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(VOORHEES)— Assemblyman Louis Greenwald and Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (both D-6th) today announced their legislative office has moved to a new location in Voorhees Township.

The new office is located at 1101 Laurel Oak Road, Suite 150, Voorhees, NJ 08043. Sixth District constituents are invited to stop by the new location, where the experienced staff will be available to listen to their concerns and to assist residents with questions or concerns on a variety of State issues including, but not limited to, unemployment, taxation, utility assistance, financial aid and veterans’ affairs.

The contact information for the legislative office of Assemblyman Greenwald and Assemblywoman Lampitt will remain the same. Residents can contact the office via phone at (856) 435-1247, via email at AsmGreenwald@njleg.org or AswLampitt@njleg.org, or via Facebook at www.facebook.com/lougreenwald or www.facebook.com/pamlampitt.

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BEACH, GREENWALD, AND LAMPITT ANNOUNCE COLLINGSWOOD “MOBILE OFFICE” EVENT

6th District Legislators to Bring Convenient, Local Constituent Services to Collingswood

(VOORHEES)—Senator James Beach, Assemblyman Louis Greenwald and Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (all D-Camden) announced today that members of their constituent services staff will be at the Collingswood Library on Thursday, August 19th from 2:00-5:00 P.M. to help local residents navigate a variety of State issues and services. This event is the second in a series of “mobile office” constituent service events designed to provide direct assistance with State issues to residents throughout the Sixth District.

The Collingswood “mobile office” event hosted by Beach, Greenwald and Lampitt follows a prior successful event at the South County Regional Library in Atco, which served the communities of Winslow, Waterford and Chesilhurst. Constituent services staff from the offices of Beach, Greenwald and Lampitt will continue to travel throughout the Sixth Legislative District in the upcoming months to further assist area residents.

This convenient outreach event will be staffed by experienced constituent service representatives who will assist residents with questions or concerns on a variety of State issues including, but not limited to, unemployment, taxation, utility assistance, financial aid and veterans’ affairs. Informational materials, covering a broad range of topics, will also be available for distribution.

The Collingswood Library is located at 771 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, 08108.

As many of you get ready for a trip down the shore or anywhere across our great state this weekend, be sure to check out 511NJ for real-time traffic information. You can either call 511 or visit 511's website for more information.

Courier Post
By Pamela Lampitt
July 17, 2010

Each day, New Jersey's women's health care clinics deliver critical health care services to the people of our state, people who in many cases cannot afford health insurance and have nowhere else to turn. The single mother who gets screened for breast cancer. The young pregnant woman who gets prenatal care for her baby. Countless young people who do the right thing by getting tested for HIV. The elderly woman who is checked for diabetes. There are many more.

Indeed, these clinics served more than 136,000 patients last year alone. Often, they delivered crucial preventive health care in the form of various tests and screenings that helped save lives.

Because of these important preventive health services, they also saved the state money. Last year, the savings totaled more than $150 million, over twenty times the $7.5 million investment the state made in these services.

Unfortunately, Gov. Chris Christie's budget eliminated this $7.5 million in funding, putting many working poor and middle class families in danger of losing critically needed health care. Under the governor's budget, many women who cannot afford to purchase basic health care will have no options. They may have to skip screenings for cervical cancer until it's too late. They may decide not to get their blood pressure checked, or miss out on neonatal care for their newborn infants. And they absolutely will be left to rely on the ER for even the most basic of treatments.

(TRENTON)--Legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Pamela R. Lampitt and Assemblyman Albert Coutinho to spark economic development by increasing the number and types of businesses eligible to benefit from tax exempt purchases in Urban Enterprise Zones is advancing.

"In tough economic times, we must do everything we can to ease administrative burdens and red tape that have hurt struggling small businesses in UEZs," said Lampitt (D-Camden) "This bill will throw UEZ businesses a lifeline, promoting economic development and job creation by expanding the number and types of businesses that will benefit from tax exempt purchases at the point of sale, at a time when such aid is critical."

"UEZs have been a successful program throughout our state, but with this change we can make them even more successful by easing back on burdensome rules and regulations that have limited economic growth and job creation," said Coutinho (D-Essex), who chairs the Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee that released the bill. "This can only benefit communities that rely on UEZs as a centerpiece of their redevelopment efforts."

Under current law, sales of tangible personal property, except motor vehicles and energy, and sales of services, except telecommunications and utilities, to a qualified business for the exclusive use or consumption of that business within a UEZ are exempt from the sales and use tax at the point of sale if the business is a "small qualified business" with annual gross receipts of less than $10 million.