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Taxpayers On The Hook For $51 Million Environmental Disaster.

            Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-Bergen), today expressed dismay that the Legislative leadership is delaying hearings on the financial and environmentally troubled Encap project until after the election. Cardinale wants to know why New Jersey officials provided a politically connected developer with $300 million in public money to build a golf course and condominiums on sealed landfills despite warnings that the developer lacked the financial, managerial and technical resources to complete the project.

Exemption Would Allow Physicians to Purchase Banckrupt Hospital

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), announced today that he is drafting legislation which would create and exemption  to state statute and allow doctor’s to buy Pascack Valley Hospital. Current law prohibits physicians from owning hospitals in New Jersey.

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-39), issued the following statement regarding the passage of a resolution urging Governor Jon Corzine to reconsider his refusal through Commissioner Jacobs to provide transition funds for Pascack Valley hospital so that emergency services can be maintained during the bankruptcy proceedings. Pascack Valley is struggling under more than $100 million in debt.

Taxpayers On The Hook For $51 Million Environmental Disaster

Senator Gerald Cardinale, R-Bergen, today called on Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee to hold immediate hearings on the financial and environmentally troubled Encap project. Cardinale wants to know why New Jersey officials provided a politically connected developer with $300 million in public money to build a golf course and condominiums on sealed landfills despite warnings that the developer lacked the financial, managerial and technical resources to complete the project.

Proposes Bill to Prohibit Terror Regimes Access to Port Authority Property

Reacting to media reports that the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran intended to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site next week, Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) has directed that legislation be drafted to direct the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to establish protocols that would prohibit authority property or facilities from being accessed by any representative of a government that is on the United States State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.

--Special Prosecutor Must Be Named To Investigate And Report Publicly On Corzine Administration’s Handling Of Riccio Matter—

Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-Bergen), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee today called on Committee Chairman John Adler to delay the Committee’s consideration of Matthew Boxer’s nomination to be State Comptroller, until a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate accusations surrounding Mr. Riccio’s acceptance of monetary gifts from Governor Jon Corzine.

Will Governor Fulfill Promise to Explain Secret Toll Hike Plan? 

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) called upon Governor Corzine to release the details of his secret toll road sale plot at town hall meeting being held tonight at the South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange

Will Governor Fulfill Promise to Explain Secret Toll Hike Plan?

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) called upon Governor Corzine to make good on his promise to hold a town hall meeting during the month of August on his secret plan to sell the State’s toll roads under the guise of “asset monetization.”  In the July 18th edition of the Asbury Park Press, Corzine spokesperson Lilo Stainton stated that “the governor expects to answer questions about ‘monetization’ as the governor calls it, at a town hall meeting in North Jersey in August.”

Secret Democrat Toll Plan Could Open Up Era of Endless Bergen Gridlock

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) called upon the Corzine Administration and to guarantee that their secret plan to sell the State’s toll roads will not result in increased traffic on Bergen County’s already congested local roads.

Post-Election Toll Plan Would Hammer Bergen County

Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen) today blasted the Corzine Administration and Democrat legislators for accepting a secret proposal submitted in February from a “major financial group” that included a plan to nearly triple tolls on the Garden State Parkway.  Legislative Democrats approved language in the Fiscal Year 2008 annual appropriations act that authorized the Corzine administration to begin the process of selling off the toll roads on June 21st.