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Corzine/Farber Press Conference

by: Juan Melli

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 06:19:30 PM EDT

Corzine just announced that he is accepting Zulima Farber's resignation effective August 31. He insists that "this is her decision" (yeahhhh).

Farber: "Having read the report, I am steadfast in my convictions that Judge Williams' findings do not compell my resignation, and no one has asked for it." (except everyone)

Pressed by reporters, Corzine insists he did not ask Farber to resign. (press reports say he did)

Farber says she is resigning because the fight that would have to ensue to keep her job would impair her ability to serve the people of New Jersey.

Menendez's statement:

“Zulima Farber made a decision in the best interests of the state. She has been a tenacious and effective Attorney General, and I am not surprised that in response to the special prosecutor’s report, she put service above self. She should be commended for acting quickly and sparing the state from protracted proceedings and petty partisan posturing. As a former public advocate, counsel to a governor, and a prosecutor, Zulima Farber has been a faithful public servant for many years, and I wish her well.”

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Having Never Seen Farber... (3.00 / 1)

I am impressed with the prescence and class with which she stepped down.

Her "lapse in judgement" as Corzine put it made her reisignation appropriate as it sends a message that even the appearance of abuse of influence should be avoided.

The cops, it seems, will get off with a mere two week suspension. I guess they must do these favors a lot since their sanction in this high profile matter is so relatively minor.

Let's hope that this much sunlight is shed on every action of every public official in NJ.

I bet that if we could totally eliminate the costs of all pay to play corruption, cronyism, nepotism, sweetheart deals, revolving door employment (from regulators to regulated), and actual ilegal direct bribery; that the cost of local and state governance would drop precipitously while our whole quality of life would improve as truly progressive laws and policies would be implemented.

Imagine!

by: Nick Lento @ Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 22:39:12 PM UTC

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PS: COPY OF MESSAGE SENT TO GOVERNOR (0.00 / 0)

If y'all agree, I hope some will send a similar message.

http://www.state.nj....

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Dear Governor Corzine

You were elected to shake things up.

Please appoint a strong reformer. Someone with impeccable ethics and
the courage to match! Appoint someone who actually gets pissed off at
injustice!!!

NJ needs an AG who will crack down on ALL crooked pols and ALL illicit
anti-consumer behavior on the part of the commercial sector.

The nominee also needs to be a civil libertarian.

Ideally, a Ralph Nader NJPIRG type.

If you do this, and back the nominee to the hilt; you will become the
most successful Governor in history!

New Jerseyans are SICK AND TIRED of believing that "the fix is in" and
that "the little gal/guy" always get's screwed. It doesn't have to be
that way.

We have laws against all manner of malfeasance. Let's enforce them!

by: Nick Lento @ Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 22:44:14 PM UTC

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What did Z do to deserve this? (0.00 / 0)

No, not what she DID to deserve this - that I know, and frankly, her resignation seemed a foregone conclusion from the night of the incident. What I want to know is, what exactly did Farber ever do to get so polarizing in the first place?

by: Jeff Gardner @ Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 02:02:29 AM UTC

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she's an easy target (0.00 / 0)

New Jersey Gov't has a lot of issues. Half of the politicians that attacked her have their own huge issues. One of the outspoken Republicans up here in Morris County sent out letters to his friends in the municipalities in his district, on his Assembly stationary, urging them to look at his friend's business for their municipal needs. Nobody bats an eye.

It needed to look like something was being done to come down on corruption. Farber became the scapegoat partly b/c of timing and partly b/c she's not part of the club. I think it would be foolish to think that race and gender didn't play some part of this spiraling out of control the way it did. We see worse things happen daily with other officials and nobody cares. The media won't even carry the story half the time.

Noweeman is right to question why this was such a different situation...

by: morrisdem @ Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 03:10:55 AM UTC

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twice as good to go half as far (0.00 / 0)

What's the old saying about women? You have to be twice as good to get half as far. Probably not a fashionable saying with the third wave (of feminists).

I remember Carol Moseley Braun lost her seat partly for having her boyfriend flying for free with her (also for shopping with the wife of a Nigerian dictator).

Someone told me when Farber was appointed that many politicians were worried that the Corzine admin. might go after them. So maybe that makes her a target, too. Of course, for her to go after anybody she has to a sterling reputation.

Am I up to date? Now there are 7 women in Corzine's cabinet?

by: kwilkinson @ Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 17:34:58 PM UTC

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