Bridgegate lawmakers leading fight against Christie's newspaper 'revenge bill'

[no_hypocrisy]

TRENTON -- A pair of Democratic lawmakers who led the charge in the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal that damaged Gov. Chris Christie's political ambitions are now fighting the governor's push to pull legal ads from newspapers.

State Sen. Loretta Weinberg and Assemblyman John Wisniewski say Christie's punitive motives are behind the bill that quietly resurfaced Monday. The bill would dismantle a state law requiring governments, businesses and individuals to publish legal notices in printed newspapers. The notices would be published on local websites if the measure is approved.

"People who hear this, who know the governor and have seen him in action, expect it as, 'Yeah, seems like something he'd do,'" Weinberg (D-Bergen) said. "I haven't heard anybody shocked at the premise that the governor might be behind this for punitive reasons."

Wisniewski, who is a declared 2017 gubernatorial hopeful, called the legislation Christie's "revenge bill."

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http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/12/bridgegate_lawmakers_leading_fight_against_christi.html

[Else You Are Mad]

1. This will cost NJ a lot of money.

New Jersey has 565 municipalities. That means that investors have to check every township website, people all over the country that have no idea they are being sued have to check every website and, people that live in NJ have to check the websites of the towns they live in.

Let me tell you, most of the smaller municipality websites make late 90s Geocities personal homepages look like the most amazingly coded modern websites. Now, these municipalities that have no money, will have to hire a fulltime website department. Instead, any secretary can send a request to the Asbury Park Press or any other of the major NJ news papers for half the time and much less of the money.

Christie is an asshole that has ruined NJ, and, at the end of his term, will leave as the least popular governor in US history.

[FarCenter]

4. Small municipalities publish in local weeklies -- Asbury Park Press is too expensive

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. This is one of the biggest stories of the day but will go unnoticed.

When they manage to do away with media they will take full control of all things.

We already have a society where half of the people believe journalists are the ones compromised, not their favorite politician.

[DK504]

3. Doesn't NJ have recall laws?

'Cause damn, they really need to get that going on.