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New Jersey voters are hungry for a reset, and Jack Ciattarelli is giving them one plain and simple: less government, more common sense. While Democrats lecture from ivory towers about feel-good environmental gestures and endless mandates, Ciattarelli is hitting the sidewalks promising real relief where families feel it — at the grocery checkout, on their energy bills, and in their paychecks. His pledge to roll back the plastic bag ban isn’t a stunt — it’s a message that Trenton’s pet regulations have run amok and are making life harder, not better, for ordinary people.
On energy, Ciattarelli is unapologetic: he will fight offshore wind projects that threaten the Jersey Shore’s economy and raise costs, and he won’t bow to Washington or to green schemes that enrich well-connected developers at the expense of ratepayers. Conservatives know a raw deal when they see one — Empire Wind and other projects have been sold to the public as clean and cheap while delivering higher bills and unanswered questions about impacts on fishing, tourism, and reliability. Ciattarelli’s promise to make temporary halts permanent until the science and economics check out is exactly the kind of skepticism New Jersey needs.
This campaign isn’t just about bags and turbines; it’s about jobs and affordability, the real kitchen-table issues that Democrats pretend to care about but repeatedly botch. Ciattarelli is laying out plans to lower the business tax burden, streamline state agencies, and reform NJ Transit so employers can flourish and workers can get to their shifts without a daily crisis. When a candidate talks about bringing back manufacturing, protecting ports, and stopping businesses from being driven across the river by punitive state taxes, working families listen — and they’re turning out.
Let’s be blunt: New Jersey’s political class has been living in a fantasy of virtue-signaling policies while costs explode for the very people who keep this state running. Ciattarelli’s appeal isn’t a fluke — it’s the natural result of a politician who actually speaks the language of taxpayers and small-business owners rather than reading talking points from union bosses and environmental NGOs. Conservatives should celebrate a campaign that makes affordability the center of the debate and refuses to let elites define what counts as “progress.”
His strategy is smart politics too: pick fights the left thinks are settled and expose them as nuisances that cost jobs and limit freedom. The plastic bag promise gets laughter and applause because it’s shorthand for a wider philosophy — government shouldn’t micromanage our pockets or our grocery runs. Pairing that populist shorthand with a sober plan to cut wasteful spending and reform government operations gives Ciattarelli credibility beyond the usual partisan lines.
If Republicans want to flip New Jersey red, they should stop apologizing and start tagging Democrats for the inflation, energy chaos, and overreaching mandates that choke opportunity. Ciattarelli is doing just that: standing up for parents, for workers, for small businesses, and for the coast that feeds so many local economies. Hardworking New Jerseyans deserve a governor who puts them first, not a career politician who treats policy as a branding exercise — and Jack Ciattarelli is giving them a real choice this election.
