(NJ Politics Time)

NJ had gone blue in every Presidential Election since 1992, the governorship has gone back and forth. I remember seeing the “Dump Florio” stickers when I was growing up. Then there was Christie Todd Whitman. My fourth grade teacher told me that I should be supporting Whitman. (‘because you’re a girl, and you like politics, so you should automatically support a female running for office type of argument) I told him that I certainly WOULD NOT support Whitman, as she was a Republican. And there was Jim McGreevy, the most famous gay govenor in the land, who also turned out to be a really not-so-nice guy.

So compared to that, Corzine is boring.

What’s Corzine’s record? He has none. No appointing ellicit lovers to important offices here (AFAIK). This is demonstrated by how he opened his campaign with a GOP-style attack on Christie’s “values.”

Christie’s record is similarly none.  Sure he was a prosecutor but what relevance does that really have? His  proposals are vague catchphrases and cliches, and his campaign is like 2004 Kerry.. it’s basically ”I’m not Corzine”.

You can’t put that much blame on Corzine for the state of things in Jersey anyway; a lot of that falls on the legislature, which seems to be completely incapable of correcting the systematic problems

I still maintain that one of the biggest problems with NJ is too many  municipalities.  There are some 500 municipalities and each of them have their own school districts, fire departments, police departments, etc. It’s very inefficient. The problem is no one wants to lose their little fiefdom, so anytime the solution to merge towns is raised, it is shouted down.