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- Trump: Too bad the Senate has not yet approved the Sunshine Protection Act or, the I Don’t Want to Change My Clocks Anymore Act. It’s so dark outside, so early (Sunset was 5:06 P.M., and it was dark by 5:31 P.M. — Isn’t that ridiculous?). Just a few days ago it was so nice and sunny at this same time. In addition, everyone’s been running around changing their clocks all over the place. I didn’t want to make a big deal out of this prior to the Election because I didn’t want to have certain Senators lose their Race, in a landslide, but it is too bad they can’t get it done. The House sent it over to the Senate with great bipartisan support, numerous times (308-117), but the Senate didn’t take it up. We have far bigger priorities, but I will keep fighting for this! President DONALD J. TRUMP
According to an exclusive Fox News Digital report, JD Vance is already positioning himself for 2028 by seeking an alliance with disaffected Trump voters and the so-called “New Right,” with changing America's relationship with Israel as part of his political strategy. The report reveals that White House officials met Wednesday morning to coordinate the administration's messaging following the disastrous midterm elections. Yet shortly afterward, Vance published a lengthy post blaming the war with Iran for the GOP's defeat.
A White House official told Fox News that Vance is appealing to Republicans who feel betrayed by Trump's foreign policy, with the message, "Vance is our guy.”
- Bingo black Friday sale begins today in furniture and appliances
- El-Sayed has welcomed Trump's announcement for ending $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel, but he pressed further and called for an end to weapons sales too.
- Sanz Klausenberg rebbe visits his kerala in Lakewood today.
- Shas is expected to recommend Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next government. United Torah Judaism (UTJ), however, is reportedly planning not to recommend either Netanyahu or Gadi Eisenkot on instructions from Rav Dov Lando. Some UTJ MKs representing Belz and other Chassidic factions may nevertheless recommend Netanyahu independently.
Meanwhile, Shas leader Aryeh Deri will remain at the helm of the party after the rabbinic leadership issued a letter instructing him not to step down. However, he may choose not to serve as an active member of the Knesset.
- Vice President JD Vance explains why Republicans lost: “Trump voters came out to the polls in droves, but voted for the opposing candidate. The main reasons for their anger were the war with Iran, inflation, and relations with Israel. Anyone who tells you we lost for other reasons is lying.”Vance called the Iran war the central reason for the losses, warning Republicans against blaming other issues or ignoring the message voters sent.
- Ben Shapiro says Ron DeSantis is likely to run for president in 2028, while Marco Rubio is unlikely to enter the race. Kalshi's prediction markets show JD Vance at 27%, Rubio at 25%, and DeSantis at 19%, following a 7-point overnight jump.
- Rep. Byron Donalds says Republicans missed key opportunities by failing to pass the SAVE America Act and codify President Trump's border security measures into law. He argues that the failure to deliver on these priorities frustrated Republican voters and contributed to the midterm losses.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on the GOP's devastating midterm losses across the country, "This is close to an extinction level event for Republicans." "In January, when everyone in office leaves, who were either term limited or got voted out of the ten largest states in this union, only one state will have Republican control of their state, the state of Florida."
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sounds the alarm that Democrats' 55+ seat Senate victory means there is ZERO CHANCE Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas (78) or Sam Alito (76) can get realistically confirmed replacements if there's a vacancy...until 2033.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson will reportedly not run for House Minority Leader following Republicans' defeat in the midterm elections.
- Lakewood Voter turnout: According to the district-by-district results, 22,556 out of 66,776 registered voters in Lakewood cast ballots, representing approximately 33.8% turnout. That means roughly 44,220 registered voters, or 66.2%, did not vote. In other words, only about one-third of Lakewood's registered voters participated in the election.
Lakewood numbers
In the election, Democrat Raymond Coles received the most votes with 14,757 (34.69%), followed by Republican Deborah Fuentes with 14,234 (33.46%). Republican Moshe B. Raitzik received 9,170 (21.56%), Democrat Samantha L. Stokes received 3,958 (9.30%), and write-in candidates received 423 (0.99%). A total of 42,542 votes were cast.
According to the 47 Lakewood district results, Cory Booker received 11,918 votes (56.1%), compared with 9,057 votes (42.6%) for Republican Justin Murphy.The remaining votes went to independent candidates Veronica Fernandez (130) and Joanne Kuniansky (65), along with 86 write-in votes. Total ballots cast: 21,256. Booker won Lakewood by 2,861 votes, a margin of approximately 13.5 percentage points.
In Lakewood, District 8 Lakewood middle school gave Cory Booker the most votes by number, with 498 votes (61.79%), while District 27 BMG Herzka building had his highest percentage at 72.60%, with 159 votes. For Republican Justin Murphy, District 15 New Hampshire fire house gave him the most votes by number, with 319 (58.86%), while District 31 Four seasons appears to have given him the highest percentage, with 347 votes (60.98%).
Lakewood Mayor stats
According to the Lakewood district results, Raymond Coles received his highest vote total in District 8 Lakewood middle school, with 635 votes (38.60%). District 12 westgate was next, with 603 votes (37.27%). Moshe Raitzik received his highest vote total in District 12 Westgate, with 401 votes (24.78%), while District 15 New Hampshire firehouse gave him his highest percentage, at 30.82% (327 votes).
Lakewood District 27 BMG Herzka building strongly favored Republican Deborah Fuentes in the local race:
- Deborah Fuentes (R): 202 votes (44.30%)
- Raymond Coles (D): 160 votes (35.09%)
- Moshe Raitzik (R): 74 votes (16.23%)
- Samantha Stokes (D): 11 votes (2.41%)
- Jackson voter turnout: According to the district-by-district results, 23,413 out of 42,533 registered voters in Jackson cast ballots, representing approximately 55.0% turnout. That means about 19,120 registered voters, or 45.0%, did not vote. More than half of Jackson's registered voters participated in the election.
- Jackson: In the Jackson election, Elliott Shem-Tov received the most votes with 10,625 (47.48%), followed by Jennifer Kuhn with 8,816 (39.39%) and Brandon A. Rose with 2,868 (12.82%). Write-in candidates received 70 votes (0.31%). A total of 22,379 votes were cast.
In the Jackson Township Council race, Christopher Pollak received the most votes with 12,157 (28.42%), followed by Amanda Trombetta with 10,397 (24.31%), John “Pojo” Pejoski with 8,176 (19.12%), and Brian McCarron with 8,136 (19.02%). Casey V. Jackson received 1,919 votes (4.49%), Paul G. Sarti received 1,883 (4.40%), and write-in candidates received 103 votes (0.24%). A total of 42,771 votes were cast.
- Toms River: 31,262 out of 72,778 registered voters in Toms River cast ballots, representing approximately 43.0% turnout. That means about 41,516 registered voters, or 57.0%, did not vote.
- President Isaac Herzog received the official results of Israel's election from Central Elections Committee chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg on Wednesday, ahead of consultations with the parties on who should form the next government. Sohlberg warned that casting doubt on the election results poses a "real danger" to democracy. He said the allegations under investigation remain suspicions and that even if confirmed, their possible impact would be limited. Herzog said he would now begin consultations on assigning a Knesset member the task of forming a government. No mandate has been announced.
- WHITE HOUSE "PSA: TRUMP IS STILL YOUR PRESIDENT," "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
- US presidents have faced major midterm setbacks throughout history.
Obama (2010): Democrats lost 63 House seats.
Clinton (1994): Democrats lost 54 House seats.
Trump (2018): Republicans lost 40 House seats.
- Nurses held a rally this morning in front of Kimball hospita in Lakewood demanding better wages and work improvements.
- Reporter: Did the war with Iran hurt Republicans in Tuesday's elections? President Trump says that's probably true.
The president acknowledges that higher gas prices may have played a role in the party's losses after a reporter brings up Vice President JD Vance's assessment from his post earlier today on X. But Trump isn't backing away from the decision: "If I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again, because long term it's the only answer. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon
APP: Two years after delivering commanding margins for Donald Trump, the Jersey Shore cracked open on Tuesday, as a surging Democratic midterm wave flipped Monmouth County’s government for the first time in nearly two decades and sharply eroded Republican dominance in neighboring Ocean County.
Impressive Raitzik gets 9000 who didn't listen to the vaad
ReplyDeleteJackson says we are in galus you dont own the place
Forget about school vouchers
Antisemitism brings votes
Eretz Yisrael lost a friendly country
USA about to get very dangerous.
DeleteAnd the obvious idea of fighting back the anti-semites sometimes backfires too it brings that the worst in them. Sometimes you need to look away a bit. Counterintuitive but historically pushing them into a corner forcing them to show their colors is not always productive
Deleteunfortunately a lot of that 9,000 came from the seniors. I think we may be better of if we went to them for "ziknecha viyomru lach"
Deletethe Zionists caused the Republicans to lose simple as that
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I care if Republicans win or not is because of the Zionists
DeleteYou mean the government of Israel that has given billions to yeshivos in the last 40 years? The government who authorized the successful war against the Palestinians who seek every Jews' destruction? The above comments are the sentiments of a bunch of little children that are completely ignorant of history and of current events.
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DeleteAvraham avinu strongly disagrees
Do you enjoy gridlock? Do you enjoy watching as your tax burden shoots up and services drop like a rock in the water?
ReplyDeleteLakewood voters have spoken and sent leadership a resounding vote of confidence. Keep doing what you're doing. Keep downgrading the quality of life. Keep giving away township resources for free.
There was nobody running against the Vaad
DeleteMaybe if the next time there is election, the non-Vaad candidate should run a campaign. so people would know that someone is really running.
What do you want him to do if the local publications refuse to publish that there was even an election happening? Did Debbie Fuentes campaign that she earned so many votes? You're talking nonsense. If you read FAA, Yudel Shain, or even here on Hefkervelt, you would have seen he's running. He went to speak to seniors. Did any other group invite him to speak? No. Everyone was too scared to fight Yeshiva. Kudos to the Lakewood Scoop, though, who published his platform on the eve of the elections. Oh, and by the way, he got more votes this year in his rave for Township Committee than he did last year in his Fire Commissioner race, which he had won! And finally, Larry Loigman lost big and put in ads for himself, so you see, it really makes no difference here in Lakewood. Long live the VAAD and the sheeple who follow them!
DeleteThey have no achrayus toward a fellow Yid? How can people blindly follow the Vaad while causing hefsed mammon and allowing the gneivah of other people's money?
ReplyDeleteIt's mind-boggling how foolishly and blindly we can act as a kehilla, with so little concern for the klal, seemingly turning a blind eye to corruption and abuse.
Lakewood voters, where is your Ahavas Yisroel?
Where is your sense of achrayus toward another Yid?
Where is your hishtatfus in the tzaar of others?
How can we stand by when fellow Yidden are suffering?
You're not serious, are you? The bottom line is that Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva have trained the oilam to follow the Vaad. And Lakewood Yungeleit follow the Roshei Yeshiva. That's a good thing.
DeleteIf you have an issue with the way the oilam in Lakewood votes, you need to go to the Roshei Hayeshiva and explain your issue. Convince them that the Vaad doesn't care about Yungeleit and that the oilam is suffering. That's your best chance.
Anything less than that is just complaining for the sake of complaining.
Please show me a kol koreh in recent years of the roshei yeshivah endorsing the vaad candidates
DeleteAll I saw was the RYs calling on the tzibbur to vote without any endorsement
Done that numerous times. The response is the city should make its own vaad which they wouldn't allow anyways
DeleteSo record the Roshei Yeshiva saying that the city should make its own Vaad, then take the recording to the Rabonim in town and make a Vaad. But stop complaining about the people in town. All they did was listen to the Roshei Yeshiva who told us many years ago to follow the Vaad's recomendations.
Deletefunny when jews worshiped avodah zara because of the evil kings, the neviem also went to the people and not just the evil kings, because there is this concept called bechira and we have the option to do good and vote against Booker, or to do do evil and vote for booker and all the toevah/retzicha and all sorts of lesser evils that he brings.
DeleteMost votes for Raitzik came from the area of Bais Yitzchok which is obviously from the yungeleit. They obviously votes for who they wanted
ReplyDeleteLook for more about the rally
ReplyDeleteLAKEWOOD, NJ — Nurses at Monmouth Medical Center Southern on Route 9 in Lakewood are speaking out against what they describe as misleading claims and scare tactics by RWJBarnabas Health management as contract negotiations continue.
After overwhelmingly rejecting a proposed contract, nurses represented by the New Jersey Nurses Union (NJNU-CWA Local 1091) say their demands are simple: fair wages, safe staffing ratios, and protection of their hard-earned paid time off.
"No one wants to strike. Nurses want to be at the bedside caring for their patients, not walking a picket line. But they also deserve to be treated fairly and have their concerns taken seriously."
Nurses say management's recent communications about preparing for a possible strike are intended to intimidate employees rather than address the issues that have brought negotiations to this point. The union has emphasized that it remains ready and willing to negotiate in good faith.
Meanwhile, management has promoted what it describes as a substantial 4.1% wage increase. However, nurses argue that this figure does not tell the whole story. The proposed increases vary depending on years of service and eligibility, meaning not every nurse would receive the advertised raise.
The hospital has also highlighted an increase in paid holidays, but nurses say that claim leaves out an important detail: only a portion of holiday hours would be covered by holiday pay, with the remaining hours deducted from nurses' earned PTO. Combined with proposed reductions in sick time and rising health insurance costs, nurses fear they could ultimately be left with fewer benefits despite the hospital's claims of an improved contract.
Perhaps most concerning is the lack of meaningful progress on safe staffing. Nurses continue to push for enforceable nurse-to-patient ratios, arguing that inadequate staffing places additional strain on nurses and compromises their ability to provide the quality care patients deserve.
Nurses emphasize that this fight is not simply about compensation. It is about protecting patients, retaining experienced staff, and ensuring that those responsible for caring for the community are treated with dignity and respect.
"We don't want a strike. We want a fair contract. We want enough nurses to safely care for our patients, fair compensation for the work we do, and the ability to keep the benefits we've already earned. That shouldn't be too much to ask."
With negotiations scheduled to resume November 6, nurses are calling on RWJBarnabas Health to move beyond public relations messaging and address the concerns of the frontline workers who keep its hospitals running.
Nurses are not asking for more while giving less. They are asking not to be forced to give up more while receiving less.
This is incredible! no one really encouraged anybody to vote and so many people unhappy with the situation voted for reasons unknown to themselves ,only to cause themselves trouble.....?? One thing for sure don't blame the politicians....
ReplyDeleteIn my humble opinion, Former President George W Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer nailed it.
ReplyDeleteHe posted the following tweet:
“Mr. Vice-President,
Please allow me to present a different perspective.
The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire.
If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it.
This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism.
Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency.
In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue.
No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision.
Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed.
Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon.
No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.”
Rather silly. After 47 billion thousands of sorties bunker buster bombs etc which basically all rolled off their backs the Iranians are still laughing they closed the Hormuz after getting a beating being backed by China and Russia they have nothing to worry about there's a reason why there was a ceasefire the US basically ran out of missiles... Maybe some of the evil in the world is meant to stay..... The less silly among Us realize that it was not a ceasefire but. Iran one US zero. And the US skedaddled home
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