#NJGOP: GOP close in new PACPolls: #NJ3: @Runyan2010 43% Adler 43% #NJ12: @SupportScott 41% Holt 44% #NJ6: @Little4Congress 39% Pallone 47%
Contrast Rev. Gil Caldwells letter in the current Coaster to the dung droppings by outsiders in More Monmouth Musings.
“They talk about the Tea Party and make us think that this is some kind of grassroots movement harkening back to the Tea Party of the American Revolution,” an incredulous New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, flanked by other Democrats at a DNC press conference, said Wednesday.
But Tea Party activists today, he said, advocate positions that only benefit the wealthy.
“If you think about it, the Tea Party was out there trying to basically agitate against the king,” he said of the historical Tea Partiers, making a contrast with the activists who use that name today. “But many of these policies of the Tea Party — the Republican Tea Party candidates — really go back to the king or to the elite or to the wealthy and to the well to do.”
Pallone continued: “Please don’t be fooled by the label. The label is misconstrued. The reality is it’s the same old Republican policies and it’s putting the same old people in charge.”
Matthew Gibbon, liberal lion and university president, may have finally gone too far in his battle against the conservative Dean of the law school, his son-in-law and former protégé. His daughter is caught between them and the entire university community is up in arms. The personal and political collide in this stunning new play about loyalty, power, and torture memos.
...For the elite there is no unemployment line, but rather a buffet line leading them from one opportunity and one favor to the next. Our own Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., who is up for re-election by the way, either lives a charmed life, seemingly avoiding the economic malaise that has hit most Americans or he has used his position of power to influence the hiring of his wife Sarah Hospodor-Pallone at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sarah Hospodor-Pallone’s job at the EPA is a prestigious position. She works within the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, where she is Deputy Associate Administrator, responsible for managing the EPA’s relationship with national organizations, State and local governments, as well as small communities. An EPA document dated December 2nd 2009 and addressed to former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine lists Sarah Hospodor-Pallone as the point person for the governor, an impressive position for someone who seemingly did not work her way up and through the ranks at the EPA. ...
I contacted Frank Pallone’s campaign and gave them the opportunity to establish whether or not Sarah Hospodor-Pallone received assistance from Congressman Pallone in landing her cushy job at the EPA, but they never returned my inquiry.
1)I don't know what tax breaks the Democrats are proposing. What we need is a reduction in the payroll tax. Anything you can do to reduce the cost of hiring employees will help us put more people to work and grow our business.
2)Keep your loan programs and disband the Small Business Administration (SBA). Government loan programs don't help small business in the long run, they subsidize banks and encourage them to take risks they shouldn't take. That's how we got into this mess in that we are in now. Yes we know all to well that banks are not lending to small businesses. That's because they are holding out for your subsidy. When they know for sure that it isn't coming, they will start lending. Banks have responded to all of the new regulations the government has rolled out in the last couple of years in such a way that credit is now more expensive and harder to get that it would have been otherwise. Keep the government out of the banking business.
3) I realize we are not going to agree about health care. We'll elect a new congress to get rid of the travesty that your health care bill is. However, you might agree to eliminate the provision that requires us to issue 1099s to all vendors that we pay more than $600 per year to. That is going to be an expensive and unproductive paper work nightmare that will not yield as much tax revenue as you think it will. Please get rid of that right away.
The Kenyan Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Kenya) is a member of the Kenyan Reproductive Health and Rights Alliance (RHRA), which is supported by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). According to the PPFA website, the RHRA’s activities include “drafting reproductive health provisions for the revised constitution.” PPFA’s work in Kenya includes “increasing the availability of affordable safe abortion services and supporting advocates to decriminalize abortion in the country.” FIDA-Kenya helped to draft controversial legislation and launched a campaign in 2008 to liberalize Kenya’s abortion law. It is receiving assistance not only from PPFA through the RHRA, but also $85,363 from USAID for advocacy activities related to the draft constitution.
The Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review in Kenya, which drafted the abortion-related provisions in the proposed constitution, received over $180,000 of US taxpayer monies for office equipment and networking capability. The Committee rejected the life of the mother only exception to abortion inserted into the draft constitution by a Parliamentary committee, and added a “health” exception to abortion. It is commonly known that health exceptions to abortion often lead to abortion on demand owing to the broad definition of health that includes socio-economic reasons as exemplified in the US Supreme Court decision on abortion in 1973.
Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), which is receiving almost $3 million as a primary grant recipient, advised USAID in 2000 that USAID/Kenya would benefit by supporting civil society organizations that are advocating for “efforts to eventually legalize abortion in Kenya.” While acknowledging that such activity would be “politically sensitive,” DAI suggested that USAID might support local advocacy groups in their efforts as part of USAID’s democracy and governance strategic objectives component that supports civic society organizations.
· The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (the “NJSEA”);
· The stalled Xanadu project in the Meadowlands;
· The gaming industry in Atlantic City;
· New Jersey’s horse racing industry;
· The relationship among New Jersey’s major entertainment venues;
· NJSEA must be encouraged to create and maintain a break-even budget.
Ø Current cash reserves of the NJSEA (currently in excess of $50 million) should be used to offset operating expenses.
Ø If necessary, the State Treasurer should be authorized to provide a revolving credit facility of no more than $15 million to assist in cash flow needs.
Ø A 2011 budget should be developed by September 1, 2010 that is break even or better.
· Planning should begin immediately to divest the NJSEA of all responsibilities related to venue operations, including, in particular, the Meadowlands Racetrack, the IZOD Arena and Monmouth Park Racetrack. This action can be accomplished either by sale, lease or license agreement initiated by a request for proposals.
· The proposed Bayonne OTW (off-track wagering) project should be postponed until legislation can be passed that permits OTWs to function without live racing.
· The NJSEA should cease to operate the Meadowlands Racetrack. Standardbred owners should be offered the opportunity to lease the Meadowlands Racetrack.
· Any tax exempt financing should not represent a primary funding source but should only fill a funding gap in private market sources.
· The development group should contribute cash equity consistent with present market demands.
· The underlying ground lease should be amended to include, among other things, a date certain for completion and opening, with appropriate penalties for failure to comply.
· The development group must resolve and reset the existing capital structure in a way that facilitates new financing.
· If the project can only be completed with tax exempt financing, the State must be able to reasonably expect to receive some form of upside financial return commensurate with the level of public sector involvement.
· Creating a “Clean and Safe” Tourism District with State oversight, with the goal of making Atlantic City clean and safe by July 1, 2011.
· Creating a Master Plan for the new Tourism District, focused on enticing new entrants to build both gaming and non-gaming attractions that will increase demand in the City. The Plan should be delivered to the Governor no later than July 1, 2011.
· Improving the financial stability of Atlantic City by attracting other world class operators to ownership of the eleven existing facilities as well as any new ones.
· Increasing the meeting and convention business in the Atlantic City market by at least 30% per year for the next five years.
· Bringing the New Jersey regulatory structure into the 21st century by reducing costs and redundancies and by supporting the attraction of operators while maintaining strict integrity.
· Increasing visitation and spending through joint marketing efforts on par with other national destination resorts.
· Improving intermodal transport to Atlantic City, including increasing air, rail and ferry options.
· Thoroughbred racing at Monmouth and Atlantic City (a 50-71-day meet at Monmouth Park and potentially 10 days of turf racing at Atlantic City).
· Thoroughbred Racing at Monmouth and potentially 10 days at Atlantic City and 70 standard bred dates at Monmouth.
· Lease the Meadowlands Racetrack to the standard bred horsemen for $1 dollar a year for three years with early termination rights and an equity-based share of the Bayonne OTW parlor.
· Convert to a commercial use one of the standard bred farms in New Jersey that has a mile track, and build a 5,000 seat grandstand complete with all necessary amenities.
· Testing the market for interest in privatizing operations of the IZOD Center and the PNC Arts Center by issuing a request for proposals.
· Establishing a single point of contact for booking concerts and other events at the taxpayer-supported facilities.
· Formalizing and developing a plan for improving communications among the IZOD Center, the PNC Arts Center, the Prudential Center, the Rutgers Arena and Stadium and the Atlantic City Boardwalk and Convention Center.
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