In his speech Obama talks about Jon Corzine:
To avoid a potentially messy court fight, Gov. Jon Corzine has paid $362,500 to the brother-in-law of labor leader Carla Katz, his former girlfriend.
Corzine completed the confidential deal with Rocco Riccio, a former state employee, in late September after Riccio threatened to sue the millionaire governor for allegedly reneging on a promise to find him a private-sector job, the governor confirmed. NJ.com
Corzine’s Poison Pill Hypocrisy: Says Guarantees Good for Unions, Bad for Shore Protection
Gov. Jon Corzine does not have to release e-mails he exchanged with ex-girlfriend and former union leader Carla Katz after the state Supreme Court today ended a legal battle that lasted nearly two years
The state's highest court said it would not hear arguments in the case, rejecting a Republican attempt to overturn an appeals court decision saying the e-mails should not be made public to preserve New Jersey governors' powers to run the state. NJ.com
Corzine folds over union showdown
Jon Corzine wanted to campaign with Vice President Joe Biden in West Orange tonight. There was only one problem; state employee unions planned to picket the event over Corzine's imposition of furloughs and wage freezes. The White House
indicated that VP Biden would not cross a union picket line.
Jon Corzine did what any politician in the pocket of the public employee unions would do — he folded like a cheap suit.
A last-minute "compromise" was reached and the unions called off their protest. Presto! Joe Biden could safely make a campaign appearance for an embattled Friend of Obama.
New Jersey residents and tourists will soon have to pay more per bottle if the state Legislature gets away with a 25 percent tax increase on wine and liquor. Over the last year, the state
has seen more than 11,000 hospitality jobs disappear due to the recession. Now is the worst time to destroy hundreds more. Atlantic City Press
Corzine, a Democrat, proposes raising the income tax rate on households earning more than $500,000, from 8.97 to 10.25 percent. That would take New Jersey’s top income tax rate from the fifth- to second-highest in the nation. The Corzine administration says the tax hike will raise another $780 million. The Heartland Institute.
Gov. Corzine Dumping N.J. Property Tax Rebates
Property tax rebates have been around for years in New Jersey. But Gov. Jon Corzine said Wednesday budget problems have forced him to reverse the giveback policy this year.
Many homeowners are outraged.
If you were planning on getting a property tax rebate check, don't count on it. It's being cancelled this year for everyone except senior citizens and the disabled. WebCBSTV
N.J.: fewer jobs, higher unemployment rate
New Jersey lost 2,100 jobs in June and its unemployment rate rose from 8.8 percent to 9.2 percent, the highest level since 1977, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development said Wednesday.
One expert viewed June's jobs report warily. "The good news is, that's the smallest monthly loss of jobs that the state has experienced in over a year," said Patrick J. O'Keefe, a director for the J.H. Cohn accounting firm in Roseland and former president of the New Jersey Builders Association.
But "the labor market still has a ways to go," he said. "We're
going to see job losses for the remainder of the year, maybe into 2010." Asbury Park Press
The Democrats in the Assembly Labor Committee sent another message to the business community that their services are not needed in New Jersey with the passage of a prevailing wage bill said committee member Assemblyman Michael Doherty, R-Warren and Hunterdon today. The legislation released from the Assembly Labor Committee will require that workers on any construction project in the state that receive financial assistance from the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) be paid the prevailing wage rate as determined by the Commissioner of Workforce Development. Assemblyman Doherty offered an amendment, which was voted down along party lines, that would have excluded smaller businesses from the bill. PolitickerNJ
Anyone believing the minutia spewed about Jon Corzine at this rally would have to fall into one of the several categories listed below.
They would have had to been away for at least three years
Wearing blinders
Are helpless sheep being lead to the slaughter.
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