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Below is Insider NJ’s Morning Intelligence Briefing:
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have strong ethical standards here in New Jersey.” – Assemblyman Conaway introducing a resolution condemning SCOTUS Justice Thomas
TOP STORY: Grant: Murphy v. Kim
Governor Murphy and the First Lady announced the dates of the holiday open houses at Drumthwacket.
Infant deaths are at a record low in the state, according to NJ.com.
NJ children would need parental permission to use social media under a new proposal, according to NJ.com.
NJ Transit faces key hurdles in expanding electric bus use, according to the Bergen Record.
Rep. Pascrell mourned the passing of former Rep. Klein.
Business leaders endorsed Rep. Sherrill’s ‘Expanding Access To High-Impact Tutoring Act’.
ICYMI: Murphy, DEP announced adoption of Clean Cars II; residents unaware/undecided about Murphy, Kim Senate candidacies; Dems held onto majorities; General Election special edition
Governor Murphy will headline the NJBIA’s Public Policy Forum.
Assemblyman Danielsen introduced legislation to address warehouse sprawl.
Assemblyman Conaway wants the Legislature to condemn SCOTUS Justice Thomas, according to NJ Monitor.
NJDOE Commissioner Allen-MacMillan will leave at the end of the year, according to NJ Globe.
Lawmakers will consider banning smoking in casinos, according to the Bergen Record.
A future Governor could overturn the state’s electric car mandate, according to NJ.com.
Environmentalists hope Democratic wins will advance their agenda in the Legislature, according to NJ Monitor.
ICYMI: Murphy took action on bills; Blum will serve as Collazos Gill COS; Scutari reaffirmed as Senate Pez; Bucco reaffirmed as Minority Leader; Coughlin reaffirmed as Speaker; DiMaio reaffirmed as Minority Leader
Heavyweights Leonard Lance and Ray Lesniak go head-to-head on the Julie Briggs Show.
Sixty years after the assassination of JFK, gun violence plagues the nation, and is on the increase in the years following the COVID pandemic.
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In Jersey City, Commissioner O’Dea announced the endorsement of the Teamsters Local 560 and Joint Council 73, days after he kicked off his mayoral candidacy. Earlier this month, former Governor Jim McGreevey launched his candidacy as the battle begins in the mayoral contest, which could lead to a civil war within the HCDO. Council President Watterman will enter the mayoral race, according to the Jersey Journal. The city scored a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index.
In Parsippany, Democrat Judy Hernandez appears headed to win a council seat, with a recount likely.
In Atlantic City, Patwell will leave the CRDA, according to ROI-NJ.
In Bedminster, Howes was renamed judge in the shared court, according to NJ Hills.
In Clark, there are pressing questions about the racism probe, according to NJ.com.
In Hackensack, police supervisors voted no confidence in the director, according to the Bergen Record.
In Hoboken, an alleged vote-buying scheme is inflaming the Ward 1 runoff, according to NJ Spotlight.
In Mount Olive, rezoning was introduced, according to NJ Hills.
In Peapack-Gladstone, the council seeks streamlining, according to NJ Hills.
In Princeton, a group started a petition calling for a master plan pause, according to PlanetPrinceton.
In Springfield, an ordinance will amend who can conduct fire inspections, according to TAPinto.
ICYMI: In Clark, mayor charged; in Bayonne, city grappling w/ gentrification
AROUND THE WEB:
These are the political missteps that merit NJ political turkeys for 2023 | Stile
Charles Stile, NorthJersey.com
- Every Thanksgiving we collect our favorite political “turkeys” — misstatements, missteps, hypocrisies and hyperbolic nonsense that have cluttered the New Jersey political discourse over the past year. I collected 10, but this only scratches the surface.
Tammy Murphy’s toxic baggage on women’s issues | Moran
Tom Moran, Star-Ledger Editorial Board
- First Lady Tammy Murphy is presenting herself as a champion of women, taking credit for improvements in maternal health care, and promising to smash the glass ceiling and become New Jersey’s first woman U.S. senator. But look a little deeper, and it gets complicated fast.
Where are Nadine Arslanian Menendez’s phone records from the December 2018 fatal crash?
Katie Sobko, Kristie Cattafi, NorthJersey.com
- It was a quick mention in police reports detailing a car crash involving Nadine Arslanian Menendez in December 2018, one in which the vehicle she was driving struck and killed a Bogota man. Easily overlooked in reports filed by both the Bogota Police Department and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, officials indicated that Arslanian’s phone records were to be subpoenaed as part of the investigation into the crash that killed Richard Koop.
New Jersey, this is no way to elect a U.S. Senator | Opinion
Ryan P. Haygood and Henal Patel
- By now, everyone is talking about the embarrassing state of democracy in New Jersey. The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez created an open field for voters in New Jersey to elect a new Senator next year. But unfortunately, though the election hasn’t yet happened, the decision of who will win the Democratic primary race has likely already been made for us.
What to do when local cops are racist | Editorial
Star-Ledger Editorial Board
- A sickening report from the state Attorney General’s Office last week confirms that the Union County township of Clark and its police department are run by racists, who casually used the N word and behaved deceitfully, covering up their misconduct. And let’s be real – Clark is probably not the only town where this is happening. It’s just the only one where we caught the mayor, the police chief and the head of internal affairs using slurs on a recording, forcing an investigation of their misdeeds.
Online gaming has been big in N.J. — but it hasn’t caught on more widely in U.S.
Associated Press
- In the 10 years that it has been operating in New Jersey, internet casino gambling has generated nearly $7 billion in revenue for casinos and their affiliates, sent over a billion dollars in tax revenue to the state’s coffers and helped keep Atlantic City’s nine casinos afloat while they were shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Death threats follow transgender swimmer’s victory
Tina Kelley, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
- A transgender swimmer from Ramapo College set a school record in the women’s 100-yard butterfly event on Saturday, unleashing anger on social media that has culminated in death threats, according to the college. Megan Cortez-Fields, a senior chemistry major from College Station, Texas, also won the 200-yard individual medley race at a meet hosted by Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Until this year, Cortez-Fields raced on the men’s team.
N.J. has 6th highest number of abortions in the U.S., but access lags
Susan K. Livio, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
- Despite state laws that soundly protect a person’s right to reproductive choice, New Jersey is actually not an easy place to get an abortion, with limited or no services available in 11 of its 21 counties, according to the first-ever statewide analysis of abortion access.
How JP Morgan got out of Russian sanctions in New Jersey — for now
Daniel Han, Politico
- Nearly two weeks after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy stood alongside state lawmakers and signed a bill barring Russian-tied companies from government dealings — including state and local government contracts, economic subsidies and investment from the state’s pension fund. “We are sending a strong message today to Vladimir Putin and his cronies in Belarus that their actions will not be tolerated,” Murphy, a Democrat and former top executive at Goldman Sachs, said in a statement at the time.
As syphilis cases rise, health officials warn about babies born with the disease
Lilo H. Stainton, NJ Spotlight
- State and local health officials are worried about rising rates of syphilis in New Jersey and especially troubled by a jump in the number of potentially deadly congenital cases in which mothers pass the treatable infection to their babies during pregnancy. “This is really a call to action,” said acting state Health Commissioner Dr. Kaitlin Baston at a public health event last week during the New Jersey State League of Municipalities’ annual conference in Atlantic City. “We are on a surge that we have never seen.”
NJ’s new electric-car requirement, like it or not
David Cruz, NJ Spotlight
- On Tuesday, the state announced a new rule that will require all new cars sold in New Jersey to be electric by 2035, igniting both celebration and debate. The new policy comes as part of the Murphy administration’s campaign to improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which has been shown to contribute to climate change. Environmentalists haled the move, while industry groups warned state infrastructure isn’t ready and the order will cause a spike in the cost for buyers.
Free food frenzy shows the dire need in Trenton and other communities
LA Parker, The Trentonian
- As word spread through Chambersburg about a free food distribution happening in the predominantly Spanish-speaking enclave in Trenton’s East Ward, a serpentine line formed inside Unity Square Park. People queued near the foundation of a ship’s hull which once held a statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. A threat of rain did nothing to diminish the number of humans hunting table, refrigerator and cupboard items at a destination which until July 2020 identified as Columbus Park.
Oyster Creek power plant owners face fine after too much radiation detected in equipment shipment
Amanda Oglesby, Asbury Park Press
- The Nuclear Regulatory Agency has proposed fining Holtec International, which is decommissioning the defunct Oyster Creek power plant, $43,750 for shipping radioactive material improperly, the agency announced Thursday. A package of radiation-contaminated equipment shipped from the shuttered Lacey power plant in May to the former Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan, New York, was discovered to be emitting radiation more than double the limits set by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
$22.5 million home for sale is just par for the course in the Beverly Hills of NJ
Adam Taylor, Asbury Park Press
- Welcome to Alpine, a municipality that, according to comedian Chris Rock, is a New Jersey town only in geographic terms. “That’s not Jersey,” the comedian and one of Alpine’s 1,754 residents recently explained to the Hollywood news website Vulture. “That’s like Beverly Hills with freaking snow.”
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