Government Affairs Policy Committee Meeting, May 21
May 21
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Policy Committee MeetingMay 219:00 am - 10:00 amFreeChristopher EmigholzEmail
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Please join us for our Virtual NJBIA Government Affairs Policy Committee Meeting being held online via Zoom video conferencing.
Joining us will be Patrick Murray, CEO of StimSight Research, to offer his insights on the upcoming June primary elections. NJBIA Deputy Chief Government Affairs Officer Raymond Cantor will also provide us with an update on energy issues. Additionally, we will discuss the latest on Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposed FY2026 state budget. Additional meeting information and speakers will soon be announced.
Additionally, NJBIA will provide a legislative update during the meeting. If you have any matters you would like to have covered, please email Christopher Emigholz at cemigholz@njbia.org.
Patrick Murray is the CEO of StimSight Research, an opinion strategy research firm he founded after directing the Monmouth University Polling Institute for two decades. Under his leadership, the Monmouth University Poll became one of the nation’s leading independent survey research centers and was rated one of the five best election polling organizations in the nation by FiveThirtyEight.com. Murray is seen as a commentator on national and regional TV and radio regularly appears on various “Power Lists” of influential people in New Jersey politics.
Ray CantorDeputy Chief Government Affairs Officer, NJBIA
Ray Cantor is Deputy Chief Government Affairs Officer of Government Affairs of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA), the nation’s largest state-level business association whose member companies collectively employ 1 million people.
Cantor, an attorney whose career has included high-level positions in the legislative and executive branches of government, a former assistant commissioner and, later, chief adviser to the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), leads NJBIA’s advocacy efforts on environmental and energy matters affecting the business community.
At DEP, Cantor oversaw the offices of Legal Affairs, Dispute Resolution, and Economic Analysis in addition to advising the DEP commissioner on policy, legal, management, and economic matters. Cantor was also responsible for policy formulation related to all DEP regulations, including site remediation, NRD, air quality, water regulation, and land-use management.
A graduate of New York Law School, Cantor began his career working at the state’s Office of Legislative Services as senior counsel in the Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources section. He later served as the Assistant Commissioner of Land Use Management & Compliance at DEP until 2002 and also worked as a project consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Cantor’s experience as a business lobbyist includes five years as director of Government Affairs for the Medical Society of New Jersey and then executive director of the New Jersey Apartment Association. He returned to the state DEP in 2010, where he served as chief advisor to DEP Commissioner Bob Martin for eight years.
