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March 3, 2008 - 10:53am

AFP Analysis of the Corzine Toll/Tax Hike Plan

New Jersey has one of the most poorly-run state governments in the nation and Governor Jon Corzine has only made it worse. In just two years, he has raised the sales tax after a government shutdown, pushed a sham so-called property tax relief that amounts to larger rebate checks (that are unlikely to continue beyond a couple of years), enacted a dubious new school-funding formula, and now is pushing the largest debt issue in U.S. history, funded by a massive 800 percent hike in New Jersey’s tolls.

LONEGAN CALLS ON ANTI-TOLL HIKE LEGISLATORS TO BOYCOTT CHAMBER TRIP

Release Date: Jan 30 2008

BOGOTA -- Americans for Prosperity New Jersey director Steve Lonegan today called on anti-toll hike legislators to boycott the annual Chamber of Commerce train trip taking place this weekend in light of the Chamber’s endorsement of Governor Corzine’s $38 Billion Borrowing and Toll Hike Scheme.

Americans for Prosperity N.J. Director, Bogota Mayor to Speak to Hundreds in Arizona

Release Date: Dec 13 2007

BOGOTA – Bogota Mayor and Americans for Prosperity New Jersey state director Steve Lonegan will be speaking to the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers (AFT) at their annual conference this weekend. Lonegan will be speaking before the AFT 2007 Friend of the Taxpayer Awards Luncheon on “The fight for taxpayers’ rights.”

Mayor Lonegan’s address will focus on taxpayers’ defeat of two questions on this year’s New Jersey ballot, including the first defeat for taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research anywhere in the nation.

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