The elite Republicrats are lining up with Corzine

While disappointing, it should be no surprise that the elite Republicrats are lining up to support Corzine's 800% toll increase scheme.

The leadership of the State Chamber of Commerce, and the rest of the blue noose panels got rich getting New Jersey into the mess it is in, and will get richer if Corzine's plan is approved. The rest of us will alter our lives by living on less, driving on local roads with longer commutes or moving to North Carolina.

The Republicans and Democrats who oppose the 800% toll increase scheme need to start suggesting specific cuts to spending, including layoffs and buyouts. They need to endure the rath of the state employees unions, because it is the largess that those union members enjoy that is the problem. Everbody, including the voters, knows this. However, until someone in office has the balls to say it and propose doing something about it, nothing is going to change.

It is also time to start circulating recall petitions for Corzine and legislators who support the plan.

With signatures from 25% of the registered voters within a jurisdiction needed to force a recall election, it is unlikely that such an effort would actually force a recall election before the next general election for the governor and state assembly in 2009. However, a well publicised effort could be enough to 1) spook Wall Street away from investing in the toll road bonds, and 2) spook spineless legislators from supporting the scheme.

Republican party chairmen in Bergen, Essex, Union, Passaic, and Camden should start their 2009 legislative campaigns now by having their potential candidates campaign against the 800% toll road scheme while circulating recall petitions at train stations, super markets, malls, ball fields and door to door.