This just came in from Frank Luna our State Chair:

Liberals in NJ have really gone too far this time. They are planning on staging a war protest at which they will hold up a 3,000 foot banner with the names of every fallen soldier in Iraq as well as the names of 1200 fallen Iraqis. I know this is last minute but you can view their project here: http://bluewavenj.org/e-bw-mail/2007/iraqbannerproject.htm

WE WILL NOT TAKE THEM USING THE NAMES OF OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS TO SPREAD THEIR DEFEATIST IDEALS!!!!!!!

MEET WITH A GROUP OF PATRIOTS TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!!!

SATURDAY MARCH 31
TIME: 11:15am
WHERE: THE CORNER OF BLOOMFIELD AVE/FULLERTON AVE
MONTCLAIR, NJ

MAKE SURE YOU BRING A FLAG AND/OR A SIGN SUPPORTING THE TROOPS!!!!!

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Corzine says state won’t sell Turnpike
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
BY DEBORAH HOWLETT
Star-Ledger Staff

Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday ruled out selling the New Jersey Turnpike and insisted any lease of state assets to private operators must be structured in a way that ensures taxpayers will come out ahead.

“There will be no sale, I can as sure you of that, and any leasing will be under a very controlled basis,” Corzine said during a call-in program on the cable channel News 12 New Jersey. “We’re not giving away the shop. We’re not giving away the crown jewels.”

Corzine has proposed “monetiz ing” state assets, like the toll roads or the lottery, as a way to generate up-front cash payments from private operators or other sources.

The money would be used to pay down the state’s debt and fund capital projects, like road construction and open-space preservation, as well as other budget priorities for which there is currently no money. He has pledged that none of the windfall would go toward operational expenses.

The administration is studying exactly how it could accomplish those goals. Corzine said a proposal will be forthcoming in four to six weeks, and has declined to talk about specifics before “all the I’s are dotted and T’s are crossed.”

Corzine has said previously that he wasn’t ruling out any options, but in last night’s TV appearance he seemed to do just that.

“It’s monetization as opposed to privatization,” Corzine said.

One caller asked Corzine why the state couldn’t do as good a job running the Turnpike as a private firm, and by doing so reap all the financial benefit.

Corzine in response cited the Garden State Parkway and noted that it has had just one toll hike in its 55-year history. “I’m not sure we’re pricing it right for the marketplace,” he said.

Rather than simply giving up the toll road revenue to a private operator, Corzine said, the state would transfer the long-term operational costs to the operator and then take its share of the eventual proceeds in a lump sum. That would allow the state to save money on yearly debt service payments, he said.

“You can structure management of the asset in a way that ac crues to the benefit of the people of New Jersey,” Corzine said.

The governor also reiterated that he wants legislation banning lawmakers from holding other pub lic offices, saying, “I am intent on making sure this is actually accomplished before I sign the budget.” Corzine said earlier this month he had an agreement with legislative leaders that they would deliver a bill before the end-of-June budget deadline.

Deborah Howlett may be reached at (609) 989-0273 or dhowlett@star ledger.com.
Source: NJ.com

Anyone else think this is a terrible idea? I do.

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Fifty percent of adults would not vote for Clinton
By Kelly McCormack
March 27, 2007
Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday.
More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for Clinton. Overall, 36 percent say they would vote for the former first lady and 11 percent are unsure of their top choice.

Forty-eight percent of Independent voters also said that they would choose another candidate over Clinton, the poll, which surveyed 2,223 potential voters, states.

Fifty-six percent of men said that they would not vote for Clinton, while 45 percent of women said that she would not be their pick. In addition, 69 percent of those 62 and older said that they would not vote for Clinton.

Nearly half of the respondents said that they dislike Clinton’s political opinions and Clinton as a person. Fifty-two percent of people also said that “she does not appear to connect with people on a personal level.”

Source: TheHill.com

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By Jan Lopatka
REUTERS
5:38 a.m. March 21, 2007
PRAGUE – Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a ‘religion’ that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms.

The right-wing president, a free-market champion, wrote to the U.S. Congress that adopting tough environmental policies to fight climate change would have destructive impact on national economies.

‘Communism has been replaced by the threat of an ambitious environmentalism,’ Klaus wrote in response to questions from the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce.

The U.S. House Subcommittee for Energy and Air Quality was due to hold a hearing on climate on Wednesday with former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, who sees global warming as a key challenge, and Danish sceptic Bjorn Lomborg, who says governments should focus on fight disease and hunger instead.

Gore, who won an Oscar for ‘best documentary’ for his ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ movie on climate change, has led a global warming awareness drive in the United States, the world’s largest source of gases believed to cause it.

Klaus, who does not hold many executive powers but is by far the most popular politician in the ex-communist Czech Republic, has taken a decisively opposite stance on the issue.

Klaus said poor nations would also be hurt by efforts to impose limits and standards on emissions of gases believed to cause global warming.

‘They will not be able to absorb new technological standards required by the anti-greenhouse religion, their products will have difficulty accessing the developed markets, and as a result the gap between them and the developed world will widen,’ he wrote.

‘This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection – similarly to the old Marxists – wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world,’ he added.

U.S. President George W. Bush opposes mandatory caps on heat-trapping gases. He pulled the United States out in 2001 of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Klaus wrote that it was futile to fight against phenomena like higher solar activity or the change of ocean currents, and called for avoiding wasting taxpayers money on what he called doubtful projects.

‘No government action can stop the world and nature from changing. Therefore, I disagree with plans such as the Kyoto Protocol or similar initiatives, which set arbitrary targets requiring enormous costs without realistic prospects for the success of these measures,’ he said.

Source: Signonsandiego.com

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A new website has started called, Red Generation which has been designed to cater to the needs of the young Republicans of New Jersey. Be sure to stop by and check out what they have to offer.

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