The morning email is exploding with negative reaction to the latest political proposal to “restructure” Rutgers, Rowan and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Dropping on the eve of Wednesday’s crucial vote by two boards overseeing Rutgers, the 11th hour legislative power play is driven largely by Southern Demo/Christie-crats. It seeks to placate many, but seems likely to satisfy few in either North or South Jersey.
“I think we are headed for a political civil war,” Sen. Ron Rice, D-Essex, told the Star-Ledger newspaper.
The plan concocted by Rice’s fellow Democratic senators Steve Sweeney, Donald Norcross and Joseph Vitale decrees that Rutgers will receive all the good parts of UMDNJ but must surrender its Camden campus, in all but name, to a cumbersome, quasi-independent governing apparatus, a move that’s tantamount to a takeover by Rowan. See a draft of their Senate bill here.
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