John Edwards Affair: Rielle Hunter in N. Jersey, Out of Cash

John Edwards Affair/Scandal:
Rielle Hunter Back in New Jersey

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It's the East Coast for Frances Quinn

The National Enquirer's reporting that Rielle Hunter has left her fancy digs in Santa Barbara for something a little more plebian: New Jersey

The Enquirer had previously broke the story about how Hunter, John Edwards' mistress, and love child/daughter, Frances Quinn, were receiving hush money payments of $15,000 a month from Fred Baron--who was Edwards' campaign finance chairman.

When Baron suddenly passed away from a lethal cancer on October 30, the $15K payments to the Hunters stopped.

After her $15,000 monthly payments stopped with the death of money man Fred Baron, John Edward's mistress blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter abandoned the lavish $3 million home that was being rented for her in ritzy Santa Barbara, California, sources tell The ENQUIRER.

Now she and her 10-month-old daughter Frances, who she privately says is Edwards' love child, are living with her longtime friend Mimi Hockman in South Orange, about 20 miles west of New York City, according to insiders.

The Enquirer, was called "tabloid trash" by the former North Carolina senator when the tabloid ran the story about Edwards' affair with a pregnant Rielle Hunter last December.

But after Edwards was cornered by Enquirer reporters leaving Hunter's Beverly Hilton hotel room after visiting her and Frances Quinn in late July, Edwards finally confessed on ABC's Nightline on August 8. Edwards admitted that he had lied, though he didn't admit being the father of Frances Quinn.

But Hunter has privately confided that Edwards is the father of the bouncing bundle of joy that was Frances Quinn Hunter.

With no money coming in from money man Baron, will Hunter publish her tell-all book that she's been rumored working on for "insurance"?

Will Hunter move back in with her former Midline Groove partner, Mimi Hockman--a resident of the Garden State?

Readers will likely get some of those answers over the next several months: if Rielle doesn't get any dough soon, it's likely that some publisher will be getting a manuscript chock-full of all the details that John Edwards has been able to keep hidden thus far.

And, can a DNA test for little Frances Quinn be far behind?


by Mondo Frazier
image: National Enquirer

New Jersey Lawmakers Abolish Death Penalty, Look Toward Legacy

New Jersey joins Venezuela and Serbia

New Jersey's Tourism Bureau claims, "Great Destinations in Any Direction".

An updated slogan might be, "Casinos, the Sopranos and a Death-free Crime Career--What's Not to Like!"

New Jersey teeters on the brink of history--or something.

New Jersey Sen. Robert Martin is mindful of history.

"One hundred years from now I hope we will be remembered for having had the courage to be leaders in advancing this cause for a more civilized society," said Martin, R-Morris.

The cause: Abolishing the death penalty.

Time was, only presidents wondered about their legacies.

Now it seems, New Jersey lawmakers from Morris, NJ are eying a place in the history books.

The New Jersey is poised to give final legislative approval on Thursday to abolishing the death penalty, becoming the first state to do so since 1965 when Iowa and West Virginia abolished it.

The state Senate approved the bill Monday; The Assembly will vote Thursday and is expected to pass it. Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine has said he'll sign the bill.

AGAINST DEATH PENALTY

"I hope New Jersey will give encouragement to other legislators and public officials to have the courage to face this issue squarely," said Joshua Rubenstein, Amnesty International USA's northeast director.

Diann Rust-Tierney, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, said New Jersey reflects a growing national trend against the death penalty, with executions in decline and more states weighing abolition.

"We have learned a lot about the death penalty in the past 30 years," Rust-Tierney said. "When you look closely at the facts, it just doesn't add up to sound policy."

FOR DEATH PENALTY

"Some people deserve to die and we have an obligation to execute them," said New York Law School professor Robert Blecker, a national death penalty supporter who has been lobbying New Jersey lawmakers against abolition.

"On July 24th, Riley Sawyers had no one to plead for her life. The one person who could have, should have protected her was her mother, Kimberly Trenor. Now Kimberly sits in Galveston County Jail, her fate resting in the hands of a future jury."

"The jury little Riley Sawyers never had."
--DBKP's Little Baby Ginn, on the advantages the accused murderers of 2-year-old Riley Sawyers will have in facing the death penalty. Riley was brutally beaten for six hours until she died. Her body was stashed in a storage building for a month, then dumped into Galveston Bay.

DEATH PENALTY FACTS and FIGURES

_1,099 people have been executed in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court permitted executions to resume in 1976.

_ The most executions _ 98 _ occurred in 1999.

_ 42 people have been executed this year and 53 in 2006.

_ Of those executed, 929 were by lethal injection, 154 electrocution, 11 the gas chamber, three hanging and two firing squad.

_ New Jersey would be the first state to abolish the death penalty since Iowa and West Virginia did so in 1965.

_ 37 states have the death penalty.

_ New Jersey has eight men on death row, but hasn't executed anyone since 1963.

_ The daily routine on New Jersey's death row involves 6:30 a.m. awakenings, daily recreation periods, 11 a.m. lunches, 15-minute showers, two phone calls, dinner around 4 p.m., visits from immediate family members between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. lock-ins, although there's no official lights out. Inmates clean and mop their cells and the unit on Fridays.

_ Ralph J. Hudson of Atlantic City was the last person executed in New Jersey. He was electrocuted in Jan. 22, 1963, for the stabbing death of his wife.

_ Since 1973 more than 120 people have been released from death row in other states with evidence of their innocence.

Death penalty opponents hope the abolition will "inspire others". Other New Jersey actions provide a different inspiration.

...in a report released by Rutgers University's Prudential Business Ethics Center that, along with a survey by a top business group, painted a grim picture Wednesday for New Jersey businesses.

The center's report deemed government corruption a leading threat to the state economy as the New Jersey Business & Industry Association's survey found half of 1,300 businesses are glum about the state's business climate.

The Rutgers report surveyed more than 50 business leaders and found most want stronger laws limiting campaign contributions from government contractors.

Is it gauche to remark that New Jersey lawmakers may have had more than one motivation in the death penalty abolition? No known instance was turned up of a NJ pol being executed.

Before DBKP gets taken to task for linking the abolition of the death penalty and a state culture of corruption, we'll comment: we're not.

We're just presenting the latest examples of the "New Jersey state of mind".

Both are a part of history.

by Mondoreb
[image: deathpenaltyinfo]
Sources:
Death Penalty Foes Hope NJ Inspires Others to Follow Suit
Death Penalty Facts and Figures
Report Examines NJ Corruption
Travel New Jersey



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Silly String and Improv Saving Troop's Lives In Iraq

New Jersey mom, Marcelle Shriver has a good idea. No make that a great idea. Shriver learned from her son that the troops use Silly String to detect trip wires.

Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible.

Shriver, along with the help of two churches and a pilot has collected a 1000 cans ready to be shipped out to Iraq.

"There's so much that they can't do, and they're frustrated, but this is something they can do," said the Rev. Joseph Capella of St. Luke's Church in Stratford.

The Shrivers said they would not mind seeing the string as standard-issue equipment, but they don't blame the military for not supplying it.

"I don't think that they can think of everything," said Ronald Shriver, 59, a retired salesman. "They're taught to improvise, and this is something that they've thought of."

Marcelle Shriver said that since the string comes in an aerosol can, it is considered a hazardous material, meaning the Postal Service will not ship it by air. But a private pilot who heard about her campaign has agreed to fly the cans to Kuwait — most likely in January — where they will then be taken to Iraq.

Shriver said she is going to continue to collect the cans of Silly String as long as her son is over in Iraq.

Battlefield "Improvisation" has led to soldiers to come up with ideas on how to make their environment safer with "low overhead."

In other cases of battlefield improvisation in Iraq, U.S. soldiers have bolted scrap metal to Humvees in what has come to be known as "Hillybilly Armor." Medics use tampons to plug bullet holes in the wounded until they can be patched up.

Also, soldiers put condoms and rubber bands around their rifle muzzles to keep out sand. And troops have welded old bulletproof windshields to the tops of Humvees to give gunners extra protection. They have dubbed it "Pope's glass" — a reference to the barriers that protect the pontiff.

At our DBPK staff meeting the availability of condoms and rubber bands in Iraq was discussed. If our men and women serving Iraq or Afghanistan need more we can certainly put our heads together and have a condom roundup.

Donations, in the form of money or actual Silly String, should be sent to St.Lukes Church/55 Warwick Rd./ Stratford, NJ 08084. Checks should be made out to Marcelle Shriver.

Source - MSNBC - N. J. woman collects Silly String for serious use

By LBG
Image [Pat Dollard]



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