Keeping a list, checking it twice

By Wally Edge | September 6th, 2007 - 1:44pm
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Four legislators have been indicted this year on federal corruption charges, and a fifth has been told he is the target of a federal probe.

CHARGED: State Sen. Wayne Bryant (D-Camden); State Sen. Sharpe James (D-Essex); Assemblyman Alfred Steele (D-Passaic); Assemblyman Mims Hackett (D-Essex).

TARGETED: State Sen. Joseph Coniglio (D-Bergen)

SUBPOENAED: State Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Union); Assemblyman Robert Gordon (D-Bergen); Assemblywoman Joan Voss (D-Bergen); Assemblyman and Union City Mayor Brian Stack (D-Hudson)

UNCLEAR: U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez

This List

It may be easier to just list the Democrats who are not under federal criminal investigation in the future if the Democrats keep up their downward spiral.

DOWNWARD SPIRAL! HA HA HA HA HA!

2001 - Governor and Assembly in Republican hands. Senate split.

2007 - Republicans hold nothing.

Status Quo

Ordinarily I would say this is great news for the Republicans. But I am not sure that the party leadership is smart enough is capitalize on the Democrat thiefs or Governor Buy Them Off.

Lee

I reluctantly agree with you.

"I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job."

Well Wally...

If you are on Politicsnj payroll, you could be a liability to the company for libel... because basedon what I have read today, the two assemblyman arrested today were arrested and not indicted, a huge legal difference. Or did I miss something????

Dino

If the party had any brains (and by the way, balls) we would get behind a candidate like:

http://www.childressforassembly.com/

I never met the man, but know people who have and everyone tells me that Clenard is a man with a message.

GOP?

Whatever happenned to Martha Bark?

Marty?

I want to know where my man Martin One is today? He's awfully quiet. Still think people are picking on those poor Democrats for no reason?

This guy crawls out of the liberal woodwork to blast people who try to imply that when it comes to corruption in this state, the Democrats, partially because they are the party in power and have the ability to do so, are responsible for an overwhelming majority of unethical behavior and outright corruption in New Jersey.

While you could field a baseball team full of corrupt Republican pols in the last 5 years, you can start your own league full of corrupt Dem pols (minor leagues included). When will people start to realize that before we can tackle problems like property taxes, health care and education, we must first get serious on ethics?

Wake up and start electing either good Republicans or independent, reform minded, not a product of a political machine-type Democrats.

Hey Marty, while you're at it... hold me accountable!  

List is not complete....

Nice post, Politamonkey. Where is Marty? The silence is deafening.

I hear there are at least two other Democrook legislators that have had to answer to subpeonas or investigations. One in the north and one pretty big catch in the south. They must be praying that Nov. 6 comes before any action by Christie's office or any leak about what's going on.

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