Hit the beaches! New Jersey budget deadlock broken
Source: CNN
(CNN) - New Jersey beaches and parks that had been closed because of a government shutdown should be open to the public Tuesday for the Fourth of July, state legislative leaders said.
Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto announced at a news conference that a budget compromise had been reached.
Gov. Chris Christie had shut down the Garden State government Friday night after the state Legislature failed to pass a budget by the July 1 deadline, furloughing an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 state workers and forcing the temporary closure of state parks, beaches, recreational areas, and historic sites for the July 4 holiday.
Those recreation areas should be open for business Tuesday, the Fourth of July, Sweeney and Prieto said.
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By Ralph Ellis, CNN
Updated 10:27 PM ET, Mon July 3, 2017
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/03/us/new-jersey-budget-christie/index.html?adkey=bn
no_hypocrisy
(46,373 posts)After all, he's not going to get his mitts on Horizon's billions of dollars that he wanted for the State.
Eugene
(62,002 posts)The state gets additional control over Horizon.
It's a done deal: Christie will end state shutdown in time for July 4, sources say
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_likely_to_approve_deal_to_end_shutdown_so.html
Astraea
(474 posts)but how do you close a beach? Do they put up chain fences around the ocean? Would it be illegal to go to the beach?
George II
(67,782 posts)Eugene
(62,002 posts)It could be considered trespassing.
Princess Turandot
(4,794 posts)bridges or only a single road. That's the case with Beach Island State Park, which the Christies were using this weekend because of 'governor's privilege'. (It's here on Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/fVU2GqnDw5u )
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)orleans
(34,121 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,368 posts)in the hospital at this point.
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)Leave some flaming dog shit for Christie. Or light a big smoky bonfire if the wind carries it to the governor's house. Maybe send some dead fish to his section of the beach.
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