New Jersey Taxpayers Association’s New Misery Index Enumerates State’s Growing Debt, Budget, Tax and Unemployment Pain
Assemblymen Declan O’Scanlon and David W. Wolfe welcomed, but lamented, a new metric, the Misery Index, unveiled by the New Jersey Taxpayers Association that documents the rapidly growing tax, debt, spending and unemployment burden that is afflicting New Jersey taxpayers.
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June 8, 2009
Contact: Bill Murray / (609) 292-5199
District 10
Calling today’s decision by the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to suspend for one year a plan by JCP&L to raise rates this summer for high usage residential and commercial customers nothing more than political posturing, Senator Andy Ciesla and Assemblymen Dave Wolfe and Jim Holzapfel chastised the agency for not permanently rejecting the rate hike.
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May 19, 2009
Contact: Katie Cocozza / (732) 840-9028
Assemblyman Dave Wolfe (R-10)
Budget Committee Scheduled to Vote Today on Legislation Allowing Schools to Borrow for “Deferred” Aid Payment
Shortly before a last-minute vote to allow Governor Corzine’s ploy to plug a $1.2 billion budget gap in part by delaying aid payments to school districts, Assemblyman David W. Wolfe questioned what guarantee districts would have to recoup the skipped payment.
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April 21, 2009
Contact: Katie Cocozza / (732) 840-9028
Assemblyman Dave Wolfe (R-10)
Assemblyman David W. Wolfe Lauds Decision to Keep State’s Sea Girt Training Facility
Assemblyman David W. Wolfe said local opposition to Governor Corzine’s plan to sell the Sea Girt facility used for training by the State Police, New Jersey National Guard and several other agencies has succeeded.
During budget testimony today, Attorney General Anne Milgram confirmed the administration no longer is considering a sale.
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April 16, 2009
Contact: Katie Cocozza / (732) 840-9028
Assemblyman Dave Wolfe (R-10)
Corzine Administration Proposes Reviews Only ‘As Needed’
Assemblyman David Wolfe, R-Ocean, said today that is it imperative that the state continue conducting audits of any city receiving special municipal aid, and anyone who suggests otherwise needs to read the accounts of misspending and lax administrative oversight that plagues many of these towns. Wolfe was responding to a proposal in Governor Jon Corzine’s budget that would relax the requirement for assessing the performance of distressed cities on a continuous basis.
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April 8, 2009
Contact: Katie Cocozza / (732) 840-9028
Assemblyman Jim Holzapfel (R-10)
In response to a proposal by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) to drastically increase fees for motorists, Assemblyman Jim Holzapfel of the 10th district has co-sponsored legislation which would take away the Motor Vehicle Commission’s power to raise fees. The legislation, A-3850, would place all motor vehicle fees back under the authority of the Legislature.
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March 24, 2009
Contact: Katie Cocozza / (732) 840-9028
District 10
The legislators of the 10th District, Senator Andy Ciesla and Assemblymen Dave Wolfe and Jim Holzapfel, responded to Governor Corzine’s budget plan, which would directly and indirectly raise taxes for nearly all middle-class New Jersey residents.
“Governor Corzine’s budget proposal would remove property tax relief for middle-class New Jerseyans who are already struggling to survive in this tough economy,” said Ciesla. “Now is the time when the people of New Jersey are most in need tax relief, but Governor Corzine is offering little more than higher taxes.”
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Property Tax, Fiscal Reports Overdue
Assemblyman David Wolfe and Assemblyman James Holzapfel (both R-10) today said they want to know why the Corzine Administration has not yet released two annual reports detailing individual municipal property tax increases and the status of state revenues.
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February 17, 2009
Contact: Katie Cocozza / (732) 840-9028
Assemblyman Dave Wolfe (R-10)
Fills Seat Formerly Occupied by Marcia Karrow
Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce announced today that he has named Deputy Republican Leader David Wolfe, R-Monmouth and Ocean, to serve on the Assembly Budget Committee. Wolfe will fill the seat vacated by Marcia Karrow, who was elected to the Senate, filling the unexpired term of former State Senator Leonard Lance.
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Economic Crisis, Questionable Requirements and Conflicting Reports Add to Confusion of Tomorrow’s Deadline
Senators Andy Ciesla (R-10) and Christopher “Kip” Bateman (R-16) are calling for an extension of tomorrow’s deadline requiring municipalities to finalize their plans to meet the latest round of housing obligations from the state.
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