Are you ready, New Jersey?
Are you REALLY ready for this? We warned you about it in 2016. We asked you to mobilize. We begged you to protest.
Because that's when your state legislators in Trenton voted to hike your gas tax by an astronomical 23 cents per gallon.
But that wasn't the end of it. No, not by a long shot.
Because the swindlers in Trenton had more up their sleeves via a sneaky little provision in the bill.
So now, Governor Murphy & Co. have announced that New Jersey's gas will rise another 4.3 cents per gallon on Oct. 1.
How can THAT happen?
Well, Pilacious Phil's administration is authorized to make the hike because the law now stipulates that if the original gas tax brings in less than expected, the state can raise the rate to keep it on target.
The state says that this year motorists bought less gasoline in New Jersey (what a shocker!) and revenues are lagging. So, they'll raise the gas tax just like that -- with a snap of the gas pump.
We warned you, New Jersey!
This is just another boondoggle brought to you by the professional politicians in the Joizee Swamp otherwise known as Trenton -- as in You Make, Trenton Takes!
And below, highlighted in yellow, you'll find the names of the members of the state senate and state assembly who voted for this outrage. Blame them!
State Assembly:
Benson, Daniel R. - Yes Bramnick, Jon M. - Yes Brown, Chris A. - No
Bucco, Anthony M. - No Burzichelli, John J. - Yes Caputo, Ralph R. - Yes
Caride, Marlene - Yes Carroll, Michael Patrick - No Chaparro, Annette - Yes
Chiaravalloti, Nicholas - Yes Ciattarelli, Jack M. - No Clifton, Robert D. - No
Conaway, Herb, Jr. - Yes Coughlin, Craig J. - Yes Dancer, Ronald S. - No
Danielsen, Joe - Yes DeAngelo, Wayne P. - Yes DeCroce, BettyLou - Yes
DiMaio, John - No Downey, Joann - No Egan, Joseph V. - Yes
Eustace, Tim - Yes Giblin, Thomas P. - Yes Gove, DiAnne C. - No
Green, Jerry - No Greenwald, Louis D. - Yes Gusciora, Reed - Yes
Handlin, Amy H. - No Holley, Jamel C. - Not Voting Houghtaling, Eric - No
Howarth, Joe - Yes Jasey, Mila M. - Yes J imenez, Angelica M. - Yes
Johnson, Gordon M. - Yes Jones, Patricia Egan - Yes Karabinchak, Robert J. - Yes
Kean, Sean T. - Yes Kennedy, James J. - Yes Lagana, Joseph A. - Yes
Lampitt, Pamela R. - Not Voting Land, R. Bruce - No Mazzeo, Vincent - No
McGuckin, Gregory P. - No McKeon, John F. - Yes McKnight, Angela V. - Yes
Moriarty, Paul D. - Yes Mosquera, Gabriela M. - Yes Mukherji, Raj - Yes
Munoz, Nancy F. - Not Voting Muoio, Elizabeth Maher - Yes O'Scanlon, Declan J., Jr. - Yes
Oliver, Sheila Y. - No Peterson, Erik - No Phoebus, Gail - No
Pinkin, Nancy J. - Yes Pintor Marin, Eliana - Yes Prieto, Vincent - Yes
Quijano, Annette - Not Voting Rible, David P. - Yes Rodriguez-Gregg, Maria - Yes
Rumana, Scott T. - Not Voting Rumpf, Brian E. - No Russo, David C. - Not Voting
Schaer, Gary S. - Yes Schepisi, Holly - No Singleton, Troy - Yes
Space, Parker - No Sumter, Shavonda E. - Yes Taliaferro, Adam J. - Not Voting
Tucker, Cleopatra G. - Not Voting Vainieri Huttle, Valerie - Yes Watson, Blonnie R. - Yes
Webber, Jay - No Wimberly, Benjie E. - Yes Wisniewski, John S. - No
Wolfe, David W. - No Zwicker, Andrew - No
State Senate:
Addiego, Dawn Marie - Yes Allen, Diane B. - No Bateman, Christopher - No
Beach, James - Yes Beck, Jennifer - No Bucco, Anthony R. - No Cardinale, Gerald - No
Sweeney, Stephen M. - Yes Thompson, Samuel D. - Not Voting Turner, Shirley K. - No
Van Drew, Jeff - No Vitale, Joseph F. - Yes Weinberg, Loretta - Not Voting
Codey, Richard J. - Yes Connors, Christopher J. - No Cruz-Perez, Nilsa - Yes
Cunningham, Sandra B. - Yes Diegnan, Patrick J., Jr. - Yes Doherty, Michael J. - No
Gill, Nia H. - No Gordon, Robert M. - Yes Greenstein, Linda R. - Yes
Holzapfel, James W. - No Kean, Thomas H., Jr. - No Kyrillos, Joseph M., Jr. - Yes
Lesniak, Raymond J. - No Madden, Fred H., Jr. - Yes O'Toole, Kevin J. - Yes
Oroho, Steven V. - Yes Pennacchio, Joseph - No Pou, Nellie - Yes Rice, Ronald L. - Yes
Ruiz, M. Teresa - Not Voting Sacco, Nicholas J. - Yes Sarlo, Paul A. - Yes
Scutari, Nicholas P. - Yes Singer, Robert W. - Yes Smith, Bob - Yes Stack, Brian P. - Yes
Sweeney, Stephen M. - Yes Thompson, Samuel D. - Not Voting Turner, Shirley K. - No
Van Drew, Jeff - No Vitale, Joseph F. - Yes Weinberg, Loretta - Not Voting
Whelan, Jim - Yes
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