Blast From The Past: Christie Sends Brother To Represent Him @ RNC

Thank you, huntsu (0.00 / 0)

for keeping up the fantastic work on the Christie story.  

Many folks - including some Dems had thought he was a good guy for going after corruption, UNTIL the sick realization dawns that he ONLY focused on the other party - and for political reasons.  

This is why Corzine's choice of Senator Weinberg is extremely important to NJ.  The Senator has worked tirelessly in a bipartisan way with folks like Senator Diane Allen to get the Party Democracy Act passed.  REPUBLICANs in Bergen vote for Loretta as well as long time Dems.  We KNOW Loretta will fight corruption, as well as cronyism.  Christie appears to hate corruption, while cronyism is just okey dokey with him.  

I may be tough on Corzine from time to time, but he has stood up for Loretta and against corruption at very critical moments - angering the pay to play folks like Joe Ferriero.

We would NEVER have beat back Boss Joe without the help of Gov Corzine these past few years.  

One Vote. Yours. It really does matter.

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by: carolh @ Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 09:20:58 AM CDT

So what you and Huntsu are implying... (0.00 / 0)

is that Christe could have easily convicted a slew of Republicans but he choose not to for political reasons.

Fine.

Then why did Peter Harvey, Zulima Farber, Stuart Rabner, and Anne Milgram choose not to?


"Where ever you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

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by: William Weber (WjcW) @ Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 10:24:07 AM CDT

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You have consistently ... (0.00 / 0)

and intentionally misstated my opinion and position.  We have repeatedly noted that we do not think that PROSECUTIONS were skewed, but that investigations and leaks and speaking tours and statements were.

But it always comes back to prosecutions, even though we say we have no problem with that.  

Since you never bother to actually LISTEN to what we have to say, you are unable to UNDERSTAND what we have to say.

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by: huntsu @ Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 13:46:52 PM CDT

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And there's this: (0.00 / 0)

http://spreadsheets.google.com...

and the explication at

http://www.bluejersey.com/show...

One thing people consistently do wrong is to compare the US Attorney to the NJ Attorney General.  

The US Attorney is like a County Prosecutor, not the state AG.  And so when you are looking at the corruption cases in NJ, there are tons of them at the county and state level -- the difference is Christie never saw a camera or reporter he didn't throw a quote at or slip a leak to.

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by: huntsu @ Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 14:09:13 PM CDT

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by the way.... (0.00 / 0)

I don't for ONE second believe the Republicans are more ethical than any other party. That's not where I am coming from.
Why do I believe more democrats are getting snared? Simply because there are more of them in power.
My main problem with the AG is that when there seems to be an opportunity to investigate (Schools Construction Corp, Norcross Tapes, Taffet/Levinson, Parole Board) somehow, nothing comes to fruition.

"Where ever you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

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by: William Weber (WjcW) @ Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 20:22:47 PM CDT

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Two points ... (0.00 / 0)

There are more Dems in the legislature, but it's only about 60-40.  

At the county level, the ratio is almost 50-50 for elected officials, and at the municipal level it is only 55-45.

The investigations we were able to count -- the ones where there were either leaks of investigations, indictments or convictions -- from the USA's office were 90% about Democrats, far in excess of the ratio of those in positions of power.

I will say once again that I fully support all of the prosecutions and hope there are more under Marra and Miligram if there are more corrupt pols out there.

But the leaks, the public investigations, the speaking tour, the subpoenas dropped at election time, the announcements and other public actions were overwhelmingly against Democrats.

Forget convictions, indictments, etc.  It was the very public use of the office to target Democrats -- the most egregious example being attacking Dems for respecting Senatorial Courtesy while never mentioning the use of it by Republicans -- that was the issue for us.

And remains so.

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by: huntsu @ Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 07:15:48 AM CDT

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I'm sorry... (0.00 / 0)

how else would you interpret

Many folks - including some Dems had thought he was a good guy for going after corruption, UNTIL the sick realization dawns that he ONLY focused on the other party - and for political reasons.

Can you please explain why we cannot compare the state AG to the US attorney? Originally I was willing to buy the argument that the US attorney has greater resources to a point. But certainly after the 11 were busted 2 years ago and 'Corzine was in despair', any competent govenor would have redirected resources and/or focus toward the corruption problem.

I refuse to believe that somehow it's easier for the US Attorney to investigate corruption at the mayoral level than the state AG. It's simply a matter of priorities.

"Where ever you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

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by: William Weber (WjcW) @ Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 20:08:59 PM CDT

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The Dueces you say! (0.00 / 0)

huntsu didn't write that, so attributing the sentiment of a commenter to us is off-base.

You've read enough of our stuff to know where we stand, and we have been quite open and prolific --- and consistent -- about our positions.  

P.S. Buckaroo Banzai is one of the top two NJ movies ever made!  Dogma, of course, being the other.

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by: huntsu @ Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 07:10:00 AM CDT

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