Christie elected Governor, defeats Corzine by 106,000 votes; GOP picks up one Assembly seat

I really am amazed and so happy. I can't believe even Passaic County went Republican for Clerk and Freeholders.

The GOP wins approx. 52% of the vote for the General Assembly and because of the Codey/Bartels legislative map are rewarded for the statewide win with only 41% of the seats. Enjoy these districts while they last, because a truly independent Eleventh Member will look at these numbers and start from scratch.

They are/were obviously in cahoots with the Obama/Corzine Machine. They had that fool Dagget at 12% and Corzine and Christie neck and neck....they weren't even close!!

They were polling anyone and everyone and not likely voters.

Half the freaking local elections all over the entire country flipped to the Republicans. It's amazing and about time.
Maybe people are finally waking up!

Congrats to Chris Christie, All the New Republican Freeholders in NJ, The Republican Assemblyman, and all the local municipal Republicans who won. NJ has given you a real mandate....you better be paying attention...Even NJ has conservatgive underpinnings...Get out there and do what you promised. No Excuses...No BullSh*t!

Get er done!!!

Heard Last night that Julie OBrien's Mother died on Sunday night and her father had a heart attack in his grief and is currently hospitalized.

I must say how much I admire her spirit. I saw here out there in the Hoboken train station on my way home from work smiling and shaking hands with commuters pushing for votes to the last minute on Monday night.

Wow - you whine more than Nick Lento. So much for your predictions huh?

I remember Corzine's speech from 4 years ago and all he yelled was "Is there any democrats in the house" and went on and on about the party this and the party that. .

Forrester was gracious and offered to help.

Christie IF YOU REALLY PAID ATTENTION said it wasn’t about him or the party it is about the State.

He listen, when you win an election you get to jab you opponents one more time and I am sure if you were the subject of 25 million in negative ads from the Dem machine in NJ you would take a few shots too.

So get off you soap box and stop being a sore loser.

YOUR GUY LOST!!!

To the victor goes the spoils

I'll admit that my prediction was wrong and no I do not like Torch but you gotta give credit where credit is due-the man was never devoid of ideas. I'm not a sore loser, but I am a disapointed citizen of this state. The better man did not win.

Facts are stubborn. Frankly, to ignore that JSC spent less money in 2009 than he did in 2006 cannot be dismissed-this is an impressive feat at any level of government and it is what NJ voters asked for, the fact that he was the 1st governor to encourage consolidation of towns and school districts (the only actual way to save money on property taxes) cannot be dismissed, the fact that he was sobering and combative with a fat and happy State Leg cannot be dismissed, the fact that he moved more people off of the state payroll than anyone else instituted a hiring freeze and funded the state's long ignored pension fund cannot be ignored, Corzine (like Florio) gave this state a needed dose of "Big Boy" pills that no one wanted to swallow. However, what he said and attempted to do was the right thing. CC isnt half the man and doesnt have half the ideas. Yes yes yes Torch was immoral and a crook we get it I have said it over and over, he doesnt deserve to ever be in public office but the man is not and never has been intellecually bankrupt. Torch's unethical behavior does not negate the man's ability to make a salient point. I hope that you can understand that and not belabor this conversaton with ghosts of media feeding frenzys past-Torch isnt the issue here

He spent less money in the state budget genius. I cited Torch as a source thats all. And yes the sophmoric adhearence to home ule in this state needs to be taken out. Corzine's threat to not state fund towns that dont was a good if not great move. Who raises your property taxes your town your county and your school district. Corzine spent less state money and none of them did. Case closed

Simply wrong, simply wrong...lets just look at the one issue...its ok for voters to ask the state to lower spending, but when it comes to the counties and the multitude of innoucuous municpalities it isnt. Do more with less unless of course you cant? is that it? By your logis municpalities should just continue to raise taxes rather than make cuts? we should continue to have a public works, police, fire, emergency medical departments all within 5 miles of each other just because?

The budget propsed by Corzine: FY 2010 is $4 billion less than FY 09. FY 09 was 1.6 billion less than his first budget in FY 07...I'm not really sure what numbers you are looking at. Furthermore, when asked by the editorial board of the philly inquirer "The numbers indicate that Corzine has spent less money since taking office-why are you charging him with increasing spending" Christie said "Because of what he is spending it on" Lastly, why are you so hostile? People always puff out their chests online. I will never understand why civility in discussion just fades in cyberspace.

I guess so whatever you say, but answer these questions...Should Corzine not have proposed strong consolidation plans? Should he have spent more money on municiple aid? Its as clear as the nose on mine or anyone's face that school and municple consolidation are the only practicle method of reducing property taxes. The legislature was indeed hostile to him-doesnt that indicate that what he proposed to do upset the pervasive nothingness of the status quo in this state. To argue that the man was ineffecitve is possible, he was loathed by powerbrokers because he didnt need their money, he was hated by the good ole state legislature crowd because he (despite what some say) finally banned dual office holding (yes it was a compromise but it will end) and forced them to be accountable for the budget...Corzine was a sobering governor that never once tld NJians anything rosey about this state (Even asset monitization was a god idea-cant tell me the guy who ran Goldman Sachs didnt see the collapse coming when that hapend state wouldve reassumed the assets and whoeverfinanced the loan wouldve been out the billions-good plan for NJ). He put forht good ideas, and argued accurately as to why they needed to be done. He was never tied to any stain of corruption and effectivly rocked the boat of his own party while holding true to the ideas that he campaigned on. The State Leg thrwarted his agenda and maybe he shouldve tried to politic better. But anyone who states down the army of uselessness in the NJ power echelons and tells them what they dont want to hear deserves credit and he deserved a second term because of it. Nj voters have no idea how terrible the government structure is, Corzine failed while either being too bold or not bold enough to earn political points, but as a governor (small g intetended) the man knew what he was doing

I'm not arguing about his campiagn. But frakly JSc isnt the only one who made this a negative campiagn to ignore CC's part in that is simply impossible. Corzine's loan was to his former live in Girlfriend not a subordinate. And if you think that JSC voting for CC as US Attorney was the reason he was nominated to the post (he was nominated because he was a mega-Bush fundraiser and we all know that). I will firmly state however that one set of rules for him and one for everyone else is a fair charge to levy at CC-and we all know that thats true. Im not bitter that JSC lost, I wanted him to win because he was the better candidate in this race, and he was one of the better governors this state has had (Light years better than Codey, McG, DiFran, Whitman). Regardless every charge about Corzine being a failed governor is wrong he took on the right issues and put forth the right ideas. Voter in NJ dont understand their government and most governors get that sting. CC, unless he governs like the infamous christie whitman, will feel the same pain.

I've already answered that. You know and I know that what we are arguing in terms of that part of our discussion is semantics. THe Gov's office propses a busget, the state house mixes it up and you are left with a compriomise. Lets agree that JSC at the very least proposed shrinking state budgets, the numbers are workable in a variety of different ways. Several watchdog groups indicate that the state spent less in 2009 than in 2006...if you need me to admit defeat based on your version of number watching I will YOU WIN. No answer my questions

I see how this works, you actually have no answer and project that onto me. I suppose you feel like some type of internet forum posting God because of your snark and hostile barbs. You are a master at the cyber-attack, ripe with material. You are the Zenith of annonymous postings, the pinnacle of faceless political commentary. Im glad you are having fun, I can only hope that in the future you realize that civilized people can have civilized discussions about things that matter without being so sophmoric. You and I both know that were this discussion held face to face you wouldnt be so dismissive and your proverbial chest wouldnt be a puffed (this is not a physical challenge just a statement indicating that in person I doubt you would be so quick to be disrespectful for disrespects sake). Good luck

I dont think that I scare you, and I really dont know what LMAO means, but what was worth this entire post was your last response. Really summed it all up nicely, really please dont add anything to it as it stands now you have created the "Mona Lisa" of cyber posts.

Your earlier work was only marred-you never want to over due a great work of art, maybe next time you'll take an editorial eye. Nice first effort though.

I know I am, clearly you make posting insults an art, here I sit waiting to see your next piece of original material, the new unveiling if you will. "Junior" I couldve never come up with that, an endless string of the letter "z" to indicate boredom-brilliant, comparing of one to a baby-gold, delicate flower-beyond compare. Clearly, I am so far out of your league, I'm not even in the same stadium...no not even playing the same game. But all of that is neither here nor there. You are overlord of this here forum, this is your world OC.

Another great and sweeping blow at my feable attempts. I am sure that you will keep this going until you get the last word, so I will let you have it, but just know that you have made all of my wildest dreams come true. You really couldnt have been better at this

When they were with us, they were very proud.