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Article: TRENTON DEMOCRATS SWIPE SHORE PROTECTION FUNDS

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June 20, 2008
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The New Jersey State Senate Republicans issued the following news release:

Senator Joseph Kyrillos, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Economic Growth Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee's passage of legislation which would redirect $9 million in funds dedicated to shore protection and beach replenishment. The Shore Protection Fund was created as a direct result of 1991 "Perfect Storm" a Nor'easter that caused massive damage along the coast from New Jersey to Maine.

"I am thoroughly frustrated by the insistence of the Trenton Democrats to the diversion of more than one third of the funds dedicated to shore protection ...

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