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Mike McGuinness on Last Week's Poll

'We must maintain the departments that help businesses expand or locate here.'

By Brianne Harrison | Updated on March 28, 2008

WHICH STATE DEPARTMENTS ARE MOST EXPENDABLE?

Gov. Corzine’s budget plan responds rather drastically to public calls for spending cuts by proposing the elimination of entire state departments. When asked which departments they wouldn’t miss, this week’s respondents had mixed feelings. Most (42%) felt that the personnel department should go. The Department of Agriculture was considered expendable by 21% of readers (so much for the Garden State) and 11% wouldn’t grieve to see community affairs go. Only 5% thought commerce should be eliminated, and the remaining 21% wanted something other than the current options to be struck from the state rolls. Mike McGuinness, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, did not choose a department for elimination, but he certainly knows what shouldn’t go. Here is what he told us:

“NJ Naiop usually stays out of these issues because it’s up to the administration. It’s not our job to manage the state’s budget.

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