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If you follow new GOP chief Michael Steele around these days, you can bet you’ll hear him bring up New Jersey’s gubernatorial race this year. He wants that blue state red again. From top to bottom, the GOP is talking about New Jersey. Here at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reminded the crowds that the last time New Jersey had a conservative candidate for governor, he won with 70% of the vote (Tom Kean, 1984). That’s 70% — in New Jersey. After that victory it is inexplicable that New Jersey’s Republican intelligentsia determined...

Businessman Michael Yun remembers what Jersey City, New Jersey, was like in the 1980s. "Like the wild, wild West," he said. The "streets weren't safe" and government was "out of control." Public services failed, businesses left, and corruption was rampant. Abandoned by the outdated railroad industry, it was the anemic neighbor of Manhattan, where feral dogs ran wild in the tall grass by the collapsed railway arteries and hypodermic needles, like seeds, littered the ground just west of the Hudson River. But all that changed in 1992 when Republican Bret Schundler did the impossible. After Mayor Gerald McCann was arrested...

Ex-mayor heads firm for pols, vols Monday, February 12, 2007 By COTTON DELO JERSEY JOURNAL Former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler can add campaign strategist to his list of titles. From his office on Second Street, Schundler, 48, helms People Power America (www.peoplepoweramerica.com), a for-profit business that licenses Internet-based software designed to enable political candidates to better organize their volunteers - largely for phonebanking purposes. . . . See:http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/index.ssf?/base/news-3/117126415264260.xml&coll=3

Supporting embryonic stem cell research is not only morally misguided but fiscally irresponsible, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler told a cheering crowd of 200 anti-abortion activists who gathered on the Statehouse steps yesterday to blast acting Gov. Richard Codey's $380 million research proposal. Schundler accused Codey of using the moral debate over whether stem cells should be extracted from embryos for potentially life-saving research to distract voters from the price tag. "To come up with that money, what are they going to do, of course? They are going to increase your taxes," Schundler told the crowd. "They have a $2...

Former Gov. Christie Whitman believes the Republican Party is in deep trouble. The GOP, she says, is now where the Democrats were a dozen years ago in Washington when they lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years. President Bush's popularity is at a low ebb and several GOP leaders have been snared in ethics scandals. "We're at a critical point," she said. "We're starting to see polls that look just like the polls looked to Democrats in '94." From a converted hayloft of the barn on her family estate in Oldwick, Whitman works each day...

Corzine Ready To Lower Tax Boom On N.J. CBS 2 Speaks To Upset Residents, Many Hint At Leaving Image Marcia Kramer Reporting (CBS) BERGENFIELD New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine unveils his belt tightening new budget on Tuesday. But even before the announcement, New Jersey taxpayers were expecting the worst. When Corzine voted for himself to become governor of New Jersey he knew that one day he would have to make some difficult and unpopular budget decisions. That day is Tuesday. And already people are lining up to oppose his expected tax hikes. ”It’s utterly ridiculous we have to have the...

Hudson County Fact:After the Clinton political machine hired private investigators to "destroy" Monica Lewinsky for telling the truth, Bret Schundler ran radio ads and issued a press release calling for President Clinton to resign. Demonstrating the cluelessness of the administration, the President's staff invited Schundler to the White House to receive an award and to meet with Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary. Hudson County, New Jersey is a place of many firsts – including genocide and slavery.Political corruption is a tradition here.First issue in a series by Anthony OlszewskiClick HERE to Read Bret Schundler's Review.

To paraphrase the late conservative intellectual Richard Weaver, election results have consequences. The consequences of the off-year 2001 elections will not be limited to the manner in which the victors govern; they will have a national impact as future pretenders to public office ponder their meaning and plan campaigns accordingly. Republicans are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from November 6 and do so at their peril. To review, the GOP lost the governorship in both Virginia and New Jersey while retaining the mayor's office in New York City (the Houston mayoral race will be decided in a runoff)....

A millionaire businessman won New Jersey's Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday and earned the right to face Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine in November — the state's first race for governor since James McGreevey resigned in a gay-sex scandal. Doug Forrester edged former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler after spending millions of his own fortune to finance a campaign that took aim at the state's highest-in-the-nation property taxes. Corzine easily won the Democratic primary after facing only token opposition. With 94 percent of precincts counted, Forrester had 102,417 votes, or 36 percent, to 88,841 votes, or 31 percent, for Schundler in the...

Governor, NJ GOP Primary 6/6/2005 Forrester 43% Schundler 31% Other 22% Undecided 5% Data Collected 6/03/05 - 6/05/05 Geography State of New Jersey Sample Population 612 Likely Voters Margin of Error 4.0% Client WABC-TV New York WCAU-TV Philadelphia Analysis: In a Republican Primary for Governor of New Jersey today, 12 hours before polls open, Douglas Forrester defeats Bret Schundler 43% to 31%, according to final SurveyUSA tracking poll conducted exclusively for WABC-TV New York and WCAU-TV Philadelphia. 22% would vote for one of the other five candidates in the race. 5% are undecided. Since an identical SurveyUSA poll 12 days...

Bret Schundler erases 9 Forrester points in five days! Go Bret Go!!! Everyone vote for Bret tomorrow!! He WILL stop Corzine! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bill Pascoe June 6, 2005 (908) 379-2738 Q-Poll: Schundler SURGES!!! New Jersey is not for sale Forrester’s smear campaign backfires; tax-hiking, salary-doubling, ‘drunken-sailor-spending’ liberal’s 11-point “lead” collapses to two points in four days (MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ) – Schundler for Governor communications director Bill Pascoe – reacting to the release of a new poll by Quinnipiac University, showing that in the space of just four days, Bret Schundler has surged as Doug Forrester has collapsed – this...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Doug Forrester should feel flattered. Here's Forrester's property-tax plan as stated on his Web site: "The 30% in 3 Guaranteed Plan will cut property taxes 10 percent the first year, 20 percent the second year and 30 percent in the third and every year going forward." And here's Corzine's plan, just released on his Web site: "Corzine's plan gives direct rebates to homeowners and renters who need them; rebates are guaranteed to grow at least 10% per year for 4 years." Corzine is a lock to win the Democratic nomination for...

Quinnipiac: DEAD HEAT The race for the GOP nomination for New Jersey Governor is too close to call, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning showing Doug Forrester at 35% and Bret Schundler at 33%. Four days ago, a Quinnipiac poll had Forrester ahead by eleven points, 40%-29%. The second horserace is for third place, with John Murphy, Paul DiGaetano and Steve Lonegan all within 2% of each other. Three out of ten voters (31%) say they could still change their minds, while 69% say their decision is final. “No candidate in this race has generated great...

Schundler for Governor 2001 Campaign News Archive Bret Schundler Media Archives Online Video: Bret Schundler Confronts Forrester with the TRUTH! Forrester: Lying AGAIN to New Jersey Republican Voters “I deny all those things,” says tax-hiking, drunken-sailor-spending, salary-doubling liberal (MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ) – Schundler for Governor communications director Bill Pascoe – responding to Doug Forrester’s audacious denial of his tax-hiking, drunken-sailor-spending record while serving in the one elected office he’s ever held – today issued the following statement: “Last week, Doug Forrester said ‘You can call me mistaken. You can call me misinformed. You can even call me a fool. But...

With only a couple of days to go before voters head to the polls, the seven men who want to be the Republican nominee for governor of New Jersey accused one another yesterday, in their last televised debate, of distorting their respective records and proposals over property taxes, corruption and home rule. And without fail, the five candidates who are trailing in the polls reserved their sharpest criticisms for the two men who are far ahead: Douglas R. Forrester, the former mayor of West Windsor, and Bret D. Schundler, the former mayor of Jersey City.At one point, Mr. Schundler...

Friday, June 3, 2005 A true Republican litmus testPosted: June 3, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern By Kevin McCullough © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com As someone who has been registered as a Republican for the last several election cycles I sometimes weary of the wing of the party that seems to have forgotten what it is to be one. It seems like in recent years I have been forced to hear how "all enlightened" John McCain, Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chaffee and others are – who stand on the advantage of being part of the majority won by grassroots conservatives. My appearance on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal"...

Unlike Democratic voters in New Jersey, Republicans have a genuine choice on Tuesday when they select their party's nominee for governor. Bret Schundler, the former mayor of Jersey City, and Douglas Forrester, the former mayor of the small township of West Windsor, are leading a field of seven candidates. The winner will face Democratic Senator Jon Corzine, whose considerable wealth helped frighten off any real Democratic competition. Mr. Schundler is the livelier of the two. He is also far more conservative, veering at some distance from the moderate model that has worked for New Jersey Republicans in the past. Mr....

One photo was taken at a 2004 Dean for President rally sponsored by the American University College Democrats in Washington, D.C. The other photo comes from Bret Schundler's campaign website, advertising Schundler's Reform Gear

Republicans will never be able to agree on such sticky social issues as guns and abortion.... Sounds obvious, right? Consider this proposition in light of a letter that was published on these pages Sunday from Brian Stack. Stack represents the Hudson County Democratic machine in the state Assembly. Logically enough, Stack wants Republicans to keep pouring billions of dollars into Democratic districts for free preschools and other goodies through what he termed "the Abbott system" of school funding. "Sadly, Republicans, both legislators and candidates for governor, would rather malign the Abbott system and advocate its dismantling to score political points...

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Schundler for Governor 2001 Campaign News Archive Bret Schundler Media Archives New Jersey Power and Politics InterviewsBill Pascoe, Schundler for Governor Communications Director andSherry Sylvester, Forrester for Governor Communications Director Online Video – 05/21/05: Part APart B Get A FREE Bumper Sticker!

WEST WINDSOR, N.J., May 25 - They were both Republican mayors who took office as development was beginning to explode in their communities. But beyond that, Bret Schundler and Douglas R. Forrester, the leading candidates in the Republican primary for governor in New Jersey, have about as much in common as a skyline and a subdivision. Mr. Schundler was a political maverick from Wall Street who brought a burst of energy and conservative ideas to the state's second-largest city, Jersey City, in 1992. In his nine years as mayor, he slashed the city payroll and built charter schools. He persuaded...

BOGOTA, N.J. - When Steven Lonegan's younger daughter walked down the stairs of their home on prom night, her father gazed up at her and said, "You look beautiful." Those words were especially touching because Brooke Lonegan, 17, knew her father couldn't see her. Her father, one of seven Republican gubernatorial candidates, is legally blind. "For a few moments, I am able to forget that he cannot actually see me," Brooke Lonegan wrote in an essay for a college application. "All my life I have had to live with this fact, and with the constant realization that my father will...

LONEGAN FOR GOVERNOR www.loneganforgovernor.com -- “If Forrester’s record is the worst, then mine is the best!” LONEGAN COUNTERS SCHUNDLER’S $250 CHALLENGE AGAINST FORRESTER WITH $250 OFFER AGAINST HIS OWN RECORD. Listen to the latest radio ad about Illegal Alien Driver's Licenses Steve Lonegan Quote of the Day:     "When my grandparents came here from Italy and Ireland, they came here legally. They learned the language. They worked hard to build a better future.     "The operative word here is illegal. These are people who violated our immigration laws. I believe we should use our Homeland Defense funds to tighten...

Wanted: Dead or Alive – Someone, ANYONE, Who Raised Property Taxes Faster than Doug Forrester See:http://www.bret2005.com/pressreleases/?messageID=469

Politics - New Jersey Governor Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge New Jersey Governor Republican Candidate 2005 NJ.GOV.REP.FORRESTERDoug Forrester to be New Jersey Governor Republican Candidate 2005 M 30.1 39.9 35.0 55 0 NJ.GOV.REP.SCHUNDLERBret Schundler to be New Jersey Governor Republican Candidate 2005 M 45.0 69.9 55.0 1 0 NJ.GOV.REP.MURPHYJohn Murphy to be New Jersey Governor Republican Candidate 2005 M - 12.0 3.0 100 0 NJ.GOV.REP.SCHROEDERRobert Schroeder to be New Jersey Governor Republican Candidate 2005 M - 5.0 3.0 0 0 NJ.GOV.REP.LONEGANSteve Lonegan to be New Jersey Governor Republican Candidate 2005 M - 5.0 3.0 0 0 NJ.GOV.REP.DIGAETANOPaul DiGaetano...

May 20, 2005 People Who Live in Crystal Houses … II (MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ) – Schundler for Governor communications director Bill Pascoe – terribly frustrated, as are all the overtaxed homeowners of New Jersey who want straight answers from Douglas Forrester and his campaign, but are so far being denied – today issued the following statement: “To date, Doug Forrester and his campaign have evaded, deflected, and in some cases outright denied FACTS that are on the public record: “FICTION: When asked why he cast his first vote as a Township Committeeman to double his own salary, Mr. Forrester artfully deflected...

People Who Live in Crystal Houses … May 19, 2005 (MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ) – Schundler for Governor communications director Bill Pascoe – responding to the latest false statements from the Forrester campaign – today issued the following statement: “Douglas Forrester’s campaign – which has now begun a 100 percent negative, false attack on Bret Schundler on the airwaves that, strangely, does not appear on Mr. Forrester’s web site (raising the obvious question: is Mr. Forrester embarrassed about these false ads?) – has once again falsely accused Bret of saying things he didn’t say and doing things he didn’t do. But I...

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May 18, 2005 Schundler: Forrester Should Apologize for Misleading the Public (TRENTON, NJ) – Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler, responding to Doug Forrester’s misleading statements in last night’s NJN gubernatorial debate, today called on Mr. Forrester to apologize to the public for deliberate misstatements of fact. “In last night’s NJN gubernatorial debate, Doug Forrester made a number of misleading statements designed to leave the public with an impression that’s just not true. Today, I call on Doug Forrester to apologize to the public for deliberately trying to mislead them, and I ask him respectfully to conduct his campaign in the...

In 2001, to aid the McGreevey campaign, a state employee leaked a letter that fraudulently and maliciously described 50 million dollars of outstanding Jersey City bonds as a deficit instead of debt. McGreevey utilized this Big Lie during the debates. The state employee responsible for the disinformation was fired. - - - Worker fired over letter critical of Schundler Originally appeared in the Trenton Times on 10/12/01 By TRACEY L. REGAN Staff Writer TRENTON -- The state official who infuriated Republicans by writing a letter suggesting Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler left Jersey City a more than $50 million deficit...

Online Video: 2001: Bret Schundler Leads the Fight Against the Newark Arena News 12, August 20, 2001 NJN, August 21, 2001

In January, shock jock Craig Carton caused an uproar by insulting the acting governor's wife. More recently, he took aim at Asian-Americans. On Thursday afternoon, the NJ 101.5 WKXW-FM radio personality switched off his irreverent persona and turned on his serious, public-service side to host a live, two-hour debate among five of the Republicans running for governor of New Jersey. "Hopefully people know that at times we have the ability to be serious and straight and at other times, when it warrants it, to have a good time and not be so straight," Carton said during a commercial break at...

Back in 1994, Christie Whitman came to power as the standard-bearer of what we were led to believe was a new and more enlightened form of Republican governance in this state. New Jersey then ranked 11th in the nation in bonded indebtedness. Now we're No. 3 -- with a bullet. The bullet comes in the form of a request that the state borrow perhaps $10 billion more for construction of schools in urban areas. The urban districts already got $6 billion, but they blew through that in record time. Now they're back for more. I'd love to be able to...

Any day now I expect Bret Schundler to call a press conference and, with his family gathered around him, make the following confession: "Throughout my life I have always grappled with my identity. At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and grasp the truth. And my truth is that I am a liberal American." Not that there's anything wrong with that. But it does seem a little strange to see a candidate who has been tagged by the media as a right- winger taking the sort of left-wing positions...

Schundler for Governor 2001 Campaign News Archive Bret Schundler Media Archives Schundler Advances the Right Ideals Originally appeared in Insight on 04/25/2001By James Harder Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, a savvy onetime Democrat who saw the light, hopes to be this year’s GOP nominee for governor of the Garden State. Bret Schundler’s narrow victory in the race for the Jersey City, N.J., mayorship took his competitors by surprise in 1992, and no wonder: No Republican had held the job since World War I. Schundler since has been twice re-elected to become the city’s longest-serving mayor in more than half...

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Schundler for Governor 2001 Campaign News Archive Bret Schundler Media Archives Schundler's Family and Friends Say He Always Played Hard Originally appeared in the New York Times on October 31, 2001By DAVID M. HALBFINGER Richard Perry/The New York TimesBret D. Schundler "The good fight is the good life," he says his parents taught him. TRENTON, Oct. 30 - When Bret D. Schundler was growing up in a crowded and competitive household, his older brothers say, he learned to delve into social problems, convince himself of the solutions, and defend his reasoning against all challenges. When he was playing freshman...

Bret Schundler's Milestones Table of Significant Achievments BiographyMultimedia Archive Speeches by Bret SchundlerPolicy Articles by Bret Schundler National and State Press Praise Bret Schundler's Leadership A Special Message from Bret Schundler "The conservative Schundler has done radical things in Jersey City. He privatized the management of the city's library. He raised more that $1 million in scholarship money to give low-income families greater school choice for their children. But he also cracked down on tax evaders, increased the police force, and lowered the tax rate." New Jersey Monthly

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...

...According to the most recent survey by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind, controlling spending and taxes is the top choice of Democrats, Independents and Republicans, men and women, conservatives, moderates and liberals, and every age category...Asked whether they intend to vote for a Democratic or Republican candidate for governor considering that New Jersey has had a Democratic governor since 2002, voters split 38% for a Republican, 40% for a Democrat, and 21% waiting to decide... Currently, 75% of Democrats and 81% of Republicans say they will vote for a candidate of their own party, whereas 47% of independents say they are...

Bret Schundler on the Hannity and Colmes ShowJohn F. Kennedy Would Support George Bush's Tax CutsClick HERE to View the Online Video Bret Schundler Media Archives

Schundler Challenges Forrester to DebatesClick HERE To View the NJN Video Bret Schundler Media Archives

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Schundler Condemns McGreevey's Support for Partial Birth Abortion Bret Schundler Media Archives

Online Video: Bret Schundler Teams Up With Passaic County Reform Republican Committee "I am asking for your support for this entire ticket. And I believe that this ticket will deliver for every single Passaic County resident." - New Jersey's next Governor, Bret Schundler Video A Video B www.PassaicCountyGOP.org Bret Schundler Media Archives

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SCHUNDLER, DiGAETANO AND MURPHY CALL ON FORRESTER TO MAKE PUBLIC GOP CONTRIBUTIONS AND PLEDGES GOP gubernatorial candidates Bret Schundler, Paul DiGaetano and John Murphy today called on Doug Forrester to make public by Friday, April 1 all contributions he has given or promised to New Jersey Republican committees, candidate committees or individuals since January 1, 2005. “We call on Doug Forrester to publish all contributions he has personally made or promised to Republican county or municipal political committees or individuals or individual GOP candidate committees. We ask Mr. Forrester to detail all contributions and promises of financial support from him,...

Selected Articles | Audio & Video Bret Schundler Speaks at The Church of Grace and Peace Online Video View the Entire Video 35:54 – May take some time to load