Seven Republican legislators will be the targets of ethics complaints to be filed tomorrow by two Democratic party leaders. Three of them are State Senators Joseph Kyrillos and Bob Singer, and Assemblyman David Wolfe. Democrats are alleging that a federal probe of how legislators might personally profit off specific state budget items is unfairly targeting just one party by looking only at actions since 2004, when Democrats first had complete control of both houses of the Legislature.
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seven wonders
no surprise with those 3 but my question is on the others. any "retiring" senators?
Haha, I know exactly what
Haha, I know exactly what the dems are thinking. "wait- we cant be the only ones stealing money and profiting using our titles, the republicans must be doing it too" Its actually called the fallacy of composition, they assume since they are corrupt the republicans must be. Either that or its a political move and theyre trying to distract the voters from their own corruption problems. John Lynch and Wayne Bryant should personally deliver the complaints along with Reverend McGreedy.
Praise the Lord, the
Praise the Lord, the Democrats can recognize Ethical Issues!!!
Now let's get serious and use the same standards against either party and make them all not vote for any budget in which they will bring pork back to their district. Then they will have keep the pork out of the budgets.
There should also be a rule that if you or your family member works for the State, County, or Municipality, you cannot run for the legislature.
Republican Conscience
gone fishing....
Strange, I thought an ethics complaint was about a specific event, not some global fishing investigation. Guess the dems are just trying to distract the voters rather than having anything specific.
The Torch trick
Chris Christie is breathing down their neck so the Dem party bosses try to muddy the water. Thats how Torch did it when he had the prosecutors looking into all his corruption. Of course Torch turned out to be a crook and none of his charges at opponents turned out to be true, but the press ate it up just like they are doing now. Lets hope the press is smarter this time and sees this for what it is and calls them on the carpet for it
Agreed.
I agree with Republican Conscience, even though I guess I could call myself Democratic Conscience. Ethical standards apply equally to members of both parties, and nobody from either party should be hidden from the searching light of day, as it were. I have resigned myself to the fact long ago that New Jersey is a rare place where the Democrats are often just as corrupt as the Republicans...and both deserve due punishment for their malfeasance. I also happen to despise pork-barrel spending...it is not a productive use of state funds, and I for the life of me cannot understand why constitutents *praise* their representatives in the Legislature for earmarking money away from other potentially important programs, like improving math and science (and really all, undoubtedly) education, improving the state's healthcare infrastructure, and other such direly needed improvements. I consider myself somewhat of a fiscal moderate in addition to my socially progressive views. That is, I don't mind government spending if they're spending the money for something useful or needed. I just cannot swallow profligately throwing money at various districts for projects from which the rest of the state cannot benefit.
"ETHICS" HAS BECOME LAME
We blather so much about "ethics reform," and establish so many rules and oversight committees and - wait, a state controller(!) - that by now we simply accuse people for the sake of accusing them. Once upon a time, corruption meant taking wads of money in a brown paper bag, then it was accepting a trip to the Caribbean, and now corruption means whatever the other person is doing. Some publicity whore filed an ethics complaint over the Governor's $46 traffic ticket. What happened to that "federal criminal investigation" on Bob Menendez? It was non-existent. It never happened. But why deal with facts when you can cry "corruption!" about everything and anything.