Mnuchin gets aromatic gift from a snickering public


The Associated Press reports:

Authorities say a gift-wrapped box of horse manure addressed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (mih-NOO’-shin) was found near his home in Los Angeles.

The package was found Saturday night in the tony Bel Air neighborhood after it was dropped off at a neighbor’s house.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was called to the home and officers opened the box, finding a pile of horse manure inside. Police said the package had been gift-wrapped and was marked as being from “the American people.”


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Sarah Ann Dowling, 80, fervent Democratic campaigner, communicator and spokeswoman for NJ Gov. Jim Florio

Jan Hefler reports for Philly.com:

Sarah Ann Dowling of Moorestown, communications director for former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio and an active Democratic political campaigner, died Wednesday, Dec. 20, at Jefferson University Hospital in Washington Township of a massive stroke. She was 80.

“She was very diligent, and responsible for a lot of what I was able to get done,” said Florio, a lawyer who served as the state’s 49th governor from 1990 through 1994.


Sarah Ann Dowling

“She did more than a press secretary; she was my communications person starting in 1974, when I first went to Congress,” he said. “She also had a good sense of humor and kept everyone laughing.”

Ms. Dowling helped elect Democratic freeholders, members of Congress, state legislators, governors, and presidents, said her daughter, Mary Dowling, who lives in Moorestown. “Around our house, Election Day was like Christmas. Mom just loved politics and elections.”

Born in Elizabeth, N.J., Ms. Dowling graduated from Battin High School in that city and later moved to California, where she worked on the 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. After starting a family in Los Angeles, Ms. Dowling returned to New Jersey, where she was active in numerous campaigns after working as a journalist for various print, radio, and television outlets, her daughter said.

As a single mother who raised four children, Ms. Dowling also advocated for women assuming leadership roles in politics. She was elected to the Democratic National Committee and served 16 years, and was president of the New Jersey Federation of Democratic Women.

She also was a communications specialist for the New Jersey State Senate and worked for various state party organizations and state agencies.

Ms. Dowling was always willing to help, and was very witty, said her daughter. “Anyone who needed help, she would always give it,” said Mary Dowling, adding that her mother would pitch in to clean the sidewalk of snow, drive her granddaughter to ballet classes, and do whatever else she could.

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NJ Gov-Elect Murphy introduces his DEP Commissioner

Incoming New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, at a news conference today, introduced his pick to become the state’s next commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, Catherine McCabe.



An attorney, McCabe has served in numerous executive environmental positions, including:

  • Assistant New York State Attorney General
  • Deputy chief of the environmental enforcement section of the federal Department of Justice
  • Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Office of Enforcement and Compliance at EPA
  • One of three judges on the EPA’s Court of Appeals
  • Deputy and Acting Administrator of EPA’s Region 2
  • Acting Administrator of the federal EPA


Murphy said that the state had lost ground in environmental protection during Gov. Chris Christie’s eight-year term, specifically noting Christie’s failure to capitalize on the opportunity presented by offshore wind development, his withdrawal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and his settlement of pollution claims with ExxonMobil that Murphy said amounted to ‘pennies on the dollar.’


Click on the arrow in the photo above to watch the entire news conference broadcast online by NJTV News 

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NJ Assemblyman sues to stop proposed state buildings

There’s a lawsuit to block a new government office building that’s about to go up in Trenton. Opponents don’t like the design or location. But what they really don’t like is the financing: $215 million in new debt from a bond issue pushed through without voter approval. One of the plaintiffs, Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, joins NJTV News Senior Correspondent David Cruz.

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