Steele: Why didn't White House try to push Corzine out of race?
By Wally EdgeIn an appearance on Face the Nation this morning, Republican National Chairman Michael Steele questioned why the White House wants David Paterson to drop his campaign for Governor of New York, but didn't ask Gov. Jon Corzine to do the same thing.
"I think Governor Paterson's numbers are about the same as Governor Corzine's numbers, and yet the president was with Governor Corzine and I don't know whether there's been a request for Governor Corzine to step down in New Jersey," Steele said. "I just find it to be stunning and also rather bold."
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Isn't it obvious?
Corzine has $$$$$ and Paterson doesn't.
Why White house didn't push Corzine out of race?
Todays Goverment guidelines are similar to Corzine's ideas
actually
It's because Cuomo is clearly a more attractive candidate than Paterson. In the most recent Quinnipiac Poll, Cuomo led Paterson among Democrats 61 to 15 percent, a 4-to-1 margin.
The same poll shows that while Giuliani leads Paterson 53-33, Cuomo leads Giuliani 48-39.
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And Jon Corzine is far and away the most honest governor this state has had since Jim Florio. Whenever soild leaders tell NJians the things they dont want to hear they get killed. Corzine has said the same things from day one and offered propsals to fix them, if you are unhappy with results contact your locla electeds who have an obscene devotion to home rule. The entire idea that this state has more school districts than municipalities, more police and fire than we need and every little podunct mayor protecting their turf is why we are burried under property taxes. Frankly the state should simply revoke all of the towns charters and start from scratch. No reason why the Wildwoods are not all one town, why Sea Isle, Avalon, and Stone Harbor all need seperate police forces - or forces at all we have a cape may county sherrif's department. The problems in this state are not so much the statehouse-its in the municipalities
THE FUNNIES T POST EVER!!!
And it sprung fully from the brain of SJBLue... "Jon Corzine is far and away the most honest governor this state has had since Jim Florio" What an indictment of our fair State, that these two duplicitous, spineless politicos would be considered--even by a partisan--as honest. Corzine has repeatedly sold out taxpayers to his union owners, has grossly mismanaged this State and, God willing, he'll be fired from New Jersey just as he was fired from Goldman.
How
I'd like you to tell me how?
Corzine
Corzine made promises to lower property taxes which he never delievered. We pay the highest property taxes in the nation
Right
And JSC has cut the state's budget for the last three years. In terms of property tax relief what more can he do? Property taxes are a county and municiple issue. The completely backwards system for education that we have is the cause, the rediculous number of home rule little feifdoms all with their own police, fire and emt service...it is a stone cold fact the JSC has cut state spending and the state workforce and has advocated new ways to bring in revenue, lastly he championed consolidation of towns and commissioned a study to initial county wide school districts...the man has the plans, its your local guys that are keeping you from getting relief.