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Title:
Doesn't Know

Type:
:30 TV

Date launched:
11/4/05

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ANNCR: What does Doug Forrester really believe?

Today, Doug Forrester says he's pro-choice. But to win the Republican primary, he told anti-choice groups he agreed with them.

Leading Anti-Choice Advocate Said Forrester "Told People Face-To-Face That He Was Pro-Life." In October 2005, the Star-Ledger reported that Marie Tasy of New Jersey Right to Life "said that Forrester wobbled" on the issue of choice. Tasy said, "He told people face-to-face that he was pro-life." Tasy had previously said that, during the 2005 primary, "Forrester tried ... to woo pro-life primary voters[.]" [Star-Ledger, 10/21/05; NJ Right to Life PAC, Release, 5/26/05]

About twenty years ago, former Associated Press Trenton Bureau Chief John Kolesar wrote a story for New Jersey Monthly listing the biggest political scandals in New Jersey history. Among the best: the scam in which some Burlington County Republican leaders, including former Acting Governor Clifford Powell, bought two Delaware River bridges for $8 million and sold them the same day to the county for $12 million; the 1872 scandal when the Assembly Speaker forged an amendment to a bill the legislature had passed that would have broken the Pennsylvania Railroad's mainline monopoly in New Jersey; the 1899 gubernatorial election when Hudson County produced a 14,000-vote margin for the successful Democratic candidate, including 10,000 votes from people were deceased or non-existent. (67 Democratic election workers went to jail); in 1871, the Jersey City Treasurer was found to have looted the city treasury, but before law enforcement officials nailed him, he beat it to Mexico -- where a bandit relieved him of his booty; and Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague's entire career, in which he never made a salary higher than $7,500 but left an estate worth a couple of million dollars.