Corzine declines NJ 101.5 debate
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Gov. Jon Corzine will not participate in a gubernatorial debate on New Jersey 101.5, according to Eric Scott, the news director. Scott says he received a letter from the Corzine campaign this morning.
"Jon Corzine has now become the first candidate for statewide office in almost twenty years to turn his back on our one-million listeners by refusing to appear on New Jersey 101.5 to talk directly to New Jersey voters about the issues that are important to them," Scott told PolitickerNJ.com.
Scott says that Corzine participated in multiple programs and debate son 101.5 as a candidate for U.S. Senator in 2000 and for Governor in 2005.
"In this election, however, Jon Corzine appears to have made the strategic decision to pretend that we simply do not exist," said Scott, who noted that today's letter, dated September 9, was the first communication from the campaign since the debate invitation was extended in July.
Corzine will participate in two official debates and has agreed to a debate on a Newark-based jazz radio station. But he has not decided if he will take part in a League of Women Voters debate to be aired on ABC-TV's New York and Philadelphia network affiliates.
Republican Christopher Christie and Independent Christopher Daggett have agreed to debate on 101.5.
The station is among the sponsors of an official debate for Lt. Governor candidates that will include Corzine's running mate, State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Teaneck).
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NJ 101.5 is a conservative mouthpiece pure and simple. Their programing is sophmoric and sloppy. Their personalities are crude and ignorant.
Jazz 88 vs. 101.5
SJ Blue....so a Jazz station is better prepared to ask relevant questions about this race than 101.5? The hypocrisy oozes from Corzine(D-Wall Street) and his followers daily. It's truly sickening. Someone should check Corzine's personal an foundation checkbook. My guess is he's thrown some money to the Jazz station to buy their loyalty. Disgraceful
A Really Bad Decision
101.5 reaches a statewide audience that the Jazz station does not.
Second, a jazz station has no political viability or is looked to for policy information.
Third, 101.5 would have exposed CC for not having any "alternative" regarding policy or solutions.
Fourth, if the debate is "hosted" news director Eric Scott, it would contentious, but very even handed. Scott is a professional and does not let his own feeling interfere in a situation like this.
By all accounts this is a bad move and bad advice by Jamie Fox, who used to be a very sharp advisor.
This will hurt Corzine, more than they realize. A debate on a station that no one will hear will do Corzine no good.
Get the gloves on!
Not an easy call since 101.5 hammers him everyday. But to say you would debate on a low frequency jazz station instead sounds rather foolish. If I was advising, I would have him do the debate because it is almost expected and Eric Scott is pretty fair. Afterwards, you can continue to ignore their existence.
The debate on debates is one reason Rs have been losing
No one - outside of political insiders - gives a whit about where the debates are or how many the candidates have. Yet each year, Republicans try to make an issue out of the lack of debates. And each year the public yawns. My take: as long as their is at least one debate - held wherever and whenever - the public will be satisfied.
BTW, let's drop the pretense that the debates are actually something more than a chance to catch your opponent in a "gotcha" moment. Barring that, the debates are meaningless and forgotten by the next news cycle.
Im not talking about the Jazz station
I am applaud JSC's decline of a station that bashes him endlessly and ignorantly. However, The principle remains the same. CC declines the jazz station debate because it doesnt reach an demo friendly to him (North Jersey).
Jazz & Other Facts
The jazz station is owned/operated by Corzine/Democrat supporters.
Don't dismiss the 101.5 audience. This is a group that pays attention to the poltical and will come out to vote... unlike the majority of the voters in the state. Corzine is blowing a chance to swing the undecided his way. Christie and Daggett are going to have a field day beating up on Corzine's record.
If I were in the Christie camp, I would remind voters everyday how Corzine "ducked" a debate with 1 million listeners.
If you think 101.5 is unfairly anti-Corzine, this dissing is only going to make it worse.
Corzine is Toast
Looked foolish yesterday trying to spin a positive twist to 9.7% unempoyment in NJ. This guy is falling faster then the economy and he will lose by 6 points. The real unemployment in NJ is probably 14%, people with out benefits are not counted and 40k ran ot last week. Ad in the infighting of the dems over the Senate and the assembly, and the anti Obama swell, it's a perfect storm for the GOP in NJ.
Nobody cares
Nobody cares about debates and "1 million listeners" doesn't mean 1 million people listening to the debate. Depending on the time there might be only a few thousand, and I suspect many of them will be tuning in other stations rather than listen to these three idiots.
Corzine needs to turn out his base of Democrats and chances are very few of them will be paying attention to debates. As to independents Corzine's best chance is that Daggett will take more votes away from Christie than he will from Corzine.
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Wimp.
Scaredy cat.
Corzine declines NJ 101.5 debate
Of course he declined NJ 101.5's offer to debate. He wants to duck tough questions, afterall, how is he going to explain the highest unemployment rate in NJ in 33 years happening on his watch? Wait, I know! Blame it on Bush. Yeah, that's the ticket. Sorry, Jonnie, your routine doesn't hold water. NJ is bankrupt, people and businesses are leaving the state due to out of control taxes and spending and Jonnie Corzine just sticks his head in the sand and hopes it all goes away. Time for change.
101.5 is no longer a news
101.5 is no longer a news station. It is a shock jock station. Aside from the few minutes of "news" every hour, the host are nothing more than shock jock gossip. This is NJ's equivalent of Howard Stern or Opie and Anthony. The direction 101.5 took its own station is the reason for this. It is not, and should not, be taken seriously enough to warrant a gubernatorial debate. If the # of listners mean anything, they'd be having the debate on Z100 or KTU.
Corzine is Running scared.
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posted by SJBlue
NJ 101.5 is a conservative mouthpiece pure and simple. Their programing is sophmoric and sloppy. Their personalities are crude and ignorant.
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Nonsense. So you're saying that 101.5 is good enough for a debate between Weinberg and Guadagno (101.5 is sponsoring the LG debate), but too conservative for a debate between Corzine and Christie?? Really?
This is all just a strategy for Corzine. He NEEDS for this to become a race between Chris Christie and Chris Dagget if he is to have even a sliver of a chance at winning reelection. He's terrified to debate because he knows that Christie (and even Dagget) are going to destroy him. This is why he has declined to debate on media outlets where a large audience would hear him (101.5 and the League of Women Voters debate on ABC).
Disgusting
It's truly disgusting that the governor of New JErsey will refuse to go on the largest radio station in this State. That should tell everyone what he thinks of the voters in New JErsey. So let's all tell Jon Boy what we think of him in early November. Vote Get Rid of Incumbent Politicians Vote GRIP
Seriously folks, 95% of the
Seriously folks, 95% of the people listening to the radio at this time will turn it off or change the station. Debates are no longer needed. They are futile exercises where the only people watching are each candidates respective supporters so they can all claim victory.
There is more than enough information in today's day and age where voters no longer need these events to make an informed opinion. If anything, after watching two canddiates exchange talking points, I often feel dumber.
Independent Candidates
They are all hypocrites: 101.5, League of Women Voters, Election Law Enforcement Commission, NJN, etc, because there are nine other independent candidates all of whom are excluded from debates and media coverage.
New Jersey has made it illegal for anyone to run a low budget campaign for Governor. That's why the state is broke and all three major candidates are millionaires.