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George Dredden, a Morris County-based political consultant, offered this idea Monday to a Republican Assembly committee examining the issue of public corruption in New Jersey:
Require lie-detector tests for all candidates for elective office and all government officials.
Dredden told the Assembly Republican Policy Committee meeting at the Statehouse that there are a number of federal and state laws to deal with official corruption but added that his idea would weed them out.
Dredden conceded that making people take lie detector tests to be involved in government might be unconstitutional but said the state needs to consider something radical to combat corruption.In the wake of the federal roundup of July 23 that netted a string of pubic officials on bribery and corruption charges, including two Assembly members and the mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield, the Policy Committee held the first of what Assembly Republican leaders plan as a series of hearings statewide on what to do about public corruption.
The committee is not an official legislative panel and does not have the power to introduce or vote on legislation. The committee room was initially crowded with spectators but the audience drifted away as the meeting went on.
