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MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - The state-to-state march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast has lost more momentum since a major setback three weeks ago at the ballot box in Maine.
AP Photo/Mel EvansFile photo of the New Jersey Statehouse.TRENTON -- Hundreds of gay marriage supporters took to the Statehouse in Trenton today as lawmakers began their first day of a lame-duck session. Steven Goldstein, chairman of Garden State Equality, rallied...
The fate of a bill once widely expected to pass after the election is now in doubt, for a variety of reasons.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. The state-to-state attempt to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast has lost more momentum since a setback three weeks ago at the ballot box in Maine. Since then, legislatures in New York and New Jersey have declined to schedule long-expected votes on bills to recognize the unions in those states. "If they are unable to pass gay marriage in New York and New ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An ebullient Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele asserted Wednesday that GOP victories in governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia demonstrate “a transcendent party” on the move again. Democratic Party Chairman Tim Kaine said that nothing about the election returns amounted to a repudiation of President Barack Obama.
Faced with the defeat of Governor Jon Corzine, a Democrat who earlier this year pledged to sign marriage equality into law in 2009, advocates led by Garden State Equality (GSE) are vowing to go forward with a push in the State Legislature in Trenton during the customary lame-duck session later this year.
HILLSIDE — Sen. Robert Menendez said Wednesday he is too busy with legislation to address reports of former CNN host Lou Dobbs seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — The state-to-state march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast has lost more momentum since a major setback three weeks ago at the ballot box in Maine. Since then, legislatures in New York and New Jersey have failed to schedule long-expected votes on bills to recognize the unions in those states.
Invigorated by state house victories earlier this month in Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans are turning their attention to governorships in New England, where they believe the retirement of four incumbents and a competitive race in Massachusetts has created wide-open opportunities.
The march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast -- and in New Jersey in particular -- lost some of its momentum this month.
“Continued increases in taxation, if unchecked, will bankrupt the municipalities of New Jersey.” — HARLEY L. LUTZ, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC FINANCE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, DECEMBER 1930
