Bo is Still Clueless

Welcome back to the blog community Bo Vastine. You have been absent for the past six months. In the midst of the devastating budget cuts to the entire 22nd District, especially our seniors and children,

You are more concerned about the 16,000 millionaires that the Governor did not hurt in this budget. So please, spare us the grandstanding. There are some issues I have supported on behalf of the governor, as well as some I do not support.

I do not support making 16,000 people happy while making 8 million suffer. You have not said anything these past six months because you would have been, if elected, in the Republican caucus supporting every move the governor made.

So for you to take one issue that is under negotiation and make it sound like you are the hero, well you had the opportunity to be a hero if you would have come out and question these cuts by the governor which are hurting those within the district. I will not debate an individual who only shows up when he thinks he can look good amongst the Republican Party.

It is clear Bo that you do not read the newspapers nor are on top of housing issues throughout the State. Leaders throughout the State, including the Front Office, have been crediting me with good governmental practice regarding housing issues. Not one time have you come out in support, but this does not surprise me because your style of politics will not allow you to give credit where it is due.

In this last campaign, every issue I stood up for, those which you criticized me, have become a reality; education, rebate checks, local tax increases. If you were elected, you would have been like all the other Republican members in the Assembly who fell in line with the governor’s cuts. They allowed this governor to make decisions that would hurt their districts in spite of their elected duty to represent their districts according to their needs.

So in case you were out of town and were not able to read the editorial in the Star Ledger, I will re-post it on my blog for your edification:

Assembly Committee Shows How It's Done

Anyone curious about what good government looks like should have dropped in on the Assembly committee hearing on the new housing bill last week. Advocates, clergy, builders and mayors all had a chance to sit before the committee chaired by Assemblyman Jerry Green, air their concerns and take questions.

It was a striking contrast to the Senate committee chaired by Ray Lesniak — which not only declined to hear testimony on the bill, but failed to make new amendments public in a timely fashion. And voted to move the bill out of committee, anyway.

The bill would abolish the Council on Affordable Housing and put in its place a different system for making low-cost housing available throughout the state. But the bill is too important to rush through, especially when so many details are still being corrected and clarified.

Green gets it.

He and his committee — vice chair Mila Jasey, Linda Greenstein, Fred Scalera, Celeste Riley, Charlotte Vandervalk and Michael Patrick Carroll — took the time to listen to testimony and asked for copies of statements. The committee was no pushover: Green did everyone a favor by running a tight ship and keeping testimony focused on the details of the bill and possible solutions. No grandstanding allowed.

Senators, take note.

Source: www.nj.com