Folks enjoying the party!

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Last Monday we consolidated our voter out-reach in the district, opening our second campaign office in Brick. The new Brick office complements the steady work we’ve been doing at our Hamilton HQ over the last three months. This was a very exciting occasion for the campaign, as it [...]

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American families are hurting because our economy is hurting. Just in the past six months, we’ve seen almost half a million American jobs disappear. To take a longer view, George W. Bush’s administration has seen the weakest job growth, less than half of one percent per year, of any President since Herbert Hoover. The Bush-Smith [...]

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First, I want to wish you all a Happy 4th of July. I’ve been thinking about the meaning of Independence Day, a day on which we as a people publicly declared our desire to be masters of our own destiny, to chart our own course as a free and independent society no longer under the [...]

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It’s time to close the so-called “Enron Loophole.”
As we’ve all seen on the news recently, out of control energy speculation on stock markets is one reason that oil and gas prices are so high. The impact is crippling our entire economy and hurting middle-class families.
In 2000, the Enron Loophole became law when Enron lobbyists were [...]

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With gas prices at $4/gallon, the last thing New Jersey drivers deserve is to get ripped off by gas station owners. I read recently about the inspections conducted by law enforcement of over 1000 gas stations in all 21 counties of our state. Any violations would be unacceptable, but over 350 station owners, more than [...]

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Today, I paid $3.88 per gallon to fill up my car. Accustomed as I am to living on a history teacher’s salary, I know how much these high gas prices hurt, and how they impact everything else we buy.
Recently, I had the privilege of speaking with 5th grade students at the Leadership Academy Charter School [...]

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 The New York Times recently published two troubling articles about hunger and poverty in America.  Both exposés place in sharp relief the problems many Americans are experiencing in these days of skyrocketing food, fuel, and health care inflation.
The first article concerns the plight of senior citizens from Maine who live below the poverty line.  Having [...]

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