Steve Audubato breaks down the LG Choices

Did Chris Christie know? (0.00 / 0)

What was going down in his old office?

How was his timing, that he picked another prosecutor as LG?

Mere coincidence?

What do honest folks think?

Conventional wisdom might have called for a different kind of balance for his ticket, perhaps.

"Discrimination caused by ignorance and fear is a tax on human progress" - Barbra Casbar Siperstein

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by: Babs NJSD @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 17:26:39 PM UTC

I think conventional wisdom is usually wrong... (0.00 / 0)

look at Clinton-Gore in 1992, everyone thought he was nuts for picking another Southerner and that worked out for them.

Did Christie know about the cases? Probably, but to what extent and the timing, probably not.  

Some of these cases were just made as of 2 and 3 months ago, so he couldn't have been privy to the timing of the arrests.  

Clearly, his campaign them is - Trenton outsider/prosecutor (cleaning up corruption)/ family values, and the Monmouth County Sheriff reinforces all of that.  

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by: Matthew Jordan @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 17:37:44 PM UTC

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I disagree (4.00 / 1)

I think Senator Weinberg was Governor Corzine's best and only choice all along. I think he understood that there would be great internal opposition from the entrenched bosses, who successively proposed anyone except her, quickly jumping to the latest flavor of the moment. In actuality, I see the Democrats not so much as a party, but as a coalition of interests. The county machines are really quite conservative without much commitment to ideology of any kind, because they are job machines. This is what makes them so conservative as they seek to preserve the status quo (usually a pay check for themselves, friends and relatives). To some degree, Corzine had to navigate around and through their demands during his first term, producing some very muddled compromises, especially in the realm of ethics reform and environmentalism. But in a second term, he will be much freer of their orbits. I think that's why he chose Weinberg, to bare the soul of the party, which is deeply hidden by the beholden bureacracy from the failed McGreevey administration. Look for more new faces if Corzine-Weinberg win, because I think they will finally bring the change that the status quo badly needs.

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by: Teedyuscung @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 20:21:50 PM UTC