DePhillips and Kevin Rooney's shared campaign website highlights the following issues:

We will work to reduce property taxes by:

• Cutting state spending; not just slowing increases in spending
• Fighting to create a fair school funding formula that recognizes that all school children are important and increases state education aid to suburban school districts — and making sure that added school aid MUST go directly to property tax reduction.
• Reduce excess aid to over-funded school districts, such as Jersey City and Newark — which together receive $1 billion in school aid.
• Creating a municipal property tax cap that does not have loopholes.
• End the practice of increasing property taxes for homeowners who upgrade their homes.
• Make the interest on student loans tax deductible.

We will:

• Cut needless regulations that raise the cost of business expansion or business investment in New Jersey.
• Cut red tape that delays projects and forces developers to appear before multiple jurisdictions to get construction and expansion approvals.
• Reduce the state’s top corporate income tax, which is 9 % and makes New Jersey noncompetitive with its neighbors.
• Upgrade the NJ Treasury Department to end backlogs in tax collection and make the Department more business friendly.

We will:

• Overhaul the pension system and make it fair to taxpayers.
• Oppose any pension “sweeteners” that give public employees greater pension benefits than people in the private sector receive.
• Stop giving free health benefits for life to retirees whose total retirement income exceeds $75,000 per year.

We will:

Create a special Veterans Court for our U.S. Military Veterans who encounter criminal justice problems — often as the result of combat related injuries. These courts can provide alternatives to incarceration for those who put their lives on the line for our nation.