Cidu Bill on Jan 12th 2010
I’ve been married for almost 31 years and the way I understand it, if this thing had passed, my marriage would have been immediately and irrevocably undermined.
Filed in Bill Bickel, New Jersey, gay marriage | 74 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 5th 2009
I’m wondering whether anybody knows… When the President travels to campaign for, say, a gubernatorial candidate, who pays for the Air Force 1 expenses, security for the President, police overtime onsite, etc?
And just for the record, I can’t speak for Virginia, but no matter what you might hear, the New Jersey election was not a referendum on either Obama or the Democratic Party: it was a referendum on Jon Corzine. When New Jerseyans went into the voting booth yesterday, Barack Obama was the last thing on our minds: We were too busy holding our noses as we decided whether the thought of reelecting Jon Corzine was distasteful for us to vote for Chris Christie.
Personally, I voted for Chris Daggett, since in this case voting for the third party candidate wasn’t taking a vote away from any decent candidate. He had me at “I’m not Corzine or Christie.”
As it happens, despite recent polls predicting up to 20% of the vote for Daggett, he ended up with about 5%. Which means, God help us, New Jerseyans got the governor we deserve.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Chris Christie, Chris Daggett, Jon Corzine, New Jersey, politics | 20 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jul 29th 2009
I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m amused by the fact that New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie’s official website has a link to his ”88 Ways Chris Christie will fix New Jersey” list, and the link is broken (it links to an older, no-longer-existing page called “79 Ways…”; the new page was a new name, but nobody thought to change the link that’s supposed to lead to it).
I guess that’s the 89th thing that should be fixed.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Chris Christie, New Jersey | 9 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jul 25th 2008
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Cidu Bill on Mar 17th 2008
New Jersey might exist in New York’s shadow in many ways, but never — never — when it comes to political scandal: Continue Reading »
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