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nowBuzz up!Christie urges media to 'take the bat' to Senator Weinberg on pension issue
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Last updated: Wednesday April 13, 2011, 6:59 PM
BY ELISE YOUNG
State House Bureau
STATE HOUSE BUREAU
Governor Christie told reporters Wednesday to take the bat to 76-year-old Sen. Loretta Weinberg for collecting a taxpayer-funded pension while making $49,000 a year as a legislator.
FILE PHOTO
Sen. Loretta Weinberg His comments came a day after an Eagleton Institute poll found that New Jerseys Republicans and Democrats increasingly consider the governor arrogant and a bully, in addition to smart and a strong leader.
Christies dig at Weinberg has its roots in a pension matter involving Joseph DiVincenzo, a Democratic ally of the governor. The website PolitickerNJ was first to report last month that DiVincenzo, the Essex County executive, retired last year, started collecting a pension, then returned to the same job. His annual combined public pay is $222,000.
Weinberg, a Teaneck Democrat and legislator since 1992, for years has called for an overhaul of the state pension system, which is $45.8 billion shy of its ideal funding level. In a Star-Ledger story April 3, she suggested that Christie who does not hesitate to lambaste pension abusers was not appropriately critical of DiVincenzos arrangement.
Weinberg herself is on the pension rolls, collecting about $36,000 a year based on her years in a full-time Bergen County job and in other government positions
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nowBuzz up!Christie urges media to 'take the bat' to Senator Weinberg on pension issue
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Last updated: Wednesday April 13, 2011, 6:59 PM
BY ELISE YOUNG
State House Bureau
STATE HOUSE BUREAU
Governor Christie told reporters Wednesday to take the bat to 76-year-old Sen. Loretta Weinberg for collecting a taxpayer-funded pension while making $49,000 a year as a legislator.
FILE PHOTO
Sen. Loretta Weinberg His comments came a day after an Eagleton Institute poll found that New Jerseys Republicans and Democrats increasingly consider the governor arrogant and a bully, in addition to smart and a strong leader.
Christies dig at Weinberg has its roots in a pension matter involving Joseph DiVincenzo, a Democratic ally of the governor. The website PolitickerNJ was first to report last month that DiVincenzo, the Essex County executive, retired last year, started collecting a pension, then returned to the same job. His annual combined public pay is $222,000.
Weinberg, a Teaneck Democrat and legislator since 1992, for years has called for an overhaul of the state pension system, which is $45.8 billion shy of its ideal funding level. In a Star-Ledger story April 3, she suggested that Christie who does not hesitate to lambaste pension abusers was not appropriately critical of DiVincenzos arrangement.
Weinberg herself is on the pension rolls, collecting about $36,000 a year based on her years in a full-time Bergen County job and in other government positions
Continue:Christie urges media to 'take the bat' to Senator Weinberg on pension issue - NorthJersey.com