Jack Ciatterelli
All information was found via Jack Ciaterrelli’s official campaign website, https://www.jack4nj.com/.
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Jack believes that the decision to seek an abortion should be between a woman, her partner, her faith, and her healthcare professionals. He would prohibit elective abortions after 20 weeks, support parental notification for minors seeking an abortion, oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, oppose the “Reproductive Freedom Act” that allows abortion up to the moment of birth, and support education and innovative approaches to reduce teenage and unwanted pregnancies.
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Climate and the environment is not mentioned as a main priority on Jack Ciatterelli’s website.
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Jack will cap property taxes to a percentage of assessed home value, reduce state spending by 30% and aggressively use the line item veto pen to eliminate and prevent waste, reduce the Corporation Business Tax by one percent per year for five years, reduce income taxes for all taxpayers, and make student loan interest tax deductible. Jack will also refund the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition for anyone who attends college in New Jersey then lives and works here for a minimum of three years upon graduation.
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Jack plans on setting a statewide standard on per-pupil spending and coordinate the expansion of Pre-K utilizing existing private day care providers. He will expand charter schools and loosen restrictions on the inter-district public school school choice program. Jack will implement a Parents’ Bill of Rights that provides transparency to parents by requiring K-12 curriculum sources to be posted online at the beginning of each school year and reform requirements for sexual and social education to make content age-appropriate for elementary, middle school-aged, and high school children.
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listed on his issues as “Gun Rights”
Jack will standardize the process by which firearms ID cards and gun carry permits are process and approved. He will speed up gun permit application processes with “fast track” status for applicants who face imminent danger.”
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Jack will ensure that health insurance plans cover all out-of-network expenses for emergent medical care and support state-sponsored reinsurance programs to make coverage more available and affordable. He will work to lower insurance costs, reject limitations of coverage for pre-existing medical conditions, and improve access to telehealth.
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Immigration is not mentioned as a main priority on Jack Ciatterelli’s website. However, under the portion of “respect for law enforcement,” Jack says he will repeal the Immigrant Trust Directive and ban municipalities from declaring themselves Sanctuary Cities with municipal aid withheld from those that disobey until they comply.
Jim Gannon, Lieutenant Governor
Jack Ciatterelli has selected Morris County Sheriff Jim Gannon as his lieutenant governor. As Sheriff, Gannon is focused on strengthening relationships with agencies to keep neighborhoods, schools, houses of worship, and businesses safe. In the first 100 days of his administration (he is currently in his third elected term), he partnered with nonprofit entities to create Hope One, a mobile substance use and mental health disorder outreach that stops in communities to provide free Narcan training and access to addiction recovery and mental health programs. Gannon earned hiss associate’s degree in law enforcement from County College of Morris, his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice administration from William Paterson University, and a masters of administrative science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.