FAIR LAWN NJ, Indivisible NJ 5th District, the progressive grassroots group based in New Jersey’s 5th Congressional District, is endorsing challenger Dr. Arati Kreibich for Congress. The group’s mission is to hold elected officials accountable for their votes and actions. They have been closely following the NJ5 Representative, Josh Gottheimer, and believe that Dr. Kreibich would better represent the residents of the District. According to Jeanne Stella, “Arati running is the best thing to happen to the 5th District since we got rid of Garrett.”
Trenton NJ, The Governors State of the State message was just another brew of New Jersey Stuck on Stupid Economics . The governor once again continued to promote his vision of a “fairer and stronger” economy, with the answer to everything being to raise taxes . Our question is once again fairer for who?,strong for who? He of course failed to address the “pension black hole ” , and reigning in the idiotic spending and regulatory over reach in the state, leading to the current affordability crisis.
The Murphy agenda seems to be drive all the business out of the state , and replace residents will illegals and criminals .
The massive numbers of Garden Stater’s fleeing the state or looking to flee the state in the next 5 years taking their assets and spending power with them guaranteeing to make matters far worse . Nothing said in the state of the state would make anyone change their mind . Its just the same old same old from the state house .Begging the question; will the state survive two more years of Phil Murphy and his Stuck on Stupid Economics.
BURLINGTON COUNTY NJ, Kate Gibbs, Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s Third Congressional District, released the following statement Tuesday morning:
“If anyone needed more proof that Congressman Andy Kim is far-left fanatic masquerading as a centrist, his refusal to call Qasem Soleimani a terrorist and flat out refusal to label Soleimani’s cold-blooded murder of U.S. troops as terrorism — because he’s ‘not an attorney’ — should leave no doubt. Forget politics; as an American, I am outraged.
Ridgewood NJ, According to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data released last week, New Jersey experienced an outflow of nearly $3.2 billion in Individual Income Tax Return Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) for tax year 2017-2018.
Yet, Governor Phil Murphy remains committed to a millionaire’s tax. With Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver standing behind him, the Governor cited the tax as beneficial to prepare for a “rainy day.”
Trenton NJ, Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick criticized Democrat’s efforts to ruin the freelance , ‘gig economy’ after a local paper in his district was forced to eliminate its freelance program just days after Christmas in response to action taken by the state Department of Labor.
Ridgewood NJ, Governor Phil Murphy patted himself on the back for New Jersey’s second statewide minimum wage increase from $10 to $11 per hour, taking effect today, January 1, 2020. The increase is part of a gradual increase in the minimum wage to $15/hour under legislation signed by Governor Murphy in February 2019. When Governor Murphy took office in 2018, the State’s minimum wage was $8.60 per hour.
Perhaps if the governors failed policies of constant tax increases and taxes on everything did not destroy the already morbid New Jersey economy we would celebrating job growth like the rest of the country .
Trenton NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today announced that five current and former public officials and political candidates in New Jersey – including Jersey City School Board President Sudhan Thomas and former State Assemblyman Jason O’Donnell – have been charged with taking bribes in a major investigation of political corruption in Hudson and Morris counties conducted by the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA).
The five defendants are charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes from a cooperating witness in the form of campaign contributions. In return, the defendants allegedly promised the cooperating witness, who is a tax attorney, that they would vote or use their official authority or influence to hire or continue to hire his law firm for lucrative government legal work. Envelopes and paper bags filled with cash – and even a coffee cup stuffed with cash – were delivered to the defendants by the cooperating witness at restaurants, parking lots, a political fundraiser, and a campaign headquarters. Other times the cooperating witness offered checks from illegal “straw donors” – individuals reimbursed to write checks to the defendant’s campaign in amounts that complied with the legal limit on individual donations.
TRENTON NJ, Citing safety and security concerns, Assemblyman Hal Wirths proposed an amendment to the illegal immigrant driver’s license bill (A4743) that would require all applicants to undergo a wanted person check to determine whether they had an outstanding arrest warrant or pending charges.
CHESTER NJ, As Democrats in New Jersey seem all but certain to have a lock on legislation that will give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, Republican U.S. Senate candidate from NJ Rik Mehta speaks out against it.
Democrats Push Driver’s Licenses for Illegals as High Taxes Drive Out Legal Residents
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Trenton NJ, Senator Michael Testa criticized members of Assembly Judiciary Committee who voted to give New Jersey driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
Paramus NJ, “The Netflix blockbuster, ‘The Irishman’ and the state of New Jersey have something in common – they’re both experts in small business shakedowns.”
“Now, facing more than $200 Billion in debt, ranking 50th in the nation in financial health, and burdening every taxpayer with a $65,000 share of the bill (on top of the nations highest income and property taxes, source: https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/NJ-2018-2pager.pdf) they have decided to double down their attacks on small business owners like you and me.”
Trenton NJ, Senator Steven Oroho (R-24) said the Murphy Administration should listen to the concerns of certified public accountants (CPAs) who overwhelmingly oppose the creation of a public bank by the State of New Jersey.
Trenton NJ, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the New Jersey State Assembly’s passage today of a measure to reinstate voting rights for New Jerseyans on parole and probation:
TRENTON NJ, Just as New Jersey was not prepared to weather the Great Recession, the state is once again vulnerable to a future economic downturn, according to a new report released today by New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP). Authored by a practicum of graduate students from the Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the report compares New Jersey’s preparation for and response to the Great Recession with that of five other states: Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, and North Carolina.
