APP.COM - Cash-strapped state split on tsunami relief

APP.COM - Cash-strapped state split on tsunami relief: "Cash-strapped state split on tsunami relief


Published in the Asbury Park Press 1/10/05
By ANDREA ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
A bill that would have New Jersey donate $1 million in state funds to aid victims of the southern Asia tsunami has drawn a mixed response from Shore area lawmakers who are concerned about the state sending money overseas while suffering its own financial woes.
Assemblymen Neil M. Cohen, D-Union, and Upendra Chivukula, D-Middlesex, are expected today to introduce a bill that would have the state take the money from the general fund and donate it for food and medical supplies to countries hit by the tidal wave."