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MCKEON: JACKSON'S PASSION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, PRAGMATIC APPROACH PERFECT MIX FOR EPA

Assemblyman John F. McKeon today applauded news that former state Department of Environmental Protection commissioner and current chief-of-staff to the governor Lisa P. Jackson will be nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to the country's top environmental job.

Like a horde of addicts looking for their next fix, 49 of the nation’s governors or governors-elect descended on the City of Brotherly Love last Tuesday to meet the incoming pusher in chief, Barack Obama.  Of course, the governors were not seeking heroin or any other banned substance from the president-elect, but were looking for a more potent “drug,” OPM—other people’s money.

As New Jerseyans get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving the nation's economic outlook is indeed bleak, and there doesn't seem much to be thankful for after eight years of the neoconservative Bush administration and seven years of the McGreevey, Codey, and Corzine regimes.

"If Barack Obama is taking economic advice from Gov. Corzine, then voters throughout the nation should be very scared,”

“I seriously have to question Mr. Obama’s judgment if thinks he can learn anything about how to run the nation’s economy from Jon Corzine,”

  WEST ORANGE, NJ – Senate President Richard J. Codey today called upon National Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean to heed the will of the people and encourage Super Delegates to apportion their votes to accurately and fairly reflect the choice of voters in state party primaries and caucuses.  In doing so, Codey sent the following letter today:

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has introduced a resolution calling on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to stop using propaganda (menendez.senate.gov/pdf/senatefyromresolution080707.pdf).

A ceremony for the 2008 Presidential candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton in Elizabeth drummed up buko backing in New Jersey on Monday, but supporters of Sen. Barack Obama continue to organize on the ground -- and work for the endorsements from public officials who so far, at least publicly, remain coy about their presidential picks.

Riding a surge of rock star popularity natonwide, Obama limps far behind Clinton in the polls - 40-19 in New Jersey, according to Quinnipiac University.

But Newark City Councilman Ronald Rice Jr., whose unofficial role in the burgeoning Obama campaign is to serve as a liasion between the grassroots movement for Obama and elected officials, says the ground remains fertile for the freshman Illinois senator to come from behind with less than a year to go before the Democratic Primary here.

Studying international relations in Warsaw, Damian Bednarz says he took it on the chin over there on the issue of American Presidential politics, particularly when it came to the Bush and Clinton families.

“This one guy told me, ‘I thought you people threw out your kings in the revolution,’� Bednarz recalls. “‘Now you’re having it out between two families.’�

It was in part a reaction to the seeming Bush-Clinton strangulation hold on the presidency that drove Bednarz into the arms of Barack Obama.

Mostly, he says, it was the independent appeal of the freshman Senator from Illinois himself.

“Obama has something that Hillary Clinton can’t buy or reproduce, and that’s a sense of inspiration,� Bednarz says.

Bednarz, a 25-year-old international relations major at Seton Hall University’s Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, knows he and New Jersey for Obama, the unofficial, grassroots campaign organization he runs, face a daunting challenge. With less than a year to go before the Democratic Primary here, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is dominating New Jersey the same way Rudy Giuliani appears to own Jersey for the Republicans.

Check out these stats from Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: Clinton leads Obama by 22 percentage points among registered Democrats, racking up 41 points to Obama’s 19.
Bednarz says that's all right.