Advocates for letting a union-controlled board manage the police and fire pension say they will try again next year, after Gov. Chris Christie vetoed the idea.
Earlier today we had a conversation with Pat Colligan, the President of the NJSPBA. He was going through Facebook over the weekend and stumbled on a post with a picture of medical gloves in a vending machine.
Despite objections from one of the unions that would be involved, a bipartisan Senate panel advanced a plan to shift the police/fire pension to a labor-run board.
A councilman is facing calls for his resignation after commenting on his Facebook page about last week's police shooting that left a robbery suspect dead and a police officer in the hospital.
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Gov. Chris Christie and New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Colligan engaged in a long distance war of words about pensions and Christie's record.