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Steinhardt calls out Murphy on PSE&G

February 26, 2018 8:32 am

Republican State Chairman Doug Steinhardt wants to know if legislation to keep a Salem County nuclear plant open will benefit Gov. Phil Murphy personally. Steinhardt says that Goldman Sachs is a major investor in PSE&G, which stands to gain up...

Steinhardt blasts Menendez on friend’s sentencing

February 22, 2018 1:36 pmFebruary 27, 2018 1:11 pm

Republican State Chairman Doug Steinhardt says that the prison sentence imposed of Dr. Salomon Melgen is an example of Bob Menendez’s “record of embarrassing New Jersey.” Melgen was sentenced to seventeen years in prison and a $42.6 million in restitution...

GOP calls for investigation of payments to Gill

February 16, 2018 4:22 pm

Republican State Chairman Douglas Steinhardt says the state should investigate whether side-payments made to top campaign staffers for Gov. Phil Murphy violated New Jersey campaign finance laws. Brendan Gill, who was Murphy’s campaign manager, received an additional $61,400 from the...

NJGOP announces new staff

February 16, 2018 12:13 pm

Theresa Winegar will remain as executive director of the Republican State Committee, GOP State Chairman Doug Steinhardt announced today. Steinhardt also announced that Harrison Neely, the vice president of Checkmate Strategies, will serve as a communications consultant. He worked for...

Steinhardt: Murphy just a “hollow politician”

February 13, 2018 10:38 pm

Republican leaders slapped Gov. Phil Murphy today for the firing of Gerry Scharfenberger, a Monmouth County Freeholder who was terminated on Monday after refusing to attend a Murphy press conference. But Democrats sources have a different take. They say Scharfenberger...

Steinhardt slams Murphy on sticker shock comment

February 7, 2018 12:04 pm

During the 1993 gubernatorial campaign, Democrats skewered then-candidate Christine Todd Whitman for an unfortunate gaffe, when she said something like “as funny as it seems, $500 is a lot of money to some people.” That clearly wasn’t Whitman’s intent, but...

GOP leaders caution Murphy on taxes

February 5, 2018 5:41 pm

New Jersey Republicans came close to ending Gov. Phil Murphy’s honeymoon today with a statement from the party’s big three — State Chairman Doug Steinhardt, Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean (R-Westfield) and Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield) — announcing...