Monmouth University released the results of a new poll this morning indicating that only 1 in four voters think Jon Corzine should have another term as governor.
Corzine's new proposed toll hikes are opposed by the majority. Most respondents didn't know about the governor's proposed toll hikes before the pollster called, but opposed them immediately upon learning of them.
Only 29% approve of the job the state legislature is doing.
Bob Ingle suggests that Corzine should consider taking a job in the Obama administration should "The One" win the presidency. I know Bob has New Jersey's best interests at heart, but Corzine going back to Washington would only make New Jersey the butt of more late night jokes.
That Obama considers his "Wall Street guy" a financial guru is reason enough not to vote for "The One." The United States and New Jersey would be better off with Corzine running for Mayor of Hoboken than if he was Secretary of Treasury or Secretary of Labor. My apologies to the people of Hoboken.
Maybe Corzine will just retire and join Jimmy Carter in building homes for poor people. Whoops...that won't work because his union friends would be upset by all that volunteer labor.
The Monmouth poll should be great news for NJ Republicans. Winning the Governor's office and picking up some Assembly seats next year should be doable given these numbers. Yet somehow I doubt that will happen or that it would make a dramatic difference if it did. It wouldn't make a difference because the entire system of government in New Jersey doesn't work. Real change is not possible so long as the State Supreme Court really runs the government. The Abbott and Mt. Laurel decisions will dominate New Jersey's government and economy for the foreseeable future. Only a constitutional convention that restructures New Jersey's governments from the top down can yield real change.
Is there a leader in either party with the where-with-all to really fix what is broken in New Jersey? I don't see one, yet.
Boy, Did We Dodge a Bullet ...
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All we needed was the Whitman legislature (or the 1991 veto proof one)to put on the ballot amendments to the State Constitution to revise Abbott and Mt. Laurel. If it wasn't done then why would anyone believe it would happen in 2010?
Just remember NY State had a convention in 1967 and it was packed with special interests. Is that what you want, the NJEA and the other Unions to write the new state constitution at a convention?
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