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Reviews mostly good for Murphy’s State of the State address
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Gov. Phil Murphy robustly defended his administration’s spending priorities
The reviews were mostly good for Gov. Phil Murphy’s seventh State of the State address, which featured a feisty governor and a bulging portfolio of what will be mostly popular bills.
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Reviews mostly good for Murphy’s State of the State address
Clip: 1/15/2025 | 3m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
The reviews were mostly good for Gov. Phil Murphy’s seventh State of the State address, which featured a feisty governor and a bulging portfolio of what will be mostly popular bills.
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Governor Murphy laid out top priorities for his final 370 days in office during the annual state of the state address on Tuesday.
The governor vowed he isn't done yet, promising to put his head down and run through the tape even as a lame duck.
And while most political analysts agree the bulk of proposals are low hanging fruit, they're also likely to get the support needed to be accomplished.
Senior political correspondent David Cruz takes a look.
I'm not done yet, and we're not done yet.
Phil Murphy waited until his seventh state of the state address to let it all hang out.
The reviews mostly good for the speech, which included a bulging portfolio of what will be mostly popular bills and as feisty as Murphy, as we've seen in this context.
To those of you running around complaining about our administration's spending priorities.
Why don't you level with the people of new Jersey, by the way they're watching?
Why don't you turn around and face our teachers, our police officers, our firefighters, and tell all the hardworking people who serve our state that you want to defund their pensions and deny them their hard earned retirement?
Or why don't you tell our state's parents that you want to defund our schools and deprive our children of the education they deserve?
And by the way, at the same time, make our families pay more in property taxes or tell commuters which road you won't fix or the train that you won't upgrade or tell all the women seeking essential health care, whether it's a mammogram or an ultrasound, that you're willing to defund Planned Parenthood.
Just like the last administration did.
Even standing up for a former Senate candidate and maternal health advocate, the first lady.
Point of personal privilege, if I may.
You don't get nearly the credit that you deserve.
God bless you.
We have not had a second term, governor, with popular approval for quite some time.
He's not looking for reelection.
He's not looking for his wife's election.
He's not looking for his next job.
He is.
He's in this position that voters actually are probably very happy with, which is what can I get done?
Free all day kindergarten, affordable housing, fixes to parole, killing the farms for the rich, tax break even banning cell phones in schools.
It's almost as if he was reading the Democratic Party's internal after election report, and he got the memo.
Columnist Charlie Style has seen his share of these speeches.
He said what he heard loudest was a reference Murphy didn't make.
One thing that was noticeably absent was any reference to stay NJ.
And that is, you know, Craig Collins.
That's his baby.
That's his brainchild.
This is what he's been pushing now for a couple of years.
Touring the state, going to senior centers.
And this is now crunch time for that program.
Murphy may be on to something there.
Critics say stay NJ is easier to say.
You support it than it is to actually fund.
I'd love to give everybody a Cadillac and a mansion on the knapsack.
But if you can't afford it, you can't afford it.
If there's a way to fund stand, Jay and I would make it a priority.
State of the state speeches are good for sharing a vision.
But the proof of the pudding is always in the annual budget.
Address.
And that comes next month.
I'm David Cruz, NJ Spotlight News.
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