Two Stars

Gannett's Andrea Clurfeld interviewed Governor-elect Chris Christie for an article in today's Asbury Park Press.

Christie said that he will use many of the recommendations of the 2006 special legislative session on property taxes, as well as ideas from Gannett's "Fighting New Jersey's Tax Crush" series to implement "top to bottom" reform in New Jersey government.

He said that if he is unable to enact significant reform in the first two years of his term do to systematic forces he would ask the legislature and voters to approve a constitutional convention to change the system.

Christie's message earns four stars, but Clurfeld's article only two. It is not Pulitzer Prize quality.

For more on Clurfeld, read Tom DeSeno's entry on his Jersey Shore blog from February 2007.