Political Ticker Reports: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, known for his candor, snapped at a reporter Saturday while taking issue with his question at a press conference. Reporters were told the governor would only answer questions about a major problem at a water treatment plant, according to the Newark Star-Ledger. Yet one reporter proceeded to ask an unrelated question involving the state legislature, as seen in video of the press conference from Monmouth County.

Christie, cutting him off, said: “Did I say on topic? Are you stupid? On topic, on topic. Next question.” As the reported tried to follow up, the Republican governor again interjected and ended the press conference. “Thank you all very much, and I’m sorry for the idiot over there. Take care,” he said before walking away.

Hunter Walker Reports: The race between veteran Congressman Charlie Rangel and State Senator Adriano Espaillat for the 13th Congressional District in Upper Manhattan will come down to paper ballots. Read more »

NY17 Congressional candidate and Rye Town supervisor Joe Carvin issued a press release with his reaction to the decision… Carvin’s brother Michael Carvin argued against the constitutionality of the law in front of the Supreme Court. – Patch

JTA Reports: A leader of Hungary’s anti-Semitic Jobbik party confessed to having Jewish  origins, but Jewish leaders reacted to his statement dismissively. “I learned not long ago that I had parents of Jewish origins,” Csanad  Szegedi, a member of the European parliament and regional leader of Jobbik, said  in an interview with the daily Barikad.

Members of Jobbik have used anti-Semitic rhetoric repeatedly in the past. Read more »

Back on May 10, I wrote as followes: NY Assemblyman and Brooklyn Dem Party Boss Vito Lopez is still in a powerful position; strong enough to force his hands onto others. However, an analysis by Gestetner Updates shows that Lopez is increasingly becoming less of a player in electoral outcomes on his home turf, thus threatening his power among elected officials and beyond. Read Full Article

With the news today that Congressman Bob Turner’s team are asking ballots to be impounded, I remembered the following LAT news from last year September 13: Citing reports that at least a handful of absentee ballots had been mailed to voters who are now deceased, Republican Bob Turner obtained a court order impounding absentee ballots cast in the special election in New York’s 9th Congressional District. Bill O’Reilly, a spokesman for the Turner campaign, said in an email that the campaign requested that the ballots be impounded after “getting serious reports of election fraud.”

The victor in Tuesday’s statewide Republican primary for U.S. Senate faces a Democratic incumbent with $9.9 million in campaign cash who 54 percent of voters say they are willing to re-elect. Moreover, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is expected to benefit from heavy Democratic turnout in the November presidential election. And she won statewide two years ago with 61 percent of the vote at the same time that Republicans were unseating Democratic incumbents in several congressional districts in places like the Hudson Valley and western New York. – The Journal News