When the NJ Senate and Assembly overwhelmingly passed a medical marijuana bill yesterday it put the Garden State in line to be the 14th state in the union to decriminalize cannabis for sick people.
Assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll has the QOTD in this one for sure.
I've posted so many videos on this site and elsewhere I can't hardly remember them all, but this issue is possibly the most satisfying day I've has as an activist since the Obama/Alder double victory.
So take a minute to meet the heros of this battle.
I've never seen MTV's reality show Jersey Shore, which tracks the social lives of a bunch of mind-numbingly stoopid, but seriously buffed-out and well-gelled 20-somethings renting a summer house in Seaside Heights. I'm not likely to go looking for it, for the same reason I'm afraid of my reaction when I pass a really ugly car wreck. (Have you seen it? Curious ...).
Saturday Night Live parodied the series' teeny-weeny Snooki (played by the not-teeny-weeny Bobby Moynihan) last night. That's the first vid below. But the second video below that is of the real Snooki. And um, just wow. (Acting? Please tell me she is ...).
And here's the real Snooki. With a couple real castmates from Jersey Shore. (note: 30-sec ad precedes clip).
No reality shows about Albanian-American NJ progressive bloggers, please. I mean puh-leeze.
Rush Holt says that yet another classified briefing he and fellow congressmen got raises questions that need answers before our country commits further troops and resources to that conflict. These are good questions, and I want those answers, too.
I'm getting to be a huge fan of Star Ledger's well-made, and very direct video news coverage. But I missed this one the other day when I was compiling the news roundup, because my mind just wasn't attuned to video. Dunno. But this one - the return from Afghanistan of NJ Marine Lance Cpl. Owen Curry to his family in West Orange - is such a pointed reminder that our soldiers in war have families on the homefront, and their days soar or sink with news from their loved ones. Nice job capturing that, Nyier Abdou:
Jay Lassiter planned all along to go down to the statehouse yesterday and blog for us. But then, something happened in his hometown, that made him stay there, to capture for you today what the people of Cherry Hill did when the fools came to town. Great job, Jay - promoted by Rosi
Today the NJ Senate Judiciary voted on gay marriage equality. And what a long strange trip it's been clearing the first hurdle.
In the wake of highly controversial and contested new recommendations to women on when in their lives they should have mammograms, Congressman Frank Pallone is convening a hearing to examine the issue.
The federal recommendations - a sharp departure from medical orthodoxy - produced immediate reactions, from women flooding into their doctors' offices demanding an opinion, to charges that this was the government getting ready to ration care and kill off older women. Well, there's no accounting for Fox News.
Pallone chairs the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
(Here's the live stream. Obama is going to speak soon in Camden. Jason Springer is there but may not be able to post until afterwards. - promoted by Hopeful)
(Update 2:27PM: The stream is active again, with Representative Pallone speaking at this moment.)
Jon Corzine vs 5 Ninjas from NJ! In the Justice League, Jon Corzine's superhero name is
"Jon Corzine:"
The best one's the one where he decimates that environmental ninja bad boy with a big-ass solar panel. This is "fan made," not from the campaign. Superduper job.
The Corzine campaign just released a new web ad, detailing the benefits the Christie boys, Chris and Todd, got from all that money they raised together for Christie's old boss, George W. Bush:
I think this is a story that can't be told enough. Special privileges and getting off scot-free are advantages the rest of us don't get to have, like Christie and his brother do. What do you think, Blue Jersey?
Documentation for all this - worth looking at - is after the jump.
One of the best things about spending the last four years following politicians around with a video camera is the tons of file footage I've acquired. It's an especially useful tool for expressing one's self when words are hard to find. Like now.
The Corzine campaign just released a new video, produced in-house, which underscores the point that Chris Christie's had some trouble with the cascading evidence of questionable conduct he engaged in as United States Attorney for the District of NJ, and questionable ties he still maintains to that office. And would rather avoid chatting about it just now.
My own opinion: red meat for the cognoscenti, but might scare off undecideds. I think people need to hear - every way possible and from all angles - what he did. That's the meat, the substance, the muck of the muckraking.
Harsh, unflattering video that underscores that he's avoiding talking about it - which has some truth - may turn a lot of people off, and reinforce perception that the campaigns can't tell the difference between muck and mud.
Promoted by Jason Springer: Chris Christie was in Cherry Hill today and Jay Lassiter, who dubbed himself the official welcome wagon head cheerleader was there to say hello.
Chris Christie and I crossed paths today at my local Jersey diner. Thankfully the encounter did not happen in the men's room.
P.S. Kim Guadagno was there too. She was pretty smooth with the crowd and and came off appealing. (just saying......)
This week, congressmen Frank Pallone and Bill Pascrell testified before the House Judiciary subcommittee investigating Deferred Prosecution Agreements. They followed Chris Christie's prickly testimony.
Pallone, who called Christie the "poster child for abuse" on Blue Jersey Radio [listen here], and Pascrell, laid out the real costs to our economy of not reining in people like Chris Christie, and propose a legislative fix.
Pascrell first, Pallone after the jump. Sound quality is from the House Judiciary Committee website feed.
Chances are there is someone in your life who might benefit from a Compassionate Marijuana Law in New Jersey. A bill that would allow terminally ill New Jerseyans access to cannibis passed the Senate yesterday and is now headed to the Assembly. So make sure to call your reps today.
