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By Les Leopold Over 800 days ago, Gov. Phil Murphy issued Executive Order 91 authorizing the creation of a public bank implementation board. At his press conference in Newark on Nov. 12, 2019, he said, “With the creation of this implementation board, I am proud to take the first step toward ensuring that our taxpayer dollars are invested here in New Jersey.” Sadly, today we are further away from implementing such a bank than when he made that pledge. The board has been captured by bureaucratic and private banking interests that do not want our tax dollars invested there. Except for two brave s…