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Weinberg and Gordon to drop new Port Authority reform bill today
Democrats in the New Jersey legislature plan to drop a Port Authority bill today or tomorrow that they hope will replace the one passed by legislators in New York this week. Senate Majority Leader...
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Heading into budget vote, Dems join union leaders in sounding battle cry over...
TRENTON — Surrounded by union leaders and their rank-and-file in a cramped room in the statehouse this morning, Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3) and Assembly Speaker Vinnie Prieto (D-32) sounded...
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Assembly bids farewell to ‘Dr. Kevorkian of numbers,’ a.k.a outgoing OLS...
After sitting in on a heated exchange at a meeting this morning where lawmakers, amid fits and shouts, formally approved his predecessors, outgoing OLS Executive Director David Rosen was treated to...
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Despite Gill’s objections, Assembly passes ‘Democracy Act’
TRENTON — Assembly Democrats voted up a controversial bill to overhaul the state’s voting laws today, essentially running over objections from members of the legislature’s black caucus that they...
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Some Assembly Dems vote no on corporate business tax
TRENTON — It wasn’t exactly party line, but Assembly lawmakers nonetheless approved a major business tax at their afternoon budget session today. The one-time, 15 percent surcharge the state’s on...
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Giffords praises Senate passage of gun violence bill
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, co-Founder of the gun violence prevention organization Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), applauded leaders in the legislature today after the Senate...
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‘Safe to say’ tax hikes in Dem budget will see veto, Christie says
TRENTON — Confirming that much of today’s legislative efforts were ultimately for naught, Gov. Chris Christie said on 101.5’s “Ask the Governor” today that he will veto a proposed millionaires tax and...
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NJ Citizen Action calls on Christie to resign before Tuesday prez launch
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie is finally set to announce a presidential bid next week — and the news isn’t sitting well with one liberal advocacy group in the state. With an official campaign kickoff...
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Christie acts on FY2016 budget, slashing $1.6 billion from Dem plan
TRENTON — Gov Chris Christie took action on the state’s FY2016 budget today, vastly paring down a proposed $35.3 billion spending plan passed by Democrats yesterday with line-item vetoes of a handful...
View ArticleSecond veto override attempt on S-2249 will not see vote today
TRENTON — They came close — dangerously close — the first time around, but Senate Democrats will not try for a second veto override of a bill that would put a stop to the transferring of residents with...
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Surprise pension resolution launches Assembly into 11th-hour budget debate
TRENTON — Launching lawmakers into last-minute debate prior to the close of an otherwise subdued budget season, Assembly Democrats introduced and voted up a resolution at their session today that...
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Senate sends ‘Democracy Act’ to Christie’s desk
Sticking to their end-of-the-month timeline, Democrats in the Senate sent a sprawling bill to overhaul the state’s voting laws to Gov. Chris Christie’s desk during their afternoon voting session....
View ArticleChris Christie: One more day!
He’s got his own Super PAC, an official campaign website, and his first campaign video. Now, if it wasn’t already certain, Gov. Chris Christie is leaving little doubt that the official kickoff of his...
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Codey on budget season: ‘Anti-climactic is an understatement’
TRENTON — The long-serving lawmaker in state history says this year’s budget season was quick — quicker, in fact, than any he’s ever seen. State Senator Richard Codey (D-27), who joined the...
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With Christie inside, public labor workers take to Livingston High to slam...
LIVINGSTON — Inside was mostly camera flashes and fanfare, a welcoming party of friends and supporters encircling Gov. Chris Christie as he formally kicked-off a long-awaited presidential run....
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Stack at Christie kickoff: ‘He’s been a great friend’
LIVINGSTON — The crowd at Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign kickoff this afternoon was composed overwhelming of Republican supporters — friends, family, state Senators and Assemblypeople — but there were...
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The Republican Response: NJ GOP gushes over Christie’s presidential kickoff
LIVINGSTON — Gov. Chris Christie may have been the subject of heated protests outside the gymnasium of Livingston High School where he formally launched a bid for president here today, but inside,...
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DCCC hits MacArthur again on insurance record in new ad campaign
Keeping in line with an upcoming July 4 weekend — as well as their targeting of the freshman Republican ahead of a likely 2016 challenge — the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched...
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PolitickerNJ remembers John R. Whitman, First Gentleman of New Jersey
PolitickerNJ’s deepest condolences go out to former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, whose husband, John R. Whitman, passed away today after suffering a catastrophic brain injury. A famed businessman who...
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An emboldened Fulop thinks Christie needs to ‘show some leadership’
TRENTON — After watching him officially kickoff his long-shot presidential bid in the gymnasium of his former high school, one of the likely candidates clamoring to succeed Gov. Chris Christie in the...
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