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Governor Murphy Says if you Don’t like it Leave and People are in Droves

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Trenton NJ, once again Governor Phil Murphy has told New Jersey residents , “if you don’t like his policies leave.”  During a press conference on Friday, Murphy snapped at reporters questioning his slow reopening of the state and poor handling of the pandemic, saying, “If you don’t like our leadership here, why don’t you go down to Georgia and see how that feels.”

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Will Phil Murphy be a union yes-man?

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By Star-Ledger Editorial Board

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New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation, a crushing burden to middle-class families and indisputably the top concern of voters.

It’s a problem that can’t be solved until we contain the salaries and benefits of public workers. That is not a liberal view, or a conservative view. It is about the math. And it’s up to the next governor to face it.

The first test is coming soon, when a law setting a 2 percent cap on salary increases for police and firefighters in arbitration settlements is set to expire in December. The Republican candidate, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, wants to renew the cap. But the front-runner, Democrat Phil Murphy, is keeping his options open.

https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/08/will_phil_murphy_be_a_union_yes-man_editorial.html