Dawn Fantasia
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NJ Assemblywoman LD24 ~ Public Charter School Administrator
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‼️MAKE IT MAKE SENSE Governor "lower the temperature" Sherrill can't take the heat in the kitchen: less than 24 hours after last night's mass arrests of rioters, she got SIGNIFICANT blowback from the far left fringe; she then decided to pull the NJ State Police from enforcement before sundown tonight & left the enforcement burden on Newark PD. Additionally, she continues to push the narrative that the real danger was Homeland Security ICE "surging into our streets". Madam Governor, it appears that the REAL danger is still surging... This is all so predictable. In her neverending audition for the presidency, she is scared of her own shadow, to the point of holding a NJ state legislator briefing re: Delaney Hall for DEMOCRAT LEGISLATORS ONLY. In sharp contrast, the Republican caucus received a brief email and an identical, duplicate text message from her staffers. If Governor Mikie Sherrill can't face 23 NJ Assembly GOP members and 15 from the New Jersey Senate Republicans to address our very valid safety concerns in real time, please don't EVER think she will find her backbone for you. The NJSP - New Jersey State Police did an EXCEPTIONAL job last night. Thank you Mayor Ras J. Baraka for the curfew implementation, and much gratitude for the brave men and women of the Newark PD who are standing strong for Newark and all of NJ tonight. 🎥 Eric Daugherty
Dawn Fantasia147,492 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is lying to you. PERIOD. Friday night's debacle DID NOT escalate because of Homeland Security as she just claimed in today's press conference. It escalated because of MOSTLY PEACEFUL RIOTERS. Stop insulting the intelligence of the public. The people defacing property, biting and threatening law enforcement, creating chaos, and refusing to obey lawful orders are the problem. Thank God the NJSP - New Jersey State Police were there. Thank God DHS was there when things went sideways. Leadership means telling people the truth, even when it's politically inconvenient. Stop playing dumb. Stop making excuses. Act like a leader and call this what it is. Encourage cooperation between ALL law enforcement agencies to get this under control. If your goal is to ensure humane conditions in a detention facility, you have an odd way of showing it. NJ Assembly GOP
Dawn Fantasia66,516 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Thank you,PIX11 News for including my perspective today on NJ's energy shortage. The issue is two-fold: long-term goals must be paired with short-term relief. Both houses cast a UNANIMOUS YES vote for A4881. Expanding nuclear is a critical piece of our long-term strategy, understanding the benefits are still 7-10 years away. As for IMMEDIATE RELIEF, NJ Assembly GOP already has the bills.on deck: • A5723: Suspend the sales tax & the Societal Benefits Charge on electric & gas bills, putting an estimated $400-469M back into the pockets of NJ families. • A907: Instead of asking ratepayers to bankroll another progressive policy experiment, "green energy" initiative, rebate shell game, or mandate, Trenton better make sure the people paying the bills can actually afford them first. The bill protects ratepayers from being forced to bail out failed offshore wind projects. NJ already kissed $175M goodbye on the Ørsted fiasco with nothing to show for it & this bill makes sure families aren't left paying for the next progressive failure. • A2463: Get NJ out of RGGI, the "carbon credit" scam that makes power plants pay for emissions & passes those costs on to your electric bill. NJ has collected more than $1.2B through RGGI & families are getting hammered by rising utility bills as a direct result, while the State hasn't even come close to its pipe dream emissions goals. Ending RGGI is estimated to save NJ ratepayers about $279M every year. Another inconvenient truth is that we now import roughly 40% of our electricity from neighboring states that burn fossil fuels & pat ourselves on the back like we did something noble by jacking up costs & straining the regional grid. So ridiculous. Energy & common sense are both in short supply. • My bill, A4968: Increase NJ's commitment to LIHEAP so economically- disadvantaged families who genuinely need help receive more assistance. IT'S ABOUT PRIORITIES. This debacle didn't happen TO us. Many of the same legislators who occupy the Majority embraced the dim, short-sighted policies that got us into this energy mess in the first place. Instead of funding sparkly stadium lights, French art museums, bailouts for cities that spend like spoiled teenagers with their parents' AMEX card, or millions for politically-favored recreation centers & swimming pools, how about we lower people's utility bills instead? The GOP would be more than happy to help the Majority identify where those cuts can be made to provide immediate relief for the families & businesses footing the bill. NJ Assembly GOP New Jersey Senate Republicans NJ Assembly Democrats NJ Senate Democrats Governor Mikie Sherrill
Dawn Fantasia11,209 просмотров • 10 дней назад
I'm a mom of three, and this is a message for every mom in New Jersey. Did you know .Mikie Sherrill opposed the Laken Riley Act — a bill that would have removed criminal illegal migrants from our country? She voted to allow males in female sports and safe spaces. She supports the medical transitioning of minors and opposes parental notification laws, keeping parents completely in the dark. And she supports one of the most extreme laws in the nation — right here in New Jersey — that allows abortions on minors, performed by non-doctors, without parents ever being notified. As a public school educator, I can tell you firsthand that she doesn’t want parents involved in what their children are learning or aware of the materials they’re exposed to in the classroom. That’s not protecting our daughters. That’s not protecting our kids. If you’re a mom, stand with me — and vote for Jack Ciattarelli. Protecting our families starts at the ballot box TOMORROW 🇺🇸
Dawn Fantasia121,498 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
🔌⚡Let's start with the obvious: OUR NJ ELECTRIC BILLS ARE OBSCENE. In Governor Mikie Sherrill's mammoth $60.7B budget address, she briefly referenced natural gas and nuclear energy. The rest of the speech followed the "green energy" fairy tale trajectory of her predecessor, with an emphasis on investing in solar energy and battery storage. Here’s the problem: solar and battery storage are SUPPLEMENTS, not primary power sources. Solar works when the sun's out, but the grid needs power 24/7. This may shock and surprise some, but NJ is not Texas so any comparison is completely invalid. And batteries don’t generate electricity; they store excess solar for a few hours and cost billions to build. Most store 2–4 hours of power, next generation shoots for 6–10 hours. A 24-hour battery grid is still theoretical. Here is a comparison of power reliability rates: Solar — about 8% Offshore wind — 40–50% Natural gas — 80%+ Nuclear — up to 95% Meanwhile, PJM (the regional grid operator) warned us that by 2030, the region could lose about 40 gigawatts of reliable power generation (while replacing less than half of it).Since March, there has at least been some movement on the nuclear front in NJ, but on natural gas? Mostly lip service so far. We keep hearing about storage, batteries and demand management. Great story. Where's the generation? NJ ALREADY lost $175M on the Ørsted offshore wind gamble & despite the collapse of several major projects, Trenton continues pushing to revive offshore wind, fighting federal action in court to shut it down. The kicker is that even at full capacity, that project too would have delivered well under 20 gigawatts upon completion — less than half the power NJ actually needs. So how'd we end up here in the first place? NJ used to be an energy EXPORTER. Well, Trenton Democrats shuttered reliable power before replacements existed, so now NJ IMPORTS 35–40% of our electricity from states in our regional grid. The Dems pat themselves on the back for being “green,” while importing electricity from PA generated with much-needed fossil fuels, including coal. It gets more surreal. The same Dems assign blame to (and threaten to leave) PJM. We're importing power and acting like we hold the cards. WE DON'T (just ask Pennsylvania). And "green"? Grid batteries use lithium, cobalt, nickel and other mined minerals, produced through massive industrial extraction & chemical processing. They're ridiculously expensive to build and a disposal nightmare. Is this what they call environmentally-friendly “green energy”? Now look at the budget shell game. The budget highlights spending tied to the Clean Energy Fund ($700M a year) and RGGI (roughly $80–100M annually). Those funds don’t come from Trenton. They come from YOU — surcharges you already pay for, built into your electric bill (don't forget! Over the years, billions of dollars have been diverted out of the Clean Energy Fund to plug other holes in the state budget.) THE GAME IN THE NUTSHELL: Raise your rates. Collect the money through RGGI and Clean Energy Fund charges. Hand a sliver back as a “utility credit.” Smile big at the press conference with your climate activist crew. As the Governor & Majority party celebrate "clean energy" budget spending, understand that most of it is just recycling money you've paid in your electric bill. This budget STILL gambles on “green energy.” With your wallet. SIDEBAR: During the campaign, Mikie Sherrill promised to "freeze electric rates." Fun fact: as Governor, her Executive Order didn’t freeze anything. It "urged" the Board of Public Utilities to "consider" taking action. A far cry from freezing rates, which is not a function of any NJ Governor.
Dawn Fantasia12,282 просмотров • 23 дней назад
‼️Yesterday was a morning-into-late-night marathon that culminated in Governor Mikie Sherrill taking a bow for a $60.7 billion duplicitous dumpster fire fraught with misplaced priorities, plenty of pork for the Majority, and the Left clapping like seals over the railroading of NJ families and businesses. You had to be there to fully appreciate the hypocrisy. At times, the entitlement on display was enough to choke a horse, and the NJ Assembly GOP was having none of it. The last 48 hours have been brutal with the amount of reading, writing & digesting required to get through this debacle (that was dumped on us in the wee hours of Monday morning for a Tuesday vote). On about three hours of sleep & a gallon of coffee, we came in swinging and, at the very least, were resolved to show the people of New Jersey EXACTLY what went down with YOUR MONEY. Unfortunately, my guess is many in the Majority had a very different experience. All they needed were two things: the green YES button and a finger. And I think we all know which finger that was. There are so many parts of this budget that deserve to be exposed, and over the coming days I'm going to do exactly that. From unfair school funding, bizarre Medicaid employer penalties, myopic energy policy, absurd corporate taxes, sloppy mismanagement of SNAP & Medicaid, illegal immigration legal defense funds, ridiculous and unjustified bailouts, forced high-density housing mandates, the endless cost of lawsuits— and the abhorrent backroom budget process itself— I'm going to share as best I can of how, (quite literally) the sausage gets made. I'll start with a snippet re: Education, because that's been my career long before politics. What happened in this budget to schools in the Highlands, the Pinelands, and so many other communities across New Jersey was a travesty. Now, even some of the Majority's OWN districts are feeling the heat, but they continue to toe the company line to the detriment of students and families that deserve so much better than this.
Dawn Fantasia12,371 просмотров • 23 дней назад
‼️TODAY IN TRENTON Another day, another torrid love affair between an unconstitutional bill & the Majority party. We've already stepped into this ring and gotten jabbed in the face. Now, the Majority's big idea is to climb back through the ropes & demand a rematch with your money. Seriously??? Federal immigration detention authority has been the law for nearly THREE DECADES. An inconvenient truth: President Bill Clinton (not President Donald J. Trump DJT) signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. GOP, Dems, and the courts alike have enforced & upheld it. Thirty years should be enough time for the sponsor to grasp the concept. But not in Trenton! When the progressive herd couldn't block immigration detention in court, they now try this. Only one wee little problem: WE CAN'T LEGALLY OBSTRUCT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BY TAXING ITS CONTRACTOR INTO OBLIVION. So how exactly does NJ get around federal law, the CoreCivic decision, and that pesky Supremacy Clause? Short answer: WE DON'T. And get this: the bill designates a "Detention and Deportation Defense Initiative Support Fund" designed to bankroll legal services tied to detention & deportation proceedings. Their plan is to tax detention & then use the proceeds... to fight detention. To make matters worse, the bill sponsor never answered the constitutional question because there is no answer. Instead, we got a rambling word salad of grievances, feelings, and unrelated talking points that ignored the law. At this point, I'm not convinced the sponsor read her own bill, or maybe she's hoping to find a judge willing to ignore the Constitution so this steaming pile can limp across the finish line. How much of your money was spent paying lawyers to defend the last losing argument? Apparently, losing wasn't expensive enough the first time. Trenton's biggest obstacle isn't the private contractor. It's the Constitution. NJ Assembly GOP NJ Assembly Democrats Governor Mikie Sherrill Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin Thomas D. Homan
Dawn Fantasia17,735 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
THIS IS RIDICULOUS. Before NJ appoints itself to help fill a "void in world health leadership," perhaps we should demonstrate that we've rectified the public health failures that occurred under our OWN roof? NJ paid nearly $53M to settle claims arising from tragic COVID deaths in state-run veterans homes. As a direct result, U.S. Department of Justice required reforms & ongoing independent monitoring. Nor should NJ taxpayers be footing the bill to put NJDOH officials on planes and send them halfway across the globe to participate in international health initiatives while serious public health challenges remain unresolved right here at home. We have our hands full in New Jersey. Let's focus on New Jersey. NJ Assembly GOP
Dawn Fantasia13,937 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
I beg to differ. EXHIBIT A: LAST YEAR'S DEBACLE These ARE NOT statewide priorities. THESE ARE EXTRAS— wants masquerading as needs. Hardworking NJ families ARE DONE with being taken to the cleaners for these vanity projects in Democrat districts! NJ Assembly GOP New Jersey Senate Republicans Governor Mikie Sherrill NJ Assembly Democrats NJ Senate Democrats
Dawn Fantasia18,676 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
NJ Democrats voted to create “sanctuaries” from federal law enforcement, which in turn attracts predators to the SAME SPACES that victims go for safety, all in the name of “compassion” for those here illegally. In NJ, avoiding ICE outweighs protecting victims from criminals.
Dawn Fantasia22,821 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
"She passed high school math with A’s and B’s. In college, she had to start over." I spoke about this on the floor last session. A cautionary tale ignored by the Majority in favor of feel-good policies that don't lift kids up. Our kids deserve adults who believe in them. Peter Shulman NJ Ed Report NJ Assembly GOP New Jersey Senate Republicans New Jersey Department of Education US Dept Of Education
Dawn Fantasia11,086 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
🚨"DIRTY JERSEY" ALERT🚨 Governor Phil Murphy is reported to be signing this misnamed, vile bill into law next week. Keep voting Democrat, and this lunacy will continue. YOU ARE BEING LIED TO. The FREEDOM TO READ Act is cleverly titled, yet is not only meant to ensure the free-flow of speech and ideology (legal and protected speech), but also provides cover for the distribution of sexually-explicit materials to minors (illegal). A faction of misguided educators and legislators are feigning ignorance about content. Some texts are in clear violation of NJ's obscenity for minors statutes. These include "how-to" guides for teens on performing sex acts, how to use sex toys and lubricants, how to take and distribute topless selfies, how to use sex hook-up apps, and how to research their favorite adult performers, with instructions to "pay for your porn", with the most ironic of warnings to minors that doing so may be illegal. And yes, this garbage is in your high school libraries, accessible to 14-17 year-olds. Supporters then claim the false narrative that opposition to this bill is simply homophobic, transphobic, hateful, or bigoted. That the materials are "developmentally-appropriate" and have "educational value". They label the opposition as "hateful" and "anti-government". It's a poorly-defended pivot, a gaslighting strategy using textbook, carefully-crafted and rehearsed propaganda techniques. The plain truth is that distribution under current NJ law is illegal. Riddle me this- when these texts are read aloud in public meetings or publicly displayed or shared on social media, why are they immediately removed? Why were the NJ State Police instructed to remove such materials from the General Assembly committee meeting room? If the supporting legislators believe these materials are okay for your child's library, why do the same legislators find these materials inappropriate for public view? I don't believe any legislator or educator who claims to support protecting children from sexual exploitation when they endorse such distribution. Open your eyes. The "freedom to read" could easily be protected with an exemption for access to sexually-explicit materials by minors, and without legal immunity for the adults who provide such.
Dawn Fantasia48,841 просмотров • 1 год назад
‼️TODAY IN TRENTON: Scrapping the HS graduation test isn’t equity, it’s surrender. When adults tell kids they can’t do it, they won’t. HALF of NJ HS graduates need remedial classes in college & lack workforce readiness. We fix this with support & remediation, not elimination.
Dawn Fantasia23,200 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
In the budget hearings this week, NJ Assembly Democrats had the stones to say criticizing leadership at Newark Public Schools is a "dog whistle"?! Let me tell you something: a dog whistle is a secret message, and the not-so-hidden message here is that if you criticize them, you’re racist. You mean to tell me your best defense for open bars, caviar, and trips to Honolulu is to call people racist for pointing it out, while kids, many of them children of color living in poverty, are struggling??? When 70% of kids can’t read on grade level and 80% can’t meet grade level expectations in math, when only 12% of kids who were supposed to get tutoring actually got it, when Newark allocates $1.4 million to a learning consultant who doesn’t even show up and then the money disappears, and we’re the ones being called racist for pointing that out? What kind of stupid argument is that? MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LEARNING LOSS REMEDIATION FUNDS CAN’T BE ACCOUNTED FOR. When Newark wants to spend $500 million to lease a school building for 667 kids, the most expensive school building in the history of New Jersey, and that building is tied to one of the largest political donors in Newark? And don’t forget the SDA collaborating with Newark to overpay $7 million for a building in an area of the city that already had an overflow of open seats in existing buildings??? Somebody’s pockets are getting greased, my friends. You want to call it a dog whistle instead of actually being responsible and holding their feet to the fire to answer where that money went that was supposed to go to kids, at-risk kids??? This isn’t a dog whistle. This is us standing on top of a mountain with a megaphone. There’s no coded message here. ADULTS ARE BLOWING TAXPAYER MONEY ON THINGS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH LEARNING and you can call it whatever you want. We call it waste. We call it fraud. We call it abuse of taxpayer dollars and vulnerable kids in a vulnerable community. YOU should be outraged, but you're SILENT. White, Black, Brown, CUT IT OUT. That money is taxpayer money, and it’s meant for kids, not caviar. NJ Assembly GOP Mike Inganamort Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger Fox News NJ Ed Report
Dawn Fantasia11,239 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
🚨 ATTENTION NJ CD-11 🚨 If Mikie Sherrill was your former Congresswoman, you vote to pick her replacement THIS THURSDAY, 4/16.Polls open 6AM to 8PM. Do your part and send Joe Hathaway for Congress to represent you! 🇺🇸 The alternative is just a delight: a Socialist “Squad” understudy. New Jersey GOP
Dawn Fantasia10,189 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
‼️I hope you're sitting down. NJ Democrat leadership thought it was a good idea to put a bill up YESTERDAY that will RAISE YOUR ELECTRIC RATES against the advice of the Division of Rate Counsel. Assemblyman Paul Kanitra NAILS IT. The bill passed out of committee with only Dem support 🤯
Dawn Fantasia27,892 просмотров • 1 год назад