Brian Lear on WNYC as As some of you know, our Nancy Solomon host and asked Governor Murphy call in once a month and now she's coming on the show the morning after to recap and talk about some Jersey issues and place some clips of the governor some of the context right now of course as

some of you know that every single seat in the New Jersey legislature was up on the ballot on Tuesday and while the Democrats were able to hold on to both houses

There were culture war issues at play mainly brewing battles over trans rights and schools and clean energy.

But in the end, Democrats did maintain their 25 to 15 lead in the state senate and actually

increase their majority in the

assembly when there was speculation that there would be erosion. So Nancy

joins us now with some clips of the governor and we'll talk about all these

issues. Hey Nancy welcome back to the show.

Thanks Brian, good morning.

And yesterday you spoke with Governor Murphy

and he chalked up the Democratic winds to a couple of what he called culture war issues that the Republicans were trying to rope Democrats into that's his framing.

Let's start with a clip on parental control in schools.

Claiming that we didn't care about parents input in public education when in fact

how do you get to be the number of public education system in America and not care

about parents.

So I think people saw through that.

So Nancy, remind us of what this issue was and how the election results seemed to come down on it.

Right.

So Republicans call this, and parents who are part of this movement,

a fairly conservative movement,

call this parental rights. movement, a fairly conservative movement,

call this parental rights or parental control.

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