We Told You This Was Coming
(Meet NJ’s new “partner”. Gov. Sherrill just announced that NJ now is directly involved in AI development and deployment)
From day one, we told you Gov. Sherrill was a technological utopian, a Neoliberal fan of privatization and deregulation, and a corporate Democrat hiding behind slogans like “innovation”:
The Democrats are pursuing an “abundance” strategy that seeks to promote “affordability” through “innovation”, “modernization”, “streamlining”, and “permit reform”.
They seek to promote “government accountability” (the softer version of right wing corporate attacks on “unelected bureaucrats”), “transparency” and “disclosure”, and pursue “public-privater partnerships” (the softer version of right wing demands for market based policies and privatization).
All that was obvious by her Big Tech donors and her rhetoric, which openly echoes the Trump game plan: A 2025 Blueprint for a Competitive New Jersey:
NJBIA announced on Wednesday the release of its 2025 Blueprint for a Competitive New Jersey, a 28-page policy document that offers elected officials and candidates a guide for how to drive innovation and prosperity in New Jersey and provides a roadmap to get there.
And we warned that she would power that “innovation” with nuclear power and fossil gas turbines – while doing nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve environmental quality.
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