Issues
June 29, 2011 JBudget & Spending
For Immediate Release June 28, 2011
Contact: Steve Lonegan, 201-487-8844/201-881-6682
Contact: Mike Proto, 201-487-8844/201-281-2700
New Report on New Jerseys Planned Offshore Windmill Projects Shows Boondoggle Will Raise Electricity Costs, Kill Thousands of Jobs
Beacon Hill Institute Report Exposes Folly of New Jerseys Quest to Build Offshore Wind Power Capacity
BOGOTA, NJ New Jerseys offshore windmill subsidies could have a further devastating effect on energy costs and the states economy a new report says. The study was prepared by the Beacon Hill Institute and commissioned by Americans for Prosperity.
This analysis is devastating, said Americans for Prosperity state director Steve Lonegan. This report definitively shows that offshore windmill farms are a bad deal for New Jersey.
June 28, 2011 JHealthcare & entitlements
For Immediate Release June 28, 2011
Americans for Prosperity New York Activist Sues to Stop States Participation in RGGI Cap & Trade Scheme
A Direct Legal Challenge to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
SEE BELOW FOR VIDEO AND PICTURES FROM TODAY'S PRESS CONFERENCE
DATELINE: NEW YORK, NY An Americans for Prosperity New York activist today filed suit challenging New York States participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Cap & Trade program.
Buffalo-area activist Lisa Thrun, lead plaintiff in the lawsuit and volunteer grassroots chair for Americans for Prosperitys New York chapter, explained the impetus for filing the lawsuit.
Im here today because as a ratepayer, as a taxpayer I was not represented and neither were the taxpayers of New York State.
June 27, 2011 JEnergy & Environment
On Monday at 4PM, the New Jersey State Senate will be voting on Bill S2946 and Resolution SCR-164. These bills are a desperate attempt by the far left to prevent Governor Christie from pulling our state out of the devious and destructive RGGI Cap & Trade scheme.
You and I have come too far to allow this to happen!
Contact your state senator now and tell them to vote NO on Bill S2946 and SCR-164! Demand that your representative take a stand against the job-destroying RGGI Cap & Trade scheme.
The following senators are not yet on board with repeal of the RGGI Cap & Trade energy tax. Contact them now and tell them to vote NO on S2946 and SCR-164!
Sen. Minority Leader Tom Kean (R-21) | SenKean@njleg.org | 908-232-3673
Sen. Jim Whelan (D-2) | SenWhelan@njleg.org | 609-383-1388
June 23, 2011 JHealthcare & entitlements
For Immediate Release June 23, 2011
Americans for Prosperity: Time Has Come to Expose New Jerseys Anonymous and Activist Supreme Court
States Leading Free-Market Group Launches Campaign to Educate Citizens about the Destructive Impact of New Jerseys Runaway Judiciary
DATELINE: TRENTON, NJ Americans for Prosperity launched a statewide campaign today to educate citizens about the destructive role of the states activist Supreme Court on the states economy and dismal tax climate.
June 22, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
Discover the remains of a once mighty political monster!
The NJEA is becoming a fossil of the past deeply out of touch with New Jerseyans -- a public sector union thats lost its clout as it flails away in vain to selfishly preserve the status quo of outrageous pensions and benefits.
Read about this relic of the past in the following scathing op-eds below ...
STAR LEDGER: Moran: Real leadership sang louder than N.J. unions' tired refrains
