![]() ![]() THE MILLIONAIRES FOLLOWED DAVID TEPPER BACK - “ More than 42,000 millionaires live in Pa. Glaringly, many allies released critical statements after his address, while frequent critics issued press releases praising his focus on business and crime.” While Murphy has long faced criticism from Republicans as being too tax-happy and liberal, several leaders in his base are voicing concern like never before that the term-limited governor is now veering toward the middle - along with Democrats who control the state Legislature - and shying from the progressive vision so prominent in his first four years. ![]() Phil Murphy came into office five years ago describing himself as a proud progressive Democrat who wanted to make New Jersey “the California of the East Coast.” His policies have frequently followed suit … But in the wake of Murphy’s most recent State of the State address, a speech designed to lay out his agenda a year into his second term, some of the progressive advocates who have long supported him say they’re disappointed. ![]() progressives unhappy? ” by NJ Advance Media’s Brent Johnson and Matt Arco: “Gov. MURPHY GOT OUT OF THE LEFT LANE AFTER INCESSANT HONKING FROM NEW JERSEYANS - “ Murphy is one of America’s most left-leaning governors. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Matthew Dikovics, Susan Enderly, Rich Levesque WHAT TRENTON MADE WHERE’S MURPHY? In California all week for film and tech industry meetings and NGA business. You talk to young kids and most of them are gambling already and it is due to these over the top ads.” - Assemblymember Ralph Caputo (D-Essex) on sports gambling. There is the over marketing of the companies, a vicious attempt to get market share and kids are being affected by it. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “People were locked in their homes and picked up the addiction. But I struggle to understand why policymakers have been so much more concerned with the latter.ĭAYS SINCE MURPHY REFUSED TO SAY WHETHER HIS WIFE’S NON-PROFIT SHOULD DISCLOSE DONORS: 352 I don’t think there are easy answers to reduce harm from legalizing gambling or substances. I think it’s a safe bet that, going forward, we’ll see pressure for fewer restrictions on cannabis (see: allowing home grow). We’re already seeing pressure for more restrictions on gambling. As The Star-Ledger’s Paul Mulshine pointed out in a column, cannabis consumption lounges won’t even be allowed to serve soft drinks. Weed, of course, hit political obstacles almost every step of the way.Įven today, as our personal devices and TVs are clogged with ads for sports betting, the state is being careful to put strict regulations on the cannabis industry. Sports betting sailed through with overwhelming bipartisan support and few concerns raised about addiction. ![]() But the similarities stopped there once it came to the Legislature implementing it. Like recreational weed legalization, legalized sports betting was overwhelmingly approved by voters. “The advertising of sports book is excessive, there is no regulation associated with it, it is the wild west when it comes to sports books,” Council on Compulsive Gambling Executive Director Felicia Grondin told reporter Joe Strupp. Still, according to a forthcoming Rutgers study cited in the article, New Jersey has three times the national average of high-risk problem gamblers. And of course, as the leader of the court effort to legalize sports betting nationwide, the Garden State bears a lot of responsibility for this. So now that I’m back, this article in The Asbury Park Press about the rise in sports gambling addiction in New Jersey and elsewhere struck me. I hope you were nice to Daniel Han while he filled in for me. I’m back from vacation and freshly tattooed. ![]()
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