The W
Views: 178600470
Main | FAQ | Search: Y! / G | Color chart | Log in for more!
19.3.17 0518
The 7 - Current Events & Politics - More New Jersey Info Register and log in to post!
(1219 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
User
Post (1 total)
Grimis
Scrapple
Level: 135

Posts: 3736/4700
EXP: 28678756
For next: 656325

Since: 11.7.02
From: MD

Since last post: 4704 days
Last activity: 3158 days
#1 Posted on 17.8.04 1158.42
Reposted on: 17.8.11 1159.01
McGreevey out if Corzine asks?
    Originally posted by Jeane Macintosh, Ian Bishop And Deborah Orin in the 8/17/04 NY Post
    Scandal-scarred New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey is willing to resign soon and allow a special election, but only if popular Sen. Jon Corzine makes a personal plea, a McGreevey ally told The Post.
    Megamillionaire Democrat Corzine stayed out of sight yesterday and did nothing to stop speculation that he might prod McGreevey to leave before Nov. 15 — and jump into the special election to replace him.

Or Not
    Originally posted by Governor James McGreevey in the 8/17/04 USA Today
    Our constitution in New Jersey establishes a process for allowing the public to select a new governor.

    It prescribes a nominating period next spring and a general election in the fall of 2005 so that voters are exposed to a full and unfettered debate on the critical issues affecting their future and quality of life.

    We should allow that process to work.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are fighting over Corzine
    Originally posted by Michael Slackman in the 8/17 NY Times
    Senator Jon S. Corzine, the multimillionaire banker who personally financed his own Senate victory four years ago, is under intense and competing pressures. Democrats in New Jersey are urging him to intervene in the state's political crisis and run for governor, while Democrats in Washington are pushing him to fulfill his commitment to lead their efforts to raise campaign cash and win back control of the Senate.

    Mr. Corzine has not spoken publicly about his intentions, but friends and colleagues say he is torn: he badly wants to become governor of New Jersey, but he is also reluctant to turn his back on the Senate at this late date.....

    .....But party officials say privately that Mr. Corzine has indicated he would run in the special election, but does not want to be seen as the one who pushed out Mr. McGreevey.

    "I think they see the continuing revelations really being a detriment to the party, and they're afraid that even at election time in 2005, they'll still be running on the difficulties that McGreevey created," Ingrid Reed of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, at Rutgers University, said of the state Democrats.

    Mr. Corzine's silence is unusual. During his four years in the Senate, Mr. Corzine has developed a reputation as one of its more accessible members, often willing to chat with reporters and constituents. But not now. With Mr. Corzine quiet, a number of his Democratic colleagues in Washington continued to express cautious confidence that he would not abandon his national efforts.


The Republicans, who desperately whant McGreevery to resign now, may run out Tom Kean the former Guv and GOP co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, ahead of Bret Schundler.

What a mess...

(edited by Grimis on 17.8.04 1259)
Promote this thread!
ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Thread ahead: Bush picks Goss to run CIA
Next thread: New GOP Hating Activists: Hackers
Previous thread: Hagel officialy thinking about 2008....
(1219 newer) Next thread | Previous thread
The 7 - Current Events & Politics - More New Jersey InfoRegister and log in to post!

The W™ message board - 7 year recycle

ZimBoard
©2001-2024 Brothers Zim
This old hunk of junk rendered your page in 0.166 seconds.