It seems like only yesterday that Passaic County Sheriff Jerry Speziale was threatening legal action to defend his patronage mill. Oh – yeah…it was yesterday: Like other sheriffs in New Jersey, Speziale has the power to bypass the Civil Service exam and hire up to 15 percent of his rank-and-file officers by himself. During the [...]
Democratic Senators are questioning whether someone who is delinquent on property taxes should get an income tax return. Lisa Fleisher writes: Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) questioned the wording of the proposed bill, saying it was unclear whether the bill would allow municipalities to collect money before delinquent child support payments. She and other senators in [...]
From Patrick Murray, Director of Polling at Monmouth University, in response to Governor Christie’s claim his budget doesn’t raise taxes: “That’s a nice talking point, but it’s absolutely untrue. There are a lot of legal obligations that the state has that the governor just simply ignored.” In other words – meet the new boss. Same [...]
Lovable, huggable old Cookie Monster has it right – cookies are a sometimes food (check out his “healthy food” rap). If Cookie Monster was into politics, he’d be telling us that transparency is just as healthy for government as broccoli is for a growing boy. The Asbury Park Press is having to remind Governor Christie [...]
I’m sure you guys witnessed the youthful vigor with which Dick Codey unleashed his legislative expertise in the budget battle that wasn’t. No? That’s because he was working on something really important: State Sen. Richard Codey (D-Essex) introduced a bill earlier this month that would suspend the licenses of three-time offenders of the state’s ban [...]
PNJ has a post up telling of an internal poll from the Adler campaign that shows him up by seventeen points. But get your asterisk ready: The poll reflects a matchup among Adler, GOP nominee Runyan, and Tea Party independent Peter DeStafano, who gets 12% of the vote in the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research poll. [...]
The Hill has some good news for John Adler: In New Jersey, freshman Rep. John Adler (D) raised $415,000 for the quarter and will have more than $2 million cash on hand, according to the campaign. Adler is also a national GOP target in 2010, but he could slide off the NRCC’s radar given the [...]
Word is that Governor Christie may privatize vehicle inspections. Let me say, without a doubt, this is a BAD idea. I’ve lived in states that use the model being floated – where gas station attendants are given the power to issue inspection stickers. It’s a guarantee of corruption. Anyone who knows someone will never have [...]
So now I understand why the Chris Christie budget included so much revenue from repealing the Bergen Blue Law – because he plans to sink a ton of money into Xanadu. Three sources familiar with a proposal under serious consideration by the Christie administration said that taxpayers — via a provision of the state’s Economic [...]
The Philadelphia Inquirer covered the first Adler-Runyan debate and it looks like Runyan came off as being rather ignorant and disjointed. “It’s convenient that the first vote came down three days after Republican Chris Christie took this district by 17 percent” in the governor’s race, Runyan said. He said Adler’s attempts “to try to run [...]
