

Saturday for Ivan Alvarez, Ben Dworkin, Alex Hermann, Matt Miller, Joe Piscopo.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Kristin Januseski and everyone I wished a happy birthday to yesterday because I got my dates mixed up. He should have been locked up a long time ago.” - Domenic Santana, former owner of the Hard Grove Cafe and The Stone Pony, after being arrested for jumping in front of Donald Trump’s motorcade in Miami.

Look, look … I’m getting the message out. QUOTE OF THE DAY: ”Yeah, it was worth it.

Considering the larger contribution limits and the two-year statute of limitations on prosecuting violations, let’s hope they’re up to it. Unlike previous commissioners, who served in a voluntary capacity, these ones will be paid $30,000 a year. The other new ELEC members are former GOP Assemblymember Ryan Peters, former Deputy Attorney General Norma Evans, a Democrat, and Clark municipal prosecutor Jon-Henry Barr, a Republican. It would be a shocking development if, after the last four months of drama with Brindle - who has filed two lawsuits against Murphy - the board didn’t vote to oust him. If he had made the appointments earlier in June, I’d suspect he waited so long to do it for Pride Month. Considering that Murphy attempted to oust ELEC Executive Director Jeff Brindle over an email in which he expressed frustration with National Coming Out Day, that seems to be a relevant fact. Prol is openly gay and a founding member of Garden State Equality. Murphy named as chair Thomas Prol, a lawyer with the politically connected firm Sills Cumis & Gross and a registered Democrat. Oh, and gutting the state’s pay-to-play laws. Phil Murphy on Thursday finally filled the Election Law Enforcement Commission’s four vacancies, allowing the agency to once again begin enforcing campaign finance law - and just as the “Elections Transparency Act” opens the floodgates to much larger campaign contributions while giving ELEC less time to punish those who violate campaign finance law. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines – habits – that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.Gov. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.Ĭompanies aren’t families. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Rather, most workplaces are made up of fiefdoms where executives compete for power and credit, often in hidden skirmishes that make their own performances appear superior and their rivals’ seem worse. Companies aren’t big happy families where everyone plays together nicely. In the real world, that’s not how things work at all. “Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money as possible.
