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Early in the pandemic, Gov. Murphy got a lot less attention than New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, even as the states went through the same crisis. While Murphy’s approval rating shot up at home, he didn’t get the kind of national attention that Cuomo has.
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To veto or not to veto? Governor Murphy channels Hamlet in refusing to decide on legal pot | Mulshine
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021 While the governor can t decide how to legalize marijuana in New Jersey, Ed Forchion - aka NJ Weedman - has been selling pot openly from his restaurant on State Street in Trenton.
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In an essay that ran in the New York Times a few years ago, journalist and author Constance Hale gave a succinct analysis of the way in which politicians employ the passive voice to deflect responsibility:
“The most pilloried use of the passive voice might be that famous expression of presidents and press secretaries, ‘mistakes were made,’” Hale wrote, adding that through the years, “pols have used the passive voice to spin the news, avoid responsibility or hide the truth.”