Mission Accomplished?

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 11:39 AM PDT

2008/05/01 · 11:39

Cross-posted from Blue Jersey

Five years ago today, President Bush triumphantly -- and erroneously -- declared "mission accomplished" on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln while standing in front of a big banner as part of a PR stunt hatched by Karl Rove. He went on to proclaim that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. But since President Bush made that pronouncement, almost 4,000 additional American troops have lost their lives. And close to 30,000 have been seriously wounded in action.

Each month, President Bush continues to spend $12 billion on a war that should never have been waged and with no exit strategy to get our troops out of harm's way. The war in Iraq has failed to make us safer and al Qaeda has only grown stronger. Now, 3,000 additional members of the New Jersey National Guard alone are scheduled to deploy to Iraq this summer. This is the largest deployment of our state's Guardsmen since World War II.

Linda Stender

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Tuesday November 20, 2007 · 7:17 AM PST

2007/11/20 · 07:17

Cross-posted at Blue Jersey. Visit me at LindaStenderForCongress.com, where you can sign up for updates and contribute online via ActBlue.

I'm sure many of you have heard the news: Republican Congressman Mike Ferguson is not seeking re-election in 2008. While New Jersey's 7th District won't be seeing the rematch everyone expected, I’m still moving ahead at full-steam with my congressional campaign regardless of who my opponent will be.

Linda Stender

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Thursday September 13, 2007 · 2:53 PM PDT

2007/09/13 · 14:53

(Cross-posted from BlueJersey.com.)

Mike Ferguson has failed us. In response to my comments about his failure to seek a desperately needed change of course in Iraq, Mike Ferguson did the unthinkable. Rather than addressing my Iraq statement on the merits, he attacked a plan to privatize New Jersey's toll roads that does not even exist.

Now, I don't know what the Turnpike has to do with Iraq. Perhaps Mike Ferguson's spinmeisters will explain it to us some day. But I see it as an obvious and lame rhetorical dodge right out of the Karl Rove playbook -- if you're asked a question you don't like, answer one that you do. But I'd rather not take the bait and discuss tolls when we really ought to be discussing lives.

Linda Stender

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 9:37 AM PST

2006/11/03 · 09:37

We're gaining steam here in NJ7, and even the Republicans are admitting that this race is tightening. The most popular political news and gossip site in the state, PoliticsNJ.com, yesterday called the race a tossup.

Democratic and Republican sources say that internal polling from both sides show the race for Congress in New Jersey's seventh congressional district to be tightening. That confirms a Majority Watch independent poll that has GOP Congressman Michael Ferguson leading Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Stender by a 46%-43% margin -- a statistical dead heat. Stender, who has raised $1.8 million and has won endorsements from the Star-Ledger, the New York Times, the Courier-News and the Hunterdon County Democrat, is also touting a new endorsement from actor Michael J. Fox. According, PoliticsNJ.com has moved this race -- for at least the next 48 hours -- into the Toss Up column.

So far our campaign here has received seven newspaper endorsements and is sweeping the daily newspapers. The Mike Ferguson (R-NJ7) campaign has, sadly, not a single endorsement. Read More

NJ-07: I'm Challenging You To Four Duels

Linda Stender

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 10:51 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 10:51

NJ-07: I'm Challenging You To Four Duels

Mike Ferguson, R-NJ7, is well known in political circles for being a bit distant, not spending much time in the district or meeting with everyday folks. It's helped him stay fairly unknown to most of the voters, and he uses that to define his image through taxpayer funded mailings and meetings in front of supportive groups.
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What's He Gonna Do? Put Them In Jail?

Linda Stender

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 10:06 AM PDT

2006/09/15 · 10:06

Mike Ferguson opposes women's right to choose to have an abortion, going so far as to say it would be a "great day for America" if a Constitutional Amendment were passed making it illegal.

He would even support a law that would require a woman to carry to term a pregnancy caused by rape or incest, making it a crime to do otherwise.

Our friend Vicky, who is from Clark, recently asked the question that everyone should ask Mike Ferguson about making abortions illegal:"What's he gonna do? Put them in jail?"

And that is not sarcasm, but a very serious question about Mike Ferguson's radical position. If he succeeds in his mission to make abortion a crime, then he will succeed in making the women who have abortions criminals. Is he going to put them in jail? Read More

Ferguson and Rumsfeld

Linda Stender

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Friday September 08, 2006 · 8:10 AM PDT

2006/09/08 · 08:10

The Iraq War, regardless of whether you supported the initial invasion or not, has been managed incompetently and the result is the death 2,660 American soldiers, a growing sectarian civil war, tens of thousands of innocent dead Iraqis, and hundreds of billions of your tax dollars tossed down the drain.

George Bush bears the most responsibility for this fiasco, since he is the President and Commander in Chief. But operationally the incompetence, malfeasance and irrational prosecution of this war can be laid at the feet of one man: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

It was Rumsfeld who decided to go in with a force too small to hold the country after defeating Saddam Hussein. It was Rumsfeld who declined to push manufacturers to ramp up production on life-saving armor for our troops. It was Rumsfeld who dismissed our NATO allies as "old Europe" instead of working with them to provide troops and resources. It is Rumsfeld who accuses honest Americans who point out his failures of being like Nazi appeasers.

It is Rumsfeld's failure, and President Bush refuses to hold him accountable. Read More

Thank You Netroots

Linda Stender

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Wednesday August 30, 2006 · 11:33 AM PDT

2006/08/30 · 11:33

I want to thank the netroots for being so generous to me and my campaign. In the last week the Netroots endorsement alone raised more than $7,000 from more than 400 people. That's amazing! I keep telling our volunteers that it doesn't take a lot from any one person, but it takes a little from everyone. This is a perfect example of that message.
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Bush & Ferguson Wrong on Stem Cell Research

Linda Stender

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 9:47 AM PDT

2006/07/20 · 09:47

Assemblywoman Linda Stender is running for Congress against Mike Ferguson in NJ's 7th district. Read More

Thank You Netroots, from Linda Stender (NJ-7)

Linda Stender

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Tuesday July 18, 2006 · 9:10 AM PDT

2006/07/18 · 09:10

Assemblywoman Linda Stender is running against Mike Ferguson in the NJ 7th Congressional District. Read More

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Mission Accomplished?

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NJ-7: Asked About Iraq, Ferguson Talks About Roads

NJ7: Riding The Wave Is Not Enough. We Have to WORK!

NJ-07: I'm Challenging You To Four Duels

What's He Gonna Do? Put Them In Jail?

Ferguson and Rumsfeld

Thank You Netroots

Bush & Ferguson Wrong on Stem Cell Research

Thank You Netroots, from Linda Stender (NJ-7)