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ESCAPING THE
COLD, A REFUGE
FROM THE STREETS
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Gov. Chris Christie was in Iowa Monday.

Kingmakers
in Iowa look
beyond gov
for 2016
BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP
TRENTON The seven Iowa political kingmakers
who tried to draft Gov. Chris Christie for the 2012 presidential race arent all on his bandwagon this time
around.
Embracing President Obama hurt him a lot since
then, said Gary Kirke, who led the team of Republican
activists from the Hawkeye State who met with Christie at the Drumthwacket governors four years ago.
Christie stayed on the sidelines.
Christie hasnt formally announced a 2016 presidential bid, but hes otherwise all-in. The same cannot be
said of those who sought to draft him for 2012.
A Christie campaign organization is being set up in
Iowa but support from Kirke and several others who
came to New Jersey four years ago isnt assured.
The governor was in Iowa Monday on a political trip,
his 12th visit to the early-voting state since 2010, with
his new Leadership Matters for America fundraising
political action committee paying his bills (though New
Jersey residents are covering expenses for his security
detail).
Christies 2011 visit with wealthy Republican donors
from Iowa embroiled the governor in an ethics scandal.
He initially refused to reimburse taxpayers for $2,500-

See CHRISTIE, Page A4

Is Booker a viable VP prospect?

A majority of New Jerseyans polled says he doesnt have
enough experience. A4

ANDREW FORD/STAFF PHOTO

Duane Hammer Hammary is among approximately two dozen men staying at the Jersey Shore Rescue Mission.

Homeless seek hope, shelter, future at mission

ANDREW FORD @ANDREWFORDNEWS
ASBURY PARK Duane Hammer Hammary was
backed into a corner.
He prefers to sleep that way, feeling safer with his
bed on a secluded edge of the freshly mopped tile floor
of the mission. Hammarys bed, like other men seeking
shelter, is made of green mats and Stack-A-Bunk plastic
platforms. The bunks are about six feet of gray polyethylene, 8 inches tall.
Some men sleep with the mats on top, some men flip
the bunk and sleep cradled inside it. Hammary sleeps
inside, adjusting a row of folded cafeteria tables to
form the third and final wall of his space. Its part of a
routine he carries out each day, like Sisyphus rolling his
boulder.
Welcome to the Jersey Shore Rescue Mission, a
place that bills itself as a lifeboat to the least, the last

ANDREW FORD/STAFF PHOTO

Hammary stands among beds at the Asbury Park facility. He

speaks about his rough life in the past tense.

See MISSION, Page A8

Brian Williams claim of local stickup in 70s is disputed

JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE
RED BANK A longtime borough restaurateur
doesnt believe embattled NBC News anchorman Brian
Williams claim that he was robbed at gunpoint in Red
Bank sometime in the late 70s while selling Christmas
trees from the back of a truck.
To be robbed in front of a church? Red Bank just
wasnt like that, said Daniel Murphy Jr., 71, who owns

Dannys Steakhouse and has lived in the borough since

his family moved there in 1949. It was the kind of town
where as a kid Id leave the house in the morning and not
come back until 8, 9 oclock at night and you never worried about safety.
Murphy was responding to interviews given by Williams in which he described being held up at gunpoint

Do you think Brian

Williams credibility has
been hurt by questions over tales he
told of his exploits? Cast your vote in
this story online at

See WILLIAMS, Page A6

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