Post by Logan on Jan 13, 2016 2:14:23 GMT -6
N.J. Assembly leaders vow to avoid insults, tackle property taxes
TRENTON — Democrats swore in their largest majority in the state Assembly in 37 years Tuesday, but the lower house's leaders urged its members to work in unity and avoid the kind of bickering that has plagued politics across the country in recent years.
They also agreed New Jersey's sky high property taxes should be their focus.
Jon Bramnick, who was once again named the Republican leader of the Assembly even though his party lost four seats in last November's election, asked his colleagues to "make a promise" to draft meaningful, bipartisan policy in the new legislative session.
"Whether we will be productive, that is not so clear," Bramnick (R-Union) said during the chamber's reorganization ceremony at the War Memorial Theatre in Trenton. "But politics and policy seem to be drifting farther and farther apart. Politics has become our national past time."
Continue reading at www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/gop_assembly_leader_lets_avoid_insults_and_ridicul.html .
TRENTON — Democrats swore in their largest majority in the state Assembly in 37 years Tuesday, but the lower house's leaders urged its members to work in unity and avoid the kind of bickering that has plagued politics across the country in recent years.
They also agreed New Jersey's sky high property taxes should be their focus.
Jon Bramnick, who was once again named the Republican leader of the Assembly even though his party lost four seats in last November's election, asked his colleagues to "make a promise" to draft meaningful, bipartisan policy in the new legislative session.
"Whether we will be productive, that is not so clear," Bramnick (R-Union) said during the chamber's reorganization ceremony at the War Memorial Theatre in Trenton. "But politics and policy seem to be drifting farther and farther apart. Politics has become our national past time."
Continue reading at www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/gop_assembly_leader_lets_avoid_insults_and_ridicul.html .