Senator Gerald Cardinale speaking during a Senate session on Monday, February 22, 2010.

Senator Cardinale Speaking During Senate Session on February 22, 2010

Senator Gerald Cardinale speaking during the Senate session on June 25, 2009 in opposition to Governor Corzine’s 2010 budget.

Senator Cardinale Speaking in Opposition of Governor Corzine’s Budget

Senator Gerald Cardinale reviewing the details of Governor Corzine’s 2010 budget plan prior to a Senate session on June 25, 2009.  Senator Cardinale voted against the Governor’s budget.

Cardinale Reviewing 2010 Budget Plan

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-39) Questioning BPU President Jeanne Fox During Reconfirmation Hearing in Senate Judiciary Committee on March 9, 2009.

Senator Gerald Cardinale Questioning BPU President Jeanne Fox During Reconfirmation Hearing

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Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-39)

Cardinale: Election-Year Rebates Do Not Add Up to Real Relief

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-39) issued the following statement in response to a media report that this year’s election-timed property tax rebates will actually cost the average New Jersey taxpayer $81.

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Cardinale: Democrat Fiscal Policies Driving Residents Away

Senator Gerald Cardinale, R-39, issued the following statement regarding a report issued by Rutgers University economists that shows New Jersey residents are increasingly pulling up stakes and moving to other, more affordable states:

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Stop Discriminating Against Pascack Valley Hospital

Senator Gerald Cardinale, Assembly Woman Charlotte Vandervalk and Assemblyman John Rooney called on the Corzine Administration today to take all necessary steps to preserve critical services at Pascack Valley Hospital. The hospital is burdened by more than $100 million in debt.

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Cardinale Calls for Hearings into the Encap Fiasco

Senator Gerald Cardinale, R-Bergen, today called on the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee to hold hearings on the financial and environmentally troubled Encap project. Cardinale wants to know why New Jersey officials provided a politically connected developer with $300 million in public money to build a golf course and condominiums on sealed landfills despite warnings that the developer lacked the financial, managerial and technical resources to complete the project.

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Cardinale: Withold Boxer Nomination for Comptroller

Senator Gerald Cardinle , (R-Bergen), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee today called on Committee Chairman John Adler to delay the Committee’s consideration of Matthew Boxer’s nomination to be State Comptroller, until a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate accusations surrounding Mr. Riccio’s acceptance of monetary gifts from Governor Jon Corzine.

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Congestion By The Truckload

Secret Democrat Toll Plan Could Open Up Era of Endless Bergen Gridlock

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) called upon the Corzine Administration and to guarantee that their secret plan to sell the State’s toll roads will not result in increased traffic on Bergen County’s already congested local roads.

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August Countdown To Promised Town Hall Meeting

Will Governor Fulfill Promise to Explain Secret Toll Hike Plan?

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) called upon Governor Corzine to make good on his promise to hold a town hall meeting during the month of August on his secret plan to sell the State’s toll roads under the guise of “asset monetization.” In the July 18th edition of the Asbury Park Press, Corzine spokesperson Lilo Stainton stated that “the governor expects to answer questions about ‘monetization’ as the governor calls it, at a town hall meeting in North Jersey in August.”

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Cardinale: Abolishing Capital Punishment for Terrorists is Short Sighted and Irresponsible

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-39) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee’s decision to ban the death penalty in New Jersey for all crimes including; terrorism, the murder of a law enforcement officers and pedophiles who rape and murder children.

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Failure to Release School Funding Formula a Travesty

Entire Committee Process Has Not Produced Promised Property Tax Relief

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-39) and Assemblyman David Wolfe (R-10) issued the following statement regarding the failure of the Joint Legislative Committee on Public School Funding Reform to produce a revised school funding formula.

“A revised and more equitable school funding formula is the most essential component for providing real, long-term property tax relief to the middle class. Sadly, the Administration and the Trenton Democrats have either been unwilling or unable to devise a funding formula that provides property tax relief to our long-suffering families and seniors, while attending to the needs of the special interests.  Unfortunately, the Governor’s call for ‘action, action, action,’ has been ignored by the Democrat majority in the Statehouse in favor of maintaining the status quo,” Cardinale stated.

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