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PageD-3 from the New Jersey 2007 Debt Report
Budget quotes from Jon Corzine
Live Teleconference on School Funding Lawsuit
Please join me Wednesday, July 23rd, to hear more about this exciting
effort on a conference call with our attorney at 8:15 PM. Please
participate by calling 877-229-8493 and enter participant code 13103.
please call around 8:10 PM to ensure you do not miss anything. We will
be filing the lawsuit on Thursday. I look forward to your
participation.
Steve Lonegan
Executive Director, AFP-NJ
Victory on “Clean Elections” Bill!
AFP
activists have once again proven that we can win when we act together.
It is because of your efforts that the “Clean Elections” bill has been
taken off the legislative table.
Over 1,000 AFP-NJ activists sent almost 11,000 messages to Assembly
committee members urging them to not post this expensive welfare for
politicians bill. This response is incredible and demonstrates how
much power we can bring to bear when we need to.
Thank you all for a job well done! Your messages, letters, and phone
calls made the many committee supporters of this bill think twice
about their position.
I would also like to thank
Assemblywoman McHose (R-Suxxex County, District 24) for leading
the charge against this bill in the Assembly. We need more Assembly
members with her ideals and courage.
Letter to Steve Lonegan from Assemblywoman McHose
Dear Steve,
Thanks for your help and that of the hundreds of volunteers and
activists from Americans for Prosperity in getting the message out on
A-100. Because of you and AFP, this legislation has been at least
temporarily halted in the Assembly Budget Committee.
As you know, A-100, is the enabling legislation for the so-called
"Clean Elections" program for 2009. It is the brainchild of the Camden
County Democratic machine and was cooked-up as part of a backroom
political maneuver to put forward taxpayer-subsidized political
campaigns for a few hand-picked districts, and call it "reform".
This is a bad bill for a whole host of reasons -- as even its honest
supporters acknowledge. Thanks to you, we've made the Legislature
think again before spending millions in taxpayers' money to fund a
selected group of politicians' campaigns.
Not only can't New Jersey afford it, the way this bill goes about it
is ethically wrong. Now we must stay vigilant in case the bill is
brought up again.
Thank you and thank AFP.
Sincerely,
Alison Littell McHose,
Assemblywoman
(R-Sussex County, District 24)
AFP-NJ Will Not Rest
We defeated two expensive ballot questions last fall, derailed
Governor Corzine’s 800% toll hike scheme, and now have held back the
“Clean Elections” bill scam. We are a force to be reckoned with in New
Jersey.
But, we will not become complacent because we have been successful.
The Corzine administration and the legislature will continue to try
and find new and sneakier ways to raise taxes to fund their socialist
programs. With your help, we will continue to fight for lower taxes
and less government spending.
On to Victory,
Steve Lonegan
Executive Director, AFP-NJ

TRENTON – The State House steps overflowed with hundreds of taxpayers rallying against higher taxes and outrageous spending habits in Trenton
May 29th. Long-time Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan was leading the charge as Americans for Prosperity brought residents out from every corner of the Garden State to the Trenton to say “No!” to higher taxes. “This rally is powerful show of force for real citizen support for reduced spending, lower taxes, and an end to the Trenton bureaucracy’s attacks on small towns. We’re here to remind them that we love New Jersey, and we’ll take notes on all of their votes,” said Lonegan.
AFP members were joined by taxpayer leaders, elected officials, and others throughout the afternoon. After the success in stopping Governor Corzine’s toll hike scheme, AFP is mobilizing small town voters who have strong reactions as the state threatens to cut off tax dollars, building opposition to entitlement programs such as the new Paid Family Leave Act, and bringing citizens to the debate where lawmakers cannot ignore them.
The rally
was followed on Friday by AFP Foundation’s daylong Defending the American Dream Summit which will feature a 3:00 p.m. debate moderated by Gannett Bureau Chief Bob Ingle between the candidates running to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.
A number of dynamic speakers addressed the crowd of citizens, who came from every corner of New Jersey to rally against higher taxes and the outrageous spending habits in Trenton.
Turning up the grassroots heat on big-spending, big-government lawmakers won historic ballot victories in New Jersey last year against higher taxes and more debt. Increasing pressure from taxpayers will permanently kill Governor Corzine's schemes for taxpayer-funded housing, toll hikes, and merging small towns.Some of the speakers: Mayor Thomas Ballistreri: Assemblyman Gary Chiusano: Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon: Assemblyman Michael Doherty: Mayor Martin Marks: Assemblyman Vincent Polistina:

Steve Lonegan and Tim Phillips at the Rally
Lonegan Unveils Wall of Pork
AFP-NJ Executive Director Steve Lonegan the New Jersey unveiled the "Wall of Pork" at a press conference at the State House prior to the Taxpayer Rally.
Bob Ingle reported, "The state chapter of Americans for Prosperity displayed a 44-foot "wall of pork" detailing departments, agencies and commissions in state government. State Director Steve Lonegan says it can be cut by more than 75 percent. He said: "There is not one single person who can tell you what state government encompasses. Nobody knows how big it is."
AFP-NJ activist Alice Shope (of Alice's Restaurant Blog fame) started this project to identify just what we were paying for in our state government. What she found was beyond what she imagined. Hundreds of departments and offices involved in every aspect of our lives, personal and business, all feeding off our taxes and always growing and wanting more, more, more. We couldn't even get the wall into one photograph.
Defending the
American Dream Summit a Huge Success!
It was standing room only Thursday night at
the banquet and all day Friday at AFP-NJ's Defending the American
Dream Summit. Below is a picture of John Stossel addressing the
crowd at the banquet.

As we get video and photographs put together from
speakers, we will be posting them. This was a great event.
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