How New Jersey’s Top Lawmaker Plans to Fix the Pension System
- Sweeney wants to ‘click with public’ for latest stab at reform
- Building on study that predicts billions of dollars in savings
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New Jersey’s top-ranking lawmaker is counting on turning around the state’s budget-choking pension system by tapping homeowners’ disgust with paying the highest property taxes in the nation.
“If we can click with the public and they get angry, we’ve got to channel that anger to demand solutions,” Senate President Steve Sweeney, a Democrat from West Deptford who has flirted with running for governor, said in a Thursday interview in Bloomberg’s Princeton office.