Another poll shows Corzine with upside-down approvals; he gets a C- on voter report card
By EditorGov. Jon Corzine has an upside-down 39%-46% job approval rating, and voters give him a grade of C- on his report card, according to a new Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll released today.
Senate President Richard Codey, who served as Governor before Corzine, has a 45%-15% favorable rating – making him the most popular statewide politician in New Jersey. U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, who is expected to challenge Corzine in 2009, has an approval rating of 29%-9%. Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts is virtually unknown; he has an approval rating of 11%-9%. The Legislature is also upside-down at 27%-45%.
On his report card, Corzine gets a D+ on property taxes, C- on cost cutting and ethics reform, a C on Education, a D on cost of living, and a C+ on his level of effort.
“The governor’s success with last month’s budget negotiations has led to some small improvements in his job ratings,” commented Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “Still, he is not seen as making real progress in the areas which most concern New Jersey.”
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A D on Cost of Living?
What the hell do you have to do to get an F-? Raise the sales tax? Maybe jam some housing obligations into towns and make the towns pay for it? Slash property tax relief aid? Put the State on course to raise tolls and/or the gas tax? Issue massive debt for unneeded school construction? He stinks. F- times a thousand.
10 historic and bipartisan ways to merit an F
1. Raise taxes, fees and fines. 2. Borrow and run up public debt without a thinking about of how to repay. 3. Fail to properly manage contact negotiations with state unions. 4. Always spend more than you take in. 5. Invent and implement new programs, but fail to follow through on the old. 6. Allow agencies to raise fees and fines to pay for their own growth. 7. Fail to manage and control those agencies. 8. Fail to understand that in a competitive global economy that actions such as "millionaires" taxes and raising fees to the highest level in the USA will have long term consequences. 9. Restructure public borrowing to take advantage of an ever growing stock market. 10. Fail to make annual contributions to existing obligations.
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Tell voters to vote for you for Senate to send a message to Gov. Corzine and the Democrats. The message is simple: reduce state and local taxes by reducing state and local expenses. A vote for you is a vehicle for that message.
Shoe in for next term.
Gov. Corzine is a shoe in for next term based on his stellar performance so far. He is also a shoe in for a secretary of treasury in Obama administration. We are so lucky to have him here!
Are you insane?
Corzine makes Jim Florio seem likable.
If McCain wins NJ, and I think he might it can be done, Corzine is toast.
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What's a politician have to do....
What's a politician have to do to be get an F? Does the State have to actually file for bankruptcy?? Though, that won't work. Codey has been in the legislature long enough and powerful enough to put through alot of the legislation that got us into our mess. And people love him for it.
Governor Whitman
In my opinion, Governor Whitman had a lot more to do with getting us into the mess than anyone else.
Denying Responsibility
At this point, saying Gov. Whitman is responsible for today's problems in New Jersey is only slightly less ridiculous than someone saying the Carter administration's energy policy is the reason for our high gas prices. Do the Democrats have ANY responsibility for their own actions over the last seven years? Any at all?? Whitman may have started a bad trend for this state with her economic policy, but the Dems just put it on steroids. Their actions of saddling this state with billions of more dollars in debt can only be put on the Democrats. It was their legislature. It was their governor (all 3 of them). They own the last 7 years of this state's history. For better (not much of that) and for worse (PLENTY of that).
You're too generous
C-, D, D+. You're being way too generous. Our current governor deserves nothing better than an F.
He's done absolutely nothing about property tax reform. He's increased the debt that we all must support. He's dreamt up schemes and scams to make it look like he's doing something. He spends more time trying to get out of Trenton than he does being Governor. He lies to the voters almost daily (when he's not out of town).
How he deserves anything better than an F is beyond me. He's so bad we should dream up a new lower grade for him. Might I suggest Z. It just doesn't get any lower than that.