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It appears that Democrats realize that not allowing police to give written notice
to parents the first time they catch their kids smoking weed or drinking alcohol is a potent issue Republicans could use against them this fall.
A Democratic-backed bill to clarify that cops can inform parents was introduced last week and appears to be on the fast track. It’s a clean-up bill of the last marijuana clean-up bill.
The first clean up bill was a way to get Gov. Phil Murphy to sign weed legalization while assuaging concerns from the Legislative Black Caucus. But now the leader of that caucus, Sen. Ron Rice, is OK with allowing parental notification. So how did the original clean-up bill end up including language that barred parental notification? I don’t know.
Free Essay: When the opportunity to attend the local Peteetneet Schoolhouse Museum transpired, many historical facts would be discovered. Upon arrival the.
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Apparently, after adding a controversial amendment to a bill that stalls it, the best way to get it moving again is to add more controversial provisions.
That’s pretty much what happened with a measure that reached Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk yesterday to eliminate mandatory minimums for all non-violent crimes, including for official corruption. A previous version of the bill modeled on recommendations by the New Jersey Criminal Sentencing Disposition Commission was never controversial. It was only when state Sen. Nicholas Sacco (D-Hudson) added an amendment to also repeal mandat
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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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As Assemblymembers Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Gordon Johnson competed for Democratic Party support to succeed retiring state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the senator has remained neutral at least publicly.
“You’ll have to ask her that question,” Huttle told me when I asked if she believed Weinberg had