Corzine elected governor of New Jersey

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[Sub-Driver]

Corzine elected governor of New Jersey

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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.

[highball]

Wait, you favor using zoning and restricting development so as to achieve poltical goals that you don't think we can win at the ballot box?

The world has turned upside-down.

[claudiustg]

---Corzine gets to name his own replacement after he's sworn in as Governor. His U.S Senate seat will remain safely in Democratic hands.---

He can name his dog for all I care, as long as he's gone.

[ZULU]

New Jersey isn't a referendum on Bush II.

But Virginia WAS. Virginia is a conservative red state which supported Bush II. Kilgore should have won there. Bush II even campaigned for him.

The fact of the matter is the perception of the Iraqi War is a bad one, even though the reality is positive. Also Bush's catastrophic choice of Miers as well his total complacency over the dissolution of our Mexican border is hurting him, his party and Republicans and conservatives in general in the public perception - which is bad for us and great for Dems and RINOs.

[Heff]

3. Corzine now leaves the Senate giving Republicans a chance to take that seat. (He can't buy it for someone else)

Not really. Jon-boy will appoint his replacement in the Senate. That will give him two years to serve and then he/she will run as an incumbant.

NJ voters are soooo stupid.

[ZULU]

"3. Corzine now leaves the Senate giving Republicans a chance to take that seat. (He can't buy it for someone else)
4. It will be fun to watch Corzine try to cut taxes by a constitutional convention and then explaining why it didn't work."

I believe Corzine sa Governor, can appoint his successor. Word is out that it is Menendez.

BOTH the Repubs and Dems want a Constitutional Convention to solve the tax mess they were elected to address. By having a COnstitutional Convention, they can, like Pontius Pilate, wash their hands of the responsibility of any unpopular prescritions. And of course, keep their "jobs".

[alloysteel]

Was it a win? Only if one understands that the Dem'crats were only holding place, and actually gaining little if anything. These two outcomes (Virginia and New Jersey) do not mean that the Dem'crats have much of a mandate even yet, or that any significance for the 2006 elections is in the cards.

It is like being dealt a pair of deuces on the shuffle. Still a long ways to go to fill a hand that stands a serious chance.

[IrishRainy]

Well, I'm one of those Kalifornia refugees. The difference is I moved to Arizona in 1996, so I'm not a newby, plus I switched from Democrat to Republican right before I moved.

In both instances, I'm not going back!

[ZULU]

I favor doing ANYTHING to keep what happened in New Jersey from happening in the rest of the Country - an explosion outwards of liberal Democrat urbanites who tunr Republican conservative territory into dens of DemocRat iniquity.

[jpf]

Answering you and Heff, yes I know he appoints someone but,

1. 2 years is not long enough to gain a rep as an incumbent.

2. Being appointed by Corzine will mean whomever it is inherits all of Corzine's enemies and like 1/2 his friends.

3. Whoever it is won't be able to spend 40 odd million.

4. People generally, even in New Jersey, tend to think of someone who gets appointed as a hack and they TEND to have trouble winning on their own. (Witness Cody's inability to get a sniff at the Dem nomination)

Let's try and be positive, it's a Democratic state, Republicans are 10 points down from the start.

[ZULU]

I think you are probably right aboput Jersey but wrong about Virginia.

The Old DOminion is conservative and a strong red state which went for Bush. Bush II even campaigned there.

The loss of Virginia to a Dem at this moment is a very serious problem.

[scrabblehack]

Isn't it one year?

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

-- Amendment XVII, paragraph 2

Now there is an election of U.S. Representatives in 2006; in most states, that counts as a "statewide election" to be used for filling the Senate seat.

[ZULU]

Let's try and be positive, it's a Democratic state, Republicans are 10 points down from the start.

True

[highball]

So you'll fight Big Government with Big Government.

How is your abuse of state power any different from liberal abuse of state power?

[Doc91678]

I wonder how many of the Democratic dearly departed voted in this election for Corzine?

[jpf]

"I wonder how many of the Democratic dearly departed voted in this election for Corzine"

I'm not sure the dead are as strong a Democratic constituency as they once were. LBJ, now he got them to turn out! But since Clinton raised taxes on them in 1993 and the Dems wouldn't let Mel Carnihan serve out his term just because he died in 2000, the dead really don't turn out for Dems the way they used to.

[ZULU]

If it were up to me, I'd put up a big wall around New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago and Washington D.C., among other places, and isolate the popualtion.

They have a contageous mental disorder called "liberalism".

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Liberalism is like a viral infection.

So far they've contaminated New Hampshire, Vermont, Colorado, and, it would appear, Virginia.

Can't we start imposing inter-state zoning ordinances that prevent these cretins from migrating into territory located outside of Marin County, Brookline Mass., and Alphabet City?

[ditto h]

N.J always puts dems in office. This state is too stupid to understand that the dems will raise taxes. They complain about having the highest property taxes in the country , but they don't do anything to change it. Corzine will not help our state, but the idiots who voted for him don't care. They are dems, and they will feel great, as they put out $6500 in property taxes. What morons!!!

[binkdeville]

Got that right .NJ has been a cesspool of corruption for 70 years or so . It's SO deeply rooted it's obscene. half the jerks in this state all have jobs that somehow depend on the Dem machine. Wanna see corruption .Look at the mayors race in Union City NJ today .You'd die if I told you the whole story . Most city workers were recruited to shill for the "boss" He had limos picking up people from the low income housing projects to take them to vote for HIM ?
We Republicans better get tough and do it fast ..I think the Republicans really dropped the ball nation wide since the re election of Bush . Now we have the White House sending people for ethics training> We act like loosers instead of winners. We better wake the hell up and FIGHT instead of being defensive in the face of the wacko Dem attacks.

[Doc91678]

You may be right, but between the double voting, felons voting and the dead voting, Corzine had a big lead on Forester.