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Sign AFP's Petition to Stop The $100M Offshore Windmill Boondoggle!


New Jersey ratepayers already pay some of the highest electricity rates in the nation. Now, thanks to a $100M taxpayer-subsidized scheme to install windmills off New Jersey’s coast, those bills will be going even higher. Click below to learn more about how this offshore windmill boondoggle will cost our state billions of dollars, drive up electricity rates and result in thousands of lost jobs! Read the full report here...

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Wednesday, November 30th 2011
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CLICK HERE Now to Sign AFP's Petition to Gov. Christie!

New Jersey is about to pour $100 MILLION in taxpayer subsidies into a risky scheme to install windmills off of New Jersey's coast!

The Beacon Hill Institute cost analysis of this misguided project shows...

• The project would produce a net cost of $3.245 billion to New Jersey, within a range of $2.106 billion and $4.137 billion,

• New Jersey’s electricity prices will increase by 2.1 percent, in 2017, within a range of 0.5 percent and 4.2 percent; and

• From 2017 to 2036, the average household ratepayer will pay $431 in higher electricity costs; while the average commercial ratepayer will pay an extra $3,054 and the average industrial ratepayer an extra $109,335.

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Tuesday, January 24th 2012
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Lonegan Urges Senators Not to Sign Off on Christie Supreme Court Picks Unless Nominees Reject Judicial Activism

BOGOTA, NJ – Steve Lonegan, Americans for Prosperity State Director, today urged seven State Senators whose “sign off” is required for two State Supreme Court nominees to have hearings, not to give their approval unless the two nominees reject the concept of judicial activism that has been the Court’s hallmark.

The seven state Senators include four from Bergen County who must sign off on Phillip Kwon’s nomination, two from Morris County who must sign off on Mayor Bruce Harris’s nomination, and Senator Tom Kean (R-21) from Union County whose district includes Harris’s home town of Chatham Borough.

No hearings can occur on the nominees until the Senators all sign off on the nominations. “They are the first line of review here, and we’re urging them to take their responsibility seriously,” he added.

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Monday, January 23rd 2012
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For Immediate Release – January 23, 2011

AFP’s Lonegan Open but Skeptical of Christie Supreme Court Nominees

BOGOTA, NJ – Americans for Prosperity state director Steve Lonegan has issued the following statement regarding Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed nominees to the state Supreme Court.

“With two vacancies to fill on the state Supreme Court, Gov. Christie has an historic opportunity to steer the court in a new direction and restore the proper balance of powers to state government. Four decades of unrestrained judicial activism and social engineering from the state’s high court has done untold damage to the state’s fiscal condition, resulted in an ever-escalating tax burden, and undermined the very fabric of communities across the state.

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