8/5/12, "Sen. Bob Menendez faces unexpected challenge from New Jersey state senator," Daily Caller, A. Levinson
"Joe Kyrillos hopes to score a major upset in November in his race against New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez.
This is no easy feat for the Republican state senator. The two most recent polls of the race — from Fairleigh Dickinson and Monmouth Universities — put him 12 and 9 percentage points behind Menendez, respectively. But Kyrillos says he’s not deterred.
“It’s not a normal election year, it’s not a normal New Jersey year because the country’s hurting,” he told The Daily Caller in a phone interview.
“I don’t think that the president wins New Jersey with the kind of margin that he won last time, and I think it’s gonna be tight enough that — we have a story that is strong enough — that I’m in this game to win,” he said.
Kyrillos has released a seven-point jobs plan and earned the endorsement of several business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business.
His jobs plan stakes out lofty goals: reforming entitlements, moving toward energy independence, instituting tax reform, reducing regulations on business, improving job training programs, fostering innovation and reforming health care.
Speaking to TheDC, Kyrillos highlighted the need for “a Simpson-Bowles Commission culture and methodology to deal with” issues like tax reform, entitlement reform and reducing government spending."...via Lucianne
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