so far is not come close to closing the gaps quickly enough. joining me now, executive director of the new jersey working families alliance. all right. is this just a complete and total 180 flip-flop, doing exactly the thing he said he wouldn t do? am i wrong in thinking that? i think bottom line, the grn has continuously walked the state into this idea of he is the fiscally responsible candidate. he was a fiscally responsible governor. and the reality is that he has continuously decided to protect tax breaks for the rich, corporate loopholes, and at the expense of regular new jerseyans. the governor has said that he was going to fix the pension problem. he asked regular people to pay 25% more to get 30% less in their pension. that was what the pension reform was. exactly. you paid more and got less. that s where the money came from.
closing the gaps quickly enough. joining me now, executive director of the new jersey working families alliance. all right. is this just a complete and total 180 flip-flop, doing exactly the thing he said he wouldn t do? am i wrong in thinking that? i think bottom line, the grn has continuously walked the state into this idea of he is the fiscally responsible candidate. he was a fiscally responsible governor. and the reality is that he has continuously decided to protect tax breaks for the rich, corporate loopholes, and at the expense of regular new jerseyans. the governor has said that he was going to fix the pension problem. he asked regular people to pay 25% more to get 30% less in their pension. that was what the pension reform was. exactly. you paid more and got less. that s where the money came from. exactly. and so he s asked regular hard-working new jerseyans to make those tough sacrifices.
that s the governor s opinion. soon it will be up to the state ethics commission to weigh in when this new complaint is filed. here to discuss it with us is the executive director of the new jersey working families alliance, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you. the first question is david samson s role. he chairs the port authority, which is a bi-state agency, and this is the ethics commission agen agency. are you sure that the regulations apply? absolutely. actually the conflict of interest laws this new jersey specifically state that individuals or officials like david samson who are in these bi-state agencies still have to comply with emergennew jersey c of interest laws, so it speaks clearly to someone like david samson. now tell us about what the ethics commission is empowered to do. you take this case before them. we went through the complaints that you have. if the ethics commission were to