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Gov. Phil Murphy is pushing yet another gun control package his third, even if several of the bills
are left over from previous gun legislation pushes.
Those bills stricter ammunition tracking and photo ID requirements for purchases, four-year renewal of gun purchase IDs and lock box home storage rules have something in common besides firearms: They passed the Assembly in 2019 but not the Senate.
Kiley, Beson to seek nominations to run for county commissioner
Kiley, Beson to seek nominations to run for county commissioner
Republican Sue Kiley of Hazlet and Democrat Mike Beson of Ocean Township have announced their intention to run for a three-year term on the Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners this year.
There are five members of the board (formerly the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders; the name changed in January). All five commissioners are elected at large by voters in the county’s 53 municipalities.
Republicans hold a 5-0 majority on the board.
Kiley, who is serving the final year of her first three-year term on the board, and Beson issued press releases which state they will seek the nomination of their respective political party at conventions to be held in March.
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An opening of the 37th Legislative District Senate seat 16 years ago set off an intra-Democratic Party battle that tested the power of the Bergen County Democratic Party boss Joe Ferriero and a band of grassroots activists who challenged him.
The leader of that battle, Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, ultimately prevailed by a paper-thin margin after a nasty court battle. Weinberg announced her retirement Wednesday, and now a different competition may emerge this time between two crucial Democratic Party constituencies.
Will the Democrats choose Assemblyman Gordon Johnson, making him the first African American to represent Bergen County in the state Senate? Or will they rally behind Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, also of Englewood, a staunch liberal and champion of women s and LGBTQ rights?
NJ s Democratic Electoral College electors: Monday s Biden vote ends Trump madness | Stile
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If the 2020 presidential election had been more conventional than conspiratorial, Monday s Electoral College vote would be viewed as a ceremonial coda to a long campaign season.
But for the 14 Democratic electors scheduled to convene at 3 p.m. in the Assembly Chamber in the Statehouse in Trenton, the vote is freighted with a larger symbolic significance.
The Democrats are hoping that the dull formality of casting their prescribed votes for the winners, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, will drive another nail into the coffin of President Donald Trump s delusional crusade to overturn the election.