If you could spend 10 minutes talking to our newly elected governor, what would you say?
Patricia Magee, Asbury Park & Charles Lauge, Spring Lake
Pat: Affordable housing. I think they should turn Fort Monmouth into affordable housing. Everybody says not in my back yard, but they could make it into low income condos.
Charles: Property taxes. My house is paid for but the taxes are getting out of hand.
My kids, like my daughter Patty, cant get their own place. Its too expensive.
Dorothy Argyros, Neptune
I would discuss eminent domain, mass eminent domain, which, in Neptune, is an invasion and capture of private property, pretty much low income to enrich the developers and crooked politicians.
Meredith & Joe Piddington, Bradley Beach
The coastal environment. Even with all the foundations, organization and such – we still have the same problems along the coast we had 10 years ago. Were still finding syringes, condoms, latex gloves, tampons, etc., along the beach.
We need to clean the beaches during the winter time, not just during the summer.
Richard Colarusso & Jennifer Clancy, Ocean Township
Clean water off the coast of New Jersey. Thats an important issue.
Somebody needs to take some responsibility for it.
People think its clean – but it not as clean as people think it is.
Im in the water and I see what floats around. And I see the beaches in off season when its not cleaned.
It has to be taken seriously.
Barbara Cleland, Asbury Park
Ethics. All these scandals, they get into. All the deals they make.
Sleeping with the unions, not paying taxes on waterfront property.
Ethics. We need somebody honest.
Doug Cooley & Kate Lewis-Cooley, Allenwood
Doug: The fact that New Jersey gets back so little from the federal government. In fact, all the blue states get back less.
In essence, the red states are welfare states.
Lisa: I want him to take the developers off the fast track.
We need to slow down sprawl.
Lori Koleda, Ocean Grove
We have the highest property taxes in the United States and I would ask him what he planned to do to remedy that.
I want to know how we can protect our children from predators.
And also, I would want to know how we can educate people and cut down on the unwanted pet population.
And then I would say, lets make the EZPass more uniform, by keeping all those lanes to the left.
On a lighter note, can we make a left turn without going around a jughandle?
Sean Reid, Ocean Township
Property taxes and education and a way to refund education to improve the skills of students and teachers salaries.
We need to fund education without putting the burden on the public via property taxes.
Other states do it and it seems to work.
North Carolina does it, and thats just one example.
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