By Matt Rooney
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Battling your own party’s Senate president is ominous enough for a new governor.
If Phil Murphy can’t keep the regional media on his side, Save Jerseyans?
This might be a quick four years.
Enter my friend Kevin Riordan — a veteran columnist covering South Jersey for The Philadelphia Inquirer – who unlike many of his colleagues is 100% upfront and honest about his liberal orientation. But on Monday, Kevin raised eyebrows by penning a column that takes the unambiguously hard-left Democrat Governor to the woodshed for having dashed Kevin’s own high expectations. Yes, it started as a “bromance”…
But Phil, the thrill is gone.
Because I simply can’t afford to have a fling with an old-fashioned, unabashed — I’ll give you that — tax-and-spend liberal whose new budget calls for $1.6 billion in tax hikes.
And I don’t believe New Jersey can afford it either, regardless of the governor’s well-intentioned promises to increase public education and public pension funding.
Murphy has taken an easy-and-breezy attitude about “restoring” what he regards as Christie’s meaningless reductions in the state sales tax.
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There’s more.
Click here to read Kevin’s full column.
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