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CHRISTIE POLL
Do you approve or
disapprove of the job
Chris Christie is doing as
governor?
Source: Monmouth Univer-
sity/Asbury Park Press Poll
Numbers may not add to 100
due to rounding.
Approve 50%
Disapprove 42%
Dont know 9%
GOV SPARES
RICH FROM
MORE TAXES
$32.5M BUDGET PLAN
Gov. Chris Christie left some
spending added by Democratic law-
makers to New Jerseys budget intact
as he enacted a $32.5 billion plan for
2015 that reduces the pension pay-
ment and doesnt hike taxes on the
wealthy and businesses.
Christie used his ability to remove
parts of the budget bill to shift the
payment of the next property tax
credit to May 2015, rather than August
as lawmakers wanted. He didnt alter
the budget by making last-minute
cuts to state aid to schools, which will
get small increases, or municipalities,
which are getting the same aid as last
year. And he didnt lay off or furlough
state workers.
Instead, as expected, Christie
slashed the pension payment by 70
percent, to $681 million. That repre-
sents the full payment for the current
year but makes no payment toward
the more than $50 billion long-term
unfunded liability. A 2010 law says the
state should pay in $2.25 billion in
Pension payments
slashed, property tax
credits delayed to May
By Michael Symons
@MichaelSymons_
See BUDGET, Page A10
CORPORATE TAX
Christie vetoed a bill that would have raised $390 million through an
additional 15 percent tax on corporations.
PENSION PAYMENTS
Christie reduced the Fiscal Year 2015 payment to the public employees
pension systems from $2.249 billion to $681 million.
MILLIONAIRES TAX
Christie vetoed a bill that would have raised $725 million through an
increase in the tax rate on income of more than $1 million a year.
CANCER FUNDING
Christies used his line-item veto power to erase some spending, but not
all. A restoration of $20 million in cancer funding remains.
The Fourth of July could be a washout as a likely
tropical cyclone and other bad weather may dump
heavy rain in New Jersey later this week.
The highest rainfall totals are most likely near the
coast, according to a Monday briefing by forecasters in
the National Weather Services Mount Holly office.
This is NOT (superstorm) Sandy, the briefing says.
No landfall is expected in New Jersey or Delaware.
However ... heavy rain, winds, tidal and fresh water
flooding, rip currents and heavy surf are possible as we
head into a major holiday weekend.
Gary Szatkowski, meteorologist in charge of the
Mount Holly office, tweeted that everyone along the
East Coast needs to monitor the forecast. Nothing like
a potential tropical storm near the East Coast to turn up
the volume on a quiet hurricane season, according to
more Szatkowskis tweets. And tropical systems pro-
duce a lot of rainfall.
David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatol-
ogist at Rutgers University, said the timing was pretty
miserable, but southern New Jersey, including Cape
May County, had a very dry June and could use a quick
soaking.
The Fourth of July typically features plenty of patri-
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Be prepared:
Fourth of July
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Tropical cyclone could dump
rain on state later this week
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By Todd B. Bates @ToddBBatesAPP
See CYCLONE, Page A5
Gov. Chris Christies job approval
ratings have stabilized after a steep
decline in January spurred by the
George Washington Bridge lane-clo-
sure scandal, a new poll shows.
The Monmouth University/Asbury
Park Press Poll released Monday puts
Christies approval rating at 50
percent, basically unchanged from
the February and April polls. His dis-
approval ratings are at 42 percent.
Still, the number of those polled who
approve of the job Christie is doing
has slid 15 percentage points since
December, a month before news of
the administrations involvement in
the lane closures broke.
Robert Hoberman, 27, an attorney
from Lakewood, said that he doesnt
approve of Christie and that it comes
down to a matter of style.
Hes needlessly overaggressive
and bullies. A lot of times it prevents
the government from functioning as
Bullying? Playing the
game? Either way,
50% OK with Christie
By John Schoonejongen
@CapitolQuickies
and Bob Jordan
@BobJordanAPP
See RATING, Page A10
I do not
accept the
premise that
we can tax our
way to
prosperity.
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE