Budget & Spending Issues
March 22, 2013 JBudget & Spending, Labor, Education & Pensions
UPDATE (4/15): Gov. Christie has issued an absolute veto on the PLA bill. Please contact the governor at 609-292-6000 to thank him for standing up for taxpayers on this issue! The Hurricane Sandy crisis shouldn’t be used to line the pockets of Big Labor Union Bosses and expand the use of cost-inflating Project Labor Agreements! [...]
August 08, 2012 JBudget & Spending, Property Rights
Trenton’s Foreclosure Scheme is Back! TAKE ACTION now to stop it! Americans for Prosperity helped defeat their foreclosure scheme last month, but now the bill’s main sponsor, Sen. Lesniak, has reintroduced it in the state Senate. Sen. Lesniak and his liberal, Big Government cohorts won’t give up on their scheme to bail out lenders with BILLIONS [...]
June 19, 2012 JBudget & Spending, Property Rights
On Thursday, June 21, the General Assembly will vote on the “New Jersey Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act”. This destructive bill will authorize the State to borrow billions of dollars without voter approval in order to purchase foreclosed homes across the state. In addition to being a bailout of institutional lenders akin to TARP, the bill will [...]
February 15, 2012 JBudget & Spending
For Immediate Release February 15, 2011
Contact: Mike Proto, 201-487-8844/201-281-2700
Contact: Steve Lonegan, 201-487-8844/201-881-6682
Americans for Prosperity: Clearing the Air of Environment New Jerseys RGGI Propaganda
BOGOTA, NJ Americans for Prosperity state director Steve Lonegan has released the following statement blasting Environment New Jersey, a far left environmental group, for spreading falsehoods and propagating the phony, bogus results of an economic analysis of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap-and-trade scheme.
The radical environmental movement, including groups like Environment New Jersey, feed at the trough of cap-and-trade dollars. They are the winners of this massive redistribution of wealth, while consumers and private sector industry are the losers. Thats why will stop at nothing to perpetuate the lies and propaganda pertaining to the RGGI cap-and-trade tax.
August 29, 2011 JBudget & Spending
For Immediate Release August 30, 2011
Contact: Mike Proto, Steve Lonegan, 201-487-8844
Americans for Prosperity Blasts Sierra Club for Polluting RGGI Debate with Lies and Distortions
Far Left Environmentalist Group Doesnt Have Their Facts Straight on Cap & Trade Scheme
BOGOTA, NJ Americans for Prosperity, the nations leading free-market, grassroots organization, is blasting the Sierra Club for promulgating lies and distortions about the RGGI Cap & Trade scheme.