News: Craig Guy on his 1988 arrest

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Craig Guy on his 1988 arrest

Dec 01, 2022

Presented by AARP New Jersey

Good Thursday morning!

When you've lined up Democratic Party support for a high-ranking position in an ultra-Democratic county, you may find the opposition researchers aren't out to get you.

That may explain why Craig Guy, the presumptive next Hudson County executive, has not addressed his 1988 arrest, and subsequent exoneration, for an alleged role in a drug distribution network when he was a Jersey City cop. It's right there on Google if you search it — the arrest, anyway. The exoneration part is only available in news clips you can't find online.

It's an odd story . And frankly, I had to rely on Guy for much of it. Many of the people who were involved aren't around anymore — some are dead, some I just couldn't locate. But the way I see it, you shouldn't be able to run for a position like this, no matter how safe the seat, without addressing this kind of thing from your past. Even if it was 35 years ago.

Read more about it here .

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WHAT TRENTON MADE

PRIVATIZATION — " Murphy seeks to privatize management of troubled state-run veterans homes ," by The Record's Scott Fallon: "Two years after they suffered some of the highest COVID deaths tolls in the nation and with problems still persisting, Gov. Phil Murphy took the unusual step Wednesday to outsource the management of New Jersey's three troubled veterans homes to a private company. The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs will seek a vendor to manage 'systemic changes' and provide 'qualified, administrative staff' to run the homes in Menlo Park, Paramus and Vineland, Murphy said in a statement issued late Wednesday. The move comes weeks after the release of an inspection that found poor infection control measures continuing at the Menlo Park home where a long outbreak of COVID this year killed more than a dozen. Federal officials stopped payments last week for new admissions until reforms are made and threatened to stop all payments by March."

THE TITTEL BOUT — Bear hunt on hold after New Jersey judge issues stay , by POLITICO's Ry Rivard: New Jersey's controversial bear hunt, set to start Monday, is on hold after a judge granted an emergency stay on Wednesday. A round of briefs in the case is now due the afternoon of Dec. 5, after the hunt was set to resume. Gov. Phil Murphy gave his blessing to the hunt in November … To restart hunts, which allow hunters to kill hundreds of bears each year, the state moved ahead with an emergency rule earlier this year. The Animal Protection League of New Jersey and others sought to block the rule, arguing the state hadn't cleared the high bar required to create emergency rules. The case is being heard in the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division. The stay was granted by Judge Lisa Rose … Tittel hopes the legal wrangling could take long enough that the one to two-week hunting season may not take place this year. 'This is an early Christmas present for the bears,' he said."

CHURCH VS. STATE — " Court declares churches' battle against 2020 pandemic restrictions moot — again ," by New Jersey Monitor's Sophie Nieto-Munoz: "The Third Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit two New Jersey churches filed against the state over 2020 pandemic restrictions that prohibited gatherings in religious settings, declaring the case "moot" because those limits are unlikely to return. 'Appellants offer nothing more than speculation to suggest that we have a live controversy here,' said Circuit Judge Marjorie Rendell, who wrote the majority opinion. 'They invite us to hypothesize about future scenarios in which (a) not only does the COVID-19 pandemic reach crisis levels comparable to early 2020, but (b) New Jersey's executive officials will choose to ignore everything — both legal and factual — we have learned since those early months and bluntly reintroduce legally suspect gathering restrictions on religious worship.'"

ABORTION — Murphy administration speeds up plans for abortion insurance mandates for Jan. 1 , by POLITICO's Daniel Han: The Murphy administration is fast-tracking proposals to mandate abortion coverage for state-regulated commercial health plans for the start of next year. At the request of the Department of Banking and Insurance, boards that oversee the individual and small-employer health insurance markets voted this week to advance the plans. The new requirements would mandate comprehensive abortion coverage beyond just "Hyde abortions" — abortions that happen in instances of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the patient.

"Under the rules process, the [abortion insurance] requirement could take effect next plan year, on January 1, 2024," DOBI spokesperson Trish Wallace said in a statement. "However, the department requested that insurance companies in the individual market, which include those offering plans through Get Covered New Jersey, the State's Official Health Insurance Marketplace, and off the marketplace, as well as in the small employer market, implement the change as soon as possible to make coverage for abortion services, without exceptions, effective for the start of the 2023 plan year on January 1, 2023."

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BIDEN TIME

CHRISTIE SEES 100% JUMP IN SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY BY PEOPLE NOT NAMED CHRISTIE — " Who's ready for the umpteenth return of Chris Christie? " by The Trentonian's Jeff Edelstein: "Say what you will about Christie — and hoo boy, there is a metric ton to say — the man isn't afraid to voice his opinion. It took political stones to back Trump when the rest of the GOP kept him at a distance, and it (sadly) took political stones to loudly distance himself from Trump in the wake of January 6. And now? Well, and now Christie is relishing every opportunity to dump on Trump — witness his recent comments after Trump had dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes — and, when asked if he's going to mount a run in 2024, told the Washington Examiner he'd have an answer within six months. Now: Roll your eyes if you must, bring up Bridgegate if you must, make the fat jokes if you must, and my opinion is not going to change: Chris Christie would make a decent president, especially in the current climate we're in. {ducks}"

JOCKS — " What happens if Herschel Walker stops running and starts serving? Bill Bradley has an idea ," by Sport Illustrated's Michael Rosenberg: " A famous athlete, running for the U.S. Senate in the state where he was a collegiate legend, despite grumblings that he had moved there just to fulfill his political aspirations. Today, that's Herschel Walker in Georgia. But once, it was Bill Bradley in New Jersey. 'I don't begrudge anybody using their fame to run for office, whether you're Ronald Reagan or Jack Kemp or me,' Bradley says … 'I've seen plenty of people make mistakes,' Bradley says. 'I haven't seen anybody make as many mistakes. It seems to me that [Walker] was not prepared to run for office, and certainly not this office. I don't know what he's done over the years to try to understand the world or understand his country or understand politics or the economy.'"

WE PROBABLY WON'T BE NEW JAMPSHIRE — With a DNC committee set to meet this week to recommend a new primary calendar, Gov. Phil Murphy told a reporter Wednesday that "my gut tells me that we're ... under serious consideration for an early primary, but I'm not sure the earliest." New Jersey has been pushing for an early primary. It's unclear if Murphy's gut has any inside information.

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LOCAL

NEWARK— " In the Ironbound ," by NJ Advance Media's Jeremy Schneider: "Two centuries of immigration have shaped the historic Newark neighborhood into an estuary of colliding heritages … But now, many Ironbound residents worry about the next wave of newcomers, who for the first time may not further enrich the neighborhood with their culture, but dilute and gentrify it. It's a familiar tale: A growing crop of young professionals, drawn to the Brick City for its proximity to Manhattan (with significantly cheaper living costs) and mass transit have begun to move in. New luxury high-rises are already occupied downtown, just west of the Ironbound, and similar buildings are currently under construction around the neighborhood. Ferry Street is increasingly peppered with newcomers zipping by on electric scooters, trying to avoid the potholes. And as rents begin to rise throughout the neighborhood, longtime residents fear the impending financial squeeze."

PATERSON COPS — " New lawsuit accuses indicted Paterson cop Kevin Patino of assaulting a teenager ," by The Paterson Press' Joe Malinconico: "Indicted Paterson Police Officer Kevin Patino is the target of a new federal civil rights lawsuit accusing him of using excessive force against a city teenager, the second such complaint filed within the past two weeks. In the latest lawsuit, Rosdward Hernandez, who was 18 years old at the time, accused Patino of hitting him at least six times in the face and head on Nov. 26, 2020, which was Thanksgiving. Hernandez claimed that Patino attacked him after he tried to de-escalate a dispute between another cop and someone with mental illness on Main Street."

MANMADECLIMATECHANGEVILLE — " Homeowners in N.J. town devastated by Ida get $10M to buy out flood-prone properties ," by NJ Advance Media's Steven Rodas: "More than a year after the remnants of Hurricane Ida battered New Jersey, including large portions of Manville, FEMA will provide about $10 million to help fortify the borough against future storms, NJ Advance Media has learned. The funds will be provided through the agency's Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Swift Current initiative, which federal officials said aims to help communities become more resilient against flooding considering storms are becoming fiercer and more frequent due to climate change."

DYK MOVE — " Preservationists efforts to buy Montclair's Howe House rejected, home under contract ," by The Record's Julia Martin: "An offer to buy Montclair's James Howe House, one of the oldest structures in Montclair, which is rich in local and African-American history, has been accepted by owner Bob Van Dyk, owner of a nursing home on the adjacent property. To the disappointment of the preservationist group Friends of James Howe House, which had been in negotiations with Van Dyk to buy it well before he unexpectedly put it on the market Oct. 12, it was not the offer they had submitted. 'It's very upsetting,' said Geoff Rockhill, a commercial real estate broker and member of the friends group, which put in an offer on Nov. 18, a day after the initial offer was made … He said Van Dyk has refused requests to meet with him to discuss the group's efforts to buy the property."

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EVERYTHING ELSE

MARSH MADNESS — " New Jersey's wetlands are drowning, putting coastal homeowners at risk ," by The Asbury Park Press' Amanda Oglesby: "Outside the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, marshland is giving way to open water. It's happening up and down the New Jersey coast, but here, Lenore Tedesco has a front row seat. 'If you look at Google Earth (a satellite imagery website) and drive around… we're starting to see that conversion of marsh to mud flat,' said Tedesco, the executive director of the Wetlands Institute. ''That's the first step.' New Jersey's wetlands habitats are ecosystems that serve as home to migrating shorebirds, crustaceans and small fish. They act as crucial coastal buffers during storms, protecting taxpayer property, while filtering pollutants from the water. And they're drowning. 'We're actually seeing marsh drowning, widespread areas up and down the Atlantic coast of our tidal wetlands,' Tedesco said. 'We lost a bunch, and now we're really worried that we're at a tipping point with our current marshes.' In New Jersey, more than 40% of the state's original wetlands are gone, according to the Wetlands Institute."

R.I.P. — " 'He's an institution': Longtime Bergen lawyer who worked into his late 90s dies ," by The Record's Kaitlyn Kanzler: "Frank Lucianna, a powerhouse defense attorney in Hackensack and a World War II veteran, died Monday, leaving an impressive legacy and profound love of the law. "He's an institution," said his daughter Diane Lucianna. '[For] 71 years he was practicing law in Hackensack.' Lucianna was 99 years old at the time of his death … He was often seen strolling the halls of the Bergen County Courthouse in his pinstriped suits, greeting everyone."

THE FINE IS EQUIVALENT TO THE PRICE OF 18.5 LUNCHES AT CAESARS' ATLANTIC CITY BUFFET — " Caesars Sportsbook fined for refusing to pay $27K for winning hockey bet ," by The AP: "New Jersey gambling regulators have fined Caesars Sportsbook for wrongly refusing to pay out over $27,000 to a gambler who made winning bets on an international hockey game last year. The dispute involved whether goals scored in overtime should count in determining whether bets are winners or losers. It's the same type of pitfall many soccer bettors may soon face during soccer's World Cup tournament, where bets are usually graded based on what happens during regular time. The state Division of Gaming Enforcement fined Caesars $500 for wrongly insisting that the man's hockey bets were losers."

STILL WAITING FOR THE CHEESEQUAKE CHEESECAKE — " Cake Boss vending machines are now at NJ rest stops ," by NJ 101.5's Jeff Diminski: "Larger than a typical vending machine, you shouldn't be able to miss it. They're big, they're red, they have a decorative awning and they advertise cake 'Hoboken style, baby!' You'll even hear Buddy Valastro's voice as you go through the process … They're not cheap. $10 a slice … The machines are popping up at rest stops in New Jersey on the Garden State Parkway. "

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A message from AARP New Jersey:

Caring for a parent, spouse or other older loved one can be financially and emotionally draining. Every day, family caregivers struggle to assist loved ones often using money out of their own pockets. The average family caregiver spends about a quarter of their income on caregiving activities. Many take on debt or tap into savings to make sure their loved ones get the care they need. That's a huge burden. And their sacrifices save the state and taxpayers money by keeping their loved ones out of costly nursing home facilities. New Jersey family caregivers provide more than $13 billion a year in unpaid care. It's past time to give them some financial relief. NJ lawmakers can take action by supporting the Caregiver's Assistance Act (A1802/S2021). This bill would provide a modest tax credit for family caregivers who pay for expensive care out of their own pockets. Tell lawmakers: support (A1802/S2021).