John McKeon

ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING ACT CLEARS FINAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE HURDLE
Measure Would Make New Jersey Fifth State to Create Responsible System
For Collecting, Reusing, Disposing Chemical-Laden Computers, Televisions

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Appropriations Committee today released legislation Assemblymen Reed Gusciora, John F. McKeon, Upendra J. Chivukula and Robert M. Gordon sponsored to establish a statewide collection and recycling program for used computers and other electronic products laced with toxic metals and dangerous chemicals.

ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE CLEARS McKEON/GUSCIORA 'RECYCLING ENHANCEMENT ACT'

Measure Would Bolster Recycling Efforts in Counties, Municipalities

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblymen John F. McKeon and Reed Gusciora sponsored to provide additional financial support to municipal and county recycling programs was released today by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

CHIVUKULA/McKEON GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION BILL CLEARS ASSEMBLY PANEL

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assembly members Upendra J. Chivukula, John F. McKeon, Linda Stender, and Louis Manzo sponsored to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New Jersey through a regional alliance of 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states was released today by an Assembly panel.

McKEON MANDATORY HIV SCREENING FOR PREGNANT WOMEN & NEWBORNS BECOMES LAW

Measure Would Make New Jersey First in Nation to Require Testing for Both Pregnant Women, Newborns

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblyman John F. McKeon sponsored that would require all newborns and pregnant women to be screened for HIV, making New Jersey the only state in the nation to require such universal statewide testing for mothers and their babies, was signed into law today by Acting Governor Richard J. Codey.

CHIVUKULA/McKEON GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION BILL CLEARS ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENT PANEL

(TRENTON) - An Assembly committee today released legislation Assemblymen Upendra J. Chivukula and John F. McKeon sponsored to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New Jersey through a regional alliance of 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE APPROVES McKEON/GUSCIORA 'RECYCLING ENHANCEMENT ACT'

Measure Would Bolster Recycling Efforts in Counties, Municipalities

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblymen John F. McKeon and Reed Gusciora sponsored to provide additional financial support to municipal and county recycling programs was released today by the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee.

Supporters of marriage equality say they have 19 votes in the Senate and 39 in the Assembly – two votes short of passing a same sex marriage law – and are “thrilled, strategically” that legislative leaders have decided not to post the bill during the lame duck session, according to an e-mail sent by Garden State Equality President Steven Goldstein and obtained by PolitickerNJ.com. Goldstein says his organization’s focus in lame duck is on hate crimes legislation.

Mila Jasey wouldn't say much in her first comments as an Assemblywoman-elect; she wouldn't even commit to backing Joe Roberts for Speaker next year.
Mila M. Jasey won a Special Election Convention to replace Mims Hackett in the State Assembly tonight, and promptly took the fifth.

"No comment," she said, when asked if Hackett, who was arrested earlier this month on bribery charges, should resign his post as Mayor of Orange.

What about Gov. Jon Corzine? Should he release his email correspondence with his former girlfriend, CWA President Carla Katz?

"No comment," Jasey said. "That wouldn’t be appropriate for me to comment on."

And would she support Joe Roberts for another term as Assembly Speaker? Again, Jasey had no comment.

Mark Meyerowitz now faces Mila Jasey in the 27th district Assembly raceFor about two days, 27th district Republican Assembly candidate Mark Meyerowitz thought that he might just be able to pull it off – that he could become the first Republican legislator elected out of West Orange since 1969.

The odds were stacked against Meyerowitz, a 52-year-old financial advisor with barely any political experience, from the beginning. He was running against two entrenched Democratic Assembly opponents – Mims Hackett, Jr. and John McKeon -- in a district represented in the Senate by Richard J. Codey, the most popular politician in the state.

Among Essex County Democrats, including Senate President Richard Codey, there has been active discussion today of replacing Mims Hackett in the 27th district Assembly race.  That's Codey's district, and he clearly doesn't want to deal with even a remote possibility that an unknown Republican from his hometown might actually win this fairly solid Democratic seat.

The race is complicated by the federal probe in the 38th district, where Codey's candidate, State Senator Joseph Coniglio, is the target of yet another federal corruption probe.  If Codey pushes for Hackett's withdrawal, it could be hard for him to justify his continued support of Coniglio -- even though the Bergen Senator has not been charged with any crime. (Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero has a poll showing that Coniglio has a problem, but so far, the two-term Senator is resisting moves to replace him on the ballot.)