State Owned Bank and Legal Weed: Perfect Together?
On his Ask the Governor show on public radio last night, Governor Phil Murphy said he has a big meeting today about his idea to create a state owned bank, according to reporter Joe Hernandez.
.@GovMurphy says he has a big meeting tomorrow on his idea to create a public bank in N.J. which hasn’t gotten much attention since his campaign
— Joe Hernandez (@byJoeHernandez) February 5, 2019
As Hernandez noted in his tweet, the Murphy’s public bank idea has not gotten much attention since his 2017 campaign. So why now?
Posted: February 5th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Marijuana, New Jersey, Phil Murphy | Tags: Ask the Governor, Governor Phil Murphy, Legal weed, New Jersey, Recreational marijuana, State Bank | 1 Comment »
Gov.-elect Phil Murphy often told a story on the campaign trail about how, as a relative newcomer to statewide politics, few people in New Jersey had even heard of him before he jumped into this year’s governor’s race. After his victory last week, the same could be said about one of Murphy’s core fiscal-policy proposals -…