Archive for Tag: Rob Clifton

At Assembly TTF hearing, Republicans demand safer roads, lower commuter costs

TRENTON, N.J. – When voting against a bill Thursday to raise the gas tax, establish a fee on electric vehicles and reauthorize a fund that pays for transportation infrastructure projects, Republicans on the Assembly Transportation Committee cited concerns for current road safety, rising costs due to inflation, financial troubles...

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Sauickie and Clifton demand DOE explain multimillion-dollar school funding cuts to district

TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblymen Alex Sauickie and Rob Clifton are demanding answers and school-funding reform after the Education Department released state aid numbers Thursday that showed Jackson and Old Bridge school districts losing nearly $7 million next year. “I need one of you to explain to me how this...

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Clifton and Sauickie announce increased funding for schools in Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex

TRENTON, N.J. – The N.J. Department of Education is slated to release more than $3.5 million in stabilization aid to five school districts in Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties, Assemblymen Rob Clifton and Alex Sauickie announced Wednesday. “While this stabilization aid is a huge win for us and a...

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Clifton and Sauickie say bill mandating high-density housing makes NJ less affordable

TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblymen Rob Clifton and Alex Sauickie voted against the bill changing the affordable housing system and increasing towns’ construction obligations for the next decade when it came to the Assembly floor for a vote on Monday. “Mandating municipalities build high-density housing projects, but refusing to address...

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Sauickie and Clifton’s ‘single most important’ farmland appraisal bill signed by governor

TRENTON, N.J. – Hailed by agricultural leaders as the “single most important positive piece of legislation,” Assemblymen Alex Sauickie and Rob Clifton’s bill promising fairer farmland assessments conducted for preservation was signed into law Monday. “This legislation is easily a home run and helps level the playing field for...

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Legislative panel on affordable housing didn’t hear from local officials, say Clifton and Flynn

TRENTON, N.J. – During the Assembly Housing Committee hearing on the bill overhauling a town’s affordable housing obligations Wednesday, there were many people who testified from private interest groups but only one was a local elected official, while other stakeholders didn’t have an opportunity. That wasn’t enough to get...

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Clifton’s bill fining ‘boom car’ drivers for noise violations signed

TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblyman Rob Clifton’s bill helping police put the brakes on ‘boom’ cars and parties was signed into law on Monday. “It’s time to give law enforcement the ability to cite the audible assaults resulting from cars equipped with stereo systems designed for concert arenas,” Clifton (R-Monmouth)...

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Clifton and Sauickie want rhetoric on school’s transgender policy corrected

TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblymen Rob Clifton and Alex Sauickie want to correct the record on recent reports that boards of education in their district are harming transgender students. On June 22, Attorney General Matt Platkin filed civil rights complaints less than 48 hours after the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District...

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Murphy and Dems responsible for suburban students’ busing and education crisis, say Clifton and Sauickie

TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblymen Rob Clifton and Alex Sauickie are slamming Gov. Phil Murphy, his administration and Trenton’s Democrat majority for cutting funding from suburban school districts, which is failing to provide students with transportation and a thorough and efficient education.  “Parents and stakeholders must know who is responsible for...

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Clifton bill helping police take the ‘boom’ out of cars and parties passes Assembly

TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblyman Rob Clifton’s bill helping police put the brakes on so-called ‘boom’ cars and parties, which have been disrupting the quality of life from the Delaware to the Hudson River, passed the Assembly on Thursday. Owners of boom cars will be subject to fines if they...

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