Friendly Fire: On Team Murphy, mandatory minimums, and a Rush to judgment.
Updated Feb 20, 2021;
Posted Feb 20, 2021
Jersey political insiders: On the left, Julie Roginsky, a career Democratic strategist and TV commentator; on the right, Michael DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive.
Facebook Share a Republican, are consultants who have worked on opposite teams for their entire careers yet have remained friends throughout. Here, they discuss the week’s events with Dave D’Alessandro of the Star-Ledger Editorial Board.
Q. Phil Murphy’s re-election campaign has changed from its 2017 version, which several women described as a misogynistic work environment. This campaign is run by a woman (Mollie Binotto), former campaign manager Brendan Gill reportedly is out of the loop, and an HR firm is doing harassment training. Julie, as senior campaign advisor in 2017 you called it
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Committee Chair state Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D -Union) pulled the cannabis bill from the Senate Judiciary
committee at the last minute yesterday, a signal that the Legislature and Murphy administration still can’t agree over penalties for underage possession of cannabis.
Trump Plaza implosion marks the end of an Atlantic City empire
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
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Glass, brass, and class. A centerpiece of a fledgling empire. An absolute delight to developers.
The Trump Plaza of the 1980s is a far cry from the nameless building of today, dismantled into a skeleton, awaiting the day it will soon be reduced to rubble.
The Wednesday implosion of the casino, which comes nearly seven years after the last slot-machine levers were pulled, is the final destruction of former President Donald Trump’s mark on Atlantic City.
Trump Plaza was the tenth casino to open in Atlantic City when it welcomed gamblers in May of 1984, seven years after the legalization of gambling in 1977. Trump, then in the early stages of his real estate career, pinned the city’s success on his building, which was his first foray into casinos.
NY Governor Cuomo killed nursing home residents scrubbed Mar 25 advisory and hid data, Aide DeRosa admits withholding state’s nursing home death toll
“No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”.
..NY advisory March 25, 2020 scrubbed May 5-8
“In accordance with previous CDC guidance, every resident should be assessed for symptoms and have their temperature checked every day.
Patients and residents who enter facilities should be screened for COVID-19 through testing, if available.”
Far-right media stoke political division | Letters
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
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I’d like to add that media outlets like FOX News have stoked such division for 20-plus years. FOX News, as well as the many ultra-conservative talk-radio stations around the country, have supported the Republican Party by demonizing Democrats and de-legitimizing their party. Democratic Party. FOX News has been so successful that we now have the even more right-wing Newsmax and One America News Network.
These outlets have has minimized the severity of COVID-19 and undermined credibility of the November election. The night of the Jan. 6 pro-Trump riot, guests on their shows were still talking about election integrity rather than focusing on the coup.