NJ LCV Endorses Candidates in the 2021 Legislative Election By Insider NJ | May 25, 2021, 1:46 pm | in Caucus Room
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, the political voice for the environment, today announced their second round of endorsements for the 2021 New Jersey legislative elections – with an additional slate of pro-conservation candidates to follow. New Jersey LCV works to elect viable candidates, without regard to party affiliation, who have demonstrated an active or affirmative willingness and capacity to advance New Jersey LCV’s pro-environment priorities.
“One thing is for sure, climate action, environmental justice, and good, local clean energy jobs are on the ballot,”
The hearing on the bill was odd, with none of the bill’s sponsors, nor anyone else, testifying in favor or against the bill. Assemblywoman DiAnne Gove (R-Ocean) asked if any members knew “why are we doing this right now.” Committee chair Mila Jasey (D-Essex) responded, “I actually don’t have any information on that.” Still, there was a quick call for a vote, which was approved 5-0, with Gove abstaining because she said she wanted more information. The hearing took less than two minutes.
Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo (D-Mercer) later said he introduced the bill at the request of Mercer County Community College. He said the school has some unique programs, including its culinary and aviation programs, that attract students from other counties and even from out of state, as well as “a strong number of international students.”
Hudson County View
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“This resolution supports two bills that are pending in the legislature which would make police disciplinary records public, police internal affairs records subject to the Open Records Act … These investigations have no oversight whatsoever,” said CJ Griffin, an attorney who said she was speaking as a Ward E resident during last night’s public portion.
She continued that between 2015 and 2019, the Jersey City Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit sustained one out of 30 excessive force complaints, zero out of eight discrimination complaints, with only 21 of 597 excessive force complaints sustained across Hudson County over the past decade.
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TRENTON Backers of a bill that would solidify and expand abortion rights in New Jersey are demanding that the proposal gets heard in the Legislature this month, more than four months after it was unveiled.
Kaitlyn Wojtowicz, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey, said it has been 131 days since the Reproductive Freedom Act was proposed but it hasn’t yet gotten a hearing, despite the endorsement of Gov. Phil Murphy.
It has 22 sponsors and co-sponsors in the Assembly and six in the Senate, all of them Democrats, and Wojtowicz said she hasn’t heard a policy reason for the holdup.