New Jersey is home to many bright ideas.
After all, the symbol for such concepts is the light bulb, invented nearby by Thomas Edison. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler used this example to inspire a group of several hundred current and former students at Chubb Institute, which Thursday celebrated the fifth anniversary of its computer school's campus here beside Route 1. Schundler told the crowd, gathered under a white tent while hot dogs and hamburgers sizzled on a grill outside, that power was historically consolidated among landowners or industrial leaders. You're born with it. It's your brain.