"Bruce A. Harris" is an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey. A Republican Party (United States)/Republican, he has served as mayor of Chatham Borough, New Jersey since January 2012. He previously served on the Chatham Borough Council from 2004 to 2012.

Harris attended Amherst College, graduated magna cum laude. He earned an MBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management and a Juris Doctor/JD from Yale Law School. He is currently Of Counsel at Greenberg Traurig LLP in Florham Park, New Jersey.

After eight years on the borough council, Harris ran for mayor of Chatham Borough in November 2011, defeating Democratic incumbent Nelson Vaughan. Harris took office as mayor in January 2012.

On January 23, 2012, governor Chris Christie nominated Harris to an open seat on the New Jersey Supreme Court. His nomination was rejected on May 31, 2012, by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 7-6 vote that was largely along party lines. His lack of any courtroom experience was cited by the opposition. There is a continuing dispute between Senate Democrats and Governor Christie concerning the political divide on the Supreme Court.

Harris is openly gay. If his nomination had been confirmed, he would have been the first openly gay New Jersey Supreme Court justice.

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We haven't lost any customers because it's a tax that affects all rental businesses in the city, so it wouldn't help for customers to rent from another store in town. We're all in the same boat, ... It's just like the rising cost of gasoline. It's a cost that we have to pass along to our customers and they understand that. They don't like it, but they understand we're doing what we have to do.

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It's not like the board acted on a whim. We need to protect the public interest.

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We received some complaints, especially from our monthly rental customers, some who thought we were just trying to bump up the price, ... After we explained that the tax was passed by the city council and we had nothing to do with it, nor do we make any money from it, they understood.

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We launched the teddy bear campaign three weeks ago for the children affected in Honduras and Nicaragua. Our goal was a very ambitious one -- 100,000 teddy bears. But in such a short period we've almost reached 200,000.

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Bureaus provide services to convention groups; they provide education through sponsorship dollars at meetings like this. But isn't it interesting. Bureaus are under attack, but we're not doing anything about it.

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