Womp womp. They’re dimming the lights, stacking empty pizza boxes and sending legislative staff home, Save Jerseyans, after Trenton legislators and the Christie Administration failed to compromise on the #HorizonHeist situation to avert New Jersey’s first state government shutdown since Read More
Twenty-eight members of the eighty member state legislature abstained or didn’t vote at all on the third reading of the FY 2018 budget, Save Jerseyans, pushing the Garden State’s dysfunctional state government closer to a shutdown on Friday night. Close Read More
Jennifer Beck (R-11) doesn’t regret her Thursday vote in the Senate, Save Jerseyans, and she doubled down as a state shutdown inched closer on Friday afternoon. “Any Horizon policy holder that has overpaid in premiums should get that money back,” Read More
It’s hard to find someone in Trenton who doesn’t have an opinion on the #HorizonHeist bill, Save Jerseyans, but a few Democrats didn’t bother to take a position at all. Their reasoning didn’t have anything to do with ethical conflicts Read More
Why is this year’s pitched budget battle tied to the #HorizonHeist bill? A national watchdog group weighed in this week, alleging a possible connection between Governor Chris Christie deeply unpopular move to seize Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s limited reserves and the head Read More
Posted with permission from The Dan Cirucci Blog — Here we go again. We’re facing yet another uproar about presidential tweets. Yes, the tweets are unprecedented. Yes, they can be very hard-hitting. Yes, they can and do take on a personal Read More
The Founders envisioned and implemented godly principles and values into the blueprint for America — although that fact is often forgotten. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Read More
Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, the Republican’s 2017 gubernatorial nominee, issued the following statement on Friday morning as budget negotiations (and the Horizon fight) appeared to stall ahead of a midnight government shutdown deadline: What is happening with the state budget Read More
The N.J. GOP’s uncivil war is far from over, Save Jerseyans. On Thursday, during a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democratic Committee Chairman Nicholas Scutari declared that he may use subpoena power to compel the testimony of Lt. Governor Read More
