>A new reason for business to leave NJ
November 17, 2009 • 6:55 am
By Bob Ingle
https://blogs.app.com/politicspatrol/2009/11/17/a-new-reason-for-business-to-leave-nj/
Gov.-elect Chris Christie says after meeting with Treasury officials the state’s projected $8 billion budget deficit could be the low end of the range. He said it was too soon to say where the budget will be cut except that to repeat “everything is on the table.” Christie said finances are like they are not only because of the national economy but also due to eight years of Democrats in charge. He singled out former Gov. Jim McGreevey, saying his budget handling was “obscene”.
Christie also said the state’s rules and regulations governing business are driving companies out of New Jersey and that means a loss of jobs. Here’s an example of what he’s talking about: Assembly Democrat leader Bonnie Watson Coleman is proposing a six-bill package dealing with former prison inmates. One of the laws she wants would make it illegal for employers to discriminate against job applicants on the basis of a criminal record.
I have known people who served their time and went on to lead successful lives. I’ve also interviewed cons who were headed back to the Big House, unable or unwilling to change their ways. Employers should be able to decide for themselves who to hire without the State of New Jersey interfering.
Coleman has been an activist for prisoner rights. Her two sons were sentenced to prison for armed robbery. But her activism has done nothing to clean up the prison system that is a disgrace in New Jersey despite reports that prisoners run their illicit businesses from the inside with the help of cell phones. That is something the state could change were Watson Coleman really into prison reform, thinking more of what’s best for the state than her own personal agenda.
Christie needs to clean house in the Corrections Department. Bring in someone with national experience running prisons to head ours and let him put a competent staff in place. He needn’t bother asking Watson Coleman’s advice.
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