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Senator Christopher J. Connors, Assemblyman Brian E. Rumpf and Assemblyman Daniel M. Van Pelt remarked today on the veterans’ roundtable the Delegation convened yesterday at the Stafford Municipal Complex hosted by Mayor Carl Block. The event was attended by various veterans’ organizations located in the 9th Legislative District.
In light of disturbing news reports, Senator Steve Oroho, a Republican on the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, is asking Governor Corzine to immediately release the latest figures on revenue collections.
“Yesterday, a financial news service reported that the state took the extraordinary step of delaying a $364 million transportation bond sale without providing any explanation of why. Another news report today quotes an administration official as saying the governor is about to ‘drop another budget bombshell.’
Governor Corzine’s Budget Takes Away Training Fund from EMTs Who Volunteer to Keep Us Safe
Governor Corzine should reconsider his $4 million theft from emergency medical technicians, which will dampen volunteerism and could force municipalities to use paid ambulance squads, Assembly members Dawn Marie Addiego and Scott Rudder, both R-Burlington, said today.
Senator Steve Oroho, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, called on the Corzine Administration to eliminate or at least reduce the expansion of the preschool education program he signed into law last year.
Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean, R-21, and Assemblyman Jay Webber, R-26, issued the following statement marking Tax Freedom Day in New Jersey. This is the day when the average Garden State worker finally has earned enough to pay all of his federal, state and local taxes for the year. Tax Freedom Day comes to New Jersey later than to any state other than Connecticut, where it will come tomorrow. New Jersey taxpayers spend one-third of the year laboring to pay for the cost of government.
Senator Gerald Cardinale, R-Bergen, asked Governor Corzine, in a letter sent today, to intercede and negotiate an end to the conflict between the supporters of the Izod Center and the Prudential Center.
Democrats Must Go on the Record to Overcome “Poison Pills”
Senate Minority Leader Thomas H. Kean (R-Essex/Morris/Somerset/Union) released a legal opinion from the non-partisan Office of Legislative Services (OLS) which indicated that Governor Corzine’s proposal to raid dedicated funds for arts, tourism and shore protection purposes may be unconstitutional. The Governor’s Fiscal Year 2010 budget proposes to suspend various “poison pill” laws used to dedicate funding for certain purposes.
Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande would like to congratulate their 12th District team member, Senator Jennifer Beck on her appointment to the Governor’s Commission on the Horse Racing Industry.
The appointment was made by State Senate President Richard J. Codey on April 22.
Senator Diane Allen, R-Burlington, has introduced legislation to prevent violent gang members from avoiding prison by threatening witnesses to their crimes. Under New Jersey’s current court rules, statements to police officers or other officials made by a witness to a crime who later refuses to testify are usually not admissible in court, even if the refusal comes because threats of violence.
Republican Senator Steven Oroho, District 24, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations committee issued the following statement criticizing the Highlands Plan for failing to compensate hard-working home and land owners for the drop in property values:
“When government forces the owners to accept land-use rules that diminish the value of their property, justice demands they be compensated. New Jersey’s farmers are especially hard hit by the loss of value in their land. The diminished value of farmland in the Highlands is making it increasingly difficult to secure necessary credit, especially in this economy.
