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NJ Board of Public Utilities By Friday 80% of Customers Will Have Power Restored

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Trenton NJ, Board of Public Utilities President Joseph Fiordaliso at Wednesday’s post Isaias press conference : Thank you, Governor. Just as a matter of some comparison here, as the Governor mentioned, at the peak, we had 1.4 million people approximately without power, or customers. Sandy, Super Storm Sandy, at its peak, we had 1.7 million customers without power. Here’s a storm that just came through the entire state of New Jersey thank goodness at a more rapid pace than Sandy, but we still had devastating damage. And New Jersey was probably one of the hardest hit states from this particular storm. We are now down to, as the Governor mentioned, approximately 977,000 people without power. So we have – excuse me – almost 500,000 people who have been restored. Regionally, 3.5 million were without power in 14 states. New Jersey got literally whacked, and it really left its mark throughout the entire state. If you were to ask me what region of New Jersey was hit the hardest, I would have difficulty explaining or recognizing any particular area. The entire state was ravaged by this quick-moving storm.

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NJ CAN 2020 Legalization of Cannabis Campaign

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Ridgewood NJ,  NJ CAN 2020, a ballot campaign with the mission of getting to a “yes” vote on adult use cannabis legalization in New Jersey, has started the next phase of campaigning with the launch of NJCAN2020.org, an online clearinghouse for the ballot question and a portal for building grassroots momentum.

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Murphy’s Nursing Home, Unemployment & MVC Failures Must Be Probed by NJ Senate

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Trenton NJ, Senator Anthony M. Bucco, Senator Kristin Corrado, and Senator Joe Pennacchio said the Murphy Administration’s massive failures in protecting nursing homes, processing unemployment claims, and reopening Motor Vehicle Commission agencies must be investigated by the Legislature to ensure that fixes can be implemented as quickly as possible.

“It’s clear to everyone in New Jersey that the Murphy Administration has failed to properly protect nursing home residents, help unemployed workers, or plan for the MVC’s reopening,” said Bucco (R-25). “What’s not clear, however, is why the governor didn’t listen to the warnings raised by so many people or why he continues to refuse to enact the common-sense solutions we’ve proposed. It’s also not clear why Senate Democrats continue to delay the bipartisan investigation we were promised to help guide our efforts to fix lingering problems and prevent a recurrence of these critical failures.”

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Murphy Signs Executive Order Extending Public Health Emergency Continues Suspension of all Constitutional Rights in New Jersey

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Trenton NJ,  Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 171. The Order extends the Public Health Emergency that was declared on March 9, 2020 through Executive Order No. 103, which was previously extended on April 7, May 6, June 4, and July 2. Under the Emergency Health Powers Act, a declared public health emergency expires after 30 days unless renewed. 

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Murphy Administration Raises Costs of Healthcare in New Jersey

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Trenton NJ, NJBIA Chief Government Affairs Officer Chrissy Buteas issued the following statement on today’s passage of bill S-2676/A-4389, which levies a 2.5% tax on health insurance plans, increasing costs for businesses and nonprofits.

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Reader says ,”I pray that not one penny gets sent to New Jersey”

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“I pray that not one penny gets sent to New Jersey. Murphy did not take any steps whatsoever to stop the State’s hemorrhaging of money; in fact, he has done just the opposite: giving illegal immigrants free healthcare, free education, free everything, while giving the actual citizens of New Jersey nothing but the bills for such generosity. To pay for his $10 billion loan, he is already going to have to raise sales taxes and even create a NEW state property tax. It is finally time for spending cuts and they must be DEEP! our budgets must be pared down to the bare minimums, we have no right to be giving away free things when we have no money to pay for them.”

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New Jersey Supreme Court to Hear Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Ciattarelli Challenge of Governor Murphy’s $10 Billion Borrowing Scheme

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Ciattarelli Legal Team to Argue Before Court on August 5th

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Trenton NJ, Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Ciattarelli announced today that the New Jersey Supreme Court has accepted his campaign’s filing in the court challenge of Governor Phil Murphy’s plan to borrow nearly $10 billion.

“Last week, my campaign filed to challenge Governor Murphy’s reckless ‘borrow & tax’ scheme,” Ciattarelli stated.

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Reader Tells the Governor ,”You Can’t ask for money for a problem you created Murphy”

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“You Can’t ask for money for a problem you created murphy. Shouldn’t have kept small businesses closed for so long. You destroyed lives to save lives. Now alot of us will have to move because even with any federal aid you will raise taxes. You put all your hopes into federal money and on top of that the people you keep asking for money you paint them as villains. Money doesn’t grow on trees; we are already heading towards hyperinflation. You’ve already proven you can’t manage a state budget. You spend money like water and refuse to make the necessary cuts needed to balance the budget. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. From the republican side we blame your leaders for their decisions for their irresponsible spending. You can scream, cry, threaten, complain but at the end of the day you’ll be held accountable for NJ’s suffering. Obviously democratic leadership has created more poverty like it does in every democratic run state. Learn how to manage your funds and stop playing victim. You shut down NJ and then locked up, fined, & threatened to revoke license to any small business that tried to reopen to survive this pandemic. Those were your executive orders nobody else’s. You will be held accountable. NJ needs new leadership, republican leadership but since that wont ever happen NJs economy will never get better because all democrats do is spend & raise taxes. Someone take Murphy’s checkbook away already.”

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The New Jersey Business & Industry Association: Health Insurance Surcharge Will Make Healthcare less affordable

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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey Business & Industry Association is urging the Assembly Appropriations Committee today to vote against a proposed $300 million health insurance tax that would increase costs for businesses, nonprofits and ultimately all employees who pay a portion of their healthcare premiums.

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Administration Insiders Say Murphy’s COVID Decisions Not Data Driven

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Trenton NJ, Senator Anthony M. Bucco reiterated his concerns that a host of COVID-19 responses ordered by the administration of Governor Phil Murphy have not been driven by data as the governor has repeatedly claimed.

“We’ve all heard the governor repeat his refrain that ‘data determines dates,’ but we have a pile of mounting evidence to the contrary,” said Bucco (R-25). “Health experts in the administration who have the data that should be guiding the State’s COVID-19 response efforts have said they were never consulted before announcements were made by Governor Murphy. To the contrary, those career public health officials were only asked to help justify the governor’s completely arbitrary decisions after those decisions had already been made. It’s absolutely unbelievable.”

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Governor Claims New Jersey Needs a $20 billion Federal Bail Out

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Trenton NJ, Governor Phil  Murphy attempted to blame New Jersey decades of irresponsible spending and corruption on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell ,going as far to claim New Jersey needs a whopping $20 billion even after the New Jersey legislator agree to allow the Murphy Administration a $10 Billion  no questions asked.

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Coalition of New Jersey healthcare and physician advocates say Healthcare Surcharge would increase costs on those hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic

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TRENTON NJ, State healthcare and physician advocates, led by the Home Care & Hospice Association of NJ, and the New Jersey Dental Association, called on the Senate and Assembly today to oppose a new tax on health insurance, as proposed in two bills, S-2676 and A-4389. The coalition joins a growing choir of employers, seniors, and health professionals concerned that the bill will increase health insurance costs on New Jersey communities that have already been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis.

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Democrats Introduce New “Health Tax” bill for New Jersey Residents

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Middletown NJ, Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger (R-Monmouth) is speaking out against a recent bill seeking to impose a new “health tax” throughout New Jersey. This legislation comes at a time when businesses, residents, low-income families, and countless others are severely struggling to make ends meet in the wake of crushing financial waves due to the COVID-19 pandemic:

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Judge Rules Bellmawr Gym can continue to operate Despite Executive order to Remain Closed

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Bellmawr NJ, Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti  appeared before a judge on Monday and the judge ruled that they can continue to keep their doors open.

The owners of a Bellmawr gym who were in violation of Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order to remain closed had first closed in March under a statewide emergency order, the gym opened without permission on May 18 and then padlocked by the state on May 22 under a court order.

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New Jersey Tax Collections Weaken Further , Down 14.7% in June

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Trenton NJ, The Department of the Treasury reported that June revenue collections for the major taxes totaled $2.92 billion, down $503 million, or 14.7 percent below last June. The June decline eclipsed last month’s decline of 13.5 percent over the previous May, indicating that the economic impact of the global pandemic shows little signs of abating.  Fiscal year-to-date, total collections of $29.784 billion are now down $3.0 billion, or 9.2 percent below the same period last year.

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