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Corzine signs order closing N.J. gov't
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Posted on 07/01/2006 7:20:30 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Corzine signs order closing N.J. gov't

By TOM HESTER Jr., Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago

Gov. Jon S. Corzine closed the state government Saturday amid a bitter dispute with fellow Democrats in the Assembly over his plan to increase the sales tax, threatening to shutter beaches, parks and possibly casinos in the coming days.

The state lottery and road construction were among the first state services expected to be closed.

After Saturday's constitutional deadline to adopt a new balanced budget passed without agreement, Corzine signed an executive order just after 9:30 a.m., a grim climax to weeks of budget squabbling among Democrats who control state government but haven't been able to agree on a budget bill.

Services such as state police, prisons, mental hospitals and child welfare would keep operating. The casinos could be forced to close because they require state monitoring, though the casino industry is challenging a possible closure in court.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: corzine; govwatch
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To: hermgem

Corzine will get his way. He BOUGHT his way into the position. While IN the position he gives people, OPENLY mind you. 10K as a gift, the amount just BELOW the taxing level, to SUPPORT him. So he's still BUYING people to do what he wants.


81 posted on 07/01/2006 10:16:37 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: bilhosty

Why not tax GAY ENTERTAINMENT on cable in honor of McGreedy?

smirk, smirk


82 posted on 07/01/2006 10:17:46 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: nmh
I saw this guy yesterday evening standing in a parking lot in Cary, NC looking lost. He had NJ plates on his car. (I escaped from NJ to NC in 2000).

I stopped to ask if I can help with directions. He said he has to move, can't afford NJ any more. Heard NC was nice with a lower cost of living. By time I gave him some places to check out to other people stopped over two see if we needed help, they saw the NJ plates. They were from New York.

83 posted on 07/01/2006 10:17:59 AM PDT by Swanks
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To: Swanks
It's true. It's really not a joke.

It's crazy here. Property taxes are up the gazoo. People are leaving in droves. No lie. It's become a "services" state - and there is little money on that - we can't all work at Macy's or Quick Check. Businesses are going down south - cheaper and they don't have to go through all the red tape and corruption as in NJ. "High tech" - long gone! Pharmaceuticals are in the toiled due to shoddy products and law suits ... and it goes on and on ... OH, plenty of ILLEGAL landscapers, painters, cooks, maids etc.. the state is trashed - due to years of Demoncrat CORRUPTION and the SOCIAL BILLS are too high - so what does the arse do? Wants to now raise the SALES TAX to 7% to pay for all these social program freebies and union retirements and government retirement.

It's a mess. I am praying our family will be able to join the exodus too by finding a position in Pa..
84 posted on 07/01/2006 10:24:35 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: dfwgator

Hey youse guys in da Mafia. You are on your own for now. Capiche?


85 posted on 07/01/2006 10:30:10 AM PDT by sine_nomine (Marvel at the Senate's No Mexican Left Behind Bill (wit cloned from M. Steyn))
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To: nmh

Move here. You can build a new 3,000 sq.ft house for $300k. Or buy an 'old' one (built in 1995) for $250k.
Last year my prop taxes went down; due to spreading the cost over the influx of escapees.


86 posted on 07/01/2006 10:32:15 AM PDT by Swanks
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To: American in Singapore
Threatening to close beaches and parks over Independence Day weekend - this Corzine guy must be a real piece of work.

The Jersey Democrat Zombies who voted this twit in as governor are getting what they deserve. Condolences to those who voted against him.

87 posted on 07/01/2006 10:41:45 AM PDT by Semi Civil Servant (Colorado: the original Red State.)
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To: Swanks
"Move here. You can build a new 3,000 sq.ft house for $300k. Or buy an 'old' one (built in 1995) for $250k.
Last year my prop taxes went down; due to spreading the cost over the influx of escapees."

Yo cannot imagine how much I would LOVE to do that.

I HATE New Jersey. With a PASSION.

New construction here starts at 800K and we're not talking a mansion. Public schools here *uck royally so we have to shell out money for a private school and get the tax bill for the public school. Their "Blue Ribbon" school districts, which we live in one ... is a godless viper den. Girls look and dress like sluts and boys go or it - starts in middle school.

I HATE everything about NEW JERSEY!

EVERYTHING!

Paying to live here is nothing more than flushing money down in a dirty toilet.
88 posted on 07/01/2006 11:24:12 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: mware

There's no way in hell the casinos are going to close under any circumstances. The state gets so much revenue from those things that the state casino inspectors will be deemed "essential employees" in the event of a government shutdown. If you have any doubt about this, just realize that this was precisely why casinos were given a blanket exemption under the state's anti-smoking law.


89 posted on 07/01/2006 11:29:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: mware
BTW his ex wife is now living in a rancher.

Where is the moral to this story!

90 posted on 07/01/2006 11:38:31 AM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
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To: OldFriend
All rides were free.

Free rides was a good idea. Shutting down casinos, not too bright.

91 posted on 07/01/2006 11:40:27 AM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
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To: Swanks

Can you let us in on the places NJ refugees should go? If I didn't know where my husband was yesterday, I would have thought he was in that parking lot.


92 posted on 07/01/2006 11:46:01 AM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
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To: Swanks

Can you let us in on the places NJ refugees should go? If I didn't know where my husband was yesterday, I would have thought he was in that parking lot.


93 posted on 07/01/2006 11:46:07 AM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
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To: Alberta's Child

Lot of people are already ticked off because Daddy Warbuck gave the casinos an exemption on smoking in buildings. If I remember correctly they were the ONLY ones exempted by the law with Corzines blessing.


94 posted on 07/01/2006 11:47:31 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: World'sGoneInsane
BTW his ex wife is now living in a rancher. Where is the moral to this story!

I guess it is, it pays to be a Democrat in NJ and it pays even better if you are a gay ex-governor of NJ.

95 posted on 07/01/2006 11:49:33 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: Alberta's Child
IMHO, it is an interesting gambit in brinksmanship to put pressure on Atlantic County Republican Senator Bill Gormley - and also payback to the South Jersey Democrats who are opposing the sales tax increase.

Gormley cuts deals all the time with Democrat and Republican governors at budget time, but since he is now in the minority, he has seen his influence decline (although you can still smoke in a casino)

Roberts (Speaker) is no dummy, and also can't be happy with the rumors that Corzine will attempt to have him removed as speaker.

A court already ruled yesterday that the inspectors are "non-essential" and, in addition, the racing cards at Monmouth Park wil be cancelled at one of the busiest weekends of the year - and with nice weather in the forecast.

The NJ governor, arguably, already the most powerful executive office in the nation (appointing all the other state office holders) assumes even greater authority under a World War II era statute and the constitutional requirement that the state cannot spend money without a balanced budget.

In the nearly 60 years since enactment, this is the first time the emergency has been declared.

Here is the executive order:
http://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/approved/20060701a.html

The following is an except from nj.com (Star Ledger)
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-7/115173139046780.xml&coll=1

"Al Porroni, executive director of the non-partisan Office of Legislative Services ... explained that delegates to New Jersey's 1947 constitutional convention were "very concerned about 'sound fiscal policy.' They must have used that term a thousand times."

Those delegates took a spending restriction from the constitution of 1844 and made it even tougher. The resulting provision established "the important policy requirements of a single annual appropriations bill and a balanced budget," according to a guide to the New Jersey Constitution written by Robert Williams, a professor at Rutgers School of Law in Camden.

The governor's powers under the act are "extraordinary," Porroni said. It authorizes the governor to use all resources of state and local governments and to "commandeer" private property "subject to the future payment of the reasonable value." It makes the governor the "emergency commander" with power that, on its face, cannot be challenged.

Lost in all of this is that the proposed budget is seeking a $3 BILLION spending increase - or 10.6% - on top of staggering increases during the previous four years.

($30.875 billion vs $27.920 billion in FY 06 which was overspent and over $300 million in supplementals added)

So for now, all "non-essential" government employees are furloughed. My question is ... if they are "non-essential" why are they on the payroll to begin with?

96 posted on 07/01/2006 12:11:20 PM PDT by westfield3
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To: World'sGoneInsane

You can bet the casinos will NOT be shut down!!! After all the casinos are exempt from the no smoking laws too. They own politicians and I suspect judges too.


97 posted on 07/01/2006 12:13:36 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: World'sGoneInsane
IN the RTP area the two best places are (anywhere) in CARY, NC (Containment Area for Relocated Yankees). And North Raleigh.

As a Jeysian you would most likely prefer Cary as it has that NJ 'town' feel. Although with 110,000 people it's a big town. BUT, development was done well so its like sections of Cary are their own town(s). Think of Cary as Paramus, Ridgewood and Wyckoff, about the same sq. mi. Cary = sixth safest city out of 300 w/population over 100,000. Lots of parks and 25 mi. of trails thru the town.

Mayor Glenn Lang was a lib but he did do a good job of the growth. But we still removed him and have a conservative banker as Mayor 'Ernie'.

Run for your lives anywhere, from the NJ Rat machine.

98 posted on 07/01/2006 12:14:08 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: Sub-Driver

Can't we just give NJ back to the British?


99 posted on 07/01/2006 12:16:19 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good! Maybe they'll save a few bucks of our -- the taxpayers -- money.


100 posted on 07/01/2006 12:18:44 PM PDT by ContraryMary (New Jersey -- Superfund cleanup capital of the U.S.A.)
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