Posted on 11/08/2005 7:10:16 PM PST by 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.
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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.
---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.
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.
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.
"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".
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.
In both instances, I'm not going back!
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.
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.
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.
Let's try and be positive, it's a Democratic state, Republicans are 10 points down from the start.
True
So you'll fight Big Government with Big Government.
How is your abuse of state power any different from liberal abuse of state power?
I wonder how many of the Democratic dearly departed voted in this election for Corzine?
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".
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?
You may be right, but between the double voting, felons voting and the dead voting, Corzine had a big lead on Forester.
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