It's Wednesday, Dec. 16th, 2009, and here's some of what's on the schedule in state government and politics:
Gov.-elect Chris Christie is expected to announce Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno will be the state's secretary of state. Gov. Jon Corzine speaks at the Camden Riverfront Prison demolition in Camden, then has two events [...]Gov. Jon Corzine nominated 180 people to various state agencies Monday, undoubtedly setting up a political fight with Republicans who are gearing up to reclaim the governor's mansion and the executive-branch appointments that go with it for the first time in eight years. Those include 49 who will require Senate approval [...]
It's Tuesday, Dec. 15th, 2009.
Buses to Washington leave from Bogota, Deptford, Egg Harbor Township, Garden State, Hamilton, Kingwood, Parsipanny, Ridgewood, Sayreville and Sparta for a Washington rally against proposed health care reform. The New Jersey State Council on the Arts meets in the Statehouse Annex to hear a presentation about the [...]If you followed the Democratic Party's strategy from this year's New Jersey governor's race of trying to capitalize on mammograms as a campaign issue, you'll get a sense of deja vu in the 2010 congressional races, according to the Politico news website. Gov. Jon Corzine's use of the issue' [...]
Four Senate commmittees meet today, starting at the top of the hour, marking the last legislative votes until 2010.
Among the docketed items are a 16-bill agenda for the normally relatively quiet Commerce Committee, including a bill long sought by chiropractors giving them an expanded 'scope of practice'; bills before the [...]
It's Monday, Dec. 14th, 2009. Barring any late-addition Senate or Assembly activity, today's committee votes will mark the last legislation action until January, when lawmakers plan a flurry of activity before the session ends Jan. 12th.
Two groups of Senate committees meet. The Assembly has a quorum call, allowing new bills to [...]Sen. Sandra Cunningham, D-Hudson, on Thursday introduced a bill that would give local governments the opportunity to defer half of their pension payment for a second straight year.
No word on whether the Senate Budget & Appropriations will take up the proposal. It's not currently on the committee's Monday agenda, [...]
Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts on Thursday scheduled an Assembly quorum call for 1 p.m. Monday.
No committee meetings or floor votes are planned. But the quorum call will allow for new bills to be added to the Legislature's potential plate when it comes back to town in January. When the Assembly [...]
A slow Friday, Dec. 11th, 2009, ahead in state politics ... or so the schedule would suggest.
Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo announces his re-election bid. Gov. Jon Corzine attends the event. EPA regional administrator Judith Enck and South Plainfield Mayor Charlie Butrico announce the beginning stages of a $30 million cleanup [...]Among the items that have made the news this week are these:
Gov.-elect Chris Christie's staff gave the outgoing Corzine administration the green light to borrow $1.2 billion for transportation projects, far more in bonds than the state has been planning to issue at this time, though the governor-elect says the [...]Sen. Dana Redd was among the Democratic lawmakers whose position on the gay-marriage bill was uncertain -- and now, in a sense, doesn't matter in the political calculus over the bill's future.
Redd will become Camden's mayor on Jan. 1st, meaning she'll be resigning from the state Senate since New Jersey [...]
The state Senate meets today for its last voting session of 2009. The board list includes 41 pieces of legislation -- though the bill with the highest profile, gay marriage, will not be considered.
The Senate will also present a resolution to Sean Goldman, urging the government of Brazil to allow [...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie's support for charter schools and pledge to focus on urban education reform is likely to be one of many interesting story lines in the next year -- and groups with a vested interest in the issue are getting an early start on the debate this week.
The national [...]
It's Thursday, Dec. 10th, 2009 -- which was supposed to be the day of the gay-marriage vote in the state Senate. While that's not longer on the agenda, there's still plenty to occupy state government and politics this day.
The Senate meets for a voting session. Garden State Equality activists who' [...]This little unscientific survey has been in the column to the right for a while now, but with the developments in the gay-marriage story (delaying the Senate vote and shifting action to the Assembly), it seemed like a good time to give it a higher profile for a short time. [...]
Service Employees International Union 32BJ, whose members include about 1,000 contracted school cafeteria workers in New Jersey, has launched an ad campaign on news and political websites in support of legislation that would provide raises to "prevailing wages" for food-service workers, including those in schools.
The [...]
Eight of the 13 lawyers who have served as New Jersey's attorney general over the last three decades have signed a letter in support of a bill scheduled for a Senate vote Thursday that would let judges waive mandatory minimums now required for nonviolent offenders who deal small amounts of [...]
It's Wednesday, Dec. 9th, 2009.
New Jersey Transit's board of directors meets in Newark. The agenda includes awarding contracts potentially worth more than $636 million for new rail tunnels being built under Manhattan, as well as a $10 million pact for new bus service along the Garden State Parkway, starting in [...]Gov.-elect Chris Christie, in the first of his promised regular visits to New Jersey 101.5 FM radio for a monthly call-in show, said payroll taxes supporting the unemployment fund might more than double next summer. Other highlights, quotes and context (plus video below):
"Folks know that this is our last chance." [...]The Assembly sent five bills to Gov. Jon Corzine at its final voting session of 2009 on Monday, plus voted to put a question before voters in 2010 that would bar the state from diverting payroll taxes, such as those that are intended for unemployment or disability benefits, to its [...]
Gay marriage dominated the Statehouse scene Monday, but it was far from the only thing the state Senate did.
Six of its committees advanced 42 bills, merged one bill into another and delayed consideration of three bills. The Judiciary Committee advanced seven of the nominations on its docket but again delayed [...]
There were, of course, plenty of moments in the seven or so hours of gay-marriage testimony Monday fraught with emotion, with a few of the visitors testifying in favor of allowing such marriages near tears.
One that seemed to particularly impress lawmakers was the testimony of John Otto of Haddonfield, a [...]
Among the lame-duck legislative bills proposed Monday was one bipartisan measure sure to annoy environmental groups -- A4347, which extends the expiration date of certain permits pursuant to "Permit Extension Act of 2008," the state law that extended the lifespan of development permits in a nod to the troubles caused by the [...]
It's Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 2009.
Officials from the Treasury Department meet to authorize the sale of general obligation bonds. Probably $200 million will be borrowed. Voters in 15 school districts can vote today on more than $237 million in proposed school construction, including almost $77 million that would be state funded in' [...]The incoming Assembly majority leader, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, D-Union, has proposed a bill (A4339) that would require vacancies in the U.S. Senate be filled only by special election.
Currently, a governor can appoint a temporary replacement senator. A proposed bill from Assemblyman John McKeon, D-Essex, that would require that replacement to [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee's consideration of a bill that would allow gay couples to marry in New Jersey is underway (recording of the hearing available here; the gay marriage debate begins around 45 minutes into the 3rd section).
The committee started a bit late, then quickly advanced seven nominations while' [...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie's transition office is being assisted by a number of volunteers who have agreed to study the state government's various departments and recommend what Christie should do with each area after taking office.
In addition there is a "transition counsel" providing legal help in [...]
The state Assembly returns for its first voting session since late June this afternoon for a scheduled 1 p.m. start. As many as 48 bills might be passed, according to the agenda, including five that would head to the desk of Gov. Jon Corzine and one that would next head [...]
Today's one of those heavy-lift days lame-duck legislative sessions are known for (and short-staffed Trenton bureaus dread). In addition to today's Assembly voting session, the state Senate has six committees meeting with votes scheduled on 46 bills, hearings set for others, and eight nominations up for votes.
And those bills aren't' [...]
It's Monday, Dec. 7th, 2009 -- and the big news in Trenton, as you've probably heard by now as you're reading a state politics blog, is that the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on a gay marriage bill.
The Assembly meets for a voting session. Two groups of Senate committees meet. The' [...]Gov. Jon Corzine, who public schedule consisted of just eight events in 32 days after losing his re-election bid, today practically breaks into campaign mode with four appearances.
Three are to participate in 'Super Sunday' fund-raising drives by various Jewish organizations -- a 9 a.m. stop in Scotch Plains to visit [...]
Thursday's state Senate action included committee approvals for 21 bills but no vote, though one had been scheduled, on five bills. Five of the approved bills were second-referenced to the Budget & Appropriations committee.
The bills that advanced include ones that let the state pay for pothole repairs with the Transportation [...]
New Jersey consumer affairs officials proposed banning the state's 33,000 doctors from accepting any gifts, fees, travel reimbursements or free meals from any pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturers, in a report released this week.
Doctors who are also consultants to pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturers would also have to publicly disclose [...]
Seven Assembly committees met Thursday. They advanced 31 bills and held off voting on four others that were listed (five if you count the one listed that never got introduced). There was also a discussion scheduled about tenure for school district administrators.
Eleven new bills were proposed. The Assembly returns Monday [...]
Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, D-Union, who will be the Assembly majority leader in the upcoming session and is also currently the state chairman for the Democratic Party, proposed legislation Thursday (A4335) that would provide that a governor's executive reorganization plan cannot take effect unless approved by the Legislature within 60 days of' [...]
Bits and pieces from Gov.-elect Chris Christie's news conference at the Statehouse Thursday:
There will probably be more appointments to key jobs to announce next week. "I think it will probably be a pretty steady drumbeat now for the next six weeks, between now and the inaugural." A few of the [...]It's Friday, Dec. 4th, 2009.
The Commission on Capital Budgeting and Planning meets in the Statehouse Annex. It receives the annual debt report, as well as hears construction requests for FY2011 from the departments of Corrections, Education and Human Services. National employment data for November is released. New Jersey Citizen Action holds its [...]
Lame-duck Gov. Jon Corzine today nominated his chief of staff, Edward J. McBride Jr., to become a state Superior Court judge.
McBride, 49, a resident of Pennsauken, has been chief of staff -- one of the most powerful positions in state government -- for nearly a year. [...]
While this year's governor's election wasn't a rout, it also wasn't terribly close. Final results certified this week show that Gov.-elect Chris Christie defeated Gov. Jon Corzine by around 86,700 votes, 0r 3.6 percentage points.
Every year, the unofficial results significantly underestimate the final tally. That's to be expected; this year, [...]
It's Thursday, Dec. 3rd, and here's what's on tap:
Four Senate committees meet. Among the bills on the docket: Revamping the state authority overseeing redevelopment of Fort Monmouth, providing liability protection in certain environmental cleanups and preventing drivers with graduated licenses from entering plea deals for motor vehicle violations. Seven select Assembly [...]Seven Assembly committees meet today. They'll take up 37 bills, from which two essentially are duplicates of other bills due up today that will probably be merged together. There's also a discussion scheduled about tenure for school district administrators.
A few of the proposed bills would:
Establish a 60-day amnesty period for [...]Four Senate committees meet today, taking up 26 bills, including the ones highlighted directly below that would:
Let the state pay for pothole repairs with the Transportation Trust Fund. This could save the state budget roughly $1.7 million, though take that funding away from other projects. Prohibit drivers with a learner's permit, [...]Here's the belated boxscore from Monday's Assembly meetings:
Sixteen bills advanced -- 15 to the Assembly floor, with one sent to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for a vote scheduled to be held tomorrow on a bill ending diversions from the unemployment fund. Eight of those bills that advanced were introduced Monday and [...]Final official voter turnout numbers (and election results) were announced yesterday by the state Division of Elections.
Turnout was 46.9% -- the lowest on record for a gubernatorial election, down from 48.5% in 2005 and 49.3% in 2001, the only other times less than half of registered voters turned out at [...]
One interesting wrinkle behind the political theater over whether Democrats will change the rules for filling U.S. Senate vacancies is that both incumbent senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, took office as gubernatorial appointees to fill a vacancy.
Menendez was appointed in 2006 by freshly minted Gov. Jon Corzine to replace [...]
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Gov.-elect Chris Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno are in North Brunswick for a roundtable discussion with school superintendents from around the state. Then the pair will tour North Brunswick Township High School before meeting with reporters. Post-election campaign finance reports from this year's candidates for state Legislature, county and local' [...]The amount of his own money Jon Corzine put into his campaign in the last 7 days of the 2000 U.S. Senate election: $3,641,496.
The amount of his own money Jon Corzine put into his campaign in the last 7 days of the 2005 governor's election: $3,846,142.19.
The amount of his own [...]
New Jersey's outstanding debt grew from $44.5 billion to more than $51 billion over the last fiscal year, primarily due to the way pension and health benefit obligations are accounted for, according to a Treasury Department annual report.
The 2009 debt report has been submitted to the state Comission on Capital' [...]
It's Tuesday, Dec. 1st, 2009, and here's an overview of what's going on in and around the state politics scene:
Post-election campaign finance reports from this year's candidates for governor are released by the Election Law Enforcement Commission, possibly updating how much money Gov. Jon Corzine spent in his loss. Through [...]Assm. John McKeon's proposed legislation that would require a U.S. Senate vacancy to be filled with someone from the same political party would allow a governor to choose from any registered member of the party, not just from a list submitted by party leaders.
The change, should it be approved during [...]
When New Jersey's labor department announced the October jobs stats in mid-November, showing another decline in employment, it included the typical revision of the numbers from the month before.
Ironically, and probably unhappily for Gov. Jon Corzine, that revision shows that Corzine's labor department overstated job losses in September by 2,100 [...]
Five Assembly committees meet today for a light schedule -- particularly by post-election, lame-duck standards. A full preview of what's on the docket is below the jump, but here's a summary:
Nine of the 18 bills scheduled to be taken up today were proposed after the election, including eight that weren't' [...]It's Monday, Nov. 30th, 2009. Which, if you ask me, makes it far too early in the year for radio stations to be airing little transitional snippets between songs that wish listeners a happy and healthy new year. I heard one of those over the weekend. Please put that one away' [...]
Back in October, when the state announced revenues were $190 million short over the fiscal year's first three months, I ran the math on what that would mean over the course of a full year -- about $1 billion. And a spokesman for the administration criticized me.
Now in November, the [...]
NJN's 'Reporters Roundtable' show, in which a panel of four political reporters review and analyze the news of the week gone by, debuted 20 years ago during the 1989 governor's race.
Nowadays, the group of reporters changes every week. But at the beginning the panel was the same every week -- [...]
It's Friday, Nov. 27th, 2009. Quiet day in state political circles ... except on the happy-birthday front.
State offices aren't universally closed for the day after Thanksgiving, actually. Courts are closed, and most people have the day off. But some offices will have some staffing, most non-union or 'essential' employees. The CWA's [...]Gov.-elect Chris Christie has been announcing the members of his various transition team committees this week; in due time, those names and some backgrounders on the members will appear in this space.
Most of the people are known primarily to the political community. But today's appointment of the members of the [...]
Monday's action in the state Senate:
Thirty bills advanced -- 23 sent to the Senate floor, seven sent to the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee for consideration because they could have an impact on state spending. Five bills that were on the committee agendas were held without a vote, including one -- [...]Here's the boxscore from Monday's Assembly meetings:
Twenty-seven bills advanced -- 18 to the Assembly floor, and nine were sent to another committee for further consideration. Thirteen of those Assembly bills were introduced Monday and voted upon before their text was even posted online (though two existed in their Senate version). Something [...]It's Wednesday, Nov. 25th -- Thanksgiving Eve, 2009.
Quinnipiac University issues results of a poll asking New Jersey voters their opinions on same-sex marriage, which could come up for a vote before the legislative session expires Jan. 12th. U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez visits the Community Food Bank of New Jersey in Hillside, [...]The Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards just voted unanimously to dismiss an ethics complaint filed against Sen. Brian Stack, a Democratic senator and the mayor of Union City, in mid-2006 by conservative activist Steve Lonegan.
Lonegan filed ethics complaints related to grants from the state budget against 34 lawmakers, and [...]
While it remains to be seen how Democratic lawmakers and Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie ultimately work together, they're at least saying the same things about fiscal matters for the time being.
Senate Majority Leader-designate Barbara Buono took it a step further Monday, when she talked about seeing the partisan flip in' [...]
Assemblyman John McKeon, D-Essex, has proposed legislation that would effectively take away Gov. Chris Christie's ability to pick a new U.S. senator of his choosing, should, for instance, Sen. Frank Lautenberg not complete his term.
Lautenberg will turn 86 four days after Christie's Jan. 19th inaugural, and that has raised concerns [...]
It's Tuesday, Nov. 24th, 2009 -- probably the last busy day of the news week, with Thanksgiving just around the corner.
The New Jersey Business & Industry Association releases the findings from its 2010 Business Outlook Survey. Glum, glum, glum. Health & Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard updates reporters via teleconference about [...]Among the bills dropped into the hopper Monday, the first day back after a five-month recess, is one from Senate President Richard Codey that would give Gov.-elect Chris Christie an extra three weeks to propose the first state budget.
State law says the budget is to be transmitted by the fourth [...]
A state appeals court today affirmed the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit filed three years ago against the state's school funding formula that sought to declare the state's school aid effort unconstitutional and order 25 school districts to let students withdraw from public schools and attend other schools, private [...]
Nearly five months since the state Legislature last met, Gov. Jon Corzine Friday afternoon signed two dozen bills it sent to his desk way-back-when. They're all listed below the jump. Among them is one establishing a pilot program requiring instruction in personal finance to high school seniors, a priority of' [...]
Seven Assembly committees are back in session today, the first time bills are being considered since June. A dozen of today's bills haven't yet been introduced but are scheduled for votes. Democrats will also meet behind closed doors to pick their speaker for the session that starts in January; the [...]
The state Senate swings back into action today with the swearing-in of Sens. James Beach and Michael Doherty to complete unexpired terms; the vote for a Senate president for 2010 and 2011, most likely Sen. Steve Sweeney; six committee meetings; and the introduction of lame-duck session legislation.
Here are some highlights [...]
It's Monday, Nov. 23rd, 2009, and the Legislature's finally coming back to town.
Gov.-elect Chris Christie, joined by Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno, conducts a media availability with Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell at the headquarters of AE Polysilicon in Morrisville, Pa., across the Delaware River from Trenton. Democrat Jim Beach and Republican Mike [...]Today is Saturday, Nov. 21st, 2009.
Gov. Jon Corzine participates in the Department of Children & Families reception for National Adoption Month in Newark, then speaks at Julia Traphagen School's Blue Ribbon Celebration in Waldwick. The Delegate Assembly of the New Jersey School Boards Association conducts a program looking at what's in [...]
A state Superior Court judge now serving as a Family Court judge in Mercer County was censured this week by the Supreme Court for intimate emails he repeatedly sent a former law clerk, even after being ordered to stop, from his judiciary account.
Judge Lawrence [...]
The second of Gov.-elect Chris Christie's recurring lines from his Thursday speech to the New Jersey State League of Municipalities were his repeated references to "the center of the room" -- part of his call for officials to work cooperatively, rather than from their political poles, to address issues.
"The problems" [...]
The second co-chairman of Gov.-elect Chris Christie's budget and taxes task force is Richard H. Bagger, 49, who was in the state Legislature from 1992 through 2003, including a stint as chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, and is now an executive at the pharmaceutical [...]
Here's what's up in state government and politics for Friday, Nov. 20th, 2009.
The Burlington and Mercer vicinages of the state judiciary hold their annual Adoption Day programs. It will include 17 adoption proceedings in Mount Holly and six in Trenton. National Adoption Day is celebrated annually throughout the United States [...]Here's Gov.-elect Chris Christie's extended riff from his Thursday speech to the New Jersey State League of Municipalities convention about changing the mindset in Trenton, one of the many things he'll need to alter as he hopes to balance a severely deficit-ridden budget through spending cuts.
"The entire country is facing'" [...]
Among Gov.-elect Chris Christie's first moves in his transition was creating a Transition Task Force on Budget and Taxes, which will recommend ways to deal with the current year deficit, the projected gap for FY2011 and the state's long-term debt and looming costs for benefits for public retirees.
After pummeling him for months and years on end, state Republicans -- now hoping to maximize cooperation from his outgoing administration, no doubt -- have broken out the catch-more-flies-with-sugar approach in their commentary about Gov. Jon Corzine.
For sure, they're not calling a recount. But there have been multiple instances from' [...]
It's Thursday, Nov. 19th, 2009.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities continues its annual conference in Atlantic City. Gov. Jon Corzine gives the keynote speech, and Gov.-elect Chris Christie will also address the crowd. Also at the League of Municipalities convention this afternoon, conference attendees can meet with officials from Lt. [...]Gov.-elect Chris Christie's transition office has established its website.
It has the standard stuff, such as a section with press releases and bios of both Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno -- as well as places to submit resumes in search of a job in the administration or[...]
Gov.-elect Chris Christie is traveling to Texas today for the Republican Governors Association's annual conference, being held near Austin.
He'll attend a conference session this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. our time, a news conference with Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (the RGA chairman) at 7 p.m. and' [...]
The state Election Law Enforcement Commission this week added campaign donations received by municipal candidates to its searchable database.
Previously, copies of reports filed by municipal candidates have been posted online, but not in a sortable format. Currently more than $5.5 million donated to 377 different primary fundraising committees [...]
On consecutive days last week, Attorney General Anne Milgram announced settlements of civil lawsuits brought on behalf of the state's pension funds.
Last Thursday, the state announced that former Tyco International Ltd. board member Frank Walsh Jr. agreed to pay the state $5.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging securities [...]
Remember all the hullabaloo from the recent governor's race, driven by Gov. Jon Corzine's campaign, about the future of mammography coverage should Chris Christie's health insurance proposals ever be adopted? Corzine said the state's mandated coverage would be in jeopardy for women under 50, a claim Christie vehemently denied.
How would [...]
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 2009, and here's a review of the docket for New Jersey government and politics.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities continues its annual conference in Atlantic City. Sessions include a discussion among four former governors (Brendan Byrne, Jim Florio, Don DiFrancesco and John Bennett --' [...]The governor's race concluded two weeks ago, but the drip-drip-drip of developments regarding some of its key storylines continue this week.
Attorneys for independent Chris Daggett's campaign asked the state Election Law Enforcement Commission to investigate "robocalls" apparently paid for by the Democratic State Committee to registered Republicans in at least [...]
The Democratic National Committee, as it said it would, announced plans Monday to launch radio ads criticizing 32 House Republicans from districts that backed President Barack Obama last year who voted against the health-care reform bill two weekends ago.
Among them are Rep. Leonard Lance of Hunterdon County (hear the ad [...]
The initial Senate committee agendas for Monday's return to action in the Legislature were issued this morning.
Among the first committees to meet will be the Senate Judiciary Committee. Currently, the docket includes the following:
Joseph Spicuzzo, the Middlesex County sheriff and leader of that county's Democratic Party organization, to replace former [...]While this has got little to do with politics, although higher education spending is a legitimate issue in state government, below are a few if-you're-distracted links to coverage USA Today provided last week about college football coaches' salaries.
Here's the USA Today story, and here is its database.
Rutgers University' [...]
It's Tuesday, Nov. 17th, 2009.
The New Jersey State League of Municipalities opens its annual conference in Atlantic City. The New Jersey Farm Bureau wraps up its 91st annual meeting at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village. Former gubernatorial candidate Doug Forrester, president of Integrity Health, and Toms River Regional Schools superintendent Michael' [...]Gov.-elect Chris Christie and his top budget aides met with three top officials in Gov. Jon Corzine's Treasury Department, including state Treasurer David Rousseau, for three hours today before the news conference.
Christie budget adviser Robert Grady -- who now works at a private equity firm but has worked in government' [...]
It's Monday, Nov. 16th, 2009 -- which, between holidays for Election Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, marks the beginning of the only uninterrupted week of work in the state capitol in the month of November. Except for the part of the week where establishment Trenton decamps to Atlantic City for [...]
Though the election is over, the polls just keep on coming.
Rasmussen Reports today issued results of a Nov. 9th survey of 500 likely New Jersey voters, in which 60% say Gov.-elect Chris Christie's support in last week's election came from people voting against Gov. Jon Corzine (aka, Anybody But Corzine), while [...]
The state Senate and Assembly, which have been in recess since June, have finally released their meeting schedules for the lame-duck post-election session -- which seems to be getting a much later start this year than usual, as the majority Democrats regain their bearings after their loss of the governor's' [...]
It's Friday, Nov. 13th, 2009, and here's a quick glance at the goings-on in state government:
Gov.-elect Chris Christie and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno hold a media availability in the Clubhouse Lobby at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford this afternoon. The Commission on Higher Education meets. Rutgers University administrators, representatives of the [...]Here's a link to the Pew Center on the States report that tags New Jersey as having one of the 10 worst fiscal situations among the states.
Here's some of what it says about the Garden State:
"New Jersey is playing catch-up after years of fiscal mismanagement and a daunting structural" [...]
Remember all the talk this past summer about Gov. Jon Corzine possibly plucking entrepeneur and former 'The Apprentice" winner Randal Pinkett as his lieutenant governor running-mate? Didn't happen, of course. Pinkett wound up as chairman of the Democrats' "Yes We Can 2.0" effort to lure young'" [...]
It's Thursday, Nov. 12th, 2009.
Gov. Jon Corzine and Gov.-elect Chris Christie attend the Archdiocese of Newark Archbishop’s Mass for Law Enforcement Personnel at Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno also attends. Corzine and Christie also hold a private meeting to discuss, among other topics, the [...]
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