Murphys OPRA advisors: mayors with terrible secrets | Editorial [Video]

Gov. Murphy and Senate President Nick Scutari assure us that they have performed their due diligence in recent weeks, when they received input from dozens of mayors on the changes in store for our state’s venerable Open Public Records Act, which might be desecrated by the governor’s signature any day now.

But it’s important to know which mayors offered their input on this terrible “reform” bill, because the OPRA expertise that many of these splendid public servants are so eager to share is not only dubious, but disqualifying.

As attorney CJ Griffin, the open government expert, asked in an X thread last week: Don’t we need to know exactly who is advising Murphy at the precise moment he could take a meat axe to transparency and access to public records?

Perhaps he spoke with Irvington mayor Tony Vauss, whose township sued an 82-year-old woman for filing OPRA requests? And whose town was the subject of …