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 STATE & LOCAL

Annual spring brunch: May 18

The annual spring brunch will be held on Sunday, May 18 from 12 to 4 pm. Location is the same as in previous years: the beautiful Beaver Brook Country Club. To attend, please send in this PDF invitation. (You can fill out the form in Adobe Reader. Just click in the form fields and type.)

Invited Guests include: Gov. Jon Corzine, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Sen. Bob Menendez, Rep. Frank Pallone, Rep. Rush Holt, NJ Democratic State Chairman Joe Cryan and Assemblywoman Linda Stender.

Beaver Brook is at 25 Country Club Drive in Annandale. Country Club Drive is off route 31 South, just south of the Rt. 78 jug handles. Club phone number (for club info, only) is 908-735-4200.


Linda Stender and others pass law to divest from Iran

Linda StenderGov. Corzine has signed legislation written by Linda Stender and two other Democrats in the Assembly that requires the State of New Jersey to divest in companies that do business with Iran (excluding organizations that provide humanitarian aid).

According to the sponsors, the economic sanctions are designed to advance human rights in the same way that sanctions were used to end Apartheid in South Africa. The state Democratic Committee said that even without nuclear weapons, Iran “holds the longstanding and dubious distinction as a sponsor of global terrorism.”

Co-sponsor Mike Panter (D-Monmouth) noted that “For over 20 years, Iranians have funded the operations of global terrorists and mass murderers.”



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Ten things you need to know about John McCain

McCain gives Bush a bear hug

  1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
  2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2
  3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3
  4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
  5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5
  6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6
  7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7
  8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
  9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."9
  10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10

Sources are here.

Republican misfits running for president
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Register to vote!

You must be registered if you want to vote. It's fast, easy and you can do it by mail. Voting does not increase your chance of jury duty. Get the forms here.


Hunterdon Democrats nominate Lautenberg, Stender, Leung, Rampulla and Siecke

At the annual convention on March 29, the Democrats nominated candidates for the November election. Frank Lautenberg, who has been one of the most effective members of the United States Senate is seeking reelection, and Linda Stender, who made a practice run for Congress two years ago, will make the 7th District very proud (the district includes the northern two thirds of the county).


In county and local races, the party endorsed Marty Siecke for freeholder, along with Chan Leung and Marianne Rampulla who will bring the progressive views of fiscal responsibility and open space preservation to Raritan Township.

Leung and Rampulla were endorsed by Sen. Lautenberg and Rep. Rush Holt (pictured) and were already endorsed by the Hunterdon group of Democracy for America in early March.




How much has the Iraq war cost Hunterdon County?

Taxpayers in Hunterdon County will pay $437.6 million for the cost of the Iraq war through the end of 2007. For the same amount of money, Hunterdon could have had the following:


48,867people with health care, or
612,481homes with electricity from renewable sources, or
8,030public safety officers, or
5,435teachers, or
47,452university scholarships, or
30new elementary schools, or
1,739affordable housing units, or
174,350children with health care, or
50,047Head Start places for children, or
6,423elementary school teachers, or
6,189port container inspectors


Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would end this fiasco. They have the support of Assemblywoman Linda Stender, who wants to represent the 7th district in the northern part of the county in Congress and Rep. Rush Holt, who represents the 12th district in the southern part of the county.

What of John McCain? He said he is willing to continue the Iraq fiasco for another century! Not one of the Republicans who wants to serve the 7th district in Washington has disagreed with him. Would you like to do the math?



Flemington Dems put Council meetings on live TV

When Democrats won their races for Flemington Borough Council, it was on a platform of bringing more openness, transparency and accessibility to local government. Starting in the first moment of Democratic majority control, they did just that. You can now watch Borough Council meetings on live TV streaming over the Internet at the Borough's Web site.

Council meetings are archived, so if you miss one, you can still watch it at your leisure. It works with any computer that has a high-speed Internet connection.



Gov. Corzine abolishes death penalty

Recognizing that capital punishment is applied unfairly, is not a deterrent to crime and can lead to executions of people who later turn out to be innocent, Gov. Corzine has signed legislation, supported by Republicans as well as Democrats, to abolish the practice in the state.