Greg’s List: Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend, December 19-21, 2015

By Greg Kelly

Courtesy of Teddy Bears by the Shore

Friday, December 19

• A Christmas Carol (Ocean Grove) – MORE INFO
• All in the Timing by Monmouth Players (Navesink) – MORE INFO
• The Very Hungry Caterpiller & Other Eric Carle Favorites at TRT (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• A Charlie Brown Christmas at Algonquin Arts Theatre (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
• Scrooge at Spring Lake Community Theatre – MORE INFO
• Winter Solstice Party at The Saint (Asbury Park) – MORE INFO
• Gamer Raver (Middletown) – MORE INFO
• Holiday Tea Luncheon (Ocean Twp) – MORE INFO
• Concordia Youth Chorale Concert (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• A Quimper’s Corner Christmas (Keyport) – MORE INFO
• Open Ice Skating on Friday Night (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Ballroom, Latin, Swing, and Salsa Dancing (Sea Girt) – MORE INFO

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Menendez on Obama Cuba deal: ‘I think it stinks’

SAYREVILLE — U.S. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) today blasted President Obama’s decision to begin re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and easing economic restrictions imposed on the communist country. “I think it stinks,” Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants and the outgoing Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, said at a press conference on new financial help for Hurricane… Read the rest of this entry »

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Christie says he will talk presidential bid with family over holidays

MEDHAM TOWNSHIP — Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday he will discuss a potential presidential bid with his family over the holidays and make his intentions known in the “first part of next year.” Christie responded to a question from a student at Mendham Township Middle School, where he was Wednesday morning to honor the school for… Read the rest of this entry »

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N.J. paying fees to firm employing Mary Pat Christie, report says

TRENTON — New Jersey has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to a Wall Street investment firm in the three years since Gov. Chris Christie said he was terminating all investments with the company, International Business Times reported today. That same firm, Angelo, Gordon & Co., hired Christie’s wife, Mary Pat Christie, as a… Read the rest of this entry »

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Six in 10 Democrats favor nominee moving away from Obama

President Obama said recently that the American people are going to want that “new car smell” in 2016 – and two new polls show that might apply to members of his own party. A new McClatchy-Marist poll says that 38 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents think it’s more important to have a Democratic nominee for… Read the rest of this entry »

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Force ‘necessary’ when cops pepper sprayed Brookdale student in campus arrest, officials say

FREEHOLD – Brookdale Community College police officers who were seen in an online video arresting and pepper-spraying a student at the school’s campus did not violate criminal law or use of force guidelines, according to a letter from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. The letter, sent by the prosecutor’s office Professional Responsibility Unit, was released Tuesday… Read the rest of this entry »

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N.J. lawmakers to FEMA: Stop demanding Sandy victims give back government overpayments

Shore Blvd, Keansburg Oct. 30, 2012

TRENTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency should stop demanding that Hurricane Sandy victims pay back money they mistakenly received from the government, members of the New Jersey congressional delegation said in a letter released today. Both U.S. senators and 10 of the state’s 12 U.S. representatives signed a letter to FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate asking… Read the rest of this entry »

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Here’s What Jeb Bush Has Going For, And Against, Him If He Runs

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Christie faces shrinking pool of 2016 backers following Bush announcement

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DiSomma to Sweeney: Stay out of Red Bank

“Red Bank Doesn’t Need Lobbyist Money Swaying Elections”

Senate President Steve Sweeney. file photo by Art Gallagher

Referring to Senate President Steve Sweeney as a conflicted Trenton lobbyist, and Red Bank Councilmen Michael Dupont and Art Murphy as influence peddling shady dealers, Red Bank Republican Chairman Sean DiSomma, launched a no holds barred attack on New Jersey’s highest ranking Democratic elected official, a presumed contender for the 2017 gubernatorial nomination, and the two councilmen he seeks to unseat next November in a statement to the press this afternoon.

DiSomma’s statement includes a warning that he will treat all lobbyists and politicians who support Red Bank Democrats to similar welcomes.

Sweeney is headlining a fundraiser for Dupont and Murphy tomorrow evening at Buona Sera.   The Monmouth GOP is also holding a fund raiser in the venue at the same time.

DiSomma’s statement can be read in its entirety below the fold.

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