He left office as Mayor of Bogota in 2007 to become the Chairman of Americans for Prosperity.
As mayor of Bogota Lonegan ordered the municipality to hire civilian emergency dispatchers at lower pay, he refused to implement Length of Service Awards for which was a reward to volunteer firemen and women as well as volunteer rescue personnel. These men and women dedicated themselves to becoming professionals in every meaning of the word and to serve in a capacity to protect the public without asking for pay. They were purely volunteer. The Length of Service Award Program was to reward them when they retired to enjoy a pension as if they were paid professionals all those year. Those people deserved that and Lonegan took that away from them.
As Chairman of Americans for Prosperity, he fought paid family leave. That is a federal law. What would he seek to do in DC, dissolve The Family Medical Leave Act.
His entire history of political performance is copied from Wikipedia. It is plagiarized. (click here)
There are claims in Wiki and on his website that cannot be validated or substantiated. Basically, the man is lying about his accomplishments to oppose initiatives in New Jersey.
Lonegan fair housing mandates in 2007 just before the global economic collapse. And get this he opposed sprinklers in what was suppose to be fireproof high rise buildings. No one opposes sprinklers in high rise buildings. That is crazy.
Any record about the defeat of a $450 million ballot initiative to address competitiveness of stem cell research is attributed to the awareness of the state's budget problems, not Lonegan.
...Yet voters approved borrowing $200 million to preserve open space. Explaining the seemingly mixed message, former Gov. Brendan T. Byrne said (click here) that the $450 million sought for stem cell research was “an intimidating figure,” but that the money for open space was approved because New Jersey has always been environmentally aware....
And the reason the ballot initiative was not brought up again is because the delay would remove NJ's ability to compete. So why be late to the process? This ballot initiative happened after the 2008 economic collapse and the public was still realizing the outcomes from it. The Open Space funding is about jobs. New Jersey has tourism and recreation based heavily in Open Space. So, there is no question any movement against the environment would destroy jobs and recreational activities. Fishing is a big pastime along the Jersey Shore. Water quality is very important and ways to improve it and preserve it.
Lonegan bases his credentials in being angry and in opposition. He simply does not have the capacity Booker has in the depth of his preparedness or experience.
I don't believe he is a nice man. I mean who would want to see people in volunteer service deprived of a reward after decades of service? That's crazy.
Steve Lonegan is not a Chris Christie. Christie has credentials that places him in a valued class of people with political aspirations. He was a very valued US Attorney. He fought for the little guy.
Cutting of pension benefits for long serving volunteers is not fighting for the little guy. Lonegan is in a completely different class of politician. He is not qualified to lead. Just because he is on the ballot next to someone very qualified and desirable does not place him in the same class. That simply means he is available to fill a spot on the ballot, it is not at all about abilities to carry out the responsibility of the office. He plagarized his website. Hello? I would think when a candidate exhibits UNETHICAL behavior on his campaign website that might reflect values no one wants to reward.
As mayor of Bogota Lonegan ordered the municipality to hire civilian emergency dispatchers at lower pay, he refused to implement Length of Service Awards for which was a reward to volunteer firemen and women as well as volunteer rescue personnel. These men and women dedicated themselves to becoming professionals in every meaning of the word and to serve in a capacity to protect the public without asking for pay. They were purely volunteer. The Length of Service Award Program was to reward them when they retired to enjoy a pension as if they were paid professionals all those year. Those people deserved that and Lonegan took that away from them.
As Chairman of Americans for Prosperity, he fought paid family leave. That is a federal law. What would he seek to do in DC, dissolve The Family Medical Leave Act.
His entire history of political performance is copied from Wikipedia. It is plagiarized. (click here)
There are claims in Wiki and on his website that cannot be validated or substantiated. Basically, the man is lying about his accomplishments to oppose initiatives in New Jersey.
Lonegan fair housing mandates in 2007 just before the global economic collapse. And get this he opposed sprinklers in what was suppose to be fireproof high rise buildings. No one opposes sprinklers in high rise buildings. That is crazy.
Any record about the defeat of a $450 million ballot initiative to address competitiveness of stem cell research is attributed to the awareness of the state's budget problems, not Lonegan.
...Yet voters approved borrowing $200 million to preserve open space. Explaining the seemingly mixed message, former Gov. Brendan T. Byrne said (click here) that the $450 million sought for stem cell research was “an intimidating figure,” but that the money for open space was approved because New Jersey has always been environmentally aware....
And the reason the ballot initiative was not brought up again is because the delay would remove NJ's ability to compete. So why be late to the process? This ballot initiative happened after the 2008 economic collapse and the public was still realizing the outcomes from it. The Open Space funding is about jobs. New Jersey has tourism and recreation based heavily in Open Space. So, there is no question any movement against the environment would destroy jobs and recreational activities. Fishing is a big pastime along the Jersey Shore. Water quality is very important and ways to improve it and preserve it.
Lonegan bases his credentials in being angry and in opposition. He simply does not have the capacity Booker has in the depth of his preparedness or experience.
I don't believe he is a nice man. I mean who would want to see people in volunteer service deprived of a reward after decades of service? That's crazy.
Steve Lonegan is not a Chris Christie. Christie has credentials that places him in a valued class of people with political aspirations. He was a very valued US Attorney. He fought for the little guy.
Cutting of pension benefits for long serving volunteers is not fighting for the little guy. Lonegan is in a completely different class of politician. He is not qualified to lead. Just because he is on the ballot next to someone very qualified and desirable does not place him in the same class. That simply means he is available to fill a spot on the ballot, it is not at all about abilities to carry out the responsibility of the office. He plagarized his website. Hello? I would think when a candidate exhibits UNETHICAL behavior on his campaign website that might reflect values no one wants to reward.
Lonegan
led efforts to defeat a plan to borrow $450 Million to fund embryonic
stem cell research. The New Jersey vote marked the first time this kind
of spending had been defeated at the polls and has not been put before
the public since then. - See more at:
http://constitutionalrightspac.com/constitutional-candidates/steve-lonegan-for-senate#sthash.RPIehQDq.dpu
