TRENTON – State Sen. Ray Lesniak’s (D-20) bill, S-3166, strengthening laws prohibiting politicking on public property, passed unanimously this evening in the senate, 37-0.
The bill expands the prohibition in current law on the soliciting of campaign contributions on certain public properties by candidates and their agents for certain public offices to include all candidates for elective public office and any public property.
According to the language in the bill, no candidate for any elective public office, or any holder of that elective public office, or the candidate’s agent or representative, “could directly or indirectly, solicit any contribution to or on behalf of such a candidate on any property exclusively owned or leased by the State, or any agency of the State, or by any county, municipality, board of education of a school district, fire district, authority, or other State or local entity, district or instrumentality.”
Moreover, no one on property exclusively owned or leased by the State, or any agency of the State, or by any county, municipality, board of education of a school district, fire district, authority, or other State or local entity, district or instrumentality would be permitted, directly or indirectly, to make any contribution to or on behalf of any candidate for elective public office, or to the candidate committee or joint candidates committee of any such candidate.
