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At least they aren't calling them coffee clutches, like the Clinton's crime machine did.

New Jersey politicans at least are up front about selling themselves to the highest bidder

Honest crooks, who would have thought of it!!

See, this is just proof of the right wing bias of talk radio, Limbaugh and the internet. Information like this will NEVER appear in the NYT, on CNN, or on ABCCBSNBC and its inclusion, here, can only be intended as anti-democrat progaganda. Everyone knows the filth, corruption and dishonesty of democrats and to print information about each new example/instance is just an attempt to discredit them. Again, proof!

And, the article is factually incorrect. The 25K is not a fee to access the governor. It is the cost of entry into the senate appointment pool. Every time a NJ person "visits" with McGreevy and pays the 25K, the visitor puts one of his cards in a large bowl. The deal is that when Lautenberg needs to be replaced (before the end of 2003 for "recently discovered health reasons"), his replacement will be selected from the cards in the bowl. It gives Torricelli and many of his professional colleagues a fair chance (as long as McGreevy doesn't cheat).

McGreedy knows that he's heading straight into a re-election disaster come November, 2004. The first two years have been nothing but series of train wrecks, from the Golan Sipel "affair" to the Santiago gambit.

Unless Republicans back a complete moron in the next election, Jim is out on his ear. However, there's always the Lautenberg seat, should Frank decide that being in the minority doesn't suit him (no big surprise there). If Jim McGreevey is crashing and burning in the polls, he might just jump to the Senate (where re-election is more likely), or, should he appear to be heading back to Trenton for a second term, one of his supporters (Sharpe James?) will be appointed to fill in for Lautenberg.

Either way, I think that Lautenberg will be gone before the next Governor's election regardless of the polls, since Democrats cannot take the chance that a Republican win the Governorship like Whitman did and thereby have the power to appoint a Senator.

Of course, that's just my opinion, your mileage may vary....

He's been busy, we surprised him here in NYC. A lobbying group sponsored this event. The man who was in charge of organizing this was the former chief of staff for a Repbulican Assemblyman.

Monday, November 25

5:30-7:30 PM
At the home of

Mr & Mrs Howard J Rubenstein
993 Fifth Avenue
9th Floor
New York City

Between 80th and 81st Streets

$1,000.00 per person