2012 Year in review: July

Judge Michael Guadagno was elevated to the State Court Appellate Division.

Governor Chris Christie had a confrontation with a passerby on the Seaside Heights Boardwalk.

The Bayshore Tea Party Group issued a statement saying that they expected every Republican to face a primary in future elections.

Joe Caliendo stepped down as Middletown Democratic Chairman.

Former Brookdale College President Peter Burnham pled guilty to theft by deception and official misconduct.

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in a law suit brought by a Superior Court Judge that Judges don’t have to abide by the pension and benefit reforms sign into law by Governor Christie in 2011.  State Senator Sam Thompson concluded that the Supremes’ ruling meant that all New Jersey Judges have been under-contributing to the pension system since 1982.  Thompson asked the Treasury Department to collect the shortages for all retired and current Judges.  They didn’t.

At a campaign appearance in Roanoke, Virginia President Obama proposed $1.2 trillion in spending cuts from government programs that don’t work and declared told business owners  “You didn’t build that.”

Beaches in Loch Arbour and Spring Lake were closed due to an invasion of stingrays.

 

Posted: December 31st, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Year in Review | Tags: 2012 Year in review, July | Comments Off on 2012 Year in review: July

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