With no legal options remaining to force Governor Corzine to turn over emails between himself and ex-girlfriend Carla Katz, a former public employee union leader, Republican State Chairman Tom Wilson said today Corzine should release the emails on his own volition.  

“With the legal question now answered, all that is left is for Jon Corzine to answer the real question. Did his backchannel communications with Carla Katz, away from the bargaining table, influence his actions on the state worker contract?  The only way for people to know the answer is for Corzine to now release the e-mails,” wrote Wilson in his formal response to the State Supreme Court’s decision not to hear his legal challenge to Corzine today.

Corzine claimed executive privilege in keeping the emails out of view and said last year that the public would find most of the content “extraordinarily boring.”

Wilson said that now that the Governor’s executive privilege point is made, there’s no reason he should not release the emails.  

“The Governor has said he has nothing to hide and this ruling gives him the chance to stop hiding. If he refuses to release these e-mails, no one should believe for a moment that his actions were above board,” he said. “Jon Corzine pledged to restore trust in government, demanded to be held accountable, and said that transparency in his own actions would be central to achieving those goals”