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Corzine Ready To Lower Tax Boom On N.J. CBS 2 Speaks To Upset Residents, Many Hint At Leaving Image Marcia Kramer Reporting (CBS) BERGENFIELD New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine unveils his belt tightening new budget on Tuesday. But even before the announcement, New Jersey taxpayers were expecting the worst. When Corzine voted for himself to become governor of New Jersey he knew that one day he would have to make some difficult and unpopular budget decisions. That day is Tuesday. And already people are lining up to oppose his expected tax hikes. ”It’s utterly ridiculous we have to have the...

Former Gov. James E. McGreevey, who resigned from office in 2004 after acknowledging a gay affair, has written a blog with gay rights activist and author David Mixner. Their first topic was about efforts to combat poverty in McDowell County, W.Va., and focused on the odyssey of one local woman who survived two battered marriages and now is part of that work. "The Amazing Marsha Timpson" is a five-part article that runs to nearly 9,000 words on www.huffingtonpost.com, a news and opinion Web site launched last year by political commentator Arianna Huffington, a onetime candidate for California governor. Timpson said...

WASHINGTON - Shortly after being elected New Jersey's governor, Democrat Jon Corzine speculated aloud that he might appoint a woman to fill out his unexpired Senate term. Then he singled out black state Sen. Nia Gill, calling her an "extraordinarily capable woman." Gill did not shy away from the hint. "I have the qualifications," she told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "If I am chosen by Jon, I am more than qualified to rise to the occasion." If Corzine does select Gill — a 57-year-old attorney — she would become only the sixth black, and second black woman ever to...

Blogger angst NBC's Tom Brokaw signs off the air tonight after 21 years as anchorman, and will be replaced tomorrow by correspondent Brian Williams. Both have opinions about Internet bloggers — whose dogged pursuit of CBS' Dan Rather helped expose his use of forged documents in a "60 Minutes" story that questioned President Bush's National Guard service. Mr. Brokaw is not threatened by bloggers. --snip-- Mr. Williams — who called himself a "big NASCAR freak, a 'gear-head,' " in an NBC interview yesterday — is even less receptive. Bloggers are "on an equal footing with someone in a bathroom with...

The Kerry Cabinet by Dr. M. Sidney Wallace John Kerry is so confident in winning the election in November that he has already announced his transition team. Along with his publicly announced transition team here is a very guarded list of some of his new cabinet appointees. The Office of Secretary of State will be abolished. President Kerry intends to let the Ambassadors to the United Nations perform this role and he sees no need for the United States to have any matters of state that cannot be handled in the UN. The decisive and former President, Jimmy Carter will...

TRENTON — A fund-raiser for New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he solicited $40,000 in cash and campaign donations as part of a shakedown scheme in which the governor has been implicated. David D'Amiano, 44, entered his plea to two fraud charges 10 weeks after being charged with extortion, bribery and other offenses in an indictment that also said an unidentified state official used the code word "Machiavelli" to show that political officials were helping. McGreevey acknowledged he is the state official referred to. But he insisted he did nothing wrong, and said the mention of...

New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey is the embodiment of a new reality, in which homosexuality is the last refuge of scoundrels. New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey has managed to snatch martyrdom from the jaws of damnation. He would have the public believe that he didn't resign his governorship on August 12 because of the scandals that sprouted from his administration like crabgrass, but because he was the victim of a homophobic society. Since August 12, the socialist, mainstream media have worked their butts off, painting sympathetic portraits of McGreevey, who in spite of having resigned, refuses to leave office. McGreevey...

While the socialist, mainstream media have worked their butts off, painting sympathetic portraits of "gay" New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who sort of resigned on August 12, but who refuses to leave office, some hard-heads have insisted on committing journalism. McGreevey, the man who campaigned that he would "change the way things are done in Trenton," has proved to be as corrupt a chief executive as any in the history of a state that my colleague from New Jersey, Alan Caruba, has argued is the most crooked in the country. Caruba wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "If anyone thinks his...

Where is Golan's Blue Dress? trentonrevolution In the ultimate anti-Clinton political moment, New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey came out ahead of the curve to admit, "he had sex with that man, Mr. Cipel" in a mutually accepted adult consensual relationship. Rather than wagging his finger in our faces a la Bill Clinton, Governor McGreevey appeared with his family to share the joy of his coming out with his constituency and those around the country and around the world. McGreevey's father appeared to be extremely proud to be appearing behind his son at that wonderful moment of which every father...

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.): "Ultimately, an announcement like that is helpful to all of us. [McGreevey] was elected governor, so voters obviously connected to him. This will refute the notion that there's 'something wrong' with gay people."

Pro-abort Dems Eject Catholic Priest From St. Pat's Celebration on Catholic Church Property Culture/Society News Source: e-mail from Father Pater West Published: March 30, 2001 Author: Father Peter West Posted on 03/31/2001 14:29:55 PST by Diago Fr Peter West writes: Dear Friends, Many of you have been emailing me to ask what happened at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Newark on Sunday March 18. You may have heard that I was physically thrown out of St. Patrick’s School hall. This is true. I will give you a full report. I was present along with about 15 other demonstrators at...

TRENTON, N.J. (Reuters) - New Jersey , which helped turn racial profiling by police into a national political issue, on Friday became the first state to make race-based arrests and police searches a crime. A new law signed by Democratic Gov. Jim McGreevey made racial profiling by public officials, including police officers, punishable by up to five years' imprisonment and a $15,000 fine. The signing marked a victory for civil rights activists who had pressed for such a law since April 1998 when two state troopers pulled over a van of black and Hispanic men for a traffic stop on...

<p>Every year is an election year in New Jersey, and this November all of New Jersey’s 13 U.S. House seats are up for grabs.  But the biggest prize is the U.S. Senate seat being defended by first-term Democratic incumbent Bob Torricelli.</p>

New Jersey voters must be kicking themselves. When he ran against conservative Bret Schundler for governor, Democrat Jim McGreevey vowed not to raise taxes, but just like Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, he's all too eager to show his true colors. The day after he was elected he reiterated his campaign promise: "I am ruling out a tax increase." But in his first budget, released this week, McGreevey proposed tax increases on businesses (and thus consumers) and cigarettes - though now he claims his word applied only to taxes on income, gasoline and sales. "It should not come as much of...

Schundler not taking a back seatMonday, March 18, 2002By HERB JACKSONStaff WriterHe's ba-ack.Well-rested after a long vacation to put that Nov. 6 unpleasantness behind him, Republican Bret Schundler is popping up at political events again, claiming to be the state GOP's "titular head" because of his primary victory last June and making no secret of his expectation to win the 2005 gubernatorial nomination as well.But does the GOP still want Schundler? History suggests that candidates who lost as badly as he did - Governor McGreevey garnered 56 percent to Schundler's 42 percent - usually slink off the political stage...