On this Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 in state politics ...
- Gov. Chris Christie continues his emphasis on the economy this week with a visit to Mayor Dennis P. Collins Park in Bayonne to spotlight plans to resolve the Bayonne Bridge height problem to benefit shipping. He's joined by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman Anthony Coscia and deputy executive director Bill Baroni Jr.
- Christie has a live interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" at 7:30 a.m., then an interview on Bloomberg TV at 11:30 a.m.
- Guadagno heads to a business breakfast organized by Assm. Scott Rudder at the Medport Diner in Medford this morning, then to the grand opening of a Pinnacle Foods location in Cherry Hill this afternoon.
- The Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards meets. Agenda includes review of a formal advisory opinion and to review complaints filed by Michele Lupton and the Camden County chapter of the NAACP.
- The Joint Committee on the Public Schools meets at the Mary Ethel Costello School in Gloucester City. Marc Larkins, chief executive officer of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corp., presents the SCC's biannual report on the school construction program to the Subcommittee on School Facilities and Construction.
- The Federalist Society hosts a conference call to discuss whether Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s temporary appointment of Judge Edwin Stern to the state Supreme Court is unconstitutional. Professor Earl Maltz of Rutgers Law School along with the Professor Edward Hartnett of Seton Hall Law School will argue that the move is unconstitutional. Professor Robert Williams of Rutgers, will argue that it is permissible.
- The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club makes a political endorsement in this year's Bergen County executive race at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst. State director Jeff Tittel and North Jersey group chair Mike Herson attend. Since you can see the would-be site of the Encap development deal that generated so much controversy from DeKorte Park, you can bet this is an endorsement of Republican challenger Kathe Donovan, not Democratic incumbent Dennis McNerney.
- At the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack, Sens. Paul Sarlo and Loretta Weinberg, Bergen County Sheriff Leo McGuire and Pat Rybka, the widow of slain Bergen County sheriff’s officer Joseph Rybka, who was killed in 1979 by a suspect he was guarding, hold a news conference to unveil new legislation that would allow the State Parole Board to schedule parole eligibility hearings once every 10 years, rather than once every three years, for people convicted of first-degree offenses.
- Election Law Enforcement Commission meets in Trenton.
- Brownfields Redevelopment Task Force meets in Trenton.
- Real Estate Commission meets in Trenton.
- New Jersey State Mosquito Control Commission meets in Trenton.
