Posted on 04/14/2005 9:48:26 PM PDT by Coleus
For the first time since Jon Corzine — bored with Washington after just four years in the U.S. Senate — tossed his prodigious bankbook into the race, Republicans are starting to believe that they have a real shot in November's New Jersey gubernatorial election.
That's because of the explosive tape recordings that have rocked New Jersey after being released just days ago over the opposition of Democratic state Attorney General Peter Harvey, who sat on them for more than two years and spent several weeks fighting their release.
In the end, 75 minutes' worth were made public. Harvey still has 300 hours more he wants to keep secret.
George Norcross, premier Democratic power broker of south Jersey, is heard boasting back in 2001 about his influence and wheeling-dealing, telling how he got one legislator to vote his way by threatening to physcially emasculate him and, in general, providing what one Republican called "an up-close and personal look at how corruption works on a daily basis in New Jersey."
Indeed, Professor David Rebovich of Rider University told the Philadelphia Inquirer, "It caught one of the bosses saying how the game really works — and that the real game is played by the bosses."
This is what Norcross had to say about Corzine, who faces only token opposition in the June 7 primary: "Yesterday morning I'm up in Summit in Jon Corzine's home having breakfast and I talk to the guy once a week."
Referring also to the state's then-governor, Norcross added: "In the end, the McGreeveys, the Corzines — they're all gonna be with me because they have no choice."
That's a sound bite you'll certainly be hearing on GOP campaign commercials from now until November.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
There may be hope for y'all yet!
G.W. is caught on tape and comes out clean. Corzine is caught on tape and we discover him threatening bodily harm. I think we should have more private tapes uncovered.
Too bad Guilini won't run. I know everyone either wants him to run for Gov or Senator of N.Y. Some even prefer President. I think his chances are better as Gov. of N.J., and his run ins with the mob/U.N. would make him an attractive candidate to clean N.J. up.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
This is the same electorate that voted for McGreevey (twice) and Toricelli. If we're waiting for NJ voters to get fed up with corruption, it may be a long wait.
Better to focus upon out-of-control taxes and spending.
And then watch the vote counting VERY carefully in Jersey City, Newark, Trenton, and Camden.
"The RINOs in control of the NJ GOP are going to do their darndest to make sure Brett Schundler never sees the inside of the Governor's Mansion."
And there are plenty of "ordinary" RINOs who will be tripping over themselves to vote for Corzine on their way to the country club.
Ain't that the truth. Anybody with any conviction has already left NJ. The rest have made their own bed.
NJ is a bastion of poliitical corruption and political correctness. Anyone who willingly lives there is not just a fool but a d@mn fool. (Old speech, been there, done that,all I got was these lousy walking papers.) But the sunset photographs are great!
My, didn't we get up on the wrong side of bed this morning!
As a New Jerseyan, it isn't that easy to pick up and leave! When the time is right we will! However family ties, an established small business, and a husband who is not old enough to retire it is difficult. I find it naive and insulting that you would lump all of us into one group!
That's a sound bite you'll certainly be hearing on GOP campaign commercials from now until November.
I've heard this in a radio commercial already, so it's out there.
I can pretty much guarantee, though, that the local "journalists" won't give this much play, so if you don't hear it in a campaign ad, you probably won't hear it anywhere else. But who knows?
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