Lonegan Sues State Over School Debt ; Says $3.9b Bond Bypassed Voters
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › July 29, 2008
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Former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan sued the state of New Jersey on Monday over its plans to spend $3.9 billion on school construction projects, saying that the new debt is unconstitutional.
Lonegan, the executive director of the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a taxpayer advocacy group, filed the lawsuit Monday in Superior Court in Hackensack, then held a news conference below the courthouse steps next to an inflated, 20-foot-high replica of an automated teller machine.See the full content of this document
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Lonegan Sues State Over School Debt ; Says $3.9b Bond Bypassed Voters
"It's time to put an end to treating the taxpayers of New Jersey like an ATM," he said.
Lonegan filed a similar suit in 2000, when the Legislature vot...See the full content of this document
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