![]() In an announcement Tuesday, the DEP said that due to ‘significant public interest,” he open house scheduled for Thursday was postponed ‘to a date later this spring to provide more advanced notice and ensure maximum public participation.’ … Fireman made both overt and covert bids to acquire land on the environmentally sensitive Caven Point Peninsula to add three holes to his ultra-exclusive Liberty National Golf Course.”ĮLECTION NON-ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION - “ Move to weaken election commission is New Jersey politics at their worst ,” by The Record’s Charles Stile: “Large increases in contribution limits, the creation of a soft-money ‘housekeeping’ slush fund for administrative expenses, and curbing ELEC investigations into campaign finance violations to just two years, down from a 10-year window. It also came after an ally of a billionaire who’s been behind efforts to commercialize the park sent a letter to the DEP criticizing the department’s general vision for the state park, while also touting proposals for the park that environmental activists have pushed back against. ![]() WHAT TRENTON MADEĬRAVEN POINT - “ Open house on plans for Liberty State Park is postponed ,” by The Jersey Journal’s Mark Koosau and Joshua Rosario: “An open house on plans to revitalize Liberty State Park was abruptly postponed by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), just two days before the public meeting was set to take place. Media: “Ask Governor Murphy” on your local NPR affiliate at 7 p.m. for an announcement with Port Authority officials. WHERE’S MURPHY? At the Harrison PATH station at 10 a.m. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: John Mooney, Charles Burton, Awilda Pomales-Diaz, Dominick Pandolfo, Rob Tornoe, Shannon Warner - all of whom I listed yesterday because I forgot what day it was. QUOTE OF THE DAY #2: “.” - Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small after being asked whether Councilmember Hossain Morshed, charged with voter and unemployment fraud, should resign and not seek reelection. QUOTE OF THE DAY #1: “Resign or we’re going to recall your ass.” - Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small to Councilmember George Tibbitt after he suggested on a radio program that Atlantic County help oversee the city Jaso pointed out that the complaints involved the 2019 election, and so if the bill becomes law, the new complaints - like much fo ELEC’s work - will be invalidated. Yesterday, Commissioners Eric Jaso and Stephen Holden approved two complaints regarding as-yet unidentified candidates. If the Assembly passes this bill and the governor signs it, their seats will be vacated and the governor will get 90 days to unilaterally replace them.Īnd then there’s the matter of all of ELEC’s pending cases. Unless ELEC’s commissioners opt to fire Brindle - I can see them disciplining him but a firing just seems unlikely - they could be ousted before Brindle is. We’ll see whether they take up the “Elections Transparency Act” then. The hearing, announced by ELEC Commissioner Stephen Holden at a meeting yesterday, will take place just two days before the next Assembly session on March 30. Months after the Murphy administration contacted its commissioners to urge them to fire Executive Director Jeff Brindle over an allegedly anti-gay email, the commission will hold a hearing on Brindle’s conduct next week.
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