Posted on 10/28/2009 8:41:08 PM PDT by Coleus
These days, as he pleads with New Jersey voters for a second term as governor, even moments of satisfaction in Jon S. Corzine’s world seem to extract their small humiliations. In early September, for instance, on the day that President Obama delivered his heralded (and controversial) televised pep talk to public-school students, Corzine traveled to Camden, one of the country’s poorest cities, his government-issue black S.U.V. weaving through a postapocalyptic landscape of overgrown fields and shuttered row houses.
The neighborhood was celebrating the opening of the sparkling new H. B. Wilson Elementary School, one of 45 new schools that Corzine’s administration has constructed and opened, despite the state’s acute economic troubles, and Corzine, who displays an obvious passion for all things educational, had arrived to bask in the achievement and to join a class of fourth graders in watching President Obama’s speech.
The students, dressed in their crisp yellow uniforms, seemed buoyant as they filed in, eyeing a small mountain of brand-new backpacks donated by the local bar association. Not much that’s new and shiny turns up in Camden, whose broken city government has been taken over by the state and whose choicest piece of waterfront property is blighted by a state prison.
Surrounded by city officials and a clutch of TV cameras in the classroom, Corzine settled into a front-row desk amid the excited children. It soon became apparent, however, that the school’s plan to stream the president’s speech on its new state-of-the-art broadband connection wasn’t going to work. The classroom fell into an embarrassed silence as the president’s voice cut in and out unintelligibly, a sweaty staff member working desperately to fix the problem. A more able and extroverted politician might have taken control of the situation,
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What a f****t.
There is no hope for New Jersey if they re-elect this mobster.
New Jersey is populated by mobsters. And women who wish they could’ve married a mobster, but all the good ones were taken.
Camden is a toilet. An unflushed toilet.
They expect me to read 8 Freakin pages! NO WAY.
WOW..that was from the New York Times??? That was NOT a flattering article!
No it wasn’t. I live here & take offense to them saying Camden is the the choicest piece of waterfront. What utter bs. I don’t know one single person who likes Corslime. I think we tend to have gotten used to the corruption that has lurked here forever. At least in all the years I’ve been alive.
Most people I know just want out of NJ asap. I don’t care for Christie but I will vote for him just to get Corslime out.
That’s the same NYTimes that endorsed Corzine recently.
I left NY 20 years ago and never looked back. But then I went to California...left there 5 years ago and never looked back!
I don’t blame you in leaving either state! I live near the ocean & never wanted to leave here. I live in a nice neighborhood but now I have horses & renting a barn besides my house taxes are just too much. I just can’t afford to stay here or buy a farm. There are few jobs & people are being laid off all the time. Whoever wins has a HUGE mess on their hands. I just pray we get rid off Corslime.
what do you think? Do you think he’ll lose?
“They expect me to read 8 Freakin pages! NO WAY.”
LOL! That’s what I said. I read the last page, just a lot of blah, blah, blah. Doing the best he can and all that rot. Gov’t is good, etc.
If we in NJ re-elect this dope, we deserve him. That’s all I can say.
VOTE TO DEFEAT CORZINE!
Same Here.
BTW, stop by the shop sometime.
They should have kept inducing it.
it was a good article, it’s not too often that the ny slimes will write a story against a sitting democrat up for reelection.
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