Statement on OPRA Legislation by Former Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg

“Today, the Democratic-led State Legislature, a body I served for more than two decades, collaborated with Republicans to fundamentally gut our Open Public Records Act. Leadership reached across the aisle  to pass this anti-democratic bill because they didn’t have enough democratic votes in their caucus. Secrecy and evading accountability, I guess, has turned bipartisan. I could not be more disappointed in the New Jersey State Legislature.

“The Democratic Party, I believed, was the party that stood against the corruption of power and stood for integrity, transparency and democracy. To Senators Zwicker and Timberlake, thank you for holding tight to our democratic values, for voting no and for fighting, not only for your constituents, but all the people of New Jersey.” – Former Senator Loretta Weinberg