Posted on 06/02/2005 4:13:04 AM PDT by Elle Bee
TRENTON, N.J. -- This year's race for governor finds the residents of the Garden State in a surly mood. Personal and financial scandals forced Democrat Jim McGreevey to resign last year, and the recent release of taped conversations between a South Jersey Democratic boss and other pols have only deepened a public perception that the state's local governments are dominated by a public-sector version of the Soprano family.
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I live in CT and see lots of the ads: mainly negative ads against Schundler. And it seems as if property taxes are the big issue there. Why would those guys elect the incredibly liberal Corzine to reform property taxes?
Because they are stupid.
I lived in that area 40 years ago -- actually, 50 years ago but I only really paid attention to the politics beginning in 1958 -- and New Jersey was run by the Mob back then. Could anyone possibly be surprised that it still is?
Will we have an astonishing revelation next that water is wet and the sea is salty?
No one ever claimed the majority of people in Blue States had any common sense.
Great Swamp Bump - Chatham Twp
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The State of New Jersey is not bad, it's our politicians that suck.
The margin that the state went for Gore in 00 was 500,000 votes, in 04 it was only 150,000. If we even gain half of what we did in the previous four years, in 08 NJ just may be the next red state.
As for the gubernatorial race, unfortunately we have 7 guys that hate each other and have the same platform running for the GOP nomination, and five of them are irrelevant. The negative attack adds against on another are just rediculous, they should be focusing more on what the Demogogues have been up to for the past few years and attack Corzine for being the liberal SOB that he is.
The next governor will probably be Corzine, the true battle will be who replaces his seat in the senate.
I have always said that one of NJ's greatest exports is their own people. I was driven away 20 yrs ago. I know that it has only gotten worse.
Because we have a self-financed vanity candidate who has made it his mission to get elected to something, or kill the Republican Party trying. This moron is the political equivalent of the Energizer Bunny. He just keeps running and running and losing and losing. He makes Golisano of New York look good by comparison!
"Because we have a self-financed vanity candidate who has made it his mission to get elected to something, or kill the Republican Party trying."
We have two self-financed vanity candidates. One is the Democrat (Corzine), and one is a Republican (Forrester) who will bloody every other Republican with attack ads.
Stupid & proud of it!
But the Democrat self-financed vanity candidate wins, at least. Our's just screws over his party and loses, over and over again.
Of course, now that it is basically illegal to contribute to any politician in New Jersey, we will never again have a statewide candidate who can't self-finance. Get ready for a conga-line of well-heeled billionaire candidates, because that is all we will see in New Jersey for the forseeable future.
Say what you will about the Luv Guv, but at least he was a man of the people. Kean, Lautenberg, Whitman, Forrester, Corzine, Torricelli... What do all of these guys have in common except that they all have hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank?
Unfortunately, it is also in the grips of dem block voters and a corrupt dem machine. Some is real organized crime but most is the pay to play political variety. Professional machine pols making fortunes for their real estate developer friends throughout the state.
Like you, i got out of NJ, you have a 19 year head start on me though. Now living in Carbon County PA for the last year, it is hard to believe that we are only 80 or 90 miles west of NYC. I was a life long NJ guy and my family lived there for 5 or 6 generations. My last residence NJ was Little Egg Harbor Twp. (Tuckerton) we were there for 19 years.
One thing i can say for sure, I'm never going back to NJ. I will watch the upcoming race for governor ith some detached interest. I agree with those who say corizine will win, I can't wait to hear his proposals to balance the tremendous budget deficit
Tom
What you said...
Many times perception IS reality.
The dems are also totally corrupt here and when/ if we lose the republican US Attorney it will be worse.
I moved to Northern Morris County a few years ago. I love it here...
NJ is a good state with surprising diversity, mountains, farms,ocean. I grew up in N Jersey moved South some years ago. It's a nice state but the dem control that developed is a serious problem. It's really an eye opener when you observe that in a N East "blue" state the allegedly "liberal" dems are totally in the pocket of certain business interests and are totally corrupt. All the silliness you hear about the environment and minority rights is meaningless. Those issues are just for show.
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