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Trenton NJ, A recent tweet on Governor Murphy’s official Twitter account promoted in-person voter registration available inside hospital emergency rooms. An attempt to get them to register voters before they die?
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Washington DC, President Trump has a busy week on the diplomatic front announcing Serbia and Kosovo have each committed to economic normalization. After a violent and tragic history and years of failed negotiations, my Administration proposed a new way of bridging the divide. By focusing on job creation and economic growth, the two countries were able to reach a real breakthrough on economic cooperation across a broad range of issues.
Continue reading Trump Administration Rolls Out Major Diplomatic Successes
photo courtesy of Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco
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Glen Rock NJ, The Division of Veteran Services of Bergen County today hosted the opening of two apartments in newly refurbished supportive housing at 23 Kenmore Place for two formerly homeless and disabled veterans and their children. The day featured 12 community partners who worked with Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco, the Bergen County Board of Commissioners, and the Division to fully furnish the apartments.
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Hackensack NJ, A Peruvian national in the country illegally, who has an Interpol warrant in Peru for aggravated robbery, is among 77 foreign nationals arrested during recent enforcement actions conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in New Jersey from July 22 to August 20, targeting individuals with arrests or convictions for assault, domestic violence, other crimes involving victims.
Data captured from July 13 to Aug. 20 show that ICE officers arrested more than 2,000 at-large individuals living illegally in the U.S., or who are removable from the U.S. due to their criminal histories. About 85 percent of those arrested nationally by ICE on immigration charges also had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.
“This so-called legislation is just vote winning puffery: any person wishing to work in the US still has to comply with Federal immigration laws.
Thus it is a federal offense to employ someone who lacks the proper immigration status, just as it is an offense to gain employment for an illegal alien. Ignorance of the law is no defense.
Besides being unlawful and unpatriotic, the Democrat’s are using illegals as cannon fodder to gain votes, and don’t care a jot about the fate of any illegals who work, or employers who employ them.
In any case, how on earth can anyone this bull was aimed at, legal or illegal, gain employment if the businesses are being strangled by Murphy et al?”
President Trump announced Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma for emergency use to treat patients sickened by the novel coronavirus as a therapeutic.
Trump, who has been looking to announce progress in fighting the virus, touted the news as a “historic breakthrough” against the “Chine virus” at a White House news conference on Sunday, saying it would “dramatically expand access to this treatment.Not resisting further temptation the President hoped the press had a great time at their convention.
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RAMSEY NJ, The Pallotta for Congress campaign released a short video taken from Governor Murphy’s Monday press briefing. In it he speaks of diversity and unity, before calling this the “ultimate Us versus Them moment in our history.”
Republican candidate for Congress Frank Pallotta said that for all his talk of “celebrating diversity” and “uniting America”, Governor Murphy continues to treat 12 of the state’s 21 counties as “Them”.
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Trenton NJ, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., along with the Republican National Committee and the New Jersey Republican Party, filed suit Tuesday night to invalidate Governor Phil Murphy’s Executive Order 177. This unconstitutional order violates New Jerseyans’ 14th Amendment right to vote, as well as the Elections Clause and the Electors Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The unlawful power grab by New Jersey Democrats has demonstrably opened the state’s election system up to fraud and will lead to the disenfranchisement of New Jersey voters. In defense of free and fair elections, the Trump Campaign cannot allow for Democrat party bosses to undermine the integrity of our democracy.
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Ridgewood NJ, Governor Phil Murphy is expected to announce today, voters in New Jersey will cast their ballots this fall to decide the next president and whether marijuana will be legal mostly through mail in an attempt to keep the coronavirus from spreading.
Continue reading Murphy Administration to Push Vote By Mail in November
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Trenton NJ, in a change of policy Governor Phil Murphy has decided School Districts that cannot meet state Department of Education standards will have the option of going completely remote. The governor’s decision largely leaves the issue in the hands of local districts as New Jersey continues to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis.
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Trenton NJ, the New Jersey Supreme Court today unanimously sided with the Murphy Administration in deciding the law suit brought by Republicans against Governor Phil Murphy regarding the constitutionality of his $9.9 billion borrowing plan to combat the impact of COVID-19, In the ruling the New Jersey Supreme Court today unanimously ruled the following: “therefore [we] conclude that the Bond Act is constitutional, subject to certain limiting principles.”
Continue reading New Jersey Supreme Court OK’s Murphy Administration Borrowing Scheme
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Montclair NJ, think of the irony , according to State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick Callahan, in Montclair, police responded to Cuban Pete’s restaurant for a report of indoor dining, and that was found to be the case. The owner was charged with the violation of the EO . The irony comes in two facets , first Cuban Pete’s restaurant in Montclair was heavily criticized for hosting a ,”Black Lives Matter” banner in the window of the restaurant.
photo by Boyd Loving
“To the people in that photo: HAVE EACH OF YOU PERSONALLY PAID SIGNIFICANT MONETARY REPARATIONS?
If not, then put the sign down and stop protesting! You’re a hypocrite!
My counter-protesting sign would read: “Anyone demanding reparations must first pay reparations him/herself”.
My other sign reads: “If you live in a glass house, it’s unwise to throw stones!
#GlassHouseNoStones”
photo by Boyd Loving
“I still chuckle at white kids from Ridgewood with a sign that says “Pay Reparations”.
OK, if the protesters want reparations paid, they can hit up mommy and daddy for a few hundred thousand and that should solve the problem.
What’s that you say? “Oh, no, we don’t want to *personally* pay the reparations”. We prefer to have the reparations paid by the non-protesting Ridgewood citizens.”
