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Poll shows Booker still ahead, Lonegan gaining

New Quinnipiac University poll shows Booker still ahead, but Lonegan gaining Democrat Cory Booker still has a “comfortable lead” over Republican Steve Lonegan among likely voters in the race for U.S....

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Morning news: Christie and Buono visit major cities, Booker discussing...

Governor Christie is in Camden this morning to meet with the new state-appointed superintendent and chat with students, meanwhile his Democratic challenger has plans to visit another of the state’s...

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Menendez aide moving to firm with close Christie ties

A veteran New Jersey political operative who served as Sen. Robert Menendez’s campaign manager last year and ran his state office since 2007 is moving to a national consulting firm with close ties to...

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Pallone expecting Lautenberg widow at Bergen event next week

Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s family has already put out a statement endorsing Rep. Frank Pallone’s bid to fill his seat, and the senator’s son wrote an email that was distributed by Pallone’s campaign...

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Morning news: Court requires warrant for cellphone data

New Jersey’s Supreme Court unanimously declared yesterday that police in New Jersey must first obtain a search warrant before using cellphone data to track a suspect. The decision is one of the first...

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Reid says Lautenberg called from ‘deathbed’ to vote

Either Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was exaggerating today, or Sen. Frank Lautenberg was much sicker than he revealed on May 16 when he arrived at a committee hearing in a wheelchair so Democrats...

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Lautenberg family backs Pallone

The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone today in the special election to fill the remainder of Lautenberg’s term. In what could be read as a veiled reference to...

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Booker ad says he’ll face Washington problems

In his first campaign ad, Senate candidate Cory Booker touts is record in Newark and promises to confront problems that Washington “ducks,” while providing no specifics about which problems and how...

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South Jersey Democrats back Booker, Pallone snags Middlesex, Holt releases video

Democrats from New Jersey’s seven southern counties backed Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s U.S. Senate run. Democrats from the state’s seven southern counties threw their support behind Cory Booker’s U.S....

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Panel approves bill moving general election to October, coinciding with U.S....

Governor Christie’s decision to fill New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat through an October special election is “bad for democracy,” the Democrat running against him said today. She and other Democrats on a...

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Morning News: Four Dems vying for Senate nomination

Two Republicans and four Democrats, including Newark Mayor Cory Booker, have filed papers to seek their party’s nomination to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Frank Lautenberg last...

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Christie defends special election to fill Lautenberg’s vacant U.S. Senate seat

Governor Christie appointed Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to fill Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat until a replacement is elected in October. (CHRIS PEDOTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) Governor Christie...

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Pallone officially joins U.S. Senate race

Clutching a box of nominating petitions in his arms, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-Monmouth, officially joined the contest today to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Frank Lautenberg. Pallone, a...

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Morning news: Senator Chiesa to start on Monday

Governor Christie named New Jersey’s attorney general – one of his closest friends and advisers – to temporarily fill Frank Lautenberg’s vacant Senate seat. But Christie said the attorney general,...

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Chiesa to serve fourth shortest U.S. Senate term in New Jersey history

N.J. Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa speaking to the media after Governor Christie named him to fill Frank Lautenberg’s Senate seat. (CHRIS PEDOTA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) With Governor Christie’s pick for...

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Morning news: After Lautenberg’s funeral, potential Senate candidates...

Potential U.S. Senate candidates only have a few days to collect the signatures they need to run for the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s seat. But questions continued yesterday about Governor Christie’s...

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Morning news: Christie sets special election

Governor Christie yesterday ordered a special election for October to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Christie said he will appoint a senator to fill the seat in the meantime. His decision...

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Barchi comes before lawmakers

Rutgers University president Robert L. Barchi and other higher education officials will be in Trenton this morning for budget hearings. Expect questions on the upcoming higher education reorganization...

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Morning news: Rutgers basketball scandal stays in spotlight

Now that Rutgers AD Pernetti is gone, university President Robert Barchi is likely to stay, The Record’s Charles Stile wrote yesterday. Barchi was brought on  last year in large part to guide it...

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Morning News: Assembly Budget Committee on the road today

It looks like the Trenton press corps will be doing a lot of traveling today. Governor Christie has a campaign announcement at Lakewood this afternoon, and the Assembly Budget Committee is taking...

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