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Jon Corzine hides from Chris Christie, but still manages to sling some mud

Jon Corzine knows he's going to lose on November 3^rd. The only way he could possible engineer a turnaround is to avoid any mention of his abysmal record as governor and try to refocus our attention on something (anything!) else. Oh, and he'll probably have to spend millions more of his own money to blanket the state with sleazy advertising too.

His lackeys at the Star-Ledger are running out of fake scandals with with to zing Chris Christie. The latest non-issue? Christie got a speeding ticket in 2005 and didn't have his registration or insurance card with him at the time. Somehow that makes him unfit to be governor of New Jersey, at least it does if you're a Corzine supporter.

What are they going to report next? Unpaid library fines from when Christie was in Junior High? Stop the presses!

Wouldn't it be great if Governor Corzine at least tried to run on his record? He must be proud of something he's done in the last 4 years.

Of course, there's also quite a bit for him to be not so proud about. Highest property taxes in the nation, a $10 billion projected state deficit, record unemployment, hundreds of millions of dollars in state pension funds lost when Merrill Lynch went under ($150 million "invested" with them a week before they went bust), the list goes on and on.

In fact Corzine's apparently so ashamed of his abysmal record he's ducking the official gubernatorial debates. The State Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) organizes the debates and Corzine has asked them to postpone the first debate from October 1^st to October 22^nd. Corzine's staff says there is a "scheduling conflict" but refuse to elaborate.

The proposed change would also affect the timing of the lieutenant governor's debate, which must be the second of three under ELEC rules. It had been scheduled for Oct. 8. The second gubernatorial debate is scheduled for Oct. 16 at William Paterson University.

If Corzine gets his way, all 3 debates will have to take place within the same week. A week that just coincidentally coincides with the baseball playoffs. The Yankees should figure prominently in any playoff scenarios, making the likelyhood of a large TV audience for the debates pretty low. Plus, by that time most folks will have made up their minds already.

So it's pretty obvious that Jon Corzine is hiding. He knows he can't defend his record. And his attempts to slander Christie with penny ante "ethics" charges are pretty thin gruel. He's run New Jersey into the ground, and now it's time for us to run him out of town on a rail.

Posted at 18:14 by Chris Wysocki   [/election]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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