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CHIVUKULA/McKEON GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION BILL PASSES ASSEMBLY

(TRENTON) - The Assembly today passed legislation Assembly members Upendra J. Chivukula, John F. McKeon, Linda Stender, and Louis Manzo sponsored to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New Jersey through a regional alliance of 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

Rep. Albio Sires confesses to having no life anymore. He spends most weekdays in Washington, D.C. and returns to New Jersey only on the weekends.

Apparently the Democratic Party politics of Hudson County prove too tempting to resist, however, as the one-time State Assembly Speaker and Mayor of West New York on Tuesday mounted a platform in Jersey City's Lincoln Park to declare his support for a roster of insurgent candidates in local, county and state Legislative races.

Standing at ground zero in arguably New Jersey's most contentious primary arena, Sires wasn't happy about it, but he did it.

"This could have been avoided," he said grimly of the latest round of factionalism in his home county.

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.

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.