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Please join me at a Pre-Election Rally that I am hosting on Saturday, November 4th, from 7 to 11 pm, at the Bethwood, located at 38 Lackawanna Avenue in Totowa. Our special guests will include Tom Kean, Jr. and our Passaic County Freeholder candidates -- Art Soto, Keith La Forgia and Erik Lowe. Food and beverages will be served, and we are asking for a contribution of only $65 to the PCRRO (Passaic County Regular Republican Organization) to help cover costs and raise needed funds for our critical get-out-the-vote efforts. This election will be one of the most important in...

Bret Schundler Media Archives Dear fellow American: I am writing friends and supporters in New Jersey to encourage you to vote for Bret Schundler for Governor on November 6. Bret is running for Governor to lower taxes, improve education, and ensure that the American dream is available to every willing citizen. Bret has laid out a positive agenda to cut property taxes, improve New Jersey schools, and revive the economy in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. I know Bret Schundler can do all these things because of his outstanding work as Mayor of Jersey City. He attracted thousands...

Bret Schundler is having trouble raising money. He hasn't won a single county endorsement so far. And he faces a spirited challenge for control of his conservative base. So why is Schundler so serene? And why are a growing number of Republicans privately picking him to win the nomination? "He's got a loyal base of supporters, and that support is growing," said one deflated party official. "Even people working for other campaigns, like me, are becoming convinced of it." When moderate Republicans talk like this, they sound like condemned men marching to the gallows. They are convinced Schundler is too...

SCHUNDLER IN DEAD HEAT WITH McGREEVEY Leads All Other Republican CandidatesMany of you may remember several polls that were released in recent months stating that Bret Schundler can win the 2005 Gubernatorial election. Last Week, another poll released by Quinnipiac confirmed what the other polls have indicated…THAT BRET SCHUNDLER IS IN POSITION TO BEAT JIM McGREEVEY IN NEXT YEAR’S RACE FOR GOVERNOR!The Quinnipiac Poll also shows that Bret Schundler is the strongest Republican candidate in a head to head match-up with McGreevey. The poll shows that Bret is within the margin of error specified for the poll…and…. that 56% of...

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<p>May 22, 2003 -- Soon after Acting New Jersey Gov. Donald DiFrancesco left office early last year, he joined the board of directors of a bank that got his help while he was still in office.</p> <p>In one of his last acts in office, DiFrancesco signed legislation giving the Burlington County Bridge Commission, which operates two Delaware River toll bridges, the power to issue bonds for other government entities.</p>

<p>Terrorists are on the loose in New Jersey and some have been secretly locked up, the state's anti-terror czar said Wednesday night as U.S. forces massed to depose Iraq's Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>"Yes," said the state counter-terrorism chief, Sid Caspersen, on New Jersey 101.5 FM radio when asked if terrorists were afoot in the Garden State.</p>

TRENTON, Sept. 6 — The proposal to build a $355 million sports arena in Newark and redevelop the Meadowlands fell apart today when a key Assembly committee canceled a hearing on the issue, effectively derailing the legislation. The plan would have provided a new home for the New Jersey Nets and New Jersey Devils, and was seen as vital to helping further the renaissance of downtown Newark. But in recent weeks the plan had come under increasing scrutiny, with the Republican candidate for governor, Bret D. Schundler, warning that taxpayers might end up footing some of the bill and calling ...

<p>Prospects of raising the state income tax on the richest New Jerseyans are getting a boost from three Republican lawmakers who say they'll back the plan if the extra dollars are used to increase state aid to towns and growing school districts.</p>

WHY FORRESTER LOST - AND LOST BADLY… Rick Shaftan Liberal “experts” attempt to alibi Doug Forrester’s humiliating defeat saying it was because he was “too” conservative even though across the nation, conservatives like Norm Coleman, Jim Talent, Saxby Chambliss, Wayne Allard and of course Scott Garrett won unexpected or larger than expected victories. Forrester lost badly because he never connected with New Jersey’s largest group of swing voters - “Reagan Democrats” - conservative Catholics who live along Routes 3, 17, 46 and the Parkway. And Republicans will continue to lose as long as they believe that being pro-abortion is the...

Gray Davis continues to distort the truth and make false accusations against me, and ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The GLOVES ARE OFF!Simonforgovernor.com We have unveiled a new ad that strikes at the core of Davis’ Pay-to-Play antics in the Governor’s office. The ad, titled “This Whole Thing Stinks,” highlights Davis’ willingness to sell even our children’s health to the highest bidder. “This Whole Thing Stinks” A Gray Davis board stopped a big oil company, Tosco, from dumping more dioxin into our water. But, the very next day, Tosco gave more than $50,000 to Davis’s campaign. The Davis board quickly reversed itself…...

Schundler not taking a back seatMonday, March 18, 2002By HERB JACKSONStaff WriterHe's ba-ack.Well-rested after a long vacation to put that Nov. 6 unpleasantness behind him, Republican Bret Schundler is popping up at political events again, claiming to be the state GOP's "titular head" because of his primary victory last June and making no secret of his expectation to win the 2005 gubernatorial nomination as well.But does the GOP still want Schundler? History suggests that candidates who lost as badly as he did - Governor McGreevey garnered 56 percent to Schundler's 42 percent - usually slink off the political stage...

Schundler not taking a back seat HERB JACKSON He's ba-ack. Well-rested after a long vacation to put that Nov. 6 unpleasantness behind him, Republican Bret Schundler is popping up at political events again, claiming to be the state GOP's "titular head" because of his primary victory last June and making no secret of his expectation to win the 2005 gubernatorial nomination as well. But does the GOP still want Schundler? History suggests that candidates who lost as badly as he did - Governor McGreevey garnered 56 percent to Schundler's 42 percent - usually slink off the political stage into oblivion....

A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM BRET SCHUNDLER We did not lose last Tuesday -- we just have not won yet! For us, the goal was never just to win an election. It was to implement policies that would solve problems in New Jersey and improve people’s lives. That cause endures -- and thus, so does the fight. Tomorrow will bring another opportunity to do what we can to make the world a better place. The day after tomorrow will bring another opportunity. We will win some battles. We will lose some battles. It is the good fight itself that is the ...

April 22, 2004--New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey trails Bret Schundler 46% to 39% in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll. Three years ago, in the 2001 election, McGreevey trounced Schundler by 14 percentage points. The New Jersey Governor's race will be held in November 2005. Schundler is not the only Republican with hopes of replacing McGreevey. State Senator Diane Allen finds herself in a toss-up with the Governor at this time. The poll found Allen with 41% of the vote and the McGreevey with 40%. Other match-ups will be tested as the year unfolds. These troubling numbers for McGreevey come despite...

<p>Gov. James E. McGreevey cast himself as an unabashed champion of gun control last year. He made the topic one of the linchpins of his campaign against Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler and pledged to enact a first-in-the-nation law to require "smart gun" technology on all handguns sold in New Jersey.</p>