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Gov. Phil Murphy praise the process at a coronavirus briefing earlier this month.
Murphy described the unwritten rule, which allows Senators to block gubernatorial nominees who hail from their home county, as an occasionally annoying but necessary evil. I think it s been largely a good thing over time, Murphy said.
Defenders of the courtesy tradition have long argued that it lets individual senators serve as a check on one of the most powerful governors in the nation. But for Statehouse veterans, like Golden, courtesy simply gives senators the leverage to horse trade with the governor s office.
Senators will often threaten to hold nominees hostage in exchange for some unrelated matter, like funding for a port project or a patronage post for an ally. Senators can block or delay nominees from Senate confirmation without ever having to explain why.
Just 30% of elected officials in NJ are women. See where it ranks in the U.S.
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Women occupy just 30% of elected positions in New Jersey municipalities and in the state Legislature, lagging two dozen states in the nation, according to new data collected by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
The center says its study of women officeholders punctures a long-held myth that women are better represented in local politics than further up the ladder. This is the first time the Center for American Women and Politics, which has researched the number of women in elective office in New Jersey annually since 2015, has collected the data on a national level.
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