CHIUSANO AND McHOSE TO CORZINE: PUBLIC PUT THE NAIL IN MONETIZATION'S COFFIN, LET IT DIE

GOVERNOR ADMITS HE IS STILL CONSIDERING TOLL HIKE AND BORROWING SCHEME THAT HE SEEMINGLY ABANDONED AFTER PUBLIC OPPOSITION

      Governor Corzine must give up on his scheme to raise tolls 800 percent and borrow $40 billion with false promises of reducing state debt, because the public has been clear it cannot afford such a drastic toll increase, Assembly members Gary Chiusano and Alison Littell McHose said today.

CHIUSANO AND McHOSE: PUBLIC PRESSURE NEEDED TO STOP GOVERNOR CORZINE'S TAX INCREASES

QUINNIPIAC POLL SHOWS STRONG PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO GOVERNOR CORZINE'S POST-ELECTION PLAN TO RAISE THE STATE'S GAS TAX

    A Quinnipiac University poll showing 61 percent of New Jersey voters oppose raising the gasoline tax to pay for road and mass transit improvements reflects that the public is demanding Governor Corzine go beyond his usual schemes of tax increases, toll hikes and borrowing to replenish the bankrupting Transportation Trust Fund, Assembly members Gary Chiusano and Alison Littell McHose said.

N.J. SPORTS AUTHORITY'S WASTEFUL & EXTRAVAGANT SPENDING REINFORCES NEED FOR AUDITOR GENERAL

MORE EXAMPLES UNCOVERED OF STATE EMPLOYEES TRAVELING TO EXOTIC RESORTS AND EATING LAVISH MEALS AT STRUGGLING TAXPAYERS' EXPENSE

      Republican members of the Assembly Tourism and Gaming Committee, Alison Littell McHose and Vince Polistina, decried the latest example of a state agency spending luxuriously on food and travel without concern about the plight of the state taxpayers who pay their bills.

LATEST NONPARTISAN REVENUE FIGURES SHOW THAT LAST YEAR WAS EVEN WORSE THAN CORZINE REPORTED

REVENUE FROM THE SALES, INCOME AND BUSINESS TAXES NEARLY $300 MILLION LESS THAN WHAT CORZINE ADMINISTRATION EXPECTED IN FY 2009

    Data provided today by the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services shows that Fiscal Year 2009 ended with a new $281 million revenue gap that has been kept hidden by the Corzine administration in an August bond prospectus, prompting Assembly members Alison Littell McHose and Declan O'Scanlon to call for honest numbers from the administration and for a meeting of the Assembly Budget Committee to begin planning for this latest setback.

FEDERALLY-FUNDED SUMMER JOB PROGRAM RULES CREATE HAVOC FOR PATERSON TEENS AND FAMILIES

AS 24TH DISTRICT LEGISLATORS FEARED, PROGRAM HAS LEFT UNFIT CAMP COUNSELORS AND HUNDREDS OF TROUBLE-FREE TEENS UNEMPLOYED

    Assembly members Gary Chiusano and Alison Littell McHose today repeated their call to expand a federally-funded jobs program to trouble-free youth after Paterson’s use of the program left hundreds of college students unemployed, a summer camp unable to open and at least three counselors – who weren’t subject to criminal background checks - were removed from their posts because they were unfit.

REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS URGE MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION TO END EXTORTION OF SMALL BUSINESSES

SERVICE STATION OWNERS BEING FORCED TO PAY AT LEAST $8,000 OR BORROW AT 30 PERCENT FOR EQUIPMENT THEY WON’T GET FOR MONTHS

    Governor Corzine and the Motor Vehicle Commission, or MVC, must halt a new vehicle inspection contract until they find a way to stop extorting small businesses while implementing it, Sen. Steven Oroho and Assembly members Alison Littell McHose and Gary Chiusano said today.

DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATORS GIVE UP ON AMERICAN DREAM

“THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS NO LONGER ABLE TO CREATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON ITS OWN” N.J. ECONOMIC STIMULUS ACT, 6/11/09

“THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HAS DIMINISHED THE ABILITY OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO CREATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON ITS OWN” N.J. ECONOMIC STIMULUS ACT, 6/22/09

    Instead of correcting the failed business policies and tax increases enacted in the last seven years, Democratic legislators have given up on capitalism, approving a measure today that would impose more tax increases and set up funds that could be politically manipulated under the guise of economic stimulus, Assembly members Gary Chiusano and Alison Littell McHose, both R-Sussex, Morris and Hunterdon, said.

ASSEMBLY BUDGET CHAIRMAN GREENWALD ADMITS DEMOCRATS ARE TAXING PEOPLE OUT OF NEW JERSEY

    Assembly members Gary Chiusano and Alison Littell McHose thanked Assembly Budget Chairman Lou Greenwald for some rare candor during today’s budget debate.

CHIUSANO & McHOSE: WHERE ARE THE STIMULUS FUNDS TO HELP NATION’S TROUBLE-FREE YOUTH GET SUMMER JOBS?

24TH DISTRICT LEGISLATORS WANT FEDERAL SUMMER JOBS PROGRAM EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE NATION’S TROUBLE-FREE YOUNG PEOPLE

    Now that summer has officially started and New Jersey college students are struggling to find summer employment in a shattered economy, Assembly members Gary Chiusano, and Alison Littell McHose, both R-Sussex, Morris and Hunterdon, said hard-working college students should have access to federal-stimulus funded summer jobs.

McHOSE/CHIUSANO: GOVERNOR SHOULD BE HONEST WITH TAXPAYERS ABOUT PUBLIC WORKER UNION PACT

Gone – 1. Bygone : past. 2. Advanced beyond recall or hope. 3. Dying or dead. 4. Lost: ruined. 5. Carried away: absorbed. 6. Used up : exhausted.

    Governor Corzine should end his charade that the tentative agreement with state worker unions will save taxpayers money in the long-term, Assembly members Alison Littell McHose and Gary Chiusano, both R-Sussex, Morris and Hunterdon, said today.