The Star Ledger covered the issue of open space and the referendum voters will vote on Tuesday.

Your choice is an ugly one. You can embrace the state’s dysfunction by supporting this plan to borrow more money with no means to pay it back, doing your small part to nudge us along the path towards bankruptcy.

Or you can oppose this plan, and vote to kill our open space program at a time when the bargains have never been better. That will give the bulldozers one more chance to dig up open land so we can make room for a few more urgently needed strip malls.

…And Daggett, typically, is clear and gutsy. He would tax summer rentals, as McKeon suggested long ago, and use part of the proceeds to fund land purchases.

Daggett has a long history of supporting open space initiatives, as a volunteer and former commissioner at the Department of Environmental Protection. But he knows the state’s growing debt and unfunded liabilities amount to more than $120 billion — a crushing sum that will burden the state’s economy for decades to come.

Read the entire article at: http://blog.nj.com/njv_tom_moran/2009/10/nj_open_space_question_is_an_u.html