Steve with a great group of supporters at the Walk for Life in Iselin! — with Steve Lonegan.
Lonegan: Campaign is ‘cresting’ ahead of election
HOLMDEL — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan says his campaign is ‘cresting’ and he will beat Democrat Cory Booker.
Mr. Sheard from the U.S. Army at the wounded warriors day in Jackson.
Lonegan told The Associated Press after an event Sunday that his campaign isn’t a longshot and he expects to win Wednesday. The former Bogota mayor also says he stands by his decision to fire Rick Shaftan, a high-ranking adviser who bashed Booker in a profane interview and questioned his sexuality. (The Associated Press)
Steve greets supporters at the Spring Lake Columbus Day Italian Festival.
Steve talking about individual liberty to an overflow crowd! We Win Wednesday!
Obamacare enrollees become urban legend
BY PATRICIA BORNS AND DANIEL CHANG
Will the Floridians who have enrolled for Obamacare please stand up?
Nearly two weeks after the federal government launched the online Health Insurance Marketplace at HealthCare.gov, individuals who have successfully used the choked-up website to enroll for a subsidized health insurance plan have reached a status akin to urban legend: Everyone has heard of them, but very few people have actually met one.
The Miami Herald searched high and low for individuals who completed enrollment for a subsidized health plan through the marketplace, also called an exchange, launched by the federal government on Oct. 1 in 36 states, including Florida.
The Herald solicited readers for stories of enrollees online and in the newspaper, and received a fair number of responses reflecting various degrees of success with HealthCare.gov, which has been plagued by technical problems that federal officials attribute to an overwhelming number of people trying to access the website at once.
A keystone of the federal healthcare reform law known the Affordable Care Act, the exchange is intended to provide affordable, comprehensive health insurance for the millions of Americans who do not have coverage.
As Cory Booker looks set to win the junior Senate seat in New Jersey Wednesday, his supposed neighbors in Newark say Mayor Booker doesn’t live in the Gateway City.
Multiple residents of Newark told The Daily Caller that the longtime mayor doesn’t live at any of the addresses he has claimed as home. The mayor is believed to live in New York even though he is registered to run for New Jersey’s special senate election.
Booker, who filed to run for the U.S. Senate from a P.O. Box in Newark, is registered to vote at 435 Hawthorne Avenue but his next door neighbors told this reporter and filmmaker Joel Gilbert on camera that they haven’t seen Booker in years and that he doesn’t live there.
Dr. Alieta Eck Will Speak on the Impact of ObamaCare – Free Market Solutions
At the NJTPC Tuesday, October 15th 7PM
Dr. Alieta Eck, Republican Candidate for US Senate, NJ and founder of health clinic for the poor, will be NJTPC Special Guest Speaker at our October 15 monthly meeting.
In 2003, she and her husband founded the Zarephath Health Center, a free clinic for the poor and uninsured that currently cares for 300-400 patients per month utilizing the donated services of volunteer physicians and nurses.
The meeting is held at the Hog Room, Bergen County Harley Davidson, 124 Essex St., Rochelle Park, NJ. The entrance is in the back parking lot.
Oh, and By the Way, Obama’s Approval Rating Down to 37
By Andrew C. McCarthy
October 9, 2013 9:54 AM
Talk about burying the lede. Seven paragraphs into a report it headlines “Poll: GOP Gets The Blame In Shutdown,” which purports to show how lopsidedly an angry public has come down against Republicans over the so-called shutdown of the government, the Associated Press grudgingly drops this little detail:
Most Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, the poll suggests, with 53 percent unhappy with his performance and 37 percent approving of it.
In fact, the spin notwithstanding, the poll is full of bad news for the administration. While the AP/GfK poll finds that 62 percent blame Republicans for the shutdown, “about half” blame Obama and congressional Democrats. Eighty percent of respondents “felt no personal impact from the shutdown” (even though 68 perecnt say it’s “a major problem for the country”). Fifty-two percent say Obama is not doing enough to cooperate with Republicans.
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With eighty pages of new material and twenty-five never-before-seen photos, AMERICAN SNIPER: Memorial Edition is a celebration of the remarkable life and legacy of fallen American hero Chris Kyle.
This commemorative memorial edition of Kyle’s bestselling memoir features the full text of American Sniper, plus remembrances by those whose lives he touched personally—including his wife, Taya; his parents, brother, and children; Marcus Luttrell and other fellow Navy SEALs; veterans and wounded warriors; lifelong friends; and many others.
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The Pink Bungalow in Ridgewood just got some new purple and lime bogg bags in stock. Don’t they look great?
LA based client Kate Jay wearing her Love Token sweater before @theryancollins show ️*this style only still available in olive/black — at alba boutique.
The RHS Women’s Soccer team is offering a clinic and fun fair for girls in Grades 1-8 on Monday, October 14. The clinic will be held from 10 a.m. – noon at RHS Stadium (indoors if inclement weather). $25 registration includes t-shirt if registered by the October 8 deadline. Click here to download the flyer/regisration form.
The RHS Girls Tennis team beat Kearny 5-0 to advance to state sectional semis. The team is coached by RHS Teacher Medha Kirtane.
Both the RHS Boys and Girls Track teams took home Group 3-4 titles at the Maroon Invitational at Garret Mountain. This is the first time since 1989 that RHS swept the varsity titles of their own invitational. This meet marked the boys’ third straight group 3-4 title and the girls first title of the season. Junior Kotaro Tamura, senior David Frering and sophomore Kenny Marshall finished fourth, fifth, and sixth respectively to give the RHS boys the points they need to take the lead. On the girls’ side it was the speed and endurance of junior Carleen Jeffers who took fifth-place and sophomore Vanessa Reis who took twelfth place.
Chris Christie Slams Congress
by Lloyd Grove Oct 14, 2013 5:45 AM EDT
The compromise-friendly New Jersey governor tells Lloyd Grove he thinks Washington— including his own party—has failed at its only job: keep the government running.
“It’s ridiculous,” Chris Christie said.
New Jersey’s blunt-spoken, bipartisanly-inclined Republican governor was discussing the ongoing federal shutdown and debt ceiling crisis plaguing the nation’s capital. “You get hired to do a job. Do your job!” he said. “There are too many people down here who spend all their time pontificating rather than working. And that applies to both parties. I don’t have patience for that.”
The 51-year-old Christie—who many hope will launch a presidential campaign once he gets past what is widely expected to be an easy reelection on Nov. 5—was making a rare visit to Washington, D.C. Technically, however, he was in the sovereign nation of Italy, having been selected to receive a Points of Light voluntarism award during a black-tie dinner Friday at the Italian Embassy. “My mother”—the late Sondra Grasso, a descendant of Sicilians and a Democrat to boot—“would always be happy to have me spend any time in Italy,” he quipped.
Earlier in the day, during a meeting with the editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Christie had suggested that the dysfunction in Washington drives him to thoughts of suicide: “If I was in the Senate right now, I’d kill myself.”
As with a previous reference to self-murder back in 2011, when he repeatedly denied interest in running for the White House, he was kidding. “I was being dramatic to make a point—that it’s a waste of time,” Christie said on Friday night, this time explaining his lack of interest in being a legislator. “You know me. I’m not into wasting time. That’s what I meant by the comment.”
He added: “You send people down here to run the government, not to shut it down. And everybody’s failed.
Ridgewood High marching band wins regional competition
Sunday October 13, 2013, 6:17 PM
BY REBECCA BAKER
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Ridgewood High School won a regional marching band competition Saturday night with a show centered on getting around the New York City area, and will perform in the state and national championship in the coming weeks.
The school won first place for its performance of “Rush Hour,” a three-movement show that featured songs such as “Motion” by Brian Balmages, “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by John Denver and “Ride” by Sam Hazo. The show concluded with a rendition of “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.
The Ridgewood blog Endorses Steve Lonegan for US Senate !
the following article captures all the reasons why ….
Editors Special Note : Mike Kelly did and excellent job on this piece , like Lonegan or not its fair , well written and the kind of journalism that Mike got his superior reputation from .
Steve Lonegan’s Passion fueled by challenges
Sunday October 13, 2013, 12:37 AM
By MIKE KELLY
RECORD COLUMNIST
Some people can point to a moment when their life changed and they embarked on a new path. For Steve Lonegan, the conservative Republican running for U.S. Senate in Wednesday’s special election, that moment arrived about two years after he graduated from college.
It was 1982. Lonegan was legally blind — a final diagnosis after years of deteriorating vision from retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary eye condition he had been battling since he was 16.
He could not find a job, he said. His only income was a Social Security disability check. He felt like a failure — or, as he described his predicament recently, “trapped” in “the entitlement state.”
So, he said, he canceled his disability checks.
What may seem reckless and irresponsible to some was, to Lonegan, a sign of personal independence. It was also a sign of things to come.
Lonegan eventually jumped into politics and became a torchbearer for the anti-government Tea Party movement. And after being dismissed over the summer as a maverick conservative who never won elective office outside tiny Bogota, where he served three terms as mayor, he has emerged in recent days as a serious opponent to Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark. Booker’s 30-point lead in August has shrunk to around 12 points, according to several recent polls. (Kelly/The Record)
Unlike Ridgewood Sandy formed bond between Texas lineman, North Caldwell Mayor Joseph Alessi
NORTH CALDWELL — A northern New Jersey town’s borough hall is boasting a Texas flag and a Texas-based lineman is getting a shipment of saltwater taffy thanks to a bond forged during the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
North Caldwell Mayor Joseph Alessi put up the big flat, a gift from Jason Beard, a lineman from Houston who came to New Jersey to help with emergency repairs after Sandy. (The Associated Press)
The Board will hold a Regular Public Meeting on Monday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m.
The public is invited to attend the meeting at the Ed Center, 49 Cottage Place, Floor 3. The meeting will be aired live on FiOS channel 33 and Optimum channel 77. Or it may be viewed live via the district website at www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us using the “Link in Live” tab.
Click here to view the agenda and addenda for the October 7, 2013 Regular Public Meeting.
Click here to view the webcast of the October 7, 2013 Regular Public Meeting.
The Ridgewood Board of Education is seeking public input on the possibility of moving the annual school election from April to the November. Comments and questions may also be emailed to the superintendent’s office at [email protected].
Click here for more information on the school election change of date.
WASHINGTON – Thousands of people converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday morning and tore down the barricades blocking it off, protesting the closure of the memorial during the federal government shutdown.
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Beginning at about 9:30 a.m., Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, were among the luminaries in a crowd that chanted “Tear down these walls!” and sang “God Bless America” as well as other patriotic songs as they entered the memorial, which has been closed since the government shutdown that began Oct. 1.
Story here: https://www.wtop.com/959/3479186/Crowd-storms-World-War-II-Memorial
