PRESS STATEMENT

For Immediate Release	Contact	Phone
September 3, 2009	Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, NJ Citizen Action Executive Director	973-643-8800

Statement of Phyllis Salowe-Kaye, Executive Director of New Jersey Citizen Action, Applauding Speaker Joseph Roberts for his 22 years of Service and Leadership on behalf of New Jersey's Working Families

Newark, NJ — New Jersey Citizen Action applauds Speaker Roberts for his dedication and 22 years of service on behalf of NJ's working families. The recipient of NJCA's first Legislator of the Year Award in 2005, Speaker Roberts has continued to champion critical issues affecting NJ's most vulnerable. His many, many years of work on health care reform and affordable housing are laudable. His commitment and dedication to campaign reform is unwavering. Under his leadership, the legislature has passed landmark campaign reform and ethics legislation including New Jersey's Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Programs. Speaker Roberts' leadership and progressive voice in the Assembly will be greatly missed.

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New Jersey Citizen Action (njcitizenaction.org) is the state's largest citizen watchdog organization, representing more than 100 senior, labor, faith-based, environmental, tenant and women's organizations and over 60,000 family members.