RUMANA AND RUSSO: CORZINE BUDGET IS MORE PAIN FOR NEW JERSEY TAXPAYERS – NOT GOVERNMENT

          As Governor Corzine delivered his budget address today that among other things will eliminate the income tax deduction for property taxes paid by homeowners, reduce aid to schools and municipalities, and severely curtail those who are eligible for property tax rebates, Assemblymen Scott Rumana and David Russo, both R-Passaic, Bergen, and Essex, stated that once again the governor is hurting taxpayers and failing to address the systemic problems in state government.

EMBARRASSING IRVINGTON AUDIT MORE PROOF THAT SPECIAL MUNICIPAL AID NEEDS TO BE ELIMINATED

AUDIT FINDS IRVINGTON’S BOOKS OUT-OF-BALANCE SINCE 2000 DESPITE SPECIAL AID FROM THE STATE TOTALING $27 MILLION

    Assemblymen Scott T. Rumana and David C. Russo said a recent audit revealing inappropriate expenditures and careless bookkeeping in Irvington provides another reason why Gov. Jon S. Corzine must end the Special Municipal Aid given to a handful of select cities over the years.

RUMANA CONTINUES PUSH FOR INSPECTOR GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE FAULTY COAH REPORT

SAYS INITIAL LETTER TO COOPER SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN IGNORED

Assemblyman Scott Rumana today again called on Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper to conduct a full investigation into the circumstances involving the findings of a July 2008 report that revealed vacant land analysis flaws in the state’s new affordable housing program.

REPUBLICANS WANT SUBSTANTIVE TRANSPORTATION ISSUES ON THE AGENDA

ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING SPECIFIC PROJECTS TO IMPROVE TRANSIT AND PUT PEOPLE TO WORK

    Assemblymen John Amodeo and Scott T. Rumana requested that members of the Assembly Transportation, Public Works and Independent Authorities Committee meet soon to discuss how to proceed with road projects that are needed to improve crumbling roads and create jobs in a failing economy.

RUMANA CALLS ON INSPECTOR GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE WHY COAH, STATE OFFICIALS SUPPRESSED RESULTS OF COAH REPORT

RUTGERS STUDY CITED FLAWS IN VACANT LAND ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY

Assemblyman Scott Rumana today called on Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper to conduct a full investigation into the circumstances involving the findings of a July 2008 report that revealed vacant land analysis flaws in the state’s new affordable housing program.

DEMOCRATS RECOGNIZE AFFORDABLE HOUSING MISTAKES THEY ENACTED LAST YEAR

SENATE PANEL APPROVES MEASURE TODAY TO TWEAK AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAW, BUT DEMOCRATIC LEADERS STILL SHUN TOTAL REFORM OFFERED BY REPUBLICANS

Assemblymen Scott T. Rumana and David C. Russo said today that Democratic leaders should embrace a Republican proposal to truly fix the mistakes made over the past year when regional contribution agreements, or RCAs, were outlawed and 115,000 units were mandated upon municipalities based on faulty criteria.

RUMANA: CORZINE CONTINUED TO BORROW AS NEW JERSEY ECONOMY CONTINUED TO TANK

Assemblyman Scott Rumana today said Governor Jon Corzine’s boast during his recent State of the State address that he “fought to authorize $3.9 billion in new school construction funds” reveals just how insensitive the governor is to the state’s struggling middle class families.

CORZINE'S GLOBAL WARMING GOALS CONFLICT WITH HIS AFFORDABLE HOUSING MANDATES

CORZINE WANTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING PUSHED INTO SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES WHILE HIS ENERGY PLAN SAYS DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR NEAR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE

While Gov. Jon S. Corzine is stubbornly pushing an affordable-housing plan that will increase local property taxes and fill open spaces with clustered housing in the state’s suburbs, his Draft Global Warming Response Act Recommendation Report takes the opposite tact directing nearly all development toward existing infrastructure and on redeveloped lots.

RUMANA AND RUSSO: STATE SHOULD INVESTIGATE LATEST AUDIT OF PATERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT

INDEPENDENT AUDIT SHOWS PATERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT PAID $4.8 MILLION IN OVERTIME FOR SECURITY SERVICES WHEN CONTRACT CONTAINED NO OVERTIME PROVISION

Assemblymen Scott T. Rumana and David C. Russo, both R-Passaic, Bergen and Essex, today demanded an investigation by the state Department of Education and law enforcement officials after a report that Paterson school officials paid $4.8 million in overtime from 2007 to 2008 to a private security firm whose original contract didn’t provide for overtime, according to a report in the Herald News.

RUMANA AND RUSSO SAY CORZINE SHOULD AUDIT STATE DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS

With the state facing dire budget deficits for the remainder of this year and the next, Assemblyman Scott Rumana and Assemblyman David Russo today said the Corzine Administration should call for an audit of every state department in an effort to identify wasteful and abusive spending practices that are costing the state billions of taxpayer money.