NJ Corruption: Corzine and Democrats "Culture of Corruption"

 

With President Barack Obama at his side last week, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine attempted to quell the news that his re-election campaign is on the ropes.

 

According to reports, he trails his Republican opponent by more than 11 points in two separate polls. Corzine and his party are attempting to attract voters using the adulation afforded Obama, who can best be described in New Jersey as Corzine's political crutch.

 

Corzine runs a state that is allegedly running neck and neck with Illinois -- Obama's home state --  in The Most Corrupt State in the Union Contest, In fact, one of the biggest dragnets in history occurred in New Jersey on Thursday when dozens of Democrat officeholders were arrested by FBI and IRS agents.

And while word-of-mouth by Jerseyites seems to be his downfall, the news media ignore Corzine's scandals such as the one involving a half-million dollar loan he gave his then-girlfriend, Carla Katz, who just happened to be the head of New Jersey's largest state workers union.

 

Eventually, according to investigators, he forgave the loan giving the impression this was a payoff to gain union support for his election campaign and, if elected, garner her future support in the dealings between state workers and the Governor's office.

Besides the half-million smackers he gave Carla Katz, according to investigators, then-Senator Corzine voted in favor of a "treaty between the United States and Japan that contained a provision exempting certain investors from paying capital gains taxes on their shares in a Japanese bank. The [public interest] lawyers say Corzine was among about 100 investors who benefited."

This treaty allegedly gave him a specific, private benefit that was not available to other investors in the United States or Japan and is a private bill that benefited the senator personally.

In addition, according to syndicate columnist J. Grant Swank, he never notified fellow Senate Foreign Relations Committee members that he was a part of that investors group. Corzine is one of the wealthiest people in New Jersey and in the United States. He's part of a cabal of rich Democrats that includes Senator John Kerry. In fact, he is the richest ever to sit in the New Jersey state house -- richer by far than even former Republican governors Christine Todd Whitman and Tom Kean.

 

While all this corruption investigating was going on, Corzine's TV campaign commercials and his website had this:

"Jon Corzine’s Bold Plan for a More Honest, Open, and Accountable Government"

"Tighten Ethics Laws for Those Who Work in Government"

Now President Obama is stumping for Corzine in New Jersey. While the two Democrats glad-handed their way through the state, they both promised open and corruption-free government.

Fortunately for Governor Corzine, the mainstream news media are yawning over the allegations made against him. His opposition to the Iraq war and his bowing to liberal-left causes appear to have kept him in good stead with the denizens of America's newsrooms, as well.

 

Although legal experts have told this writer that Corzine's activities were indeed criminal in nature, they say there are no prosecutors in New Jersey willing to take on a powerful Democrat in one of the bluest of Blue States. Besides, why bother going after a Democrat when there's always a good Republican down the road for the elite media to skewer.