CODEY CALLS FOR CRACKDOWN AND INVESTIGATION ON “DIPLOMA MILL” INCIDENTS  

Asks School Supts to Return Taxpayer Dollars for Questionable Degrees

            TRENTON – Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) today sent letters to both Attorney General Anne Milgram and Department of Education (DOE) Commissioner Lucille Davy requesting an investigation and crackdown on school administrators who obtain degrees from unaccredited and questionable colleges and universities.  Codey made the request in light of recent reports that various school superintendents and administrators have received pay raises and tuition reimbursements for degrees they received from unaccredited online universities.

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MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP (MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ): “I have always been an advocate of in-house counsel at the county level,” said Middletown Democrat for Township Committee Jim Grenafege. “So it makes sense that I am all for it here in Middletown.”

Grenafege’s running mate is Patricia A. Walsh. She said, “The school district caps legal expenses in the context of its annual budget. There is no reason to tolerate excessive legal spending on the municipal level from the numerous attorneys the township now employs.”

Walsh said she recently saw a published report where Township Attorney Bernard Reilly is paid for 200-hour months and 15-18 hour days. “More scrutiny must be given to each of these individual legal bills,” she said.

AMODEO AND POLISTINA: SHORE REGION COMMUNITIES AMONG THE WORST VICTIMS OF NEW COAH REGULATIONS

NEW AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAW WILL MANDATE THOUSANDS OF NEW UNITS IN ALREADY BUILT-OUT COMMUNITIES 

As more detailed estimates become available of the housing requirements being imposed by the new affordable housing law enacted by the Democrat-controlled Legislature in June, Assemblymen John Amodeo and Vince Polistina today said it is increasingly apparent that South Jersey shore communities will be among those taking the biggest hit from the new law.

WISNIEWSKI CALLS FOR INCREASING FUNDING FOR SENIOR TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS

Funding Increase Would Help Programs Absorb Record Gasoline Costs Without Cutting Essential Services

(SAYREVILLE) - With a weak economy fueling increases in the cost of everyday necessities and gasoline costing 37 percent more than a year ago, Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski today said increasing funding to "The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Program" should be among the issues the Legislature considers when it returns in September.

(Mt. Laurel, NJ) -- John Adler, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in New Jersey's 3rd District released the following statement today regarding President Bush's decision on Friday not to enforce an August 2007 directive to cap State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) eligibility requirements:

CORZINE USES BUDGET SURPLUS TO PAY DOWN $650 MILLION IN STATE DEBT

Payment Will Result in $135 Million in Budget Savings Every Year for Five Years

 TRENTON - Governor Jon S. Corzine today took another step forward in the implementing of his historic $650 million debt reduction effort that will realize $135 million of savings in debt service payments in fiscal 2009 and at least $130 million in each of the next four years.

Myers Criticizes Adler's Opposition to MOM Rail Line

The words "mass transit" don't appear in Adler's so-called energy plan

-- Zimmer to Discuss Rising Property Taxes; Zimmer will be Accompanied by Mayor Cindy Rau-Hatton --

COAH Law Gives Swift Kick To Soccer Stadium Project

There is only one way to clear up the questions about potential conflicts of interest in the Xanadu bailout negotiations: Gary Rose must give a full accounting to the public.

LAUTENBERG, MENENDEZ ANNOUNCE $555K FOR ESTUARY PRESERVATION AND RESEARCH

“Mr. DiLascio unfortunately put his political career ahead of his constituents by switching parties to protect Sen. Sarlo, who is one of the people most responsible for inflicting the EnCap debacle upon us,”

GOVERNOR TOURS ROCHECompany committed to R&D in New Jersey 

NUTLEY – Governor Jon S. Corzine today met with Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. CEO George Abercrombie and toured the 127-acre corporate campus to review the company’s construction plans. Roche will be expanding its research and development operations in the Garden State.

Cardinale: Corzine Must Act To Fill All Of The Parole Board Vacancies Now

Yet, again, GOP thinks voters aren’t Sophisticated to see through GOP’s Failed Record of Higher Taxes, Waste, Mismanagement and Corruption

NEW REPORT UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE
OF BROADENING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Brookings Institution Study Showing Growing Rates of Concentrated Poverty
Among Working Poor Further Justifies New Affordable Housing Law

(TRENTON) - Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman today said a new national study showing more working poor families are being trapped in urban areas with concentrated poverty proves New Jersey was correct to do away with the immoral state law that allowed wealthy suburban towns to stockpile affordable housing into cities.

LAUTENBERG-PASCRELL BILL REQUIRING BETTER INFORMATION ABOUT FIRE SAFETY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES BECOMES LAW

WEBBER:   ATTEMPTS TO SALVAGE FAILED EXPERIMENT IN TAXPAYER-FUNDED CAMPAIGNS SHOULD STOPRECONVENED GROUP MAINTAINS ROADBLOCK TO REAL REFORMS 

Assemblyman Jay Webber today issued this statement on the reconvening of the legislative group working to make citizens pay for political campaigns:

“Today, some Legislators are attempting to salvage an unconstitutional and twice-failed experiment in taxpayer-funded campaigns.  I urge my colleagues to focus instead on policies that will actually make New Jersey more affordable and its government more accountable.  We should cut spending and taxes rather than scramble to find ways to send taxpayer dollars to politicians and their consultants.  And we should focus on reforms that will make elections more competitive and government more transparent, rather than resurrect a failed experiment that does neither.”

BURLCO GOP CHAIR QUESTIONS BROWN OVER DISMISSAL OF SOLICITOR

Glading to Tour City of Camden
With Influential Latino Group

Congressional candidate reaching out
across lines to build a coalition for change

BARRINGTON – Dale Glading, candidate for U.S. Congress in New Jersey's 1st District, will be touring the city of Camden with an influential Latino group, the Latino Leadership Alliance of NJ. Led by Angel Cordero, Glading and several community leaders from Camden will walk a section of Camden on Thursday, August 21.

"We are going to see first hand what 40 years of one-party Democrat rule has done to the city of Camden," Glading said. "For far too long, the Democrats have taken Camden and its residents for granted. As a result, this once proud city is now America's poorest and third most dangerous community. If there is one place in New Jersey most in need of positive change, it is Camden."

Glading's background as the founder of the nation's largest athletic prison ministry gives him a special insight into the difficulties of urban life, as the vast majority of the individuals he ministers to in prisons across America are young, minority men from the inner city.

"I have dedicated the past 21 years of my life to restoring people who have made poor choices to their God, to their families, and to their communities," Glading said. "We have to work harder to give people in places like Camden better educational and economic opportunities so they can be productive members of society, not turn to a life of crime."

"I will never take the city of Camden for granted nor ignore its citizens' cries for help," Glading concluded. "After all, my mother grew up in Fairview and my father in Cramer Hill. I am coming to Camden to meet its residents, to listen to their concerns, and to offer my help. Some say that a Republican can't go into Camden and connect with the people there, but I aim to prove them wrong."

Members of the media are invited to join Glading and community activists as they walk through the city. For more information, please contact Tim Saler at (856) 361-8989. A media advisory will be released on Wednesday with a specific time and starting location.

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