Garden State Patriot

In a blow to New Jersey taxpayers, a Superior Court Judge in Bergen County dismissed a lawsuit by Steve Lonegan which aimed to block the state from spending $3.9 billion on school construction without voter approval. As I detailed in a previous post last week, New Jersey’s Supreme Court opened the floodgates to out of control state spending when they decided against Lonegan in two previous cases (Lonegan I & II). By virtue of this decision, New Jersey taxpayers have no recourse in preventing the state from continuing to recklessly spend our tax dollars and pile up even more debt.

However, Lonegan plans to appeal the ruling and his lead attorney Seth Grossman sees this is just one step towards ultimately having the case heard in the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Steve Lonegan will be appealing Superior Court Judge Jonathan Harris’ ruling dismissing the Lonegan v. Corzine case that seeks to block the sale of $3.9 billion in school construction bonds to be marketed without voter approval.

“This is what we expected” said Attorney Seth Grossman. “A lower court judge will not overturn a Supreme Court decision and this is just the first step on our march to the State Supreme Court for them to review and overturn their prior 4-3 decision against taxpayers.” Grossman said.

The decision is just one battle in the long war to return sanity to New Jersey’s State Government. Since 2001, New Jersey’s debt has soared from $11.7 billion to over $40 billion in debt, or more than $50,000 for every man, woman and child in the state.

Of course, GSP will keep you posted as this story unfolds!