Expert school librarian gr—mer Amanda Jones Amanda Jones: Defender of Libraries & Wonder, who wrote #ThatLibrarian about a defamation case she lost 3x so far and $25K attorneys fees she owes, says K-12 schools don’t carry obscenity. Then why is American Library Association seeking exemptions: safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/04/time-t… #lalege #njleg

The #NJLeg is out of control lately.

In today's New Jersey Globe, NJBIA Chief GAO Christopher Emigholz explains why and how NJ's top job creators are already paying well beyond their fair share of corporate taxes and how the #njleg must reject Governor Phil Murphy proposed $1-billion-plus tax hit. #dobetterforbusiness
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SCHOOL LIBRARIAN PRIVILEGE

The ability to break
every obscenity law
and still remain the
victim..

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BayshoreBeagle Yael Bromberg Oh, I see. You are correct.
This is an 18 point gap, which implies that even when the GOP wins the NJLeg pop vote, it won't even be close to a majority, ie, it's a powerful Democratic gerrymander.

BayshoreBeagle njdotcom The NJLeg is also 20 years older than the average New Jerseyan. That’s inseparable from the demographic disparities.

Good point on the gerrymander.

(((John))) is mad on the Internet Peter.Fallow.1987 Peter Chen 陳逸群 I don't have a NJLeg version of this, but you can draw maps in NJ where seatshare equals voteshare and where the districts have normal shapes that correspond to political boundaries.

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Peter Chen 陳逸群 The same disproportionalities exist in other diverse states, w/ things only slightly better in term limits states.

A more consequential disproportionality is that the NJLeg is 8-12 points more Democratic than voters, but I’m not surprised you and other progressives ignore that.

BayshoreBeagle njdotcom I was demographically comparing to the average New Jerseyan and not the average voter because that 'average NJan' is the comparison people use who say the NJLeg is racially non-representative (even though average New Jerseyan includes children)

(((John))) is mad on the Internet Peter Chen 陳逸群 I'm consistent that I really think the solution is multimember districting, for the NJLeg and even BOEs. I've written two op-eds on that.

But if a state must use SMDs, it has to go for partisan proportionality so that the party winning >50% of leg vote wins >50% of the seats.

Silence Seeker Chris Fay It was a major, and perfectly predicted, flaw in S2 that it only gave tax cap relief to Abbotts and needlessly hurt TR, Brick, and others. Let’s hope the NJleg finally loosens the cap and PM signs the bill.