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		<title>Hairbrained today, gone tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like only yesterday that Passaic County Sheriff Jerry Speziale was threatening legal action to defend his patronage mill. Oh &#8211; yeah&#8230;it was yesterday: Like other sheriffs in New Jersey, Speziale has the power to bypass the Civil Service exam and hire up to 15 percent of his rank-and-file officers by himself. During the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=252</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s fair?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Senators are questioning whether someone who is delinquent on property taxes should get an income tax return. Lisa Fleisher writes: Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) questioned the wording of the proposed bill, saying it was unclear whether the bill would allow municipalities to collect money before delinquent child support payments. She and other senators in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=249</link>
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		<title>Quote of the day &#8211; &#8220;Absolutely Untrue&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Patrick Murray, Director of Polling at Monmouth University, in response to Governor Christie&#8217;s claim his budget doesn&#8217;t raise taxes: &#8220;That’s a nice talking point, but it’s absolutely untrue. There are a lot of legal obligations that the state has that the governor just simply ignored.&#8221; In other words &#8211; meet the new boss. Same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Transparency is not a sometimes food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lovable, huggable old Cookie Monster has it right &#8211; cookies are a sometimes food (check out his &#8220;healthy food&#8221; rap). If Cookie Monster was into politics, he&#8217;d be telling us that transparency is just as healthy for government as broccoli is for a growing boy. The Asbury Park Press is having to remind Governor Christie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=245</link>
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		<title>Doddering Dick continues his slow shuffle into irrelevancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you guys witnessed the youthful vigor with which Dick Codey unleashed his legislative expertise in the budget battle that wasn&#8217;t. No? That&#8217;s because he was working on something really important: State Sen. Richard Codey (D-Essex) introduced a bill earlier this month that would suspend the licenses of three-time offenders of the state’s ban [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=243</link>
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		<title>Is an internal poll of any use?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PNJ has a post up telling of an internal poll from the Adler campaign that shows him up by seventeen points. But get your asterisk ready: The poll reflects a matchup among Adler, GOP nominee Runyan, and Tea Party independent Peter DeStafano, who gets 12% of the vote in the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research poll. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=241</link>
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		<title>Good news&#8230;if only it were accurate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hill has some good news for John Adler: In New Jersey, freshman Rep. John Adler (D) raised $415,000 for the quarter and will have more than $2 million cash on hand, according to the campaign. Adler is also a national GOP target in 2010, but he could slide off the NRCC’s radar given the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Might as well just chuck the damn thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Word is that Governor Christie may privatize vehicle inspections. Let me say, without a doubt, this is a BAD idea. I&#8217;ve lived in states that use the model being floated &#8211; where gas station attendants are given the power to issue inspection stickers. It&#8217;s a guarantee of corruption. Anyone who knows someone will never have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>Continuing the Mistake in the Meadowlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now I understand why the Chris Christie budget included so much revenue from repealing the Bergen Blue Law &#8211; because he plans to sink a ton of money into Xanadu. Three sources familiar with a proposal under serious consideration by the Christie administration said that taxpayers — via a provision of the state&#8217;s Economic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Runyan flops in debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Inquirer covered the first Adler-Runyan debate and it looks like Runyan came off as being rather ignorant and disjointed. &#8220;It&#8217;s convenient that the first vote came down three days after Republican Chris Christie took this district by 17 percent&#8221; in the governor&#8217;s race, Runyan said. He said Adler&#8217;s attempts &#8220;to try to run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardenstatepol.com/?p=233</link>
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