republican challenger chris christie is leading in the new jersey governor race.
who is leading in the new jersey governor race?
republican challenger chris christie
together with republican thomas kean, jr. and fellow democrat raymond lesniak, sweeney sponsored senate bill s2664, the "market competition and consumer choice act" in 2011, which verizon says will encourage the firm to create additional jobs in the state, freeing the firm from regulations established when it was the landline monopoly requiring it to pay for service outages and to provide government-access television (gatv) channels for municipalities on cable tv. the new jersey state league of municipalities has opposed the provisions on elimination of public-access television channels and on rules requiring free internet access for municipal and school facilities. consumer groups argue that the bill would lead to lower-quality service and increased rates, though verizon promised in a letter sent to the bill's sponsors that committed the company to keeping rates level for basic service in the first two years following approval into law.following governor christie's use of the line item veto on the state's 2011 budget, sweeney was quoted by "the star-ledger" as being incensed. two days later, sweeney was unapologetic about what "the star-ledger" described as a "tirade" against christie, saying "[...] i don't apologize for it. the governor was wrong to hurt people," in response to further questions about the earlier reports which quoted him as describing christie as a "rotten bastard," a "punk," and "mr. potter from "it's a wonderful life"." among the governor's cuts was funding for tax credits and health care for the working poor, women's health funding, aids medication funding, and mental health services.in january 2013, two months after hurricane sandy hit new jersey, sweeney suggested that governor christie "got lucky" because the hurricane had distracted voters from new jersey's slow economic recovery, an issue that many political observers believed was a potential point of weakness for christie. he was heavily criticized for his remark, and a spokesman for christie called it "politics at its worst". during chris christie's tenure as governor, sweeney was the lead advocate of legislation to raise taxes on millionaires, forcing christie to veto it on five occasions. after democrat phil murphy became governor, democrats backed off the legislation, with sweeney saying, "this state is taxed out. if you know anything about new jersey, they're just weary of the taxes."in december 2018, sweeney led efforts to change the new jersey constitution so that it entrenched a gerrymandering of new jersey districts in a way that would grant democrats a supermajority and keep republicans in a permanent minority. the constitutional changes had to be approved through a ballot measure. the efforts were condemned by national democrats, such as former attorney general eric holder, as well as by the democratic new jersey governor phil murphy.
stephen m. sweeney
by fall 1926, one engineer predicted that construction on the hudson river bridge would start the following summer. in december 1926, the final plans for the bridge were approved by the public and by the war department. the port authority planned to sell off $50 million worth of bonds to pay for the bridge, and the initial $20 million bond issue was sold that december. further issues arose when the new jersey assembly passed a bill in march 1927, which increased the new jersey governor's power to veto port authority contracts. smith, the new york governor, and silzer, the now-former new jersey governor and present port authority chairman, both objected to the bill since the port authority had been intended as a bi-state venture. afterward, the then-current new jersey governor a. harry moore worked with legislators to revise the legislation. the revised law was ultimately not a significant deviation from the port authority's practice at the time, wherein the port authority was already submitting its contracts to new jersey government for review.
george washington bridge