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Agree!

Dan Mulligan

This post was to simply highlight the amount of money spent on two New Jersey Assembly Seats that are part time jobs that pay about $50,000 a year.

If we add in what the other two candidates spent the total number is close to a million dollars.

In the end it does not matter which party you support because the one thing I feel everyone can agree with is the spending on these campaigns is out of control, not illegal, just out of control and that goes for both major political party's.

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cranb09

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Guest

cran09, why did you redundantly post that here when you already had in another topic, especially when it is completely unrelated to this topic?

Guest

Back to the topic of the thread....

Thank you Dan. As a resident of the state it concerns me that politicans of either party would spend so much because the job clearly is not that well paying. So we see special interests in control at the state.

As a Cranbury resident the spending concerns me because with these two in control we are faced with no supporting votes when it comes to the COAH opposition. We needed a change at the state level. I am not sure Christie alone can make that change. So as a Cranbury resident this money was money spent against our town's interests. The fact that so many people in our town did vote for Linda and Wayne concerns me because it shows how many people are either pure party or don't learn of the issues.

And I am independent by the way and proud of it.

cranb09

Reacting to prominent conservative blogger Charles Johnson's announcement that he would not follow the right wing off a cliff, Andrew Sullivan is offering his own reasons for parting with the movement.

Johnson, who blogs at Little Green Footballs, wrote on Monday that fanatic politicians, racism, sexism, anti-Islamism, hate speech, conspiracy theories and other troubling trends on the right wing have led him to make a formal break.

"The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff," he concluded. "I won't be going over the cliff with them."

Andrew Sullivan, though not as consistent a conservative as Johnson, felt compelled to emphasize his own separation from the right wing. Among other things, he writes:

I cannot support a movement that holds that purely religious doctrine should govern civil political decisions and that uses the sacredness of religious faith for the pursuit of worldly power.

I cannot support a movement that is deeply homophobic, cynically deploys fear of homosexuals to win votes, and gives off such a racist vibe that its share of the minority vote remains pitiful.

I cannot support a movement which has no real respect for the institutions of government and is prepared to use any tactic and any means to fight political warfare rather than conduct a political conversation.

Dan Mulligan

I find amazing just how much money was spent to re-elect Greenstein and DeAngelo...

Assembly candidate election spending drops to $15.8 M
Assembly candidates spent $15.8 million in the run-up to last month’s election, a 30 percent drop from four years ago, elections officials said today. "As has been noted all along, the impact of the pay-to-play reforms and the economy is being felt at every level, including the legislative level," said Jeffrey Brindle, executive director of the Election Law Enforcement Commission. Democrats spent more than twice as much as Republicans -- $11.2 million compared with $4.6 million. Each party has about $1 million left over from their campaigns. The Democrats also lost only one Assembly seat this year and will start the next legislative session with a 47-to-33 majority. The Democratic Party pumped the most money into a handful of battleground areas. It spent almost $1.7 million in District 1, a heavily Republican region, to re-elect Assemblymen Nelson Albano and Matt Milam (both D-Cumberland). Another $754,270 was spent in District 14, where 3 Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex) and Wayne DeAngelo (D-Mercer) held onto their seats, and $739,905 in District 36, where Frederick Scalera (D-Essex) and Gary Schaer (D-Passaic) retained their seats. (Megerian, Star Ledger)

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/assembly_candidates_spend_less.html