REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY MEMBERS ASK NEW YORK TO RESCIND DISCRIMINATORY TOLL HIKE ON NEW JERSEY

NEW YORK METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SET TO DISCONTINUE E-ZPASS DISCOUNTS FOR NEW JERSEY DRIVERS

    Five Assembly Republicans sent a letter to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, asking the New York agency to rescind a policy that will discriminate against New Jersey motorists.

RUMANA: EVEN FLEEING NEW JERSEY WILL COST MORE

NEW YORK CITY’S IMPENDING TOLL HIKES ON BRIDGES AND TUNNELS UNFAIRLY TARGET NEW JERSEY DRIVERS

    Assemblyman Scott T. Rumana, urged the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA, to reconsider next month’s discriminatory toll hikes on New Jersey drivers.

RUMANA STATEMENT ON FISCAL YEAR 2010 BUDGET

Assemblyman Scott Rumana, R-Passaic, Bergen and Essex, issued the following statement today on why he voted against Governor Jon Corzine’s Fiscal Year 2010 budget:

HANDLIN AND RUMANA: SUPREME COURT RULING JUST A STEP TOWARD EQUAL SCHOOL FUNDING

    Republican members of the Assembly Education Committee Amy H. Handlin and Scott T. Rumana commended today’s Supreme Court decision upholding the end of the so-called Abbott designation, but questioned whether Governor Corzine’s new school funding formula will make things fair for the suburban middle class taxpayers whose dollars largely support the state’s poorest urban districts.

PENNACCHIO AND RUMANA PUSH LEGISLATION REQUIRING SEX OFFENDERS TO PAY FOR COST OF MONITORING DEVICES

State Senator Joseph Pennacchio, R-Morris and Passaic, and Assemblyman Scott Rumana, R-Passaic, Bergen and Essex, issued the following statements today regarding bipartisan legislation (S-2501/A-3885) they have sponsored that would require sex offenders in the state’s satellite-based monitoring program to pay for the required equipment and monitoring costs:

RUMANA, CITING ECONOMIC THINK TANK REPORT, SAYS CORZINE HAS NJ ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH DISASTER

Assemblyman Scott Rumana today said a report released by a Washington D.C.-based think tank that said states with high-tax, big union-friendly governments have a tendency to block economic growth and drive taxpayers to move to friendlier states confirms that Governor Jon Corzine has the state on a collision course with economic disaster.

RUMANA: AFFORDABLE HOUSING NUMBERS PROVEN FALSE, PUBLIC DESERVES TO SEE TRUE STUDY

Assemblyman Scott T. Rumana today said the public release of a new affordable housing study confirms that Governor Jon Corzine’s Administration placed unrealistic building mandates on the state’s towns.

RUMANA APPLAUDS ABBOTT FUNDING RULING

Assemblyman Scott Rumana, R- Passaic, Bergen and Essex, today issued the following statement in response to a state Superior Court judges’ opinion calling for the abolishment of state funding for Abbott School Districts:

MUNICIPALITIES APPROVE OF BILL TO FIX AND POSTPONE AFFORDABLE HOUSING MANDATES DURING BAD ECONOMY

LEGISLATION WOULD REQUIRE COUNCIL ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO FIX ITS FAULTY POLICIES WHILE ECONOMY RECOVERS

    Assemblymen Scott T. Rumana, John Amodeo and Vince Polistina welcomed approval from the New Jersey State League of Municipalities on their proposal to suspend affordable housing mandates during the poor economy, which would also require the Council on Affordable Housing, or COAH, to fix its rules.

RUMANA SAYS PLEDGE TO KEEP FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDS SEPARATE FROM TTF ENCOURAGING; CAUTIONS CORZINE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON PROMISE

Assemblyman Scott Rumana said it was encouraging to hear the state Transportation commissioner tell Republican members of the Assembly Transportation, Public Works & Independent Authorities Committee Thursday that federal stimulus funds will supplement and not supplant state Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) money to repair New Jersey’s aging transportation infrastructure. He also called on Governor Jon Corzine to follow through on that promise.