| December 18, 2009
Jon Corzine
There's a lot of speculation about when Corzine officially jumped the shark. Some think it was that speech he got a lobbyist to write, despite a taxpayer-paid speech-writer on staff, that said pigs would fly over the Statehouse before enough waste could be cut [...]
Jonny B. Goode, an anonymous Trenton insider who has been dogging Jon Corzine for the last few years at InTheLobby, has a wonderful send off and reprise of the Governor's tenure in today's edition. [...] 
It's Wednesday, Dec. 16th, 2009, and here's some of what's on the schedule in state government and politics:
Gov.-elect Chris Christie is expected to announce Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Guadagno will be the state's secretary of state. Gov. Jon Corzine speaks at the Camden Riverfront Prison demolition in Camden, then has two events [...]Gov. Jon Corzine nominated 180 people to various state agencies Monday, undoubtedly setting up a political fight with Republicans who are gearing up to reclaim the governor's mansion and the executive-branch appointments that go with it for the first time in eight years. Those include 49 who will require Senate approval [...]
A $1.1 trillion spending bill Congress sent to the White House includes $200 million for work on a new tunnel under the Hudson to Macy's basement, what future generations will call Corzine's Folly. It is scheduled for completion in 2017 at a cost of $9 billion [...]
As Governor Corzine finishes his term and Senate President Codey prepares for his final days running the Senate, we have this picture before they go:Give us your best thought bubbles or caption. If you followed the Democratic Party's strategy from this year's New Jersey governor's race of trying to capitalize on mammograms as a campaign issue, you'll get a sense of deja vu in the 2010 congressional races, according to the Politico news website. Gov. Jon Corzine's use of the issue' [...]
At the same time, however, Christie spokeswoman Maria Comella said [...]
The Corzine administration is moving forward with borrowing $1.2 billion for transportation projects. That figure is five times the original planned sale. Tom Vincz of Corzine's Treasury said the Corzine people talked to Christie's transition team and there was no objection to the borrowing, that it was "jointly determined". The [...]
A slow Friday, Dec. 11th, 2009, ahead in state politics ... or so the schedule would suggest.
Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo announces his re-election bid. Gov. Jon Corzine attends the event. EPA regional administrator Judith Enck and South Plainfield Mayor Charlie Butrico announce the beginning stages of a $30 million cleanup [...] | December 11, 2009A few days after his defeat at the polls Gov. Jon Corzine gave a parting boost to the notion that forcing towns to consolidate is the best remedy for New Jersey’s high property tax affliction.
He noted that one of the major reasons property taxes are so high is because [...]
Among the items that have made the news this week are these:
Gov.-elect Chris Christie's staff gave the outgoing Corzine administration the green light to borrow $1.2 billion for transportation projects, far more in bonds than the state has been planning to issue at this time, though the governor-elect says the [...]Jon Corzine
Looks like NJ Transit is working as fast as it can to tie the hands of the Christie administration. In a meeting attended by soon to be former Gov. Corzine, the NJ Transit board awarded a $583 million contract for what has been described [...]
