Republican Leaders Senator Tom Kean and Assemblyman Alex DeCroce called on the Corzine Administration to support efforts to pass constitutional amendments through the Legislature that would restrain spending and control borrowing immediately. The Republican leaders are also asking Governor Corzine to introduce a balanced budget that does not include revenue from his toll hike plan.

Assembly Republicans Seek to retain the Death Penalty for the Worst Offenders

Argue the Voters Should Consider the Issue Directly

Assembly Republicans, appalled at the utter contempt that the Democrat-controlled leadership is showing for the people of New Jersey in conspiring to rush a bill through the lame-duck Legislature that would eliminate the death penalty despite strong public opposition to the scheme, plan on offering a series of amendments to the pending bill that would better reflect the will of the people.

Ethics Reforms Must Be Enacted Now

Senator Leonard Lance, R-23, the Senate Republican Leader today sent a letter  to Governor Jon Corzine urging him to call a special session of the Legislature to institute real and comprehensive ethical reforms immediately.  A copy of the letter is attached.

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY REPUBLICANS ARE PREPARED

TO COME TO TRENTON MONDAY TO ENACT REFORMS

Senate Republican Leader Leonard Lance and Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce today sent a letter to Senate President Richard Codey and Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts asking them to call the Legislature into session on Monday, September 17 to enact a tough package of ethics reform bills.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ...

KEEP JUDGES OFF PANEL

Editorial, Asbury Park Press, May 25, 2007

A bill approved by an Assembly committee this week would prohibit lawmakers from serving on the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards. That's a good start. But the bill, pushed by Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr., D-Camden, restricts membership to retired judges and prosecutors. It should keep them off the ethics panel as well.

We prefer a bill sponsored by Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce, R-Morris, that would create an eight-member panel consisting entirely of public members. An ethics committee will not be effective unless its members are free of partisan loyalties. That's why judges and prosecutors should be barred from serving: Many of them are politically connected.

 

DeCROCE: THE MORE TAXPAYERS KNOW ABOUT THE DEMOCRAT PROPERTY TAX PLAN, THE LESS THEY WILL LIKE IT

Republican Leader Says Favorable Poll Results Will Turn Around When More Homeowners Realize They Won’t Get a 20% Property Tax Cut

             Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce said today a new Quinnipiac University Poll that recorded a 71 percent approval rating for the recently enacted 10-to-20 percent property tax cut plan is no cause for celebration.

            “Even Assembly Republicans who voted in favor it, because it was the only property tax relief plan Democrats were willing to consider, know taxpayer resentment will build when homeowners realize they won’t be getting a 20 percent tax cut – if they get any tax cut at all,� said DeCroce, R-Morris and Passaic.

DeCROCE: ANALYSIS SHOWS DEMOCRAT PROPERTY TAX PLAN FAILS AVERAGE TAXPAYERS IN MOST TOWNS 

 For Taxpayers in 491 Out of 559 Municipalities, Average Tax Credit Will Not Even Cover the Rise in Their Property Taxes Since Democrats Gained Control 

Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce says the average taxpayer in an overwhelming number of municipalities has little cause to celebrate the 10-to-20 percent property tax credit legislation that was signed into law today by Gov. Jon S. Corzine.

“This is not reform, and for the average taxpayer it offers little relief and no end to higher property taxes,� said DeCroce, R-Morris and Passaic.