NJ Gov Says “No Blanket Vax Mandate”

In an undercover video made by an investigative reporter for Project Veritas, Democrat strategist and activist Wendy Martinez admitted that “Gov. Phil Murphy does intend to issue a vaccination mandate, but not until after he is reelected. Right now, too many voters are all into the 'my body, my rights' shit. If they knew that Phil intended to order everyone to take the jab they'd probably vote him out of office.”

Matthew Urquijo, manager of New Jersey Forward, a coalition of powerful public and private sector interests supportive of Murphy’s governing agenda, echoed Martinez's fears, saying that “our polls show that independent voters oppose a vax mandate by a 56% to 32% majority. We have to force everyone to be vaccinated to save lives. Dr. Fauci knows this, President Biden knows this, Gov. Murphy knows this, everyone who cares about saving lives knows this. But we can't let voters know this if we want to win on Tuesday.”

In order to dampen down outrage after the release of the Veritas videos, the Governor's office issued a denial, insisting that “there are no plans for a blanket Covid-19 vax mandate. Anything that would be done would be carefully targeted to impose penalties only on those who need this incentive to do as they are told. It is for similar reasons that the Governor's plans to raise taxes by $1.2 billion and to distribute $40 million dollars of public funds to the recent immigrants that the Biden Administration has sent to New Jersey will not be announced until after the election.”