Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

KEAN: WHO IS REALLY PUSHING THIS TURNPIKE SALE?

WITH MANY IN THE GOVERNOR'S OWN PARTY ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROPOSAL, IT IS FAIR TO ASK WHO IS PUSHING THE SALE

ASSEMBLY DEMOCRAT'S BUDGET: MORE TAXES, MORE SPENDING, MORE OF WHAT NO ONE WANTS
Corzine Should Heed His Father and Stop Digging!

CORZINE NOMINATES BRADLEY ABELOW AS
STATE TREASURER
Governor-elect Also Announces Members of Budget Reform Advisory Committee

TRENTON - Governor-elect Jon S. Corzine today nominated former Goldman Sachs executive Bradley I. Abelow to serve as state treasurer. He also announced the four members of his Budget Reform Advisory Committee.

"In order to get to build a better, brighter New Jersey, we must end hand-to-mouth, year-to-year decision making and replace it with long-term thinking and planning," Corzine said. "Bradley Abelow knows how to do this. He will bring exceptional experience, a keen intellect and 21st century management practices to state government. I am pleased that he has agreed to join my new Administration."

Perth Amboy Mayor Joseph Vas announced his candidacy for Congress on Tuesday, the first Democrat to enter the race to succeed U.S. Senator-designate Robert Menendez. Hudson County Democratic Chairman Bernard Kenny, the Senate Majority Leader, endorsed the front runner for the House seat, Assembly Speaker Albio Sires. The Jersey Journal reported today that Steven Fulop, a 28-year-old Jersey City Councilman, is mulling a bid for Congress in the 13th district. Fulop, who has worked as a trader for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, challenged Bob Menendez in the 13th district congressional primary in 2004; he had the support of Jersey City Mayor Glenn Cunningham, who passed away just before the primary. Fulop won a Council seat in 2005.

The winner of today's gubernatorial election will become the first Governor who did not grow up in New Jersey since Woodrow Wilson won in 1910. Wilson spent his childhood in Georgia and Virginia and moved to New Jersey in 1875 when he transferred from Davidson College to Princeton University. Jon Corzine grew up in Illinois and moved to New Jersey in the 1975 when he took a job at Goldman Sachs. Doug Forrester grew up in California and came to New Jersey in the mid 1970's after graduating from Harvard to study at at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

Corzine's No-Bid Record at Goldman Sachs: Part 2
Goldman--Sachs had $110 million in no-bid contracts with New Jersey
SEC charged the company with padding a NJ bond deal

During Tuesday night's gubernatorial debate, Jon Corzine told a statewide television audience that he "ran a company of about twenty thousand people for a number of years, I don't remember doing things with no bid contracts."

GOP CALLS ON CORZINE TO "ORDER" TRUSTEE'S TO DISCLOSE ASSETS
--Corzine Admits He's In Control of Assets in His Bogus Blind Trust--

Republican State Committee Chairman Tom Wilson released the following statement following Corzine's comments in press accounts today: