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

Click Here for Taxpayer Subsidized Campaign Background Info

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.

Some of the speakers:

Mayor Thomas Ballistreri:

Assemblyman Gary Chiusano:

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.

 

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.