Linda Greenstein

DeANGELO & GREENSTEIN BILLS TO PRESERVE FARMLAND & OPEN SPACE GET FINAL LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL

(TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Wayne P. DeAngelo and Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein to help preserve farmland and open space throughout the 14th Legislative District unanimously received final legislative approval.

“Preserving open space and farmland is a smart investment that will pay off for generations to come,” said DeAngelo (D-Mercer/Middlesex). “We’re staving off development, protecting water quality and conserving precious land that benefits all residents.”

“Our farmland and open space provide a strong foundation for a strong economy and are a way of life for thousands of farming families,” said Greenstein (D-Middlesex/Mercer). “Preserving these lands will also allow us to retain our heritage and combat sprawl.”

ALBANO / BARNES / EVANS / GREENSTEIN / MILAM / SCALERA INTERNET SAFETY BILLS GET FINAL LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL

(TRENTON) – Legislation Assembly members Nelson Albano, Peter Barnes III, Elease Evans, Linda Greenstein, Matt Milam and Fred Scalera sponsored that would give law enforcement enhanced abilities to crackdown on child Internet crimes received final legislative approval today by the Senate.

The bills are part of Attorney General Anne Milgram’s Internet safety initiatives. They were approved by the Assembly in March.

“This would give law enforcement the tools they need to better protect children who use the Internet for education and recreation,” said Greenstein (D-Middlesex/Mercer). “No longer will Web sites be the playgrounds of criminals looking to prey on vulnerable children.”

MORIARTY / GREENSTEIN / CONAWAY / GREENWALD / CRUZ-PEREZ BILL TO REDUCE SERIOUS MEDICAL ERRORS GAINS FINAL LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL

Measure Would Prohibit Hospitals from Collecting Payment From Patients & Insurance Companies For Serious Preventable Mistakes

(TRENTON) – Legislation Assemblymen Paul Moriarty, Linda Greenstein, Lou Greenwald and Nilsa Cruz Perez sponsored to reduce serious and preventable medical errors by prohibiting hospitals from holding patients and their insurance companies liable for medical bills related to these errors and to improve hospital-specific reporting of hospital acquired medical conditions received final legislative approval today.

CHIVUKULA / GREENSTEIN / LAMPITT BILL EXPANDING INNOVATION ZONES APPROVED BY ASSEMBLY

(TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assembly members Upendra Chivukula, Linda Greenstein, and Pamela R. Lampitt to codify the state’s innovation zone program and expand the boundaries of a zone intended to promote technological growth near universities and hospitals was approved today by the Assembly.

DeANGELO & GREENSTEIN BILLS TO PRESERVE FARMLAND & OPEN SPACE ADVANCING IN ASSEMBLY

(TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Wayne P. DeAngelo and Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein to help preserve farmland and open space throughout the 14th Legislative District has been approved by an Assembly panel.

“Preserving open space and farmland is a smart investment that will pay off for generations to come,” said DeAngelo (D-Mercer/Middlesex). “We’re staving off development, protecting water quality and conserving precious land that benefits all residents.”

ALBANO / BARNES / EVANS / GREENSTEIN / MILAM / SCALERA INTERNET SAFETY BILLS CLEAR SENATE PANEL

(TRENTON) – Legislation Assembly members Nelson Albano, Peter Barnes III, Elease Evans, Linda Greenstein, Matt Milam and Fred Scalera sponsored that would give law enforcement enhanced abilities to crackdown on child Internet crimes was advanced Tuesday by a Senate panel.

The bills are part of Attorney General Anne Milgram’s Internet safety initiatives. They were approved by the Assembly in March.

“This would give law enforcement the tools they need to better protect children who use the Internet for education and recreation,” said Greenstein (D-Middlesex/Mercer). “No longer will Web sites be the playgrounds of criminals looking to prey on vulnerable children.”

'JESSICA LUNSFORD ACT' RELEASED BY ASSEMBLY PANEL;
VOSS, GREENSTEIN HAIL BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO PROTECT KIDS

(TRENTON) - The "Jessica Lunsford Act" - legislation Assemblywoman Joan Voss sponsored to enhance the penalties for sexual offenses committed against children and to punish individuals who harbor sex offenders - was today released by an Assembly committee.

ASSEMBLY PANEL OK'S LAMPITT/DEANGELO/GREENSTEIN BILL
ALLOWING TOWNS TO CREATE PEDOPHILE-FREE ZONES
Measure Would Fill Legal Void Created by Recent State Supreme Court Ruling

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assembly members Pamela R. Lampitt, Wayne DeAngelo and Linda Greenstein sponsored to allow municipalities to enact rules to prohibit known sex-offenders from living near schools, child-care centers and playgrounds was today released by the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

Albert Kanter, the father of Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, passed away early Saturday morning.  He was 90. A shiva is being held at the home of Linda and Michael Greenstein in Plainsboro Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.  Further information can be obtained by calling Greenstein's legislative office at 609-395-9911.

Assembly candidate Brian Hackett

MONROE TOWNSHIP -- State Assembly candidate Brian Hackett's youth has worked as a double edged sword over the last two months.

At just 21, the relative novelty of Hackett's 14th District candidacy attracted more media attention than it likely would have otherwise.  It also earned him some praise by Republicans anxious to see youth more involved in the party.

"That kind of attention is very positive because it's showing that perhaps it's a bit unusual that a youth has taken this kind of perspective on life and society," he said.

But Hackett's age also caused Republicans in neighboring Mercer County to balk at how a Middlesex County resident barely out of his teenage years, one who lives with his parents and has never paid property taxes, would play in blue collar towns like Hamilton.  Rather than go with the traditional arrangement of recruiting one Assembly candidate from Mercer and one from Middlesex, the Mercer GOP drafted a 30-something attorney named Bill Harvey to join a slate with Hamilton restaurateur Rob Calabro.  That left Hackett on the Middlesex line, but off the line in Mercer.

"It's some of the attention on the youth by people who don't know me at all and subsequent negative judgments that come from that which are not justified," he said.  "Everybody in politics, in both parties, speaks a very good game about youth... But it seems too often -- it happens in both parties -- that we just want the youth to be interns and campaign volunteers but not take that extra step up."

Hackett decided to take the extra step after hearing that Middlesex Republicans didn't have any candidates to run in the 14th District, even though it was supposed to be one of the most competitive in the state.  He got unanimous consent at the party's convention in March before meeting resistance in Mercer.

In a couple months will enter his senior year as a Political Science major at The College of New Jersey, but Hackett said that his involvement in politics over the last year  -- and especially the last two months -- has taught him more than his three years in college.