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table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Ramp;sa=Tamp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nj.com%2Fnjv_tom_moran%2F2009%2F11%2Fnew_jersey_has_brief_chance_to.htmlamp;usg=AFQjCNEZoaPueY_rC9KaUN9BSjDd9-_WVgimg src=http://nt0.ggpht.com/news/tbn/oOstc9zyoxzy9M/6.jpg alt= border=1 width=80 height=80 /br /font size=-2NJ.com/font/a/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Ramp;sa=Tamp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.nj.com%2Fnjv_thurman_hart%2F2009%2F11%2Fthe_lame_duck_and_marriage.htmlamp;usg=AFQjCNH6eaVVD3y3eX1peVFKvmNaY2e0sQbThe blame duck/b and marriage/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fNJ.com/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1Tom Moran has an interesting column discussing the likelihood of a marriage equality bill coming up in the blame duck/b session this year. b…/b/fontbr /font size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Ramp;sa=Tamp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyrecord.com%2Farticle%2F20091106%2FUPDATES01%2F91106017%2FGay-marriage-advocates-make-push-before-Corzine-leavesamp;usg=AFQjCNE9dyfjtI955sn5e9CBWSv8PiNDnwGay marriage advocates make push before Corzine leaves/afont size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrDailyrecord.com/nobr/font/fontbr /font size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Ramp;sa=Tamp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nj.com%2Fpolitics%2Findex.ssf%2F2009%2F11%2Fgay_rights_group_launches_ad_c.htmlamp;usg=AFQjCNF5Fa2YMfYcu_CjHt6DIDn5ptpAcwGay rights group launches ad campaign for same-sex marriage/afont size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com/nobr/font/fontbr /font size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Ramp;sa=Tamp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontopmag.com%2Farticle.aspx%3Fid%3D4805%26MediaType%3D1%26Category%3D26amp;usg=AFQjCNGID0h8Z33fbVO7z0GVNJZ8iurvVgNew Jersey Gay Marriage Hinges On Gubernatorial Race/afont size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrOn Top Magazine/nobr/font/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=usamp;ncl=dRXeyrTzWfQy2gMnUinVfvrjC9NWMnobrball 11 news articlesnbsp;raquo;/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table

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table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Ramp;sa=Tamp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwatchdogs.blogs.starnewsonline.com%2F10719%2Fshould-you-fear-the-lame-duck-politician%2Famp;usg=AFQjCNH2_1wwT5nCvcf5LQuqFawbePrCnAbShould you fear the blame duck/b politician?/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fStarNewsOnline.com/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1by Gareth mcgrath Now what can local officials who have only weeks left in office, generally until their board meets in early December and swears in the new b…/b/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?ned=usamp;ncl=dMlPNZT6lAVjASMnobrb/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table