Christie Hosts 11 a.m. Cedar Grove Town Hall Today
Governor schedules 90-minute forum to hear from residents.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will visit Cedar Grove on tomorrow for a town hall meeting.
The event will be held in Cedar Grove High School's gymnasium to better accommodate the crowd, said Cedar Grove Mayor John Zunic.
Doors will open at 10:15 a.m. with seating on a first come, first serve basis. The event will start at 11 a.m. and is expected to last approximately 90 minutes.
“You always like to have the executive leader of the state visit your town,” Zunic said last week. “Residents will be able to directly ask their questions to the governor. It’s not very often people get that opportunity.”
The last governor to visit the township was Christie Todd Whitman, he said.
JoAnne Lindsley
7:39 am on Thursday, June 14, 2012
What's he running for now do you suppose? Tired of the ubiquitous ads about how what a wonderful gov. he is. Who's paying for those and why?
Martin Golan
1:13 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2012
Probably us, JoAnne, like we will for all the vicious things he's doing that will damage the state for years to come.
tryintosurvive
3:02 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
If only we could get Corzine back. Now that guy could manage finances.
Doris Laws
3:02 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
Why doesn't he come to Montclair. I have quite a few questions for him and his party!
PHIL MASTELLONE
5:16 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012
MR CHRISTIE NEEDS TO STOP THE FLEECING OF NEW JERSEY TAXPAYERS BY THE UNIONS, SCHOOL,MUNCIPAL,COUNTY AND STATE EMPLOYEES. THE FREE RIDE NEEDS TO BE OVER !
Save Our Schools NJ
8:29 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Question for the Governor: How will State underfunding of our public schools by more than $2.5 billion over the next 5 years, as proposed in the Governor's FY 2013 budget, help New Jersey's children? This underfunding would come on top of the $2.9 billion our schools lost between 2010 and 2012. When the State does not pay its share, our property taxes go up to make up the difference or our schools decline in quality, hurting our children and lowering our home values. Millburn-Short Hills has already lost almost $6 million in State aid since 2010 and would lose another $3.5 million under the Governor's proposed budget. You can look up how much your school district would lose here: http://www.saveourschoolsnj.org/funding-formula/
tryintosurvive
11:30 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
"Millburn-Short Hills has already lost almost $6 million in State aid since 2010" and they continue to be the number one high school in the state. They must be doing something right.
Martin Golan
1:01 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Let's just keep blaming unions instead of actually solving problems, and figuring out why other countries manage to provide health care and solid pensions for all -- countries far less rich than America.
And before you blame unions: Aren't all contracts approved by those in charge, town boards or legislatures? If they ask too much they shouldn't be approved (unlike our bully in Trenton, other governors have negotiated deals that were fair all around and solved budget problems).
And two, do you think it's wrong for a worker to seek the best deal he or she can? And refuse to take a job if the pay and benefits aren't enough?
Valerie
4:47 pm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Mr. Golan, are you aware of the European debt crisis? Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal are about to go bankrupt and will no longer be able to afford all the pension promises that the government made to it's people. In France, the new President just cut the legislatures pay by 30% because they are in just as much fiscal trouble as Spain and Italy. Your socialist eutopia doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money.
A. Gideon
10:04 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
"Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal are about to go bankrupt and will no longer be able to afford all the pension promises that the government made to it's people."
The problem with this statement is that it ignores the failure of austerity programs in Greece and Ireland as well as the fact that Germany spends quite a large percentage of its GDP on "social programs"; more than either of those other two nations, I believe.
Ireland is an especially illustrative example since it was the first to receive a bailout which pushed an austerity budget.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/business/global/irish-austerity-measures-cut-two-ways-report-finds.html
Unfunded obligations are a problem, of course, but simple-minded austerity is - by hampering growth - making the situation worse. More, one must consider the basis of these unfunded obligations. In NJ, successive leaders chose to avoid their obligations to make payments into funds. Our current governor has continued this irresponsibility, citing past irresponsibility as his excuse. This is like any debtor saying he'll not make a payment because he missed past payments.
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A. Gideon
10:05 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
[Continuing]
Before we put too much blame on our leaders, though, recall: we've been putting them into office for years. Fiscally responsible candidates - candidates that speak the truth about state finances - haven't a chance with voters. Instead, we bounce between the "we can spend our way out of this" lie and the "we can cut our way out of this" lie.
We saw a version of this in the recent Montclair election, where two slates proposing various forms of a balanced fiscal approach to our town's financial problems lost to a slate that views the situation purely as a revenue problem. Detail, depth, analysis and truth lost to "we can spend out way out of this".
Unfortunately, simplistically erroneous analysis of the Eurocrisis just continues this theme of voter misinformation and irresponsibility.
...Andrew