NIKITA BIRYUKOV & MORGAN LEASON newjerseymonitor.com

The $700 million-plus in projects state lawmakers added to this year’s budget favored competitive districts and those represented by Democrats, according to a New Jersey Monitor analysis of budget documents recently made public.

A review of the nearly 600 budget resolutions approved as part of this year’s $58.8 billion annual spending bill found that municipal and school district aid approved outside of the state’s formulaic awards and competitive grants flowed almost exclusively to areas represented by Democrats. The budget cleared the Legislature on June 30, but the resolutions were not made public until Aug. 8.

In New Jersey, lawmakers and officials with the other branches of government can seek changes to the budget the governor p

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