Really. And it is news! The Star Ledger, Huffington Post and The Philly Inky are reporting it.
The Governor cancelled a breakfast appearance before the Committee of Seventy, a Philadelphia good government group. He was to speak to about 600 people and take questions, but cancelled last night, because he’s “just not feeling well at all,” according Seventy’s press release.
The Ledger and Inky quoted Christie’s spokesperson, Colin Reed as stating, “fighting off a cold and has had to cut back his morning schedule tomorrow.”
So far, Christie is still scheduled to appear at Newark Liberty Airport at 11:30 this morning for an airline service announcement.
Posted: November 14th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie | Tags: Chris Christie, Cold, Committee of Seventy, news | 4 Comments »
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By Greg Kelly
Saturday, November 16
• Home for the Holidays Bazaar (Shrewsbury) – MORE INFO
• Arsenic & Old Lace by Center Players (Freehold) – MORE INFO
• White Christmas at Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• All The Rage at TRT (Red Bank) – MORE INFO
• Fall Book Sale (Shrewsbury) – MORE INFO
• Les Miserables at Axelrod PAC (Deal) – MORE INFO
• Full Moon Meander at Mt. Mitchill (Atlantic Highlands) – MORE INFO
• Fall Antique Show (Wall Twp) – MORE INFO
• Singin’ in the Rain by Spotlight Players (Matawan) – MORE INFO
• ALS Surf Fishing Clinic (Highlands) – MORE INFO
• Jersey Shore Restaurant Week (many county spots) – MORE INFO
• Introductory Archery (Lincroft) – MORE INFO
• Get the Best Out of Job Interviews (Long Branch) – MORE INFO
• International Games Day (Middletown) – MORE INFO
• Village Fair (Manasquan) – MORE INFO
• World’s Toughest Mudder at Raceway Park (Englishtown) – MORE INFO
• Jersey Shore Rescue Mission Coat Giveaway (Asbury Park) – MORE INFO
• Holiday Bazaar (Atlantic Highlands) – MORE INFO
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Posted: November 13th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County | Tags: Greg Kelly, Greg's List, Things to do in Monmouth County, Things to do in Monmouth County this weekend | Comments Off on Greg’s List: Things to do this weekend in Monmouth County, November 15-17, 2013
By Ernesto Cullari
Would you risk your life for strangers? My mother Dalisay Dwinells (everyone calls her Lee) has faced death numerous times over the last several years, while serving impoverished children at orphanages in some of the world’s most dangerous places. When she volunteered at Rancho 3M in Guadalupe, Mexico, her and her husband faced the threat of abduction by drug cartels that regularly kidnapped, tortured and murdered American citizens for profit.
In the last few years my mother has established an orphanage in both Cebu City and Bohol, Philippines, where she recently survived a 7.2 and 4.8-magnitude earthquake that taunted them with nearly a thousand aftershocks and tremors. The quakes killed 200 and reduced the stone church in the village where she lives to rubble, leaving thousands homeless, without food and clean drinking water. She and the 27 orphans that she cares for had to sleep outside, because of the real possibility that their home could collapse on them.
Despite the dangers of her work, nothing could have prepared my mother for the 145 mph winds and 175 mph gusts of Typhoon Haiyan, regarded as one of the most powerful storms ever to make landfall.
The day before the Typhoon hit, my mother’s vehicle filled with children, was nearly tossed of a cliff when flash floods caused landslides on many of the islands. From my mother’s Facebook page:
Posted: November 13th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: Ernesto Cullari | Tags: Dalisay Dwinells, Ernesto Cullari, Phillipines, StreetKidsPM.org, Tyohoon Haiyan | 3 Comments »
RED BANK: BRIDGE FIX NEARS COMPLETION (via
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The rebuilding of twin Route 520/Newman Springs Road bridges over the Swimming River between Red Bank and Middletown, which began in April, is on schedule to wrap up next month, Monmouth County officials said Tuesday. Milling and paving of the roadway…
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Posted: November 13th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: News, Red Bank | Tags: Red Bank, RedBankGreen, RePost, Swimming River Bridge | Comments Off on RED BANK: BRIDGE FIX NEARS COMPLETION
Bayshore Tea Party Group co-founder Barbara Gonzalez pinning Sen. Joe Kyrillos
In her Bayshore Tea Party Perspective blog at APP.com, Bayshore Tea Party Group founder Barbara Gonzalez wrote today that members of the Tea Party are Republicans In Name Only.
Reacting to a derisive comment about the Tea Party by columnist Bernard Goldberg on last night’s O’Reilly Factor, Gonzalez wrote:
You see, we are Republicans in name only. Most of us are registered as Republicans, but over the last four or so years as the Tea Party movement, we have realized that we are not really what the GOP has become. With a 2 party system, we have been forced to chose the party that we are registered with.
Well, that was then…..and this is now
Gonzalez went on to implore Tea Party members to discipline the GOP establishment as they would discipline their children:
As we would do with our own children, we must be strong, hold our ground and mean what we say. Our children would be totally disobedient if we were as milk toast (sic) with disciplining them as we have been with our government officials.
Gonzalez does not want the Tea Party to comply with the GOP establishment and the media nominating a moderate for President in 2016.
Posted: November 12th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Barbara Gonzalez, Bayshore Tea Party Group | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Barbara Gonzalez, Bayshore Tea Party Group | 15 Comments »
photo credit: Rhoda Chodosh
Monmouth County Republican Chairman was appointed Acting Administrator of the Borough of Oceanport last week, replacing Phil Huhn, a former Neptune Township administrator, who had been holding the post since June when Kimberly Jungfer resigned as Borough Administrator and Clerk to take the same job in neighboring Little Silver.
Mayor Michael J. Mahon confirmed Bennett’s temporary appointment and declined to comment further.
Bennett, who also serves as the borough’s attorney, said he was in conversations with the governing body to become a full time employee as a attorney and administrator in January.
“It would be a win-win for everybody,” Bennett said, noting that the borough would save money in legal fees if he held both posts. He said he is not seeking pension credits or health benefits in the proposed position.
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Posted: November 12th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: John Bennett, Monmouth County, Monmouth GOP | Tags: Colts Neck, Dilworth Paxson, Farmingdale, John Bennett, Keansburg, Kimberly Jungfer, Little Silver, Meghan Bennett Clark, Monmouth GOP, Oceanport | 3 Comments »
Governor Chris Christie and HUD Sec Shaun Donovan in Highlands, April 29, 2013
Now that Governor Chris Christie has completed his victory lap with appearances on all four network Sunday morning talk shows, the whole world thinks he’s running for president.
His presidential message of getting things done in a bi-partisan manner is compelling given the current national political environment. If the presidential election was next November, I think he would beat Hillary Clinton or any Democrat.
But the presidential election is in 2016. Before running for president Christie has a year or two governing New Jersey and a year, 2014, as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
2014 will be a busy year for Christie. In addition to the undefined “big things” he said he will accomplish in his second term, there are 36 gubernatorial seats (38 if you consider the U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands) up in ’14. 19 (20 if you count Guam) of those seats are currently held by Republicans.
In New Jersey, much of Christie’s first term agenda remains undone. Tax cuts, “the property tax toll kit,” civil service reform, education reform, reshaping the State Supreme Court, and gutting COAH are all incomplete. Rebuilding from Superstorm Sandy is his mission. Much of New Jersey is still hurting one year out from the storm.
If Christie can cross off most of his New Jersey agenda from his to do list, get the remaining Sandy survivors back into their homes, and pick up some gubernatorial seats next year, the 2016 Republican presidential primaries will not be much of a challenge. No other GOP contender would be able to match Christie’s “I can get the job done and I know how to win” message.
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Posted: November 12th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2013 Gubernatorial Politics, 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Reform Agenda | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Barack Obama, Chris Christie, Reform Agenda, Steve Sweeney | 5 Comments »
By Art Gallagher
On Veterans’ Day, we honor all the men and women who have protected our country and fought for our way of life.
Photographer’s Mate 2nd class Joseph Sharp aboard the USS Forrestal in 1978
Today, I would like to especially thank the Vets of the post-Viet Nam era.
One of my most vivid memories from growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s was watching Mr. Hayes, a tough man and a Vet in my neighborhood, bawling his eyes out as his eldest son went off to Viet Nam. His son came home two years later, but he was different. There was no parade, as the war was still on and increasingly controversial. The younger Hayes was angry and seemingly damaged.
With pictures of casualties on the evening news every night, news of William Calley’s My Lai Massacre trial, the Kent State shootings and protests throughout the country, and witnessing how veterans of Viet Nam had come home changed, military service and the draft was feared by many. Young men went to college, got married and had children or fled to Canada to avoid being drafted into the war. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: November 11th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Opinion, Veterans | Tags: Jimmy Carter, Joseph Sharp, Veterans Day, Viet Nam | 4 Comments »
