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PARAMUS, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — New Jersey voters are deciding who gets to be governor Tuesday. Democratic incumbent Phil Murphy is trying to fight off a challenge from Republican Jack Ciattarelli . READ MORE: Outgoing Nassau County Executive Laura Curran: 'I'm Confident We Left This Place A Heck Of A Lot Better Than We Found It' As CBS2’s Christina Fan reported, voters began filing into Paramus High School bright and early election morning — the gubernatorial race at the top of their ballots, and their minds. “I’ve always voted for the candidate who represents my values correctly and that is Phil Murphy,” one voter said. “I am voting for Jack and getting Murphy out of here,” said another. Both candidates packed their schedules with back-to-back events Tuesday, urging their supporters to go the polls. The election’s outcome hinges on Tuesday’s turnout after only 3.2% of registered voters participated in the state’s first ever in-person early voting. Ciattarelli … [Read more...] about Republican Jack Ciattarelli Zeroes In On Small Business Recovery, COVID-19 Restrictions In Race For New Jersey Governor

4 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O'Rourke said Tuesday that his campaign for Texas governor raised $7.2 million in the first six weeks of a race that could wind up as one of the nation's most expensive in 2022. The announcement, made on the deadline in Texas for campaigns to submit their latest finance reports, is an early marker of whether O'Rourke can remain a fundraising powerhouse in his latest comeback after failed bids for the U.S. Senate and president. The haul is significant by the standards of other Texas Democrats who have run for governor but have failed to succeed for more than 30 years. At the same time, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for years has shown an ability to raise millions of dollars in a matter of days from executives of some of Texas' largest corporations and energy firms. Abbott, who is running for a third term, has yet to publicly report his latest figures but as of last summer was sitting on more than $55 million. … [Read more...] about O’Rourke raises $7M in first weeks of bid for Texas governor

3 NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott has a memoir out this summer that he says will explain the two words that have shaped his life: hope and redemption. “No matter how great the darkness, these truths always light the way home,” the South Carolina Republican said in a statement issued Tuesday through his publisher, Thomas Nelson. “And while there are hard moments in this book, more than anything, I have endeavored to tell a story brimming with the beauty, magic, and wonder of life. Because this is how we are meant to live.” Thomas Nelson, an imprint of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, announced that Scott's "America, A Redemption Story” is scheduled for release in August. Scott is up for re-election in November. Scott, 56, has spoken of sharing a single bedroom with his mother and brother after his parents divorced. He was elected to the Charleston City Council in 1995 and rose steadily over the next two decades, joining the U.S. Senate in 2013 … [Read more...] about Sen. Tim Scott memoir ‘America’ coming out in August

The long-simmering tensions between former President Trump Donald Trump Sanders calls out Manchin, Sinema ahead of filibuster showdown Laura Ingraham 'not saying' if she'd support Trump in 2024 The Hill's 12:30 Report: Djokovic may not compete in French Open over vaccine requirement MORE and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantis The Hill's 12:30 Report: Djokovic may not compete in French Open over vaccine requirement 'Morning Joe' hosts mock Trump Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Trump 'is done' MORE (R) are reaching a boiling point ahead of a potential 2024 primary clash. Trump has griped behind the scenes for months about DeSantis’s rapid political rise, including chatter about a future White House bid. But the complaints from the former president have only grown louder, raising concerns among some Republicans about a looming brawl between two GOP heavyweights. “President Trump is the one clearly picking a fight here, and it’s a … [Read more...] about Trump-DeSantis tensions ratchet up

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill last week. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images With the midterms looming, it was time for Democrats to make one last desperate effort to pass voting-rights legislation they consider vital to not just their political prospects in 2022, but the future of American democracy. So last Tuesday, Joe Biden went to Georgia to give a major speech on the subject, and the Senate was set to hold a rare weekend meeting, potentially lining up a debate and vote on a bill on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The symbolism would not be lost: Democrats planned on prompting a confrontation over the filibuster being used, as before, to thwart progress on voting rights. Then on Thursday, as Biden prepared to make a rare visit to the Capitol to lobby personally for the bill, Kyrsten Sinema took the Senate floor. Speaking in a Senate chamber with nearly a dozen members present, mostly Republicans, the senator from Arizona, … [Read more...] about What Democrats Hope to Win by Losing

Agnieszka Pilat with her robot dog and muse, Spot. Photo: Mark Sommerfeld When I meet Agnieszka Pilat , a pixie-ish Polish émigré who has become the court painter of the potentates of Silicon Valley , she has just returned from Necker Island, the private Caribbean domain of Richard Branson . “I’m always the poorest person in the room” at places like that, she says with a laugh, curling her paint-flecked Yves Saint Laurent sneakers beneath her on the couch as she absentmindedly twists and untwists her hair. We’ve met up in her Chelsea studio, in which paintings of robotic limbs in repose dot the concrete walls. She has another studio in San Francisco. In each, she kennels a duplicate Spot , her 70-pound emergency-yellow cybernetic dog, muse, studio assistant (it paints, too), and, in some sense, protector, both on loan to her from Boston Dynamics, where she was once artist in residence. Despite her Chelsea digs near the blue-chip Gagosians and Zwirners, Pilat … [Read more...] about See Spot Paint

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in front of Congress this week. To accompany the testimony, Select All is publishing transcripts of interviews with four ex-Facebook employees and one former investor, conducted as part of a wider project on the crisis within the tech industry that will be published later this week. These interviews include • Former Facebook manager Sandy Parakilas on privacy, addiction, and why Facebook must “dramatically” change its business model. • Former Facebook designer Soleio Cuervo on Facebook’s commitment to users, what the media gets wrong, and why regulation is unnecessary. • Former Zuckerberg speechwriter Kate Losse on how the Facebook founder thinks and what is hardest for him to wrap his mind around. • Former Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia Martinez on the “sociopathic scene” of Silicon Valley and Mark Zuckerberg’s “disingenuous and strange” reaction to the election. This interview is with … [Read more...] about ‘You Have a Persuasion Engine Unlike Any Created in History’

3 NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday he will not run for governor, but will instead devote himself to fighting inequality in New York. His decision to not enter the Democratic primary further strengthens the campaign of Gov. Kathy Hochul, who already has a commanding start locking up endorsements and fundraising. “No, I not going to to be running for governor of New York state. But I am going to devote every fiber of my being to fight inequality in the state of New York," the former mayor said in a video posted on Twitter. De Blasio did not offer more detail about how he plans to fight inequality. De Blasio, who left office at the end of 2021, had been hinting for months about a 2022 run for governor, saying he would like to stay in public service and is proud of his eight years as mayor of the largest city in the country. De Blasio, 60, frequently clashed with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who … [Read more...] about Ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t run for governor

The White House on Tuesday dismissed a report that the administration is preparing an alternative spending package to replace President Biden Joe Biden Macro grid will keep the lights on Pelosi suggests filibuster supporters 'dishonor' MLK's legacy on voting rights Sanders calls out Manchin, Sinema ahead of filibuster showdown MORE ’s climate and social spending proposal. White House spokesman Andrew Bates denied a Reuters report that said the White House is putting together a new package that brings in elements of the roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better bill that has stalled in the Senate, calling it “off base.” “Reuters is wrong,” Bates said in a statement. “We are always in touch with members about this, and the substance and details of this report are off base.” ADVERTISEMENT Reuters reported that the new package would still include components of the original bill that address climate change but be reduced in size by partially or entirely … [Read more...] about White House dismisses report of new Build Back Better package

Democrats’ push to make permanent the voting rules put in place during the pandemic is a near last-ditch effort to keep their 2024 hopes alive. Should the Democrats not be able to preserve COVID-related, “emergency” voting measures by passing the Freedom to Vote Act, many voters who only came out because of automatic or early balloting in 2020 will be less likely to cast ballots in 2024. The combination of reversion to pre-pandemic voting measures and shifting demographics means that without a thumb on the scale in the next elections, they lose. Pandemic emergency voting measures such as mass mail-in voting, often involving unrequested ballots sent by states and ballot drop boxes, fundamentally transformed the electoral landscape in 2020. Such efforts are key to Democrats’ hopes in 2024 — last election, 58 percent of Joe Biden voters voted by mail; this was almost double the rate of Donald Trump Donald Trump Sanders calls out Manchin, Sinema ahead of filibuster showdown … [Read more...] about Democrats would rip up election law under the guise of a COVID emergency