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You dont need a weatherman to tell you this: The last few days have been brutal,with freezing temperatures interrupted only by several inches of snow. But getready, New Jersey: Forecasters say even more snow and bitter cold is onits way.

As Shore area residents deal with Mondays overnight snowstorm, they canexpect another, lighter snowfall Wednesday and a potentially hazardous wintry mixover the weekend. In between will be another arctic blast like the one this past week-end that made this the coldest February in nearly 20 years.

It seems like every few days, something else comes through, said Valerie Meola,a meteorologist at the Mount Holly office of the National Weather Service. It im-pacts our area, and in between you get maybe a day that warms up ... but it looks like

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A man operates his metal detector on the frigid Seaside Heights shoreline Monday. The lowtemperature dipped to 0 degrees in other Ocean County locales, creating dangerous conditions.

BRRRRR!!!Bitter cold (and snow) to continue

throughout week at Shore

STEPH SOLIS @STEPHMSOLIS

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TRENTON Democrats say they will position Gov.Chris Christies plunging poll numbers as a referendumon Republican candidates in this falls lawmaker elec-tions. But it may be for naught.

Republicans have their own campaign strategy, withall 80 Assembly seats on the ballot in November, but po-litical experts expect few seats, if any, to change partiesbecause of New Jerseys incumbent-favoring legisla-

tive map.Christies job rating among state voters has fallen to

52 percent disapproval and 42 percent approval, theworst showing the second-term governor has had inRutgers-Eagleton polling. The results were releasedFriday.

Democrats will be well-served to make the upcom-ing Assembly elections a referendum on Christiesfailed policies, including the governors assault on mid-dle-class families, said Democratic State CommitteeChairman John Currie.

Republican Assembly Leader Jon Bramnick has al-ready been on the campaign trail for his party, hosting amini-convention in Atlantic City two weeks ago and re-cording a campaign video that blamed Democrats foran exodus of residents fleeing the states high taxes.

Democrats have traditionally controlled the Assem-bly and have a current 48-32 edge.

The issue that will affect voters is that the Demo-crats have been in charge of the Legislature for over adecade, and if you ask the average voter if theyre hap-py with the results from having the same party in con-trol, I think theyll say no, Bramnick said. I dont thinkChris Christie plays a major role in that question, ex-cept reforms didnt happen until he became governor,and further reforms have been stopped because Demo-crats are no longer cooperating.

Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray said

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Gov. Chris Christie addresses an audience Feb. 9 in West DesMoines, Iowa.

Govs dipin poll not

likely to hurtstate GOPBOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP

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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 41

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TINTON FALLS Theirs is a friendship that has en-

dured longer than many marriages.It started in a legal aid office during the riots in As-

bury Park in 1970 and took them into the political arenaand on to the pinnacle of their profession.

Now, two of Monmouth Countys most prominent re-tired judges are back together again, working at one ofthe states largest law firms. They are helping clientsresolve disagreements without having to go to court.

Retired State Superior Court Judge Lawrence M.Lawson, who was assignment judge for MonmouthCounty for more than two decades, and retired Superi-

or Court Judge Thomas W. Cavanagh, Jr., who served asassignment judge in Lawsons absence while presidingover the courts Chancery Division in Monmouth Coun-

ty, are working together in the newly opened TintonFalls office of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpen-ter, a Morristown-based law firm.

Lawson, 67, of Manalapan, joined the firm whichhas 300 lawyers in 11 offices in seven states upon re-tiring from the bench in Septemberafter more than 27years as a judge, more than 21 of them as assignmentjudge. Lawsons longtime friend, Cavanagh, 66, ofShrewsbury, had retired from the bench a year earlier

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Two judges, longtime friends, reunitedKATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP

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