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===Secession from Essex County=== The municipalities of [[West Essex|western]] [[Essex County, New Jersey|Essex County]] have discussed secession from the county, to create a new county or be annexed to Morris County, spurred mainly by a belief that tax policy benefits the poorer, urban, eastern portions of the county at the expense of the wealthier, more suburban municipalities in the western part of Essex County."<ref>Pearce, Jeremy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/nyregion/in-essex-county-secession-gathers-momentum.html "In Essex County, Secession Gathers Momentum"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 7, 2003. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Montclair and Roseland both have decided to test the winds for revolution. In November, each community plans to put the secession issue before the public, in the form of a nonbinding referendum. Two years ago, Millburn posed a similar question and was bowled over at the response: 88 percent of voters agreed that the town should take steps toward leaving Essex for neighboring Morris County."</ref> Dating back to the 1960s, then-[[Livingston, New Jersey|Livingston]] Mayor William Clark had urged the township to secede from Essex County to join neighboring Morris.<ref>https://www.digifind-it.com/livingston/DATA/books/Livingston%20A%20History%20Worth%20Remembering.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuZPy6JqutIC&q=livingston | isbn=978-0-307-55536-6 | title=A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America | date=December 24, 2008 | publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing }}</ref> Additionally, from 2001 to 2003, [[Millburn, New Jersey|Millburn]], [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]] and [[Roseland, New Jersey|Roseland]] all held nonbinding ballot referendums on the issue. Then-[[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]] mayor Robert J. Russo gave a statement in 2003 about secession, "I've watched Essex County burden our people, with very little to show for it. We're fiscally conservative here and socially progressive – and we're finally rebelling."<ref>Pearce, Jeremy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/nyregion/in-essex-county-secession-gathers-momentum.html "In Essex County, Secession Gathers Momentum"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 7, 2003. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Montclair and Roseland both have decided to test the winds for revolution. In November, each community plans to put the secession issue before the public, in the form of a nonbinding referendum. Two years ago, Millburn posed a similar question and was bowled over at the response: 88 percent of voters agreed that the town should take steps toward leaving Essex for neighboring Morris County."</ref>
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