TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey is roasting through the final hours of an exceptionally hot summer heatwave, Save Jerseyans, and Governor Phil Murphy expressed concern over the weekend via Twitter for prisoners enduring a broken ***repaired*** air conditioning system at the Democrat-run Bergen County Jail:
Deeply disturbed by reports of a lack of air conditioning at the Bergen County Jail. We’ve been in contact with @BergenCountySo and understand that AC has been restored.
We’ll continue working with local officials to ensure safe and humane conditions during the heat wave.
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) July 20, 2019
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Bergen Jail already found itself embroiled in controversy in recent months for housing ICE detainees.
Some on Twitter noted that Bergen’s A/C issues have been public knowledge for weeks without any apparent decisive action to permanently address the problem:
Thank you. But this was reported on weeks ago. Should have been a priority all this time and fixed well before this weekend. This is why all county jails need thorough, independent civilian oversight.
— Matt Dragon @matt_dragon@ioc.exchange (@matt_dragon) July 20, 2019
Not everyone was buying that Murphy’s concern was genuine, or even appropriate.
Many more were annoyed by what once again seemed to be the Governor’s strangely out-of-order priorities:
Phil’s order of importance:
1. illegals
2. Prisoners
3. LGBTQ+
4. National far leftist perceptions
5. Anyone else but 6
6. Hard working, overburdened NJ taxpayers— NJ Country Boy (@nj_country) July 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/jl_woodhouse/status/1152677312997003266
I just hope your $7.3 million Italian estate has AC.
— KevinCorbettDoesNotCare (@TooMader) July 20, 2019
And you couldn’t care less about the law abiding tax payers who get stuck on the no A/C @NJTRANSIT trains and buses. @billritter7
— Jason W. Alexander (@jwalex54) July 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/Nikkistark22/status/1152633422369738752
https://twitter.com/MSLdraco/status/1152610665376440321
The good news is that air conditioning is sexist anyway https://t.co/fgXmLL5sBB
— Joe Colangelo (@Itsjoeco) July 20, 2019
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