DeCROCE: GOVERNOR IS STILL INTENT ON 800 PERCENT TOLL HIKE SCHEME DESPITE PUBLIC OPPOSITION

GOVERNOR CORZINE IS ONCE AGAIN CONSIDERING MASSIVE TOLL INCREASES TO FUND TOLL ROAD DEBT SCHEME

      Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce said today he could not believe that Governor Corzine is reconsidering his plan to raise tolls by 800 percent in a convoluted scheme that the public had refuted.

DeCROCE AND MALONE SAY BUDGET SPENDING CUTS AND SAVINGS NEED TO BEGIN NOW

Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce and Budget Officer Joseph Malone said that Governor Corzine must take swift action to address the state’s budget shortfall, which was estimated at $190 million for the first quarter alone.  DeCroce and Malone said state revenues cannot sustain government’s out-of-control spending and immediate action must be taken before the state goes into bankruptcy.

ASSEMBLY REPUBLICAN LEADER CALLS ON CORZINE TO END THE COVER-UP AND START GOVERNING

GOVERNOR CORZINE CONTINUES TO WITHHOLD IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM NEW JERSEY TAXPAYERS

    Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce demanded today that Governor Corzine finally release revenue estimates to show where New Jersey stands with its current budget as a deficit, estimated to be up to $10 billion by the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services, looms ahead.

DeCROCE: PROPERTY TAX CRISIS WILL CONTINUE UNDER GOV. CORZINE'S LATEST PLAN TO CLOSE BUDGET DEFICIT

ASSEMBLY GOP  LEADER ASSAILS GOVERNOR'S PLAN TO AGAIN BLAME STATE'S FISCAL WOES ON PROPERTY TAXPAYERS, NOT POOR GOVERNANCE

    Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce warned property taxpayers to be wary of Governor Corzine's plans to close next year's estimated $8 billion budget gap on the backs of middle class property taxpayers instead of cutting the state's out-of-control spending.

DeCROCE CRITICIZES RAHWAY VALLEY SEWERAGE AUTHORITY FOR PARTYING HEARTILY ON PUBLIC DIME

ASSEMBLY REPUBLICAN REVIEW OF RAHWAY VALLEY VOUCHERS SHOW THE AUTHORITY HAS SPENT THOUSANDS ON HOLIDAY AND RETIREMENT PARTIES

    Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce said today the amount of public dollars being wasted on swank holiday and retirement dinners at the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority is outrageous at a time when New Jersey's unemployment rate is historically-high and its residents are being driven out-of-state because of the nation's highest tax burden.

DeCROCE: LATEST PLEA SHOWS THAT CORRUPTION CONTINUES TO FLOURISH UNDER CORZINE'S WATCH

PROMINENT BERGEN COUNTY DEMOCRATIC LAWYER ADMITS IN COURT TO ILLEGALLY PROFITING FROM TAXPAYERS

    The guilty plea of Dennis Oury, the close ally of former Bergen County Democratic chairman Joseph A. Ferriero, is yet another example of how Governor Corzine and his party have allowed corruption, which robs money from the state's honest residents, to fester in New Jersey, Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce said today.

CORZINE HAS DONE NOTHING TO END VICIOUS AND BROKEN PROPERTY TAX SYSTEM THAT 'STEALS OUR WAY OF LIFE'

DeCROCE SAYS GOVERNOR SHOULD READ GANNETT'S PROPERTY TAX SERIES TO LEARN HOW HE HAS IGNORED N.J.'S BIGGEST AND GLARING PROBLEM

    Gannett New Jersey's weeklong look at the New Jersey worst-in-the-nation property tax burden - confirms that Governor Corzine has done nothing to curb the state's largest problem, which has grown exponentially since he and his allies have controlled Trenton, Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce said today.

DeCROCE & O'TOOLE CALL FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR TO REVIEW CORZINE'S HEDGE FUND INVESTMENTS

REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS ALSO PLAN TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION REQUIRING BLIND TRUSTS FOR GOVERNORS' INVESTMENTS

      The controversy surrounding Gov. Jon S. Corzine's personal finances requires a special investigator to determine whether there is a conflict of interest, said Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce and Sen. Kevin J. O'Toole, who are also planning legislation to require investments of future governors be placed in blind trusts.

DeCROCE: CORZINE AND HIS COMPTROLLER ONCE AGAIN PROVEN INEFFECTIVE AT STOPPING TAX DOLLAR WASTE

ONLY AFTER WASTE EXPOSED PUBLICLY BY MEDIA AND ASSEMBLY REPUBLICANS, STATE COMPTROLLER MAY REVIEW N.J. SPORTS AUTHORITY

      The fact that the State Comptroller may review wasteful spending recently exposed at the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority is more proof of why New Jersey needs an independent elected Auditor General with the power to recoup misspent tax dollars and punish those responsible, Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce said today.

CORZINE'S EDUCATION CHIEF IGNORES EXAMPLES OF WASTED TAX DOLLARS SORELY NEEDED IN CLASSROOMS

EDUCATION COMMISSIONER LUCILLE DAVY REFUSES TO UPDATE TAXPAYERS ON HER PROMISED REVIEW OF WASTEFUL SCHOOL SPENDING

    Months after Assembly Republicans identified several examples of how wasteful spending continues in New Jersey's public school systems despite reforms touted by Governor Corzine, his Education Commissioner Lucille Davy has ignored requests by Assemblymen Alex DeCroce and Joe Malone to provide updates whether her department has taken action on any of the items discovered last spring.