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GREENSTEIN BILL TO PROTECT CONSUMERS - ESPECIALLY SENIOR CITIZENS - FROM PREDATORY ANNUITY SALES BECOMES LAW
 
(TRENTON) - Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex) today released the following statement after Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed legislation she sponsored to protect consumers from predatory annuity sales, particularly senior citizens:         

Sheila Newton-Moses, Louis Manzo and Nicholas Chiaravalloti will challenge the HCDO slate in the 31st district Democratic primary
Assemblyman Louis Manzo announced his candidacy for State Senate today and will face the widow of his onetime political ally in the 31st disrict Democratic primary.

Manzo, a Jersey City Democrat, will run with Assembly candidates Nicholas Chiaravalloti of Bayonne and Shelia Newton-Moses of Jersey City against the Hudson County Democratic Organization slate: Sandra Bolden Cunningham for Senate, and Bayonne Councilman (and former Assemblyman) Anthony Chiappone and L. Harvey Smith, a former Jersey City Council President who served briefly as a State Senator and Acting Mayor, for Assembly.

Manzo, who said he was a friend for twenty years of the late Jersey City Mayor (and Senator) Glenn Cunningham, said the HCDO has sacrificed principles for political expediency, and presented himself and his ticket as "unbossed and unbought."

Chiaravalloti, who left his post as U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's District Director to make the race, said the choice in the election is "between change and the status quo," while Newton-Moses urged the voting pubolic not to be fooled in assessing herself or the likewise youthful Chiaravalloti.

There is a limit to what mortals can attain, and where the mortal strivings of one group fall off, another group begins, so there is never a totality of human endeavor, only the approximation of something whole, captured in a contest of opposing sides.
Such is waterfront politics in Jersey City and Bayonne.

Gearing up for primary season, the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO) presented a “dream team� ticket of district 31 Legislative candidates last Thursday that includes some diehard Sen. Robert Menendez supporters, and the widow of the late Mayor Glenn Cunningham, who warred with the Democratic Party machine.

But in reconciling onetime opposites, the ticket also fails to include some key players, who themselves are mobilizing this week to emerge as part of another “unity ticket,� headed by veteran Assemblyman Louis Manzo.

The organization ticket brings Sandra Bolden Cunningham together with her husband’s old rival, former Jersey City Council President (and interim Mayor and State Senator) L. Harvey Smith; and Bayonne Councilman (and former Assemblyman) Anthony Chiappone, a Cunningham family ally.

One of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez's top staffers, Nicholas Chiaravalloti says he is mulling a bid for State Assembly in the 31st district. The Bayonne Democrat, who serves as Menendez's State Director, says he will decide within the next 24 hours if he will take on former Assemblyman Joseph Chiappone and former State Senator/ex-Acting Jersey City Mayor L. Harvey Smith, who are expected to run on the Hudson County Democratic Organization line with Senate candidate Sandra Bolden Cunningham. Chiarvalloti could wind up on a ticket with Assemblyman Louis Manzo as a candidate for State Senate.