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President Barack Obama will be in New Jersey today to discuss the economy with small business owners. He'll be making the stop in Edison and will be having lunch at Tastee Sub Shop, which has been in business since 1963 as is considered a local institution.
Obama was last in the state campaigning for the re-election of fellow Democrat Gov. Jon Corzine, who lost to Republican Chris Christie in November.
Today, Obama is scheduled to host a round-table discussion about the economy with small business owners and it's also expected that he'll advocate for a bill that expands tax breaks and loan programs for small businesses. The legislation is up for a vote in the U.S. Senate later this week.
A spokesman for Christie said the Governor would attend the roundtable if he was invited. That invitation never came. Christie will greet the President at Newark Liberty Airport. Edison Mayor Antonia "Toni" Ricigliano got one. She says, "I will be greeting the President. I understand that I will not be part of the motorcade." The Mayor will also not be taking part in the roundtable, but she says, "I really think the reason for that is because this is a non-political visit."
"I honestly believe that the reason that the President has selected this location because we are pretty much a microcosm of the country," explains Ricigliano. "The President's message of giving monies into small businesses, infusing capital into small businesses really resonates here in Edison." She hopes Edison will be a town Obama never forgets.
President George W. Bush-era tax breaks for those earning more than $250,000 a year are set to expire. U.S. Congressman Leonard Lance from New Jersey, fired off a letter to Obama in advance of the President's visit to the Garden State. He wrote, "I am proud to represent in Congress many of the constituents and small businesses in Edison. They work hard to afford one of the Nation's highest federal and state tax burdens. They are not the so-called "super-rich," but hard-working middle class families facing one highest costs-of-living in the country. And many of these families in Edison and across New Jersey are gravely concerned about the state of the economy and the uncertainty associated with the policies coming out of Washington."
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