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Jack Ciattarelli, candidate for NJ Governor, spoke with Liberty and Prosperity Exec Director, Seth Grossman.
Ciattarelli outlined several policies that he believes will significantly impact New Jersey’s economic and social landscape.
Listen to podcast. WPG Radio, Sat, AUG 16, 2025.
Cost of Energy
We will act immediately to reopen, rebuild, or replace the six power plants that were shut down by Governor Phil Murphy during the past eight years. That includes Beesley’s Point Plant by the Garden State Parkway Bridge by Milepost 28. It includes the nuclear power at Oyster Creek in Lacey Township that he shut down. We can quickly start work on three to four new plants that could come online within two years. We need to expand capacity within the existing nuclear footprint at Salem. The two plants we have there already produce 42% of the electricity in New Jersey dirt cheap. That is the only reason we don’t pay even more for electricity!
Seth Grossman: “Murphy and the Democrats were wrong to shut down that power plant at Beesley’s Point to experiment with ocean wind. But they were absolutely evil when they blew up that plant before finding out if their experiment would work! It is still very do-able to rebuild that plant. All of the high voltage lines are already in place and the site is ready for constructions. I’m sure the unions would support the project 100%.
Jack Ciattarelli: Our electric rates are going through the roof because we in New Jersey used to make more than enough cheap electricity. We used to sell our extra electricity to other states. After Murphy shut down six power plants, we don’t have enough power. We have to buy very expensive electricity from out of state. The only way to fix this problem is to re-open, replace and rebuild the six plants Murphy shut down–and then build a few more.
When we do this, we will bring rates down, we will keep the businesses from leaving and we will bring in new business. That includes. data centers to support AI. Even a Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro is burning coal to keep electricity affordable in Pennsylvania. That’s why many of our businesses are moving there.
Seth Grossman and Jack Ciattarelli: The latest plan by the BPU’s for a one-time $100 tax credit on electric bills is a cheap gimmick. You pay $100 less before the November election and then you pay a whole lot more afterwards!
Crime and Bail Reform
We gave an explosion of car-thefts, break-ins, vandalism and burglaries in our suburbs. That so called bail-reform that Democrats pushed through ten years ago was a disaster. We need to immediately repeal that amendment so we can lock these people up. We are putting these criminals back on the street as soon as we arrest them. This “arrest, release, repeat” cycle is creating a new class of “professional criminals”.
Ciattarelli: We can do two things right away: Get rid of that fake “bail-reform” and end Murphy’s so-called sanctuary city and sanctuary state status. We have too many people who have no business being in this country committing too many crimes.
The State Income Tax Is Supposed to Fund “Property Tax Relief” For Everyone. Democrats Use It As A Slush Fund To Get Themselves Re-Elected!
Jack Ciattarelli: Every dollar we pay in state income tax is supposed to be earmarked for Property Tax Relief. Democrats are using most of that money as a slush fund to help Democrats get re-elected. They are shortchanging well-run towns in the suburbs. I would distribute that money equally to all towns equally like Senator Mike Doherty proposed years ago.
This would cut the school portion of the property tax bills for everybody! It would force the handful of Democrat towns that misuse that money to be more responsible.
School districts cost per pupil.
Some of these Democrat run school districts are spending $37,000 per student! That is simply not sustainable”
Jack Ciattarelli: “We need to stop forcing every town to build high density, subsidized housing. It just doesn’t work in every town!“
“We can’t just stick hundreds of low-income units in towns where there’s no mass transit, no infrastructure, no store capacity, storm water management issues. . .
“We need to It seeks to preserve the character of suburban communities and the quality of life that residents have worked so hard and sacrificed for. . . “
Judicial Appointments and Executive Power:
Jack Ciattarelli: “If judges try to block these essential and long overdue measures, I will have a chance to appoint at least two new Supreme Court state justices, including the Chief Justice, to get this done”
Jack Ciattarelli: I know I’m an accountant and not a lawyer. But I know that our State Constitution gives the Governor of New Jersey more power than any other Governor in America. I intend to use all of that power to get these things. People in New Jersey are tired of Republicans who make excuses instead of getting things done.
Ciattarelli campaign website is jack4nj.com.
