Normally it would be a parent’s worst nightmare: teenage son takes advantage of the vacation period to invite a bunch of friends over to his parents’ home for a party. But at Carol and David Brett’s this weekend, the political opinions were flowing more feely than the drinks. Mark Brett rallied his friends, many of [...]

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Folks enjoying the party!

Originally uploaded by Josh Zeitz

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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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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Last Friday marked the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt told the American people would “live in infamy.”
Sixty-six years later, I’ve been thinking about American history, but also about another, more recent day when America was caught unaware, and about the lack of progress on national defense [...]

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