chairman, he was top fund-raiser for bill clinton in the white house and he is frankly close with the clintons, he is their friend, so this is not surprising she s endorsing him at a women for terry event. it plays to her strengths, female voters. mccauliffe has a strong edge with female voters in virginia against republican ken cuccinelli. mccauliffe has about an eight point lead over cuccinelli into the final stretch before election day. most in the state, close political watchers, think mccauliffe has an edge, probably will win. this is kind of a safe bet for hillary clinton. there s another woman running for governor in new jersey against chris christie, barbara bono. she is not campaigning for her. this is sort of in her comfort zone today here in virginia, fred. peter hamby, thanks so much in falls church. looks like the line is getting long behind you. this is going to be a popular event. thanks so much, peter.
numerous classified materials. the state of new jersey appealing a judge s decision that had cleared the way for couples to participate in same sex marriages there beginning in two weeks. the case hinges on the fact that the state allows civil unions but not marriages. now governor chris christie wants the supreme court to weigh in on this issue. it s become a pretty divisive one in the gubernatorial election between the republican incumbent and that woman there, democratic challenger barbara bono. pennsylvania and new jersey are the two states in this region that do not recognize same sex marriage. some sad news for new jersey politics, a day after a pretty tough debate, new york mayor cory booker is dealing with the loss of his father. cary booker was dealing with parkinson s disease. according to the new york star ledger he was among the first african-american executives and active in the civil rights in the 1960s. with less than a week to go
to politics now where president obama canceled the congressional picnic because the white house thought it would be dealing with a resolution with syria last week. republican congressman took a dig at the president tweeting, quote, congress cancels his war, he cancels our barbecue. check out this picture, republican senator david vitter with a bunch of dead alligators piled up. he put this on his facebook page and went gator hunting this week with the super pac called the fund for louisiana s future. get ready for the first tv ads for new jersey governor chris christie s re-election. he s spending $1.5 million even though he s up 20 points on challenger barbara bono and senator rand paul taking shots at corey booker. he questions the existence of t-bone, a new york drug lord booker claims to have befriended
his party. he could put somebody in there until 2014, he didn t do that, the party is mad. he could have let the parties choose someone that would be anti-democratic, he didn t do that. he split the difference. he will allow the public to speak and allow the voters to choose someone. but he doesn t want to be on the ballot with cory booker because all of his supporters may lkt barbara bono. yeah, you can vote but then you have to vote again in three weeks. i think the newspaper had it right. it is his attempt to fatigue democratic voters. like okay, vote for a real contested election, which will be the senate seat, and then we re hoping few of you will show up a couple weeks later, we re hoping we have polls that indicate christie has a big lead, why bother showing up. sure. there s going to be voter fatigue. i would say may not be just self interest, though i think it
if you re going to do it, not giving the republicans the big long run of the appointed senator because that s legally risky, you better do this according to some kind of principle that you can claim you live by. and there goes the problem again, therein lies the problem for chris christie. conservatives don t believe he is a true principled conservative who has a set of principles they can believe in. for him to say out loud he doesn t care about how much this is going to cost, first of all, that s a sound bite that will be played back. i am sure barbara bono s people are cutting that tonight. he alienated from the republican base that claims to care about fiscal discipline. we have known they don t really care about it, they say that because they want to beat up barack obama. now he doesn t have a big lead over that issue. and that i don t care how much it costs will be present in any republican presidential primary he tries to run in. no one will let him get away with that.