October 10, 2016
Dear Editor
How did the NJ gas tax increase become law, and what good will it do? A bill passes when approved by the
Governor after the majority of the legislature members (21 votes in the Senate,
41 in the Assembly). This tax increase plus the previous
amount places NJ ninth highest nationally. Major portions of the new monies
will go to improvements for North Jersey – New York area, including their rail
facilities. What rail facilities pass through Cumberland, Salem, and Gloucester
counties? Increase the train ticket costs.
Forty-five Assembly members voted for the increase. Southern New
Jersey is represented by nine Districts with eighteen votes. Ten South Jersey members
voted for the tax increase. The SJ vote count
included five Republican members and three brave Democrats who voted against
this tax increase. The increase could have and should have been less or stopped
by five or six NO votes from SJ. This could have kept ‘grab a dollar
legislature’ members from your pockets.
Next year remember the three RINO yes votes; Brian Rumpf (District
09) Joe Howarth and Marie Rodriguez-Gregg (District 08)). Also remember the
Democrats; Burzichelli (District 03), Mosquera (District 04), Barclay (District
05), and Egan-Jones (District 05), Cruz-Perez (District 06), Troy Singleton and
Herb Conaway (District 07).
Remember the SJ ‘tax and spend’ Senators; Whelan (District 02),
Sweeney (District 03), Madden (District 04), Cruz-Perez (District 05), Beach
(District 06), and the RINO, Addiego (District 08).
Gerald Keer
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