Nancy

[Senator Andrew Zwicker @AndrewZwicker]

Thank you for your relentless leadership to get this through the Assembly !

[Jesse Burns @JesseLeeBurns]

A brilliant legal mind, a powerful coalition builder, and a compassionate leader, Celina is absolutely the right choice to help the League defend democracy on behalf of voters nationwide 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Nancy @NancyHed1]

#EMTLA

[Jesse Burns @JesseLeeBurns]

"When women & those who can become pregnant cannot receive equal access to health care, they are no longer equal in our democracy. The attack on reproductive care is attempting to reduce those who can become pregnant to second-class citizenship, & @LWV won’t stand for it.”

[Ryan P. Haygood @RyanPHaygood]

BREAKING: Until recently, not enough people understood NJ’s anti-democratic “county line.”

Until we all did.

Then The People refused to accept it.

@YaelBromberg, @bmpugach & team challenged it.

And today, Judge Quraishi struck it down for EVERY RACE in NJ’s June 4th primary!

[New Jersey Policy Perspective @NJPolicy]

This is a HUGE (‼️) win for democracy!

Voters — not party insiders — will now have the power to choose their own representatives.

This will transform elections and result in better policies now that elected officials will be accountable to the people. #AbolishTheLine

[LWVNJ @LWVNJ]

VICTORY for VOTERS! This is a huge win for New Jersey's democracy. #abolishtheline

[NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice @NJAIJ]

💀 REST IN PIECES, COUNTY LINE 🪦

[Jesse Burns @JesseLeeBurns]

So many people worked for so many years for this moment. New Jersey's democracy is now better because of them. Tears of joy.

[League of Women Voters of the US @LWV]

It's about time for the ERA.

Take action 😮‍💨➡️ https://t.co/RpTxX0lumW

[NJ Spotlight News @NJSpotlightNews]

On @RoundtableNJ, @JuliaSassRubin shares the history and impact of the “party line” in NJ politics and primaries. https://t.co/b74Y824twA

[Nancy @NancyHed1]

#NJSunshineCommission

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

A #NJSunshineCommission could go through OPRA line-by-line, gather real data, listen to experts, and make recommendations to the Leg that would both save agencies time/money AND vastly improve transparency in this state. A win/win, not a backroom deal to gut OPRA

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

What do we want? Transparency...

When do we want it? Like yesterday...

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

Former Gov @jim_mcgreevey signed OPRA into law in 2002– a bipartisan bill with zero no votes 👏

Now another Dem Governor, @GovMurphy, is set to gut it without any data to support the false claims the Leauge makes 👎

A much smarter approach is a #NJSunshineCommission 🌞

[Krystal Knapp @krystalknapp]

OLS estimates the new OPRA bill will cost the state $8 million and save municipalities a total of $4 million. That’s an average of about $7,000 per municipality. So the whole idea that this will save towns tons of money is b.s.

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

Yep! Almost everything that the League is labeling a “commercial request” are requests for code violations, open permits, etc for home purchases. For some reason clerks started making people use OPRA to get those

If those records were online, OPRA requests would be cut in half+

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

All those behind this rush to kill OPRA have contracts with towns. Coughlin, Scutari, Danielsen, Sarlo, Flynn, Bucco, and so on

Their “customers” are these towns who are demanding that OPRA be gutted. It’s leverage that we the public don’t have, esp with The Line in place

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

Good thread. It’s just not a conflict to report about OPRA simply bc you use it. You use roads, bridges, etc and you report about those

If you wanna talk conflicts, look at the lawmakers pushing this bill—collectively they probably have contracts with 25% of local govt

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

The public is entitled to see the video to know the truth of what she was said, tone, etc. But Spotswood & the Mayor are majorly fighting release, accusing everyone of harassment

Towns like this would weaponize the two “harassment” provisions in the bad OPRA bills

[CJ Griffin @CJGriffinEsq]

LOL! Flynn is Borough Attorney for Spotswood, which sued MCPO to keep it from releasing (under OPRA) a BWC video of the mayor allegedly saying racist things. The case is ongoing

It becomes even more abundantly clear this bill is a huge anti-transparency bill!!

[Nancy @NancyHed1]

Did you, perchance, discover this through an OPRAH request?

[New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller @NJComptroller]

NEW: Today my office sent a letter to Hudson County, directing the County to halt a $13.5 million contract award. Our review found that the county used an improper process and circumvented transparency requirements. 1/2