{"id":9370,"date":"2013-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"uncategorized\/steve-sweeney-kicks-off-small-business-listening-tour-audio\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:27:01","slug":"steve-sweeney-kicks-small-business-listening-tour-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"news\/steve-sweeney-kicks-small-business-listening-tour-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sweeney Kicks off Small Business Listening Tour [AUDIO]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not to be outdone by the current administrations small business visits, State Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney kicks off his own \u201cSmall Business Listening Tour\u201d with stops in Monmouth and Ocean County.<\/p>\n

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Sweeney first visited Lexodant Solar Technology in Wall Township, an environmental, mechanical, and solar engineering company that has recently expanded into Massachusetts. The Senate President toured the facility; spoke with its owners and employees, and well as solicited suggestions on what they need to grow their business.<\/p>\n

He notes Lexodant Solar Technology was able to flourish during an influx of solar business in New Jersey, however the state is falling behind in solar technology and it\u2019s forcing companies like Lexodant Solar Technologyto expand elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cMassachusetts saw what New Jersey did, saw that it created so many good jobs; engineering, construction, and a host of different kind of jobs. So we stopped moving forward, Massachusetts jumps in and this company hires six people in Massachusetts and will hire more now. \u201d<\/p>\n

He notes Trenton needs to listen to the \u201cjob creators\u201d on how to get jobs back in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

New Jersey was number 2 nationwide in solar production, after California, however Sweeney points out legislators should have foreseen a market crash for the industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw it coming and we needed to be more nimble and react, and we didn’t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweeney believes something must be done to help stimulate the businesses that are the foundation of the state technological economy. Specifically looking beyond the post-Sandy construction.<\/p>\n

\u201cProblem is it\u2019s going to mask the real problems that still exist, because once that money is gone and those jobs are gone if we don\u2019t correct the things that are wrong now we are just going to go back to what we were doing before which is high unemployment in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says it\u2019s important to stimulate the job markets in the sector that haven\u2019t been overdeveloped elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking for the future industries of tomorrow like the offshore wind that someone is going to wind up landing. We should get that in New Jersey. So that\u2019s what it is, looking for things that don\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afterwards, Sweeney visited Kelsey and Kim\u2019s Caf\u00e9 in Atlantic City.<\/p>\n

In addition to hearing concerns from small business owners, the tour is an opportunity for the Senate President to promote \u201cThe Jersey Shore Is Open for Business\u201d campaign, which helps residents find which stores and businesses are open after being hit by Sandy.<\/p>\n

Business currently open in the Shore Region can be seen\u00a0online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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