Posted on 11/08/2005 7:10:16 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Corzine elected governor of New Jersey
13 minutes ago
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine (news, bio, voting record) was elected governor of New Jersey on Tuesday, defeating Republican Doug Forrester after an exceptionally nasty and expensive race, media outlets reported.
Corzine, a multi-millionaire and former Wall Street executive, and Forrester, a wealthy business owner, spent an estimated $72 million of their own money in campaigns marked by charges of corruption and infidelity, including the Forrester campaign's use of damning quotes by Corzine's ex-wife.
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While I know that the dead do vote in New Jersey (my stepmother stopped her dead first husband from voting after several failed attempts to get his page administratively removed by tearing it out while visiting the polls), I think Corzine's victory is too large to explain simply by the walking dead. Bottom line is that the Democrats turned out the vote and I suspect that a significant portion of the New York immigrants and foreign immigrants to New Jersey are going Democrat. I don't want to sound like the Democrats who whine about Bush stealing the White House.
Was it NEw Jersy or one of the other Atlantic states that instituted a "millionaire tax" and subsequently saw tax rolls fall as rich people fled?
"HAHA NJ! you got what you deserve! LOL! You never learn do ya?
:D Fixed to get McGreeveyed again! :P"
My take is that the people who cried when McSleazy stepped down are the same folks who voted for Corzine. There are just more of this type of people in NJ then there are people like us Freepers.
One day I hope to be sitting in my home in PA or CT (a goal of mine) and watching the TV report about how there are no productive people left in NJ to tax...
And THAT is the definite pot-meet-kettle remark of the year.
Unfortunately, with the NY/NJ rat infestation we've been having in central Fla., I give it 10 years max until we have a rat dominated legislature and a state income tax that naturally goes along with it. I hope to invade North Carolina before that comes to pass.
People get the government they deserve
What can I say New Jersey. Your state just continues to waddle in the kimchee. I am taking personal action to leave my liberal New England state and changing it to Florida, where my next vote will count for something. Anyways I always loved living in the south.
Right. Hold onto your house until the wealthy liberal New Yorkers move down here, then sell it to them for 5x what you paid, then move somewhere else. The way things are going, though, the somewhere else might be in the Islands, or maybe Australia.
Is this good news or bad news????
His Senate seat becomes open when he is sworn in.
Since he was a junior 1st term senator, probably no big deal.
But, is there anything the Reps can do to take advantage of the openly contestable seat?
bttt
It works for locusts...
18 as per our new governor.
Do you run from every fight just because you suffer a few setbacks?
By that rationale, we should abandon the United States of America. Bill Clinton was elected twice, after all.
Personally, I don't cut and run when things start to look a little dark.
Looking dark is one thing, but staring death in the face is another. After the torricelli, lautenberg, Mc Sleezy fiascos how much more do you need before you see the writing on the wall?
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