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Come To Somerset County On Election Day

by: nathanrudy

Fri Oct 24, 2008 at 08:34:58 AM EDT

I am asking you to take Election Day off from work and come to Somerset County to make this election as painful as possible for the Republican bosses. We can win this county for Barack Obama and put some serious dents in the Republican hold here.

Just last month Somerset's registration advantage moved from the GOP to the Democrats, we have awesome candidates for Freeholder in Doug Singleterry and Cecilia Xie Birge, have four different Congressional races (Pallone, Holt, Wyka and Stender), and candidates running in just about every town. This is an opportunity we haven't seen in a long time, and we need your help to make it happen.

We will be working out of Bridgewater (Martinsville), Hillsborough, Montgomery and maybe one other town but our goal is to reach every single district in the county at least once. We need you to give us a few hours to make this happen.

This is an amazing opportunity to put NJ7 in the Democrats' pocket, elect Democratic Freeholders in Somerset for the first time since 1979, take some of the wind out of Rodney Frelinghuysen, and win control of at least four towns.

We need challengers at the polls, van drivers for our volunteers, people to go door-to-door to our voters reminding them to get to the polls, and others to staff the staging areas. Anyone 16 years or older can volunteer on election day and make a real difference.

If you can give us one, two, three, four or eight hours on election day, please give me a call at (908) 561-6387 or e-mail me at nathanrudy@gmail.com .

If you can't come to Somerset, please be sure to volunteer in your home town or county. The more workers we have the more votes we'll get!

Let's win on November 4 up and down the ticket.

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Third Quarter Cash on Hand for Democrats

by: Hopeful

Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 05:59:18 PM EDT

Cash on Hand from the FEC quarterly filings:

Rob Andrews (NJ1) $2,429,899
Rush Holt (NJ12) $623,200
Frank Pallone (NJ6) $3,105,223
Bill Pascrell (NJ8) $1,031,440
Don Payne (NJ10) $751,399
Steve Rothman (NJ9) $1,838,631
Albio Sires (NJ13) $132,605

Your politics 101 quiz: Which of these Congressmen is thinking of running for the U.S. Senate?

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Holt's 'Voter Confidence' Has 221 Co-Sponsors

by: JRB

Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:29:40 PM EST

Representative Rush Holt held a press conference today to address irregularities with some electronic voting machines in last week's elections.

As we stand here today, the results in at least one House race remain unknown because thousands of votes were lost by electronic voting machines. Until we require that these systems produce a voter-verified paper audit trail, voters will continue to doubt the outcomes of elections involving these machines, because the results will be unauditable.
The inaccuracy of electronic touch-screen voting machines poses a direct threat to the integrity of our electoral system and to our nation’s democracy. Once again this broken system has been exposed in Florida’s 13th Congressional district where over 18,000 votes went uncounted. Without the means to fully guarantee that every vote is counted as fairly and accurately as possible, the authenticity of our recorded vote will always be uncertain and open to electoral and legal challenges.

Rep. Holt's bill, "The Voter Confidence and Accessibility Act" (H.R. 550) has gained two co-sponsors since last week's elections, making a total of 221 co-sponsors. (Though the House site puts the number at 222).

Some of the bill's specifics are after the jump.

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Announcing that I am a candidate for reelection

by: Congressman Rush Holt

Mon May 22, 2006 at 10:35:10 AM EDT

(Congressman Holt is answering more of the questions posted earlier. - promoted by jmelli)

Today I announce my campaign for reelection as the Congressional Representative for the people of the 12th Dictrict of New Jersey.

I am announcing on the web and through this blog intentionally to make the point that in my campaign and in my work as Member of Congress I seek input from citizens and I seek to build community.

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Watch It, Blog It . . . A New Way to Launch a Campaign

by: Matt Prol

Fri May 19, 2006 at 09:52:54 AM EDT

( - promoted by jmelli)

A different kind of Congressman kicks off a different kind of campaign...This Monday, May 22, at 10:00 a.m., Congressman Rush Holt will hold his Campaign Kick-Off. This year, in addition to doing an event on Monday morning at Rider University, weâ€™ll be broadcasting the event in real time via RushHolt.com. If you canâ€™t join us in person, we hope youâ€™ll view it on the web with fellow supporters at selected meet-ups throughout the district. Also, join Rush at 10:30 a.m. right here on BlueJersey for live blogging. Heâ€™ll take questions about the direction of the country, issues before Congress, and anything else on your mind. I really, or virtually, hope you can join us! Click here to see event flyer!

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Meet the Candidates

by: Juan Melli

Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 07:08:10 PM EDT

This is the most recent listing of candidates that have filed petitions for federal office. The first candidate listed in each category is the incumbent. The number after their names indicates the number of petition signatures submitted, and I also included the slogans of some of the candidates running without the party endorsement.

US Senate: Bob Menendez (D) 8029 James D. Kelly Jr (D) 1300 Thomas H. Kean Jr. (R) 4202 John P. Ginty (R) 1742

House Districts 1: Rob Andrews (D)

2: Frank LoBiondo (R) 804 Viola Thomas-Hughes (D) 298 Henry David Marcus (D) 207 "Change the Course!"

3: Jim Saxton (R) 949 Richard Sexton (D) 293

4: Chris Smith (R) 675 Gary Schiavone (D) 310

5: Scott Garrett (R) 513 Michael Cino (R) 300 Paul Aronsohn (D) 495 Camille M. Abate (D) 427 "A New Spine For Congress"

6: Frank Pallone Jr (D) 310 Leigh-Ann Bellew (R) 278

7: Mike Ferguson (R) 896 Linda Stender (D) 532

8: Bill Pascrell (D) 4301 Jose Sandivol (R) 407

9: Steve Rothman (D) 1020 Vincent Micco (R) 321

10: Donald Payne (D) 1244 Deshon Porter (D) 211

11: Rodney Frelinghuysen (R) 699 Tom Wyka (D) 332

12: Rush Holt (D) 1216 Joseph Sinagra (R) 225

13: Special election for unexpired term Albio Sires (D) 530 James Geron (D) 268

13: For full term Albio Sires (D) 3229 Joseph Vas (D) 594 John Guarini (R) 255

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Every NJ Congressional District Will Be Challenged

by: Juan Melli

Mon Apr 10, 2006 at 01:42:35 PM EDT

Update 3 (A big one, so I'm posting it up top): There WILL be two Democratic challengers to Frank LoBiondo in NJ-2. Fairfield Township councilwoman Viola Thomas-Hughes and Henry David Marcus will compete in the primary. This now means that every Republican House member in New Jersey will face a challenger in November.

According to the Division of Elections, Gary Schiavone has filed to challenge Chris Smith in the 4th Congressional district. With about two hours left until the filing deadline, ~~no Democrat has filed in the 2nd yet to challenge LoBiondo.~~

The GOP has failed to file challenges to Rob Andrews (NJ-1) and Donald Payne (NJ-10).

Update 1: Donald Payne (NJ-10) will have a challenger in the primary, and Michael Cino has just filed to challenge Garrett in the primary. Assemblywoman Oadline Truitt (D) from the 28th legislative district will face a primary challenge.

Update 2: (via politicsnj)

Joe Vas filed petitions to run for the full 2-year term in the 13th district, but not for the Special Election.
John Ginty filed petitions to seek the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate today. Ginty filed with 1,742 signatures.
James Kelly, a resident of a group home for the mentally disabled , filed as a U.S. Senate candidate in the primary against Bob Menendez.

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