Lonegan blasts Rutgers over pro-paid family leave organization
By Matt Friedman | December 7th, 2007 - 4:52pmBogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, the New Jersey Director of the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, thinks that Rutgers University is hosting a partisan organization.
At issue is a Web site for The New Jersey Time to Care Coalition that is hosted by Rutgers University’s Center for Women and Work. The site promotes the concept of paid family leave. A bill introducing a form of paid family leave, sponsored by incoming Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney, is currently in committee in the legislature, and may come up for a vote during this session.
“It’s bad enough that lawmakers are seriously considering raising taxes on working families to fund a government entitlement scheme that will harm businesses and jobs,” said Lonegan. “But to add insult to injury supporters of paid family leave are using countless tax dollars to push for more tax dollars to fund their big-government welfare scheme.”
Prof. Eileen Appelbaum, the Director of the Center for Women and Work, said that the organization promotes the concept of paid family leave, but does not endorse, advocate or lobby for any specific bills. The center, Appelbaum said, had conducted a study that found workers at large companies often had opportunities to go on paid family leave, but small companies often did not have the financial resources to provide for it.
“We know working families need it and that it’s good for business, but we don’t lobby for any kind of legislation,” said Appelbaum, who noted that there is no reference to the legislation on the organization’s Web site.
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Lonegan is all for free speech and the protection of the Constitution, so long as it is he who is talking!
This is clearly a guy who is starting read his own press clippings.
Hey Steve, stop in and learn a little.
How Dare They?
How dare a university organization created to research and promote ways to support women and families support programs that would support women and families?
And, just to clarify, has the investigation into Lonegan's hiring of illegal immigrants been completed yet?
Anti-Family Democratic Party?
Not a single Republican vote( or any Lonegan leaning vote) is needed in either the Senate or the Assembly ( although I am sure some Family oriented Republican Legislators will vote YES) for Paid Family Leave to pass.
Ths success of this Bill is on the heads of the State Democrats. They are either going to stand with those who want to make the Family the #1 priority or they are going to stand with those who want to force people to choose between a sick family member and losing a job.
The choice is clear.
As the leaders in the Assembly Cryan and Roberts are either pro-Family or anti-Family.
Who are the Anti-Family Democrats?
Lonegan is supposed to be " pro-family" .
A3812 the Paid Family Leave Bill has 17 Assembly Democrats as co-sponsers. The bill needs 41 votes to pass. It also needs to get out of the Democratic caucus.
Non-Committed Assembly Democrats regarding A3812 Paid Family Leave:
Bodine
Carabello
Chivukula
Cohen
Conaway
Conners
Cruz-Perez
Cryan
Evans
Fisher
Gordon
Green
Greenwald
Gusciora
Jasey
Lampitt
Manzo
Mayer
McKeon
Moriarty
Pou
Prieto
Quigely
Roberts
Stack
Stanley
Truitt
Vega
Voss
Watson-Coleman
Whelan
Wisniewski
Classic liberal strategy
This is another "feel good," emotional issue liberals can use to extract hundreds of millions of dollars out of a sluggish economy under the name of children and family.
Rutgers University is a public establishment run by public employees with life tenure pushing a socialist agenda. How dare Mayor Lonegan stand up for taxpayers and oppose this liberal handout of money they don't currently control.
What's next? How about free baby sitting services for "undocumented" workers? How about subsidized housing? How about another free lunch at the expense of the rest of us who think you need to WORK to and EARN A LIVING?
Ever hear of the phrase, earn a living?
Life is not a series of multiple entitlements.
Mayor Lonegan once again finds liberals using tax dollars in an educational setting to rationalize another freebie, another giveaway program.
It doesn't matter if the people or voters don't want it, the state is run by radicals like Corzine, Goldstein, Lesniak, Katz and others who see themselves as social engineers...
The Paid Family Leave Bill
The Paid Family Leave Bill is nothing more than a Pro-Family Bill.
It is a way to help workers who are experiencing a family crisis.
I assume that conservatives are only for family values when it is convenient for their argument.
Let us make sure we are pro-life but once the child is born that Mother better get off her back and get to work for " the Boss". That Father beter not try to take a day of to help with his newborn child.
Every Conservative should be in favor of Paid Family Leave .
Scrooge Lonegan Strikes Again!
This man has no shame. LOL
The truth is that paid family leave, where it is required, will actually strengthen the social/economic fabric of New Jersey and that that strengthening can only be good for all of us in the long run.
The kind of thinking poor Lonegan engages in is little more than echoes of those who opposed all the wage-hour laws that were passed in the early 20th century.
Thank God that the meanspirited materialistic views/attitudes that Lonegan tries to foist upon the good people of NJ are not at all popular.
Thank God that most New Jerseyans understand that common human decency is the best way to insure a good quality of life for all of us.
Merry Christmass Steve...
....and may the Good Lord awaken all of our Conscience's
From Frederick Douglass
Why is Business Anti-Family?
Why has the Business community ( most but not all to be fair) picked this Bill to do their most extensive lobbying in years?
Why have they taken this strong Anti-Family stance?
After all the rhetoric common sense tells us that no business is " going under" because of this Bill.
Why has their bitterness over regulation and taxes ( some very well justified) turned into them attacking the Family Unit?
This Bill is Pro-Family, it is not anti-Business. America was built on the strength of the Family Unit. Why is the Business Community trying to destroy the Family Unit?
Lonegan is right on this one
Firstamendment ( and he forgets the other 9) is just another knucklehead socialist. About 80% of all business in the USA are small business owners, who are already taxed and regulated to death.
Its amazing that this idea is coming from folk who have never had to meet a payroll from their own funds in their lives
Most of NJ jobs are going south and homeowners are voting with their feet. Maybe Corzine should apply for EU membership as NJ
goes down the tubes.
Just Pro-Family
Knucklehead? Not Really.
Pro-Family? ABSOLUTELY!
The real question is not what I am but why are you Anti-Family?
This is not an anti-business Bill, it is a Pro-Family Bill.
Why are you and your Business Friends so against a bill that , and lets be honest here, will not hurt you at all?
We should , together, be working to strengthen the Family Unit, not divide it.
If being Pro-Family is being a " knucklehead" then so be it.
Applebaum is a liar
Steve sure struck a nerve with the Marxists on this one.
This Rutgers site clearly is advocating and lobbying for this legislation. Check it out and see for yourself.
http://www.njtimetocare.rutgers.edu/
THE ENTIRE SITE IS A LOBBYING EFFORT, FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS!
This is not the end of this story...the question is how many tuition and tax dollars are being used to fund this pro-welfare Communistic campaign.
Just who's family ?
The Family of NJ SOPRANOS union bosses. ? or the small family business. of honest Americans.?This socialist crap is a small family business killer. Again go start a business and meet a payroll then and only then are you( Mr First Amendment , Lento and others) qualified to comment on this. Paid Family leave in Europe = 15 % unemployment.This is not Europe. This is the Unites States of America. We were the economic powerhouse for over 350 years before Socialists came and messed it all up.
Anti-Family Forces?
Who are these people who have taken a stance against the Family Unit? Why have they chosen to put a small amount of money( if any at all) ahead of the need to keep the family together in a time of crisis?
What kind of business person would make a Mother or Father choose between the care of a sick child or keeping their job?
No matter what the business community puts out there the reality is that this Bill is a Pro-Family Bill and many in the business community have taken a stance against the sanctity of the Family.
Being in support of this Bill is not " socialist" it is Pro-Family. This country was built on the backs of the Family unit. The family unit has been breaking down in this country and now Business wants to break it down further.
The choice is simple Pro-Family or Pro-Greed.