Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
....who said the New Jersey election didn't have national implications? Oh yeah, Pelosi, Axlerod, and Gibbs. Apparently, the three of them don't equal one idiot : The decisions of the final holdouts on the House health bill are beginning to come in. Rep. John Adler, a New Jersey Democrat, said today he's voting no . He criticized the bill's $1 trillion-plus price tag over 10 years, and said it doesn't...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
After reading the Asbury Park Press published coverage of Rep. John Adler's health care town hall, I can't decide which aspect of the piece is more annoying: That they use anti-reform frames and don't bother saying so? That they don't explain anything about Adler's position? That they seem a little ... invested ... in continuing controversy? The coverage, to start with, abandons objective reporting...
The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
[ This missive was originally published more than four years ago on August 2nd, 2005 . ] As the consensus grows that the complete inflation of another asset bubble draws near - first stocks, now housing - many financial writers and elected officials are asking the question, "Why hasn't the Federal Reserve done something about all the crazy lending practices fueling the housing bubble?" During...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
The Cook Political Report took a look at the two Freshman members of Congress from New Jersey (Behind a firewall) and where things stand today as it looks toward their re-election in 2010. First they look at Congressman John Adler and rate his seat as likely Democratic: It's difficult to see how Republicans could deny Adler a second term without a dramatically better political environment. Republicans...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Congressman Jim Saxton is reflecting on his time in Congress for all of his exit interviews with the media. He talked about the biggest change in Washington: "I think Washington could be rightly described as a fairly mean place these days," Saxton said. The partisan rancor has persisted since Republicans took the House of Representatives in 1994, he said, and it upended an established system...
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Give Dems another pickup, this time in the Garden State. State Sen. John Adler (D) defeated Medford Mayor Chris Myers (R) 51-49% in NJ-03, a seat Rep. Jim Saxton (R) held for 24 years. GOPers were hopeful of holding this seat, and attempted to link Adler to the very unpopular NJ legislature. But in the end, Adler's huge CoH advantage, and the Dem leanings of this CD, appear to have done Myers in....
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
CHERRY HILL, N.J., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The Democrats picked up a congressional seat in New Jersey with longtime state Sen. John Adler winning the race to replace Republican Jim Saxton. Adler defeated Chris Myers, Republican mayor of Medford, a suburb on the edge of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Myers is also an executive at Lockheed-Martin. In his victory speech, Adler gave a tribute to Saxton, describing...
Environmental Republican (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
In what is shaping up as a dogfight, Chris Myers is battling John Adler for the seat being vacated by Rep. Jim Saxton. This is an important one, folks. An Obama win and an increase in seats in the House means we need reliable conservatives who will act as a a bulwark against the liberal legislation Speaker Pelosi will try to ram through. This isn't a time for soft conservatism but for hard-nosed
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
There's also this from the JEC: Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data show that the total effective federal tax rate of the middle fifth of households declined after 2001 to its lowest levels since at least 1979, Congressman Jim Saxton, ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, said today. Under the 2001 and 2003 tax relief legislation, the income tax as a share of income for the middle fifth...
CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data show that the total effective federal tax rate of the middle fifth of households declined after 2001 to its lowest levels since at least 1979, Congressman Jim Saxton, ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, said today. Under the 2001 and 2003 tax relief legislation, the income tax as a share of income for the middle fifth also has fallen to its lowest...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Campaign roundup Chris Myers fails to earn the endorsement of yet another group that regularly backed Jim Saxton. Myers and his Democratic opponent John Adler debated once again this weekend. Dennis Shulman and Scott Garrett have agreed to a schedule of three debates , while Leonard Lance and Josh Zeitz clamor for more debates. Apparently there aren't many Obama or McCain signs on South Jersey lawns....
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Chris Myers, the Republican candidate for the NJ3 House seat vacated by Representative Jim Saxton, told a little fib in the newspaper today. As a Lockheed Martin executive, Myers says he knows how to regulate business executives because he's been one. "In my company, vice presidents are fired, not engineers," Myers said. "But that doesn't appear to be the way it's working on Wall Street,...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Some candor from Congressman Saxton on where the bailout money will come from: "The Treasury doesn't have 700-billion dollars in a big ol' safe," says New Jersey Representative Jim Saxton. "We have to go borrow it." Maybe he should let Chris Myers know that the economy isn't basically strong and it doesn't take a Harvard degree to realize it. Saxton didn't address who we would be...
Cambridge Forecast Group Blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release September 24, 2008 OPENING STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN JIM SAXTON Ranking Republican Member THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK Press Release #110-47 Contact: Christopher Frenze Republican Staff Director (202) 225-3923 I would like to join in welcoming Chairman Bernanke before the Joint Economic Committee this morning. Given the recent [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
In the final news conference of his 24-year congressional career, U.S. Rep. Jim Saxton (R., N.J.) yesterday called on the communities of Burlington and Ocean County to support the military bases there or face the possibility of losing them in the next round of military cuts.
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