The Corzine reelection effort is apparently soliciting contributions to a federal political committee account. Why? According to this report, it might have to do with New Jersey’s tough pay to play laws. Gov. Jon Corzine’s re-election campaign is asking contributors to donate to a Democratic Party account he previously said should not be used for […]
Category: New Jersey
New Jersey’s Ethics Laws
Should New Jersey’s ethics laws uniformly cover localities, too? That’s the topic of this NJ.com analysis. New Jersey has 566 municipalities, 611 school districts, 190 local authorities, and 121 fire districts. The costs of supervising all of those is staggering. Moreover, the potential for abuse is plain. Supervision and control varies, and too often is […]
Legal Bills
Can a former New Jersey State Senator use campaign funds to pay his legal bills? The New Jersey Supreme Court will let you know in a few months, according to this report. An appeals court in December upheld an opinion by the state’s Election Law Enforcement Commission that barred [former State Sen. Wayne] Bryant from […]