Denville, NJ
Joined September 2017
This is how I feel about anyone who voted for the OPRA bill!
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A guardrail that comes with its own notwithstanding is not a guardrail. It is a decoration. Stay NJ set a 12 percent surplus requirement before a single check goes out. Trenton has waived it in three consecutive budgets, at 10.9, 11.5 and 10 percent. Next week I introduce a constitutional amendment so the budget can no longer quietly override the laws we already passed. newjerseyglobe.com/legislatu…
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Last week we learned @RutgersU secretly spent $1.5M on cameras that recognize faces, read plates, and track students across campus. Nobody was told. This week @GovSherrillNJ gave Rutgers $500K to be the state's expert on protecting kids from invasive tech. You cannot make this up. nj.com/news/2026/10/nj-colle…
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Two health insurance numbers out of the same state in the same week. ACA plans here: up 19.8 percent, blamed on Washington. The school employees' plan Trenton runs itself: up 34 percent, blamed on nobody. Only one of those is ours to fix, and it's the bigger one.
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NJ Transit cancelled 1,715 trains this summer, up from 1,646 last summer. Starting Sunday, every line except Atlantic City runs a reduced schedule into mid November for the Portal Bridge cutover. The replacement rail cars were ordered in 2018 for delivery in 2023 and still are not carrying anybody. Fares did not take a delay.
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A New Jersey homeowner pays $10,000 a year in property taxes on a $450,000 home. In North Carolina: $3,000. Same house. That’s $7,000 a year you’re paying just for the privilege of living here. @votebergen did the math. youtu.be/OaKVAKgzT34
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There is a law letting voters cure a rejected mail ballot. Voting for November 3 is already underway. And this week the Division of Elections told the counties it cannot certify its own system is ready, so the law simply will not apply. Tens of thousands of mail ballots were rejected the last two cycles. Trenton had a year to build this. Who is accountable?
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Every few weeks brings another registration update and another number that was supposed to be the last one. AR156 sets up an evenly split, bipartisan committee with subpoena power. The majority still has not scheduled it a hearing. Ask yourself why.
Progressive NJ media continue to fearmonger & villainize the @USPS, so now let’s take a quick peek at the alternative they’re nudging you toward: NJ’s “secure” ballot drop boxes. Cameras required? Yes. Someone required to watch them live? NO. N.J.S.A. 19:63-16.1(b)(2)(a) expressly says a drop box is “not required to be within view of a live person for monitoring.” A required schedule for monitoring the feeds or routinely reviewing footage? NOPE. Neither the statute nor the state’s drop box guidelines establishes one. What could go wrong? I’ll tell you what could go wrong. BURLINGTON COUNTY. The RNC requested drop box footage & ballot pickup custody logs from the June 2025 primary. The Board of Elections said the footage from the drop box outside its own elections building was past the retention period & no longer on file. The pickup custody logs? Withheld under an election-security exemption. And just like that, the video was GONE. The records needed to verify who collected the ballots were WITHHELD. Huh. How unbelievably convenient. Looks like democracy’s NOT on the ballot. So how exactly is the public supposed to verify that these safeguards were followed? “Trust us, bruh.” I’m sick of hearing, “There’s no point in voting.” Botched motor voter registrations. Noncitizens registered & actually voting. Improper registrations involving incarcerated people. How many failures are we supposed to swallow before demanding accountability? This dumpster fire chips away at confidence in NJ’s elections, piece by piece. Wake up. Make noise. KEEP VOTING Sitting out & staying quiet only enables the people who think investigating themselves is the be all, end all. You deserve answers & independent, bipartisan oversight with subpoena power. The NJ Assembly GOP has put a concrete proposal on the table. AR156, sponsored by Assemblymen John DiMaio & Christopher DePhillips, would create a 12-member election integrity committee, evenly divided between appointees of the Speaker & Minority Leader, with a co-chair selected by each & subpoena power to compel testimony and obtain records. It’s part of our election integrity package. The Majority should give it a hearing. Learn more about the election integrity package spearheaded by the @NJAssemblyGOP five-member Policy Committee here: njassemblygop.com/m/newsflas… @NJSenateGOP @njassemblydems @NJSenDems @GovSherrillNJ @NJAsmGerry @JohnAzzaritiNJ @VoteKanitra @AlexSauickie @AsmJohnDiMaio @CPDePhillips @RNCVoteProtect @ScottPresler @NJGOP
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The Commerce Committee held a hearing on why businesses are leaving NJ. I asked the questions. The Chairman cut me off 7 times. Nobody in that room was willing to tell the truth, so I did. #NJPolitics #SmallBusiness
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Save this one. Every time a NJ jobs number lands, the explanation is national headwinds. Three other states caught the same headwinds and somehow ended the year up. At some point the common factor in New Jersey's results is New Jersey.
Interesting time for a lecture on jobs, @GovSherrillNJ. Over the last year: Texas: +159,400 jobs North Carolina: +65,600 jobs Florida: +59,000 jobs New Jersey: −9,900 jobs, including a loss of 13,100 private-sector jobs And you lost 23,600 jobs in July and August alone. But by all means, tell red states what they’re doing wrong.
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Declan sits on the committee and he is right. If the state is serious about health costs, you do not get to skip a cheaper option just because it showed up without a Trenton lobbyist attached.
This…100%!!!!!! I’m a customer of CostPlusDrugs… @mcuban has created a system that offers drugs at a fraction of the cost of the State system. I’m also a member of @GovSherrillNJ Health Benefits analysis committee. If we don’t take @mcuban up on his offer we’re not really serious.
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Not a single person in the state government, at any level, takes the @NJBIA seriously. They are right on this issue, but they are so irrelevant that nobody cares. We need a real business advocacy group in NJ, desperately.
On Oct. 1, the @NJLaborDept is slated to implement the most stringent interpretation of the ABC test in the US. This WILL make it much more difficult for NJ's 1.7M independent contractors to do the freelance work they seek. As thousands seek exemptions for this misguided rule, please join us in asking @GovSherrillNJ to delay it before we greatly damage our gig economy and worsen NJ's business climate. Go to njbia.org/ABCDelay now!
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I was asked to say a few words this weekend at the Global War on Terrorism commemoration at County College of Morris. I tried, and I couldn't get them out. I always thought I understood what Vietnam veterans felt when they stood at the Wall. I was wrong. I looked out at the faces of the men and women we lost in the Global War on Terror, some of whom I knew and served with, and it broke me. This is a picture of me, but I don't think it's only about me. I think it shows what every combat veteran carries, whether it shows on the outside or not. To @MorrisCountyNJ , @CCM_edu and everyone who brought this memorial to New Jersey: I couldn't find the words to thank you in the moment, so I'll say it now. You made a difference. Thank you. We will never forget them.
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One day left before the independent contractor rule takes effect and the administration has answered nobody. Not the Senate President of its own party. Not the business community. Not the freelancers who are about to find out what their contracts are worth. Running out the clock is not a policy. It is what you do when you do not have one.
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"We absolutely do not fund outcomes." That is the Education Commissioner, under oath, at a budget hearing. Nobody at the top is measuring whether any of this is working. Gerry walks through the rest. Worth ten minutes.
NJ's Education Commissioner testified under oath at a budget hearing. @NJAsmGerry asked about outcomes. Her answer: "We absolutely do not fund outcomes. We fund student need." New Jersey spends more per pupil than almost any state in America. Results don't matter. That's the official position. Full breakdown: youtu.be/mKbF_TuEpys
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Three things on this list: stop auto-registering people at Motor Vehicles, check ID at the polls, audit the rolls twice a year. None of that is radical. It is the routine maintenance you would expect on any system, and this one just registered thousands of people who said they were not citizens.
After thousands of people who indicated they were not U.S. citizens were improperly registered to vote in NJ, we're renewing our legislation to: 🗳️ End automatic voter registration at the MVC 🪪 Require voter identification at the polls 🔍 Conduct voter roll audits twice a year
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"Years fighting in Congress" means a few letters and testimony. The man who held your seat before you, Rodney Frelinghuysen, protected Gateway money as Appropriations chair. Take a bow for the lawsuit. Leave the rest to the people who did the work.
The first tunnel boring machine is officially digging into the Palisades Cliffs, marking a major milestone for the Gateway Tunnel. Nearly 200,000 passengers depend on the current century-old tunnel every day, and our region generates 20% of our nation’s GDP. The Gateway Tunnel will deliver the modern, reliable infrastructure New Jersey commuters deserve and our economy depends on. Back in Congress, they called me the “tunnel-obsessed Congresswoman” because I fought tooth and nail for Gateway. Now, I’m the “tunnel-obsessed Governor,” and I’ll keep fighting to make sure the nation's most urgent infrastructure project gets built.
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The new independent contractor rule takes effect Thursday. The Senate President, a Democrat, asked the Governor to delay it to July 2027. So did legislators in both parties. So did every business group in the state. Three days out, the administration has answered none of them. Silence is not a policy.
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Dawn is right, and there is a detail that makes it worse. I read all 222 pages of the disparity study this bill rests on. It does not contain one documented example of discrimination in New Jersey government contracting. They wrote the target first and went looking for the reason second.
‼️HERE WE GO AGAIN. We just rolled out the red carpet for ANOTHER lawsuit on your dime. A3496 tells state agencies to increase certain contracts awarded to women and minority-owned businesses by 30% in five years, then makes agencies report on their “progress” every 30 days. The Majority gave a concrete number of contracts to hit and a report due every 30 days... but no worries! They called this a “good-faith effort.” Do they think getting cute with the wording makes the Equal Protection Clause go away? Here’s another gem: women and minority business owners told the state’s own disparity study they struggle to FIND contracting opportunities. The obvious answer is to make those opportunities clear and easy to find. Instead, this bill focuses on contracts awarded WITHOUT advertisement. So what’s the actual plan here? Are agencies now supposed to give women & minority-owned businesses a wink and a heads-up...and then what? We’re tracking a 30 percent increase in contracts actually AWARDED, not whether more women and minority- owned businesses can find them & compete for said contracts. And that’s somehow constitutional...because we call this dance “good faith”. @NJAssemblyGOP @njassemblydems @NJSenateGOP @NJSenDems
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