Power List 2007
By EditorThe PoliticsNJ.com Power List of the 100 Most Powerful People in New Jersey Politics will be released on Thursday. This year, our readers get to pick the person who gets the final slot -- #100 -- from our last ten candidates. Vote Tuesday and Wednesday to decide who gets on the Power List -- and who doesn't!
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I think your list should have just come out
Who wants to be last on a list of 100? At least if you are not on the list someone would have to figure it out.
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine
Where's Adam?
Is Adam Puharic one of the first 99? Surely his must be since he's not included in the poll.
Art Gallagher
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Subjective vs. Objective
Unfortunately, your list is subjective since the general populice will not get the opportunity to have input into the list. It's a popularity contest amongst your writers and not a true balance of what happens in Trenton. Picking 1 out of 100 is really a lesson in autonomy.
Where is the Governor's Staff?
How could not a single member of the Governor's senior staff or cabinet make the top 10 list of most powerful people in New Jersey politics? What was the thinking here?
Calm down, Woodrow. No need
Calm down, Woodrow. No need to trot out the League of Nations or seven sisters of reform. The 10 lackluster names you see here are merely vying for the 100th spot. The full list will be released on Thursday. You will surely see people like Tom Shea and Maggie Moran on there. But at the top of the list will surely be Chris Christie. Not only because he has amassed major US corporations and a medical school under his direct portfolio, but because when he says jump, the Governor asks "how high?"
WILSON
I voted for Wilson, for all his baggage and to keep his post he has to be somewhat powerful in certain circles. Did Talarico or Caligure make it for being the most powerful to screw something up?
Nice Job Burlco!
You know the Burlington County Democrats are making headway when the County GOP Chair and the State GOP Chair are both competing along with 8 others for 100th spot.