Louis Greenwald

ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS REACT TO VOTING SESSION FOCUSED ON PROTECTING RESIDENTS FROM ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

Assembly Passes Nearly 30 Bills Designed to Jumpstart State Economy & Help Insulate Residents, Businesses from Global Recession

(TRENTON) - Assembly Democrats today issued the following multimedia package following an Assembly voting session that considered nearly 30 bills to jumpstart the state's economy and help protect residents and businesses from the continuing global economic meltdown.

ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS REACT TO BUDGET COMMITTEE HEARING AIMED AT HELPING STATE AMID FINANCIAL MELTDOWN

(TRENTON) - Assembly Democrats today issued the following multimedia package as the Assembly Budget committee considered legislation that would expand the state's network of social support programs amid a continuing global economic meltdown.

The panel met as part of a concerted effort by the Assembly to continue its focus on helping New Jerseyans and businesses emerge strong from the global financial crisis.

Assembly committees today considered 19 pieces of legislation to revamp state business taxes and incentives, help struggling homeowners, promote jobs, protect consumers from financial fraud and help low-income residents.

ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS COMMENTARY ON HELPING NEW JERSEY WORKERS, BUSINESSES AMID FINANCIAL MELTDOWN

(TRENTON) - Assembly Democrats today issued the following multimedia package on Governor Jon S. Corzine's address to a joint session of the Legislature on the global financial crisis.

The Assembly already has advanced 19 bills to help revamp state business taxes and incentives, help struggling homeowners, promote jobs through alternative energy technology, protect consumers from financial fraud and help low-income seniors and the disabled heat their homes.

GREENWALD APPLAUDS CORZINE'S CALL
FOR PASSAGE OF BUSINESS TAX BREAK
Governor's Inclusion of Net Operating Loss Reform As Part of Economic Response
Key to Keeping State Open for Business

(TRENTON) - Assembly Budget Committee Chairman Louis D. Greenwald today applauded Governor Jon Corzine's inclusion of a much-needed business tax cut as one of the facets of his plan to jumpstart the state's economy.

GREENWALD, SCHAER APPLAUD GOVERNOR'S CALL
FOR BUDGETARY CONTINGENCY PLANS
With State in Eye of Wall Street Storm, Contingency Plans 'Absolute Necessity'

(TRENTON) - Assemblymen Louis D. Greenwald and Gary S. Schaer today voiced their support for Governor Jon S. Corzine's decision to ask his Cabinet to create budgetary contingency plans that could be implemented should the deepening national financial crisis put the state's recent fiscal gains in jeopardy.

Measure in Response to Recent Medical Waste Dumpings at Jersey Shore

GREENWALD LAUDS PLANS FOR ELLIS ISLAND COMMISSION

 (TRENTON) – Assemblyman Louis D. Greenwald, (D-Camden) today issued the following statement on Gov. Jon S. Corzine signing legislation he sponsored creating the Ellis Island Advisory Commission that will work to help to preserve the island’s history:

McHOSE/GREENWALD/VOSS BILL ALLOWING PARENTS
OF TWINS TO DETERMINE CLASS PLACEMENT NOW LAW

(TRENTON) - Bipartisan legislation Assembly members Alison McHose,  Louis Greenwald, and Joan Voss sponsored to give the parents of twins or other multiple-birth children the authority to decide whether their kids learn in the same classroom was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine.

Acting Mayor/Assemblyman Gary Schaer (D-Passaic): Politicker photo 

PASSAIC - To be in Trenton, or not to be in Trenton, that is the question for Assemblyman Gary Schaer (D-Passaic), who became the acting mayor of Passaic in May when a federal judge found Mayor Sammy Rivera guilty of corruption.

Initially, Schaer, who received the chief executive’s job by virtue of his position as council president, figured he would serve long enough to hand off to whoever wins a Nov. 4th special election.

But about three weeks into his service as acting mayor - with no stunning personality on the city’s horizon line, by his reckoning - Schaer began mulling the idea of pursuing his own mayoral run. 

"We can’t afford to have a mayor who’s not going to build on some of the positive things we’re doing," said Schaer, who implemented local ethics reforms, imposed a 37% cut to the mayoral salary (from $117,000 to $72,000), and a municipal hiring freeze.

Sen. Stephen Sweeney heads for the budget committee. 

TRENTON - Five 11th hour bills dropped by Sen. Stephen Sweeney (D-Salem) have set up a horse trading situation here in the Statehouse during the budget session.

The Assembly Budget Committee passed the $32.8 billion budget by a vote of 7-4, with one abstention by Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D-Salem). In their majority caucus, rank and file Democrats didn’t want to touch Sweeney’s controversial bills targeting state workers, according to sources.

Now the Assemblyman Louis Greenwald-chaired budget committee pounds through a number of other bills to be included in time for Monday’s full Assembly budget vote.