{"id":159,"date":"2018-01-15T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=159"},"modified":"2018-01-24T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:02:30","slug":"governor-christie-signs-bill-dissolving-njspca-happy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/15\/governor-christie-signs-bill-dissolving-njspca-happy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Christie Signs Bill Dissolving NJSPCA!  Happy Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to investigative coverage by Walt Kane of News 12 New Jersey,\u00a0<em>NJ Spotlight<\/em> and the efforts of (now-retired) Senator Ray Lesniak, New Jersey\u2019s homeless and abused animals are much better off now that outgoing Governor Christie signed the bill dissolving the NJSPCA as a law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>This band of wanna-be cops leaves a sad legacy of suffering animals, lost opportunity, and the enormous waste of millions of donor dollars. The organization\u2019s leadership, described by the NJ SCI as \u201cWolves in Sheeps&#8217; Clothing\u201d showed their true colors at the last minute with a cynical attempt to deceive the New Jersey Assembly; luckily, it didn\u2019t work. Now the important work of caring for animals can go where it belongs, to capable and legitimate law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>I am working with HSUS New Jersey to develop an educational program on animal law enforcement, for County Prosecutors and HLEOs in North Jersey, South Jersey and Central Jersey.\u00a0 WE WILL MAKE THIS WORK!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/story\/37267712\/christie-signs-bill-stripping-njspca-of-its-power\"><strong>See News12&#8217;s coverage here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to investigative coverage by Walt Kane of News 12 New Jersey,\u00a0NJ Spotlight and the efforts of (now-retired) Senator Ray Lesniak, New Jersey\u2019s homeless and abused animals are much better off now that outgoing Governor Christie signed the bill dissolving the NJSPCA as a law enforcement agency. This band of wanna-be cops leaves a sad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/15\/governor-christie-signs-bill-dissolving-njspca-happy-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Governor Christie Signs Bill Dissolving NJSPCA!  Happy Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[102,70,99,19,100,68,7,2,87,8,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}