| 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 [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Assembly sent five bills to Gov. Jon Corzine at its final voting session of 2009 on Monday, plus voted to put a question before voters in 2010 that would bar the state from diverting payroll taxes, such as those that are intended for unemployment or disability benefits, to its [...]
The state Assembly returns for its first voting session since late June this afternoon for a scheduled 1 p.m. start. As many as 48 bills might be passed, according to the agenda, including five that would head to the desk of Gov. Jon Corzine and one that would next head [...]
Gov. Jon Corzine, who public schedule consisted of just eight events in 32 days after losing his re-election bid, today practically breaks into campaign mode with four appearances.
Three are to participate in 'Super Sunday' fund-raising drives by various Jewish organizations -- a 9 a.m. stop in Scotch Plains to visit [...]
Matt Rooney | December 4, 2009Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey taxpayers are being saddled with a bill of about $657,000 [...]
Lame-duck Gov. Jon Corzine today nominated his chief of staff, Edward J. McBride Jr., to become a state Superior Court judge.
McBride, 49, a resident of Pennsauken, has been chief of staff -- one of the most powerful positions in state government -- for nearly a year. [...]
While this year's governor's election wasn't a rout, it also wasn't terribly close. Final results certified this week show that Gov.-elect Chris Christie defeated Gov. Jon Corzine by around 86,700 votes, 0r 3.6 percentage points.
Every year, the unofficial results significantly underestimate the final tally. That's to be expected; this year, [...]
One interesting wrinkle behind the political theater over whether Democrats will change the rules for filling U.S. Senate vacancies is that both incumbent senators, Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, took office as gubernatorial appointees to fill a vacancy.
Menendez was appointed in 2006 by freshly minted Gov. Jon Corzine to replace [...]
The amount of his own money Jon Corzine put into his campaign in the last 7 days of the 2000 U.S. Senate election: $3,641,496.
The amount of his own money Jon Corzine put into his campaign in the last 7 days of the 2005 governor's election: $3,846,142.19.
The amount of his own [...]
Millions spent - and not one job saved or created!
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine spent $27 million on his unsuccessful re-election bid, more than double the Republican who ousted him, according to state campaign finance data.
Corzine, [...]
