U.S. Senate candidate Dick Zimmer today participated in a televised conversation with Rutgers University students hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics and News 12 New Jersey.

U.S. Senate candidate Dick Zimmer today participated in a televised conversation with Rutgers University students hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics and News 12 New Jersey.

Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean and Senate Republican Budget Officer Leonard Lance introduced a Concurrent Resolution today that begins the process of invalidating the New Jersey Turnpike Authorities’ attempt to illegally divert toll road revenue to the new trans-Hudson rail tunnel. All seventeen Republican members in the Senate have signed onto the legislation.

Four days after a high-level Democratic staffer revealed that state lawmakers in Trenton improperly created a multimillion dollar program to fund their pet projects without any oversight from the public or State Treasurer during sworn testimony at the Wayne Bryant corruption trial, State Senator John Adler has still failed to fully disclose whether he illegally controlled any taxpayer dollars from that fund, and if so, where he directed those dollars to be spent, charged decorated combat veteran and job-creating businessman Chris Myers (NJ-3).

Senator Kevin O'Toole (R-40) introduced legislation today that would prevent sports teams in New Jersey from selling personal seat licenses ("PSL"). The bill is a direct result of plans by the New York Giants and New York Jets football franchises to charge season ticket holders a PSL fee upward of $25,000 for the right to buy season tickets. The proposed bill would ban the Giants, Jets and any other team in the state from requiring fans to purchase PSLs.

Senator Jennifer Beck, Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon and Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande all (R-12), today wrote to the Council On Affordable Housing (COAH) to challenge the fact that Monmouth Battlefield is listed as buildable land in a study commissioned by the COAH to determine round three housing obligations. The letter is below.

Senator Joe Kyrillos, the Senior Republican Member of the Senate Economic Growth Committee, introduced legislation yesterday that will require the Department of Environmental Protection to update the New Jersey Shore Protection Master Plan. The current plan has been in effect since 1981. New Jersey has 127 miles of coastline and the state’s tourism industry generates more that $38 billion in economic activity and more than $ 2 billion in revenue for the state treasury.

State lawmakers in Trenton improperly created a multimillion dollar program to fund their pet projects without any oversight from the public or State Treasurer, according to the sworn testimony of a high-level Senate Democratic staffer in the Wayne Bryant corruption trial yesterday.

Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce says top Democrats “have a lot of explaining to do” now that the testimony of a key aide for the Senate Democrats has confirmed what Assembly Republicans had alleged for years – that the so-called Property Tax Assistance and Community Development Grants program was actually a slush fund and not a merit-based, competitive grant awards system as claimed by the McGreevey and Codey administrations.

U.S. Senate candidate Dick Zimmer today criticized Senator Frank Lautenberg for a $1.5 billion earmark to the wealthiest metropolitan area in the country.

Republican Senator Joe Pennacchio, (R-Morris/Passaic), sent a letter asking Governor Corzine to release a complete account of how the state pension funds decided to invest $178 million in Lehman Brothers, a now bankrupt Wall Street investment bank. The state pensions reportedly lost at least $115 million on the investment in just three months. Many investors refused to participate in the failed bailout because of the high risks involved.

At a press conference today U.S. Senate candidate Dick Zimmer condemned the multi-billion dollar bailout the of the nation’s financial system passed by the Senate.

Pledging to aggressively fight for federal dollars to help build the Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex (MOM) rail line if elected to Congress this November, job-creating businessman and decorated combat veteran Chris Myers (NJ-3) was joined today by Florida Congressman John Mica, the Republican Leader of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and various Ocean County officials, at a press conference in Toms River today to voice his support for the project and criticize his opponent, career Trenton politician John Adler for voting against the MOM line in Trenton and completely failing to address the district’s mass transit needs in his so-called energy plan. The words “mass transit” or “transportation” don’t appear at all in Adler’s so-called plan.

U.S. Senate candidate Dick Zimmer’s “Waste of the Week” campaign this week highlights an earmark $50 million for an indoor rainforest to be built at taxpayer expense with Senator Frank Lautenberg’s support.

The Zimmer for Senate campaign today criticized Senator Frank Lautenberg for his support of a $25 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of Detroit’s auto industry.

After voting to pass one of the toughest anti-predatory lending laws in the nation, career Trenton politician John Adler began to receive a series of well-timed campaign contributions from subprime mortgage lenders and their lobbyists, which resulted in Adler introducing a new law – only weeks after the first one took effect – that rolled back the consumer protections his new special interest friends opposed, helping to pave the way for the current economic crisis gripping New Jersey and the country, charged job-creating businessman and decorated combat veteran Chris Myers (NJ-3) today.

Senator Phil Haines (R-Burlington) called upon the Corzine Administration to explain the circumstances under which the commissioners of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority agreed to fund a rail tunnel project and increase tolls by $1 billion apparently without complying with the provisions of the “Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act,” N.J.S.A. 10:4-1 et seq., commonly known as the “Sunshine Law.”

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