One good thing Chris Christy did in NJ was figure out how to get a Republican elected to statewide office. (Hint: stop the vote stealing.) I hope he can help out a fellow Republican win one in that state.
Actually, Christy's win got a major assist from Obama. (cackle). Read on.
Pres Obama was desperate for 2009 incumbent Dem Gov Corzine to get reelected. Obama pulled out all the stops to demonstrate his and his crackerjack team's political prowess.
<><>Obama had his WH "geniuses" take full control of Corzine’s campaign.
<><>Obama campaigned in NJ three times, Biden was there twice.
<><>Obama's pro-Corzio TV ads ran relentlessly on costly NY media.
<><>Obama put the power of the WH political machine behind Corzine.
<><> Obama's generous $17.2 billion "NJ stimulus" promptly vanished--hidden from media scrutiny.
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The NY Times reported in exquisite detail:
(a) every TV ad Corzine put on the air was being screened by Obama’s WH “geniuses.”
(b) Corzine’s aides gave the WH daily briefings.
(c) Obama’s pollsters took over for Corzine’s polling team, and,
(d) White House operatives were on the ground for internal strategy sessions.
(e) Wealthy Wall Street 1%'er Corzine spent hundreds of thousands of his own money buying elective office;
(f) secret strategy sessions were held to suckup the latino vote;
(g) a Peruvian PAC run by a NJ restauranteur endorsed Corzine (hyphenate dream about access to the state treasury);
(H) Corzio bragged he had 20,000 paid operatives (union members) on the ground election day, paid to get out the vote in heavily Democrat NJ.
CORZINE BANKRUPTED STATE EGENCIES T THE TUNE OFR BILLIONS---WHERE DIT IT GO? Ponzi king Bernie Madoff made a generous contribution to Corzine’s gubernatorial re/elect campaign......salivating about getting his greedy hands on all that state money. When he went to jail, investigators found Madoff had stashed billions offshore---into a labyrinth of financial entities.
Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America, ......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that.
To unsuspecting outsiders, this seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances....but the game was to direct money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny for fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.
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END GAME Corzine's NJ loss and VA win were the only two 2009 n'wide races held---and both elected Repubs.