Sweeney and Oliver have been removed from their leadership positions. This outcome confirms that internal party accountability is achievable when the pressure remains constant. We are transitioning our focus to monitoring the transition process to ensure new leadership adheres to the principles we defended.
December 28, 2011
Final supporters
Demand the Removal of Senate President, Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker, Sheila Oliver From Leadership Positions
To: New Jersey State Democratic Committee , Chairman John Wisniewski
We the undersigned citizens and registered voters of New Jersey demand that Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver be removed from their leadership positions due to their lack of appreciation and understanding of the principles of participatory democracy, strategic leadership, and the Democratic Party.
WE STATE AND BELIEVE :
1. Sweeney and Oliver betrayed core principles of the Democratic Party by engineering the passage of Governor Christie’s State Pension and Health Benefits Bill, including the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights.
2. Sweeney and Oliver handed Governor Christie his greatest legislative victory to date, thereby greatly strengthening the Republican Party in New Jersey at the expense of the Democratic Party.
3. Sweeney and Oliver advanced the bill, contrary to the wishes of the majority of the members of Democratic Caucuses of both the Senate and the Assembly.
4. Sweeney and Oliver voted for Christie’s State Pension and Health Benefits Bill, despite the fact that the majority of the members of Democratic Caucuses of both the Senate and the Assembly voted against it.
5. Sweeney and Oliver failed to negotiate anything in exchange for their vote, such as advancing the Democratic Party’s legislative goal of the Millionaires Tax . Instead, Governor Christie announced before even signing the Pension and Health Benefits Bill that he would veto the Democrat’s Budget and the Millionaires Tax.
6. It is widely believed that Sweeney and Oliver made the deal to enact the State Pension and Health Benefits Bill for the benefit of George Norcross, Joe Divincenzo and Steve Adubato, Sr., and not for the benefit of the People of New Jersey nor for the Democratic Party. Sweeney and Oliver thus brought disrepute to the Democratic Party as an essentially corrupt organization beholden to political bosses.
7. The majority of the Democratic Caucuses in the Senate and the Assembly that opposed Sweeney and Oliver on the Pension and Health Benefits Bill cannot permit them to remain in their leadership positions. Leaders who engineer the defeat of their own Party’s principles are political traitors, and cannot continue to stand as the two most powerful elected “leaders” of the Democratic Party in the State of New Jersey.
8. The Democratic Caucuses in the Senate and the Assembly have the power to remove Steve Sweeney from his position as President of the Senate and to remove Sheila Oliver from her position as Assembly Speaker. They must do so immediately in order to reclaim the Democratic Party’s soul prior to the November Elections .
We invite you to download a copy of the petition to collect signatures from your family, friends and co-workers, then return them by mail to: NJ-CAN, P.O. Box 54, Collingswood, NJ 08108
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
August 15, 2011
13 Comments
End the corruption and collusion once and for all. Especially Sweeny who will run for Governor and raise taxes and line his own pockets with our money that's already being wasted.
Thank you for siding with Christie on pensions. Now I am paying more and NJ is STILL not making the full payment as promised in 2011!
Enough of your constitution violating bills! Time to vacate the office for crimes against the "we the people's" rights.
Mr Sweeney it's time that you found a real job you've tortured Gloucester County and the state for too long and keep trying to take away our God given rights, you are not God you are not our parents and you are not a nanny, and at that moment you are the employee of the people of the state, but because of your self serving ideals you belong out now!
Dear Mr Sweeney. Your attacks on our rights have gone too far. I am no longer about to stomach your un-American actions.
Sweeny is so corrupt, I know people who work for him and some of the stories will blow your mind. This man should not be in any leadership position. ever.
End the corruption and collusion once and for all. Especially Sweeny who will run for Governor and raise taxes and line his own pockets with our money that's already being wasted.
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Sweeney and Oliver have been removed from their leadership positions. This outcome confirms that internal party accountability is achievable when the pressure remains constant. We are transitioning our focus to monitoring the transition process to ensure new leadership adheres to the principles we defended.
December 28, 2011
Final supporters
Demand the Removal of Senate President, Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker, Sheila Oliver From Leadership Positions
To: New Jersey State Democratic Committee , Chairman John Wisniewski
We the undersigned citizens and registered voters of New Jersey demand that Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver be removed from their leadership positions due to their lack of appreciation and understanding of the principles of participatory democracy, strategic leadership, and the Democratic Party.
WE STATE AND BELIEVE :
1. Sweeney and Oliver betrayed core principles of the Democratic Party by engineering the passage of Governor Christie’s State Pension and Health Benefits Bill, including the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights.
2. Sweeney and Oliver handed Governor Christie his greatest legislative victory to date, thereby greatly strengthening the Republican Party in New Jersey at the expense of the Democratic Party.
3. Sweeney and Oliver advanced the bill, contrary to the wishes of the majority of the members of Democratic Caucuses of both the Senate and the Assembly.
4. Sweeney and Oliver voted for Christie’s State Pension and Health Benefits Bill, despite the fact that the majority of the members of Democratic Caucuses of both the Senate and the Assembly voted against it.
5. Sweeney and Oliver failed to negotiate anything in exchange for their vote, such as advancing the Democratic Party’s legislative goal of the Millionaires Tax . Instead, Governor Christie announced before even signing the Pension and Health Benefits Bill that he would veto the Democrat’s Budget and the Millionaires Tax.
6. It is widely believed that Sweeney and Oliver made the deal to enact the State Pension and Health Benefits Bill for the benefit of George Norcross, Joe Divincenzo and Steve Adubato, Sr., and not for the benefit of the People of New Jersey nor for the Democratic Party. Sweeney and Oliver thus brought disrepute to the Democratic Party as an essentially corrupt organization beholden to political bosses.
7. The majority of the Democratic Caucuses in the Senate and the Assembly that opposed Sweeney and Oliver on the Pension and Health Benefits Bill cannot permit them to remain in their leadership positions. Leaders who engineer the defeat of their own Party’s principles are political traitors, and cannot continue to stand as the two most powerful elected “leaders” of the Democratic Party in the State of New Jersey.
8. The Democratic Caucuses in the Senate and the Assembly have the power to remove Steve Sweeney from his position as President of the Senate and to remove Sheila Oliver from her position as Assembly Speaker. They must do so immediately in order to reclaim the Democratic Party’s soul prior to the November Elections .
We invite you to download a copy of the petition to collect signatures from your family, friends and co-workers, then return them by mail to: NJ-CAN, P.O. Box 54, Collingswood, NJ 08108
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
August 15, 2011
13 Comments
Sweeny is so corrupt, I know people who work for him and some of the stories will blow your mind. This man should not be in any leadership position. ever.
End the corruption and collusion once and for all. Especially Sweeny who will run for Governor and raise taxes and line his own pockets with our money that's already being wasted.
Thank you for siding with Christie on pensions. Now I am paying more and NJ is STILL not making the full payment as promised in 2011!
Enough of your constitution violating bills! Time to vacate the office for crimes against the "we the people's" rights.
Mr Sweeney it's time that you found a real job you've tortured Gloucester County and the state for too long and keep trying to take away our God given rights, you are not God you are not our parents and you are not a nanny, and at that moment you are the employee of the people of the state, but because of your self serving ideals you belong out now!
Dear Mr Sweeney. Your attacks on our rights have gone too far. I am no longer about to stomach your un-American actions.
Sweeny is so corrupt, I know people who work for him and some of the stories will blow your mind. This man should not be in any leadership position. ever.
End the corruption and collusion once and for all. Especially Sweeny who will run for Governor and raise taxes and line his own pockets with our money that's already being wasted.
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Sweeny is so corrupt, I know people who work for him and some of the stories will blow your mind. This man should not be in any leadership position. ever.