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To: American Spirit who wrote (71327)	7/5/2006 1:28:38 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Union bunk. All of it.

To: American Spirit who wrote (71327)	7/5/2006 2:41:54 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

TRENTON, July 5 — The budget deadlock in New Jersey continued unchanged today, with Gov. Jon S. Corzine accusing legislators of putting politics above good government in an address to a joint session of the Legislature. "This crisis has been brought about by a conflict of two competing approaches to our state's finances," Mr. Corzine said in the address today. In an apparent reference to the electoral losses suffered by Democrats after tax increases in the 1990's under Gov. Jim Florio, he said "Is a budget to be a political platform to seek re-election?" Or is it to be a statement of priorities "with an honest and real way to pay for those priorities?" Democratic legislators, who hold a majority in both houses of the Legislature, were meeting privately today, but no meeting of the Budget Committee had been scheduled. The Speaker of the General Assembly, Joseph J. Roberts Jr., a former aide to Mr. Florio, said Mr. Corzine's plan to increase the sales tax was "dead" in that chamber. Mr. Roberts was an assemblyman in 1991 when the Democrats lost their majority as a result of the Florio tax increase. The budget deadlock continued despite an unusual holiday session of the Legislature on Independence Day.