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From Cold Peace to Hot War – The Future of New Jersey Politics and a Political Opera in Three Acts By Bertin Lefkovic | June 3, 2021, 10:42 pm | in Columnist
The Overture – 2021
It is amazing what a simple thing like a global pandemic can do to bring people together. This time two years ago, Governor Phil Murphy was being threatened with a 2021 gubernatorial primary election challenge and the North Jersey and South Jersey factions were poised for a major proxy war over the Chairmanship of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, a political organization that has very little real power in the realm of New Jersey politics, especially compared to the various county party organizations, particularly those with the largest populations and greatest concentrations of Democratic voters; Bergen, Camden, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Union, and Passaic.
Somerset-countyNew-jerseyUnited-statesUnion-countyNew-yorkPassaicOcean-countyBurlington-countyPlainsboroBergen-countyMiddlesex-countyEssexIt was on this day in 1996 that President Bill Clinton signed “Megan’s Law” into existence, requiring notification of residents when a sex offender moved into their neighborhood. The law was named for Megan Kanka, a seven year old Hamilton Township girl who was raped and murdered by a neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas, who had prior sex offenses. Timmendequas had two prior convictions for assaulting young girls and had been incarcerated at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel for six years; it was there that he met the two other sex offenders with whom he shared a house across the street from the Kankas. The Kankas had no idea that their neighbors were sex offenders.
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