I think we can all agree that the big winner in New Jersey's primary was the county line.
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This is very, very bad.
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A big disappointment for
@suealtman
, who was clearly gunning for this one.
🚨 MAJOR ENDORSEMENT: Speaker Mike Johnson ENDORSES Tom Kean, Jr. in his re-election campaign.
Join Mike by sending YOUR endorsement for Tom today here ⬇️
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Just 4 no votes on writing same-sex marriage into NJ aw.
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Bribing people is now an option in NJ. This is a big change for the culture of the Garden State. Will New Jerseyans be able to adapt?
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