Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney duked it out in Denver, Colo.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney faced off in the first of three presidential debates Wednesday night. The debate was held at the University of Denver in Colorado. President Obama, 51, vying for his second term, was leading by four percentage points in a national poll over challenger Mitt Romney, 65, before the debate. However, political pundits and speculation on Huffington Post questioned whether the debate could change the standings. The candidates are expected to debate each other two more times - once on Oct. 16 and once on Oct. 22. The topics for those debates will be domestic policy on the 16th and foreign policy on the 22nd. Even a small bump from Wednesday night's domestic policy forum could make the …
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Congressman's spokesman denounces comment, shown in video being distributed on the Web
A supporter of U.S. Rep. Christopher H. Smith staffing a Republican political table at a public festival told a woman asking about the 16-term congressman’s stance on reproductive rights to keep "an aspirin between your knees,’’ according to a video taken at the event. The incident happened in Hamilton on Sept. 9. during the town’s SeptemberFest celebration, according to activist and Rutgers student Eva Grote. Grote, 20, is seen in the video approaching a table that has a Chris Smith, R-NJ, re-election sign and a GOP elephant icon, where she has a brief interaction with at least two men who are unidentified. Grote, who is distributing the video on YouTube and other online venues, in the video asks when Smith was to appear at the event …
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Rosen accuses Vicari of slander
Threatening to sue Republican Freeholder Director Joseph H. Vicari for slander, Democratic candidate Michele Rosen of Waretown demanded he retract and apologize for claims that she was admitted into a pre-trial intervention program after being indicted for theft by deception, and had the record of the indictment expunged. Vicari did neither, instead raising new claims late Wednesday about civil court “judgments’’ against Rosen and her history of “bounced checks.’’ He conceded he relied on “rumors’’ about her entry into a pre-trial intervention program, which can lead to the dismissal of criminal charges if the accused meets the condition of that program. Likewise, he said he repeated rumors about her having the indictment expunged. “It’s …
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