Quote of the Day: Politics is often like loading a mousetrap with dynamite

by: Jason Springer

Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 07:30:21 PM EST

The problems of the broke unemployment fund have roots on both sides of the aisle, but the Christie Administration has focused on the actions of Democrats in recent years. The Auditor took a stroll down memory lane and found that people close to the Governor had a hand in creating the mess:

But The Auditor has found a number of those controversial maneuvers were enacted when Republicans ran the Legislature in the 1990s, and Christie chief of staff Rich Bagger - then a state lawmaker - voted yes four times from 1992 to 2002.
Derek Roseman, spokesman for Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester), enjoyed this stroll through legislative history. "In Trenton," Roseman said, "politics is often like loading a mousetrap with dynamite: Even when making your point, you might accidentally blow up half your house."

That revelation prompted a more subdued response from Christie's communications people saying that both sides created the mess and now everyone could join together fixing it. But lets see how long it takes before they go back to blaming all the ills of our state on the Democrats.

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Quote of the Day: Politics is often like loading a mousetrap with dynamite | 2 comments

great quote (0.00 / 0)

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by: Hopeful @ Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 00:47:15 AM UTC

This is all Republican partisan messaging (0.00 / 0)

And it is baloney! The raiding of the Unemployment Insurance Fund began in the Christie Whitman Administration with the Republicans controlling the legislature- 8 years, and continued through the next 4 years of Democratic/ shared control. I was on Gov. Corzine's advisory board to his Labor and Workforce transition team and we saw this as an acute and critical problem. We unanimously recommended that not only should the diversion of $ from the fund cease immediately, but that it was imperative for the State to begin replenishing the $4 billion already diverted!

Under Gov. Corzine the raiding stopped and he did begin replenishment of such funds! Can you imagine where we'd be under the old Whitman policy? Chris Christie should thank Jon Corzine for taking fiscal responsibility and kiss him on both cheeks!

So when I hear Jay Webber and Jon Bramnick complain about the Democrats and the last 8 years and the Unemployment Insurance Fund, I say "Bullfeathers"!!

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

by: Babs NJSD @ Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 05:37:39 AM UTC