While I was out in limbo land, our State assemblyman asked. "Can You Trust the Christie/Vastine/Marks Trio to Run the State?"
The simple answer would be " no less than we have trusted Govenor Corzine/ Commissioner Howard/ and Speaker pro tempore Green". Of course Vastine and Marks would only be one of many Assemblymen and being newcomers would have no influential committee appointments unlike our present representative.
The unanswered question is if that trio had been part of the Trenton political hierarchy would Muhlenberg have been closed? We might also ask would the school funding rules been so drastically altered? Would the State's finances been so deeply in the red?
The answer to the third question is probably as bad, to the second is ":perhaps" and to the first it is No one knows but there may have been an honest public hearing and action dependent on real research not a predetermined ordained result.
Anyhow the truth of the matter is that the Corzine leadership and his fellow travelers are in such serious trouble the President Obama has already made one trip to NJ to bolster. the party. I would phophesize that he will be back here several more times. The party can not afford to lose this state even in a Congressional election off year.
The truth is that the state party is politically bankrupt and it will only take some typical Republican idiocy to turn the tide. That means that candidates for the Assembly will also be defeated if they hang on to Corzine's coattails. Of course as to paraphrase a song; "It is a long way from here to November"
Before wandering to a non election subject, how many would like to read Green's own answers to the question she is reported to have posed to Christie? Perhaps it will appear in his blog.
Has anybody deciphered the weird public meeting notice that Bernice called to our attention. It does seem typical of the BOE. That would leave either PUMA or a city board
On the subject of legal notices; has anyone seen in either the CN or Ledger a publication announcing the subsequently cancelled special meeting to fund Landmark? I have not and I wonder was such a notice sent to the papers for publication, as stated in the posted notice in the clerk's office. If so since those pages are put to bed before the printing date was the city able to cancel it and get a monetary refund? To learn what took place might be of interest come November.
The legal notice was not meant to be published, that's why it said "For information only." It was some kind of loophole in the Sunshine Law. Luckily it upset the governing body enough that the meeting was canceled. Ray Blanco used to go wild over these short-notice pranks and it is good that others won't stand for it.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that Corzine had good intentions when he was elected. Unfortunately, you cannot serve two masters. In this case...the unions and the people at large.
ReplyDeleteHe is also hamstrung with an economy (which is cyclical) and unfortunately for him was on a down cycle during his term.
As for Stender and Green...they are simply rubber stamps. They have failed because they have never looked outside the box for solutions to problems. They simply do as they are told by higher ups.
The problem with that approach is that the party's agenda doesn't always mesh with the communities agenda. That’s why we get what we get. As career politicians...they need to stay in office because there is nothing else. So they do whatever they have to do towards that end.
They make a great case for term limits.
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ReplyDeleteAssemblyman Green:
What specific programs and policies do you endorse to address the problems caused by the mostly alien day workers in Plainfield?