Monmouth County was supposed to be a Republican bastion. They turned out huge pluralities for Chris Christie and turned municipalities from Democrat to Republican control. So why was the chairman only re-elected by a slim margin? And why did their handpicked candidate for Congress to take on Frank Pallone fail despite outspending her opponent by a huge margin? It’s because the Tea Party movement is really drawing more than just Republicans in Monmouth County….
It started when Monmouth GOP Chairman Joe Oxley and dean of the Monmouth delegation, State Senator Joe Kyrillos concocted the plan to run Rumson millionaire Diane Gooch against Congressman Frank Pallone. Granted Pallone had been a key architect of the Obama-care legislation that will put tremendous strain on the ability of small businesses in the Bayshore to keep the employees they have, so it would have been a great contrast. The career politician whose signature legislation is killing jobs along the coast, or the entrepreneur who knew how to create jobs, and had actually done it as well.
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State Senators Raymond Lesniak, a powerful machine-backed politician if there ever was one, and Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr., both from Union County, have recently joined in a private business venture led by longtime Democratic political operative Adam Zellner.

In today’s economy, word of any new business opening its doors in the Garden State should be welcome; nevertheless, this deal stinks worse than the stenches emanating from the infamous Bayway Refinery!…

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