Posted on 04/30/2007 1:05:46 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
Just 18 days after suffering numerous serious injuries in an automobile crash, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, D-N.J., was released from Cooper University Hospital Monday and issued an emotional statement to the public.
"I understand I set a very poor example for a lot of young people, a lot of people in general," said a teary-eyed Corzine, who was not wearing a seat belt when he was critically injured in an April 12 automobile crash on the Garden State Parkway. "I certainly hope the state will forgive me and I will work very hard to try to set the right kind of example to make a difference in people's lives as we move forward."
Corzine was driven to the governor's mansion in Princeton to continue to rehabilitate his broken left leg. He is expected to resume his gubernatorial duties from the mansion, though not immediately.
"As I said last week I'm a blessed human being. I could not be more grateful for the support I've had from all the people of the state, the family, the medical people, the people that rescued me," Corzine said. "I just want to make sure I say thank you.
The 60-year-old governor was riding in the front passenger seat of an SUV driven by a state trooper on April 12 on the Garden State Parkway. He was hurrying from a speech in Atlantic City to a meeting at the mansion between disgraced former radio host Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team, about which Imus made offensive remarks.
The governor's Suburban was traveling at 91 mph when it was clipped by a truck and lost control, slamming into a guardrail. Corzine wasn't wearing his seat belt, as required by state law.
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Enter into a rehab, and all is forgiven. BTW, Corzine, show us the receipts. It’s not that we don’t trust you or anything. You are a politician, and unless you hit your head real hard, I don’t think being a politician has changed.
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I do not believe one word from this man or his pr machine.
They have lied about his injuries and are lieing now.Imagine how much pain he is in moving to the mansion.
He has a broken collarbone in two places.A broken breastpale,a shattered spleen and 12 broken ribs.He has a smashed lower spine vertibrate and a leg that has two bone compound fractures above his knee. He has a stitched up head as well.
Question is, has his driver been cited for speeding and wreckless endangerment?
This guys only sorry he got hurt and caught... like every other damned politician.
CBS radio news said the driver was text messaging in addition to everything else.
The press is also NOT making a big deal of the fact that virtually all of Governor Corzine's ribs were broken. You want to know how that happened? I'll tell you how:
I'll stake $5,000 that Governor Corzine died on the side of the Garden State Parkway and those hero troopers revived him with their quick-thinking and perhaps slightly over-enthusiastic CPR technique. This is the same reason he is offering to pay his medical bills and rehabilitation costs...he doesn't want it to surface that he died and the very men for which he holds contempt saved his billionaire life. Having four guys who each benchpress 275-lbs manually compressing your heart tends to have a negative impact on the ol' ribcage.
Do you have any proof of this, or is it just conjecture?
That’s the real crime.
Not sure about that one.....I think his real crime was wanting so very badly to get in his own facetime on Imus’ predicament.......see, the 91mph was to catch up with sharpton and the rutgers bassabaw coach.
“I understand I set a very poor example for a lot of young people, a lot of people in general,” said a teary-eyed Corzine, who was not wearing a seat belt when he was critically injured in an April 12 automobile crash on the Garden State Parkway. “I certainly hope the state will forgive me...”
Never have I read a more inane, obsequious, disquieting statement from anybody.
“He hopes the ‘state’ will forgive him!?”
Am I to take this statement as a public apology or as a plea for leniency from the almighty powers that be?
Neither one approaches the seriousness of trying to occupy the same physical space with another object at the same time.
training???
Once the car was going 91 MPH, I guess the crash was not preventable. Going 91 MPH, however was a choice.
He is luckly noone was killed.
Well too bad for Noone then, whoever he was.
He’s lucky he WAS the one who was injured - it could have been his aide, or one of the drivers dodging out of the way of the blue lights and siren, or one of the drivers getting dodged into.
Mrs VS
Yes, I'm guilty.
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