It was all budget talk in Toms River as New Jersey's leading Republicans in the State Legislature, Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. and Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce met with Ocean County Freeholder Director John Bartlett and Freeholder Gerry Little.
DeCroce says Ocean County's budget is a model for the state, which has a bad habit of overspending. The Assemblyman says "Governor Corzine and the Democratic Legislature had to borrow money just to pay the rebate back to the seniors, and they shouldn't have done that."
Senator Tom Kean, Jr. says Governor Corzine is keeping his fiscal plan a secret and is not willing to work with a bipartisan group of legislators, "He wants to go at it alone and offer solutions on June 15th for a problem that is happening today...that is wrong."
The pair praised Ocean County Freeholders for putting together a spending plan that held the line on taxes and included no cuts in services or programs. The 357 million dollar county budget had no tax increase, reduced overtime, and cut operating expenses.
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