That’s according to Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R, NJ-02) whose sprawling district includes the Boardwalk Empire.
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The two-term incumbent met with numerous residents and business owners this week.
“If you really want to know what’s going on, you need to hit the streets and listen to the people who are grinding it out everyday simply trying to make ends meet,” the Congressman’s campaign reported on Friday. “So Congressman Van Drew hit the streets of Atlantic City this week – no TV cameras, no press, no fanfare – to hear from small businesses and residents on Atlantic Ave. (near Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd.) about the challenges they are facing. The message we heard was loud and clear, they want safety and security, law and order, more Police not less, and we are going to do everything we can to ensure everyone in Atlantic City and South Jersey has an equal opportunity to live the American Dream!”
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A separate city from its bigger neighbor to its south, North Las Vegas is the fourth-largest city in Nevada. It’s not every day that the mayor of a city of more than 241,000 people switches parties.
Mr. Lee follows in the footsteps of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who joined the GOP in August 2017, and Congressman Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who did so in December 2019.
In what should be the political equivalent of the canary in the coal mine for Democrats, Mr. Lee blamed the party’s leftward lurch for his departure. But the Nevada mayor had far more reason ideologically than Reagan ever had to jump ship on the Democratic Party, which today is light years to the left of where it was in 1962.
MAYS LANDING, N.J. – Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R, NJ-02) is throwing his considerable political weight behind Jack Ciattarelli for the 2021 NJGOP gubernatorial nomination.
“Jack is the only candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat, who understands the South Jersey and America we know and love,” said Van Drew in a Friday statement released by the Ciattarelli campaign. “South Jersey deserves better than lip service around election time, and a governor like Jack will be a tireless fighter for everyone fortunate enough to call New Jersey home.”
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“Congressman Van Drew’s focus on creating economic opportunity and fighting for a strong America and a strong South Jersey is why Jeff continues to connect with people regardless of their political affiliation,” added Ciattarelli (R-Somerset). “I respect Jeff’s independence and willingness to always stand up for South Jersey and remain grateful to have his support. As your next governor, I will never stop being a
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U.S. Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, who had to shelter when Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, joined a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the former president of inciting the deadly riot.
The lawsuit claims that Trump, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and two white supremacist organizations, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act by preventing Congress from carrying out its constitutional duties and certifying Electoral College votes to make Democrat Joe Biden the next president.
“We have to stand up for our democracy and our rights,” Watson Coleman, a Democrat.,