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Double, Triple Dippers In The Legislature

By Art Gallagher

36 of the 120 members of the NJ Legislature, 9 of them Republicans, hold additional government jobs, according to this piece at NJ.com.

Hudson County Senator Nicholas Sacco is the biggest money maker, pulling in $214,260 as an assistant school superintendent in North Bergen.

Union County Assemblyman Joe Cryan, the majority leader and former state Democratic Chairman makes $111,772 as a Union County Undersheriff.

Of the Monmouth County legislative delegation, only Senator Sean Kean is on the list.  Kean makes “at least” $25,000 per gig as an attorney for Tinton Falls and Howell.  Kean also makes less than $10,000 as an attorney for Union Beach, according the the graphic in the NJ.com piece. 

Kean is the only practicing attorney in the Monmouth County delegation.  Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande is an attorney but is not practicing.  She is a full time legislator and a full time mom.

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Posted: June 1st, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: NJ State Legislature | Tags: , | 10 Comments »

10 Comments on “Double, Triple Dippers In The Legislature”

  1. brian said at 9:51 am on June 1st, 2011:

    VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!!

  2. Obviously, there not Christie's friends said at 10:06 am on June 1st, 2011:

    None of those are Christie’s friends; they would be millionaires and wouldn’t have to work second and third jobs to live in this state.

    Art, you should put something in the blog about the abuse and usage of the state police helicopter. Christie used it to travel to his son’s baseball game AND was chauffeured 100 yards from the football field to the baseball field by state police.

    Do as I say and not as I do Christie is ridiculous and out of control.

  3. brian said at 10:25 am on June 1st, 2011:

    Yes, there goes Christie–acting just like Milhous……………….

  4. James Hogan said at 11:21 am on June 1st, 2011:

    I mean, I’m not an official authorized to speak on behalf of the party or Christie or anything… but….

    I suppose Christie COULD have not taken the helicopter to his son’s baseball game and had his State Police Driver speed down the parkway at 90mph, cause an accident which results in hundreds of thousands of dollars in injuries and damages, just like Corzine, and then we can beat him up for that instead.

    I mean, still seems like wasteful spending to me, not defending, but let’s not pretend that the other side isn’t as bad or worse and sadly “vote them all out” means having a choice of people to vote for, in most elections, there aren’t choices, at least not good ones.

  5. Aber said at 12:09 pm on June 1st, 2011:

    How much doe Assemblyman Joe Cryan make on dog fighting rings?

  6. Justified Right said at 12:12 pm on June 1st, 2011:

    Fake controversy. Always has been, always will be.

    There is nothing inherently wrong with holding more than one job, be it private or government.

    Just like the whole “pay to play” so-called problem that turned out to be nothing more than media blathering over something that wasn’t a problem at all.

  7. TR said at 6:01 pm on June 1st, 2011:

    I think the holding two public jobs becomes an issue for legislators for this reason.

    If they are getting paid in one town and not another which one are they going to “favor’

    Just the perception of this causes more towns to want to hire them.

    It is in effect a low type mof imfluence peddling.

  8. It's those said at 2:37 am on June 2nd, 2011:

    who over-do it, and work the system more, who continue to perpetuate the lousy perception of ALL gov’t. workers, most of whom have one job, one pension, and just want to live and pay their bills- any legislation that trims the salaries and bennies for “regular,” one-job employees, needs to include themselves, for once!.. it’s this “us-in-charge”, vs. “they the lowly taxpayers” attitude, that’s got the average working stiffs nuts, and I do not blame them one bit!!

  9. TR said at 10:41 am on June 2nd, 2011:

    Look we have stautes on the book that you can not be a dual office holder. That policy decision has been made. So what difference does it make wether you are a senator and a township councilman or a Senator and a municipal attorney. The same rational applies.
    The reason you can’t do the first but can do the second is hypocrisy. These guys want to be able to use there positions to get work. can’t they make a living as a lawyer w/o the extra government jobs. maybe they can’t. then make a choice. Be a legislator or be a lawyer.

    I don’t have a problem with Joe Shmoe holding multiple jobs but it appears unseemly for legislators.

  10. Vic Fedorov said at 1:01 pm on June 2nd, 2011:

    The tenth amendment posits powers not given to the federal government for the state or the people. Local officials are neither. So if one tries to explain to state legislators, local officials violate the people making decisions in peaceful assembly in ayes and nays (and towns in N.E. require quorums of 236; and towns in NJ made decisions this way into the 1900’s); and that the state constitution is unlawful in these violations; and these state legislators also work for the corporation of towns; then there is a huge conflict of interest, weighted against the people.
    How can you be in the interests of the people, and work for the incorporation of towns with local officials? Local officials so often are contrary to the obvious wishes of the local people; primarily regarding destruction of open space and forest for more population growth.
    Ethics.