May 16, 2020
Steinhardt: Liberal Quartet Hits Another Bad Note . Trenton, NJ – Last night Nancy Pelosi and the liberal quartet of Andy Kim, Tom Malinowski, Mikie Sherrill and Josh Gottheimer passed a $3 trillion socialist wish list under the guise of sending aid during a pandemic. . The truth is, this messaging bill had very little to do with […]
May 15, 2020
NJGOP Comment on Failure of Mail Only Elections . Trenton, NJ – Earlier this week, 33 municipalities in New Jersey conducted elections by mail, with ballots being sent to all registered voters. It has become clear in the days since, that this system failed. . Belleville ballots were simply left in an apartment building lobby Ballot tampering […]
May 14, 2020
NJGOP Calls For Federal Investigation Into Murphy Administration Handling of Longterm Care Facilities . Trenton, NJ – Last week, the NJGOP highlighted New Jersey’s outlier status in COVID-19 related longterm care facility deaths and called for a legislative investigation into the Murphy Administration’s policies, including forcing facilities to accept COVID-19 positive admissions. . Yesterday, the New Jersey legislature announced […]
May 12, 2020
Steinhardt: Legislature Should Investigate Murphy’s Unemployment Meltdown . Trenton, NJ – Since Governor Murphy’s indefinite order to close New Jersey’s economy without any plan for re-opening it, the State has seen a record surge in unemployment claims. More than a million workers have applied for unemployment benefits in New Jersey, but hundreds of thousands of residents are still waiting, […]
May 7, 2020
NJGOP Calls For Legislative Investigation Into Nursing Home Deaths . Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been at least 4,151 coronavirus related deaths in New Jersey’s long-term care facilities including many at the state’s only veterans’ nursing home. That represents more than half of all COVID-19 related deaths in New Jersey to date. . It is well […]
May 6, 2020
Murphy Puts His Biggest Campaign Donors Before Children, Veterans, Seniors, Small Businesses, Middle Class Taxpayers and Opioid Victims Amid the greatest national financial crisis since the Great Depression, Governor Phil Murphy is sticking it to regular New Jerseyans to spend big propping up his biggest campaign contributor, the NJEA. At the end of March, Governor […]
May 4, 2020
Governor Murphy Lying About Nearly $2 Billion In Relief Funds NJGOP Calls On Murphy To Release To Small Businesses Trenton, NJ – Governor Murphy is telling a massive $1.8 billion lie. While he squirrels away nearly $2B in CARES Act funding, millions of New Jersey businesses and residents are struggling. At one of his daily press […]
April 30, 2020
NJGOP Statement on Passing of Paul Smith Trenton, NJ – NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt released the following statement regarding the passing of former Mayor of Union Beach, Paul Smith: . “Today we mourn the loss of former Union Beach Mayor, Paul Smith. The entire NJGOP family holds the Smith family and the Union Beach community […]
April 30, 2020
NJGOP Chairman Steinhardt Message to Murphy . NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt is sending the following message to Governor Murphy prior to his meeting with President Trump today: . “As a lifelong New Jersey resident and now Chairman of the NJGOP, it’s good to see my President and Governor come together in the thick of this […]
April 28, 2020
NJGOP Calls On NJ To File Lawsuit Against Communist Party of China . Chairman Steinhardt has previously condemned the Communist Part of China (CPC) for its negligence and deceit in providing important early warnings on the seriousness of COVID-19, calling this pandemic the Chinese Chernobyl. . Since then, there has been a growing chorus of unrest with the CPC, among […]