Let me explain…parts of it are really nice, such as Hopewell, the Princeton area, the shore points, etc. But I would hate to be subject to the incredible media assault awaiting those in the garden state that surely will come now that the stage has been set for two mega-millionaires to duke it out in the election for governor.
Douglas Forrester defeated Bret Schundler in the Republican primary yesterday, meaning that Forrester will run against incumbent Democratic senator Jon Corzine, former chairman and CEO of the investment firm Goldman Sachs.
As reported in the Trenton Times (which, as far as I’m concerned, emphasized these guys’ incomes WAY too much)…
Corzine (according to people familiar with the campaign) raised huge amounts of money for fellow senators in two national campaigns and is a sitting senator. He will also be running as the favorite, at least in the early stages of the campaign.
Whether national Republican leaders are willing to go all out for Forrester is another question. Forrester has raised big bucks for President Bush’s campaigns, but big-time Republicans have written off New Jersey and many of its candidates as a losing cause for years.
Corzine is in charge of the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, for what it’s worth.
The Times article goes on to describe how Forrester won the GOP primary in the election for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Robert Torricelli in 2000 (was it really that long ago?), but ended up losing the general election to Frank Lautenberg who emerged as a last-minute replacement for Torricelli.
(What really got me about Torricelli, by the way, wasn’t what he did – he took some jewelry and a big-screen TV, as I recall – but the way he bawled like a baby about how much he thought he was being persecuted. Hey, you’re in “the show.” Suck it up, for God’s sake.)
The article also mentions how El Grande Sleazeball Ken Mehlman, honcho of the Repug National Committee, is coming to NJ to whip all his Repug brethren into line to support Forrester and, in the process, do everything to tar Corzine with the whole Jim (I’m-a-gay-American-who-put-an-Israeli-national-without-clearance-in-charge-of-Homeland-Security) McGreevey thing.
I’m afraid this election is going to do absolutely nothing to advance anything related to a progressive cause. Based on the little bit I’ve read, Corzine is an effective mover and shaker behind the scenes, and Forrester isn’t a dummy either, but will probably play one on TV. However, dear New Jersey-ites (?), I think you should get ready for a mud slinging fest the likes of which you haven’t seen since, well, at least last year.
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