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New Jersey Transit Continues Overspending While Service Flounders

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Ridgewood NJ, Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco (R-25) released the following statement regarding reports that a NJ Transit project to build a facility to park trains has ballooned by $116 million.

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New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin Pushes His Own Political Agenda

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Trenton NJ, Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco (R-25) questioned New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin’s letter to U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quarashi, pursuing what the GOP leader described as his own political agenda in a court case challenging the use of “the county line” on New Jersey ballots.

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Governor Murphy and Fellow Trenton Democrats Quietly Push More Tax Increases

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Trenton NJ, Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco (R-25) issued the following statement calling on Governor Murphy and Trenton Democrats to keep their pre-election promise to not raise taxes on New Jerseyans. Governor Murphy is expected to deliver his budget address for the 2025 fiscal year on Tuesday, February 27.

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‘Freedom to Read Act’ Allows school officials and librarians to distribute explicit and obscene materials to minors

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Trenton NJ, Senate Republican Leader Anthony M. Bucco and Senators Joe Pennacchio and Declan O’Scanlon, issued the following statements objecting to a Democrat push of legislation that would protect school officials and librarians from distributing explicit and obscene materials to minors and expressing concerns about the State interjecting more erroneous mandates on local communities.

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After Whale Death this Past Weekend, Renewed Concerns are Raised Over Offshore Wind Development

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Long branch NJ, this weekends two more dead whales washed ashore late last week in the tristate, reigniting a politically charged debate whether wind farm sonar mapping could be responsible for the growing number of marine mammal deaths.

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