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Dating himself (3.00 / 1)

I'll bet Lesniak also thinks that Diane Allen is grody to the max.

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by: huntsu @ Mon Jul 09, 2007 at 23:03:10 PM UTC

I'd have more faith (0.00 / 0)

in senator Lesniak's advocacy of 'monetization' if he would sign a pledge that his legal firm will not recieve legal work that the complex final transaction will generate.

"Where ever you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai

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by: William Weber (WjcW) @ Mon Jul 09, 2007 at 23:56:03 PM UTC

Arrest Diane Allen (0.00 / 0)

It is (it IS, trust me!) AGAINST THE LAW to photograph the New Jersey Turnpike. Arrest her, officer! It is THAT simple!

(FYI: Grody to the max is pretty California -- here in Jersey, Allen just bites the big one ... f*****' A, man ... ).

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 11:43:10 AM UTC

Pretty sad (0.00 / 0)

It's pretty sad when Republicans like Diane Allen are acting like Democrats, and Democrats like Lesniak and Corzine are acting like Republicans.  "Monetization" is privatization.

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by: 12mileseastofTrenton @ Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 13:27:00 PM UTC

The Governor is Waiting for Lame Duck (4.00 / 1)

Rather than make his plan public, he's going to wait until lame duck, then threaten Legislators with cuts in funding to their districts. Kind of a "you want A, B, and C; then vote yes on 'monetization'." It's a play out of the Rove playbook (it's what they did with CAFTA).

Democrats should PUBLICLY call the Governor out on this. His good friends at Goldman Sachs have been visiting him. Mark Florian (look him up) is the head of the specific division of Goldman that is in charge of these 'Public, Private Partnerships' (triple P's). He's visited over 35 state houses throughout the country to push these sorts of deals.

The Governor is looking for a politically expedient way to cut down debt. Well, this scheme, and it is a scheme, will have long lasting effects the same way Whitman's privatization schemes are affecting the state today. Corzine should make every meeting, every dollar, every paper up to today on this matter public. If he doesn't, then we know that we're in for the shaft.

Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer

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by: evdebs @ Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 14:32:45 PM UTC