The PSA was good; now can Corzine be as forthcoming and open about the “Katz” problem?
Steve Adubato wants to know. From his column at CaucusNJ…
I have praised Governor Corzine in the past for being up front and candid about his mistakes, including the fact that he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt in his accident and that the car driven by a state trooper was going way too fast. However, if the governor were to ask me for advice on how to handle the “Carla Katz situation,” I would tell him several things. For the record, I’m currently finishing up a book on crisis communication and how to deal with the media when under pressure.
The bottom line on the Corzine-Katz affair is that it just doesn’t look good.
It is an issue of perception. Jon Corzine is still one of the most honest governors this state has ever had. He has integrity and he cares. He is also the kind of leader that isn’t afraid to admit when he is wrong. However, this story has wound up on the front page of The New York Times and now, in turn, everywhere else. This is in part because the governor has been reluctant to voluntarily disclose certain details about his financial relationship with Carla Katz, which now appears to be a matter of public interest.
“Today real racists don’t ware white sheets. The ware a suit and tie with an American flag pin on their lapel.
Posted by lasermike026 | May 23, 2007 1:04 PM”
Uh, oh……
LOL – nice catch ROC
What’s to know? The sucka got played and (because he’s a rich sucka) he paid (and paid… and paid…).
At least Clinton didn’t pay off Monica, he knew his love- however short lived- was all she was gettin’. (And yes, it was a mess, but at least it was fun… Corzine is dirty!)
She was the Pimp and he was the Ho!
(Put that on my review…)
You made me do it.
You do know that Vice President Dick Chaney was client of DC madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey. He was a regular client. But you guys don’t want to talk about that. You only like slinging mud at Democrats. When Republicans get their hands caught in the hooker jar you dummy up real fast. Democrats are smart enough not to play this game.
As far as racists wearing ties and American flags on their lapels, its true. I would be very hard to be a racist if you had to where a hooded sheet every day. Some racists have their own talk show, are fat, smoke cigars, and pop pills.
“where”
closer, but not quite.
Pray Mikey, what has Rush said that has gotten you into such a froth of late?
You have to kidding, Steve ” I’m looking in the mirror as I apply my mousse” Abudato is now considered a legit political commentator. He comes from a corrupt political family, don’t take my word just do the google work, and now he foisting himself off as an authority on anything, This has to be a joke. The guy is a pretty boy moron. He has at best a double digit IQ. If not for his father, the godfather of Newark’s north ward, tell me please what would he be doing?
Now he states that Corzine is the most honest governor of NJ ever. Hello moron, what about the following you idiot?
Philip Carteret 1665�1672
John Berry 1672�1673
Anthony Colve 1673�1674
Governors of East Jersey and their Deputies (1674�1702)
Philip Carteret 1674�1682
Robert Barclay 1682�1688
1682�1683 Deputy: Thomas Rudyard
1683�1686 Deputy: Gawen Lawrie
1686�1687 Deputy: Lord Neill Campbell
1687�1690 Deputy: Andrew Hamilton
Edmund Andros 1688�1689
Andrew Hamilton 1692�1697
Jeremiah Basse 1698�1699
Andrew Hamilton 1699�1702
Governors of West Jersey and their Deputies (1680�1702)
Edward Byllynge 1680�1687
1681�1684 Deputy: Samuel Jennings
1684�1685 Deputy: Thomas Olive
1685�1687 Deputy: John Skene
Daniel Coxe 1687�1688
Edmund Andros 1688�1689
1690 Deputy: Edward Hunloke
Andrew Hamilton 1692�1697
Jeremiah Basse 1697�1699
Andrew Hamilton 1699�1702
Governors under Royal Government (1703�1776)
Governors of New York and New Jersey (1703�1738)
Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury 1703�1708
John Lovelace 1708�1709
Richard Ingoldesby 1709�1710 Lieutenant and Governor
Robert Hunter 1710�1720
William Burnet 1720�1728
John Montgomerie 1728�1731
Lewis Morris 1731�1732 President Of Council
William Cosby 1732�1736
John Anderson 1736 President Of Council
John Hamilton 1736�1738 President Of Council
Governors of New Jersey only (1738�1776)
Lewis Morris 1738�1746
John Hamilton 1746�1747 President Of Council
John Reading 1747 President Of Council
Jonathan Belcher 1747�1757
1757 Lieut. Governor: Thomas Pownall
John Reading 1757�1758 President Of Council
Francis Bernard 1758�1760
Thomas Boone 1760�1761
Josiah Hardy 1761�1763
William Franklin 1763�1776
Governors under representative government (1776�)
Governors under the 1776 N.J. Constitution (1776�1844)
1 William Livingston 1776�1790
NA Elisha Lawrence 1790 (?)
2 William Paterson 1790�1793
NA Thomas Henderson 1793
3 Richard Howell 1793�1801
4 Joseph Bloomfield 1801�1802
John Lambert 1802�1803 Acting Governor
Joseph Bloomfield 1803�1812
5 Aaron Ogden 1812�1813
6 William Sanford Pennington 1813�1815
7 Mahlon Dickerson 1815�1817
8 Isaac Halstead Williamson 1817�1829
9 Peter Dumont Vroom 1829�1832
10 Samuel Lewis Southard 1832�1833
11 Elias P. Seeley 1833
Peter Dumont Vroom 1833�1836
12 Philemon Dickerson 1836�1837
13 William Pennington 1837�1843
14 Daniel Haines 1843�1845
Governors under the 1844 N.J. Constitution (1844�1946)
15 Charles C. Stratton 1845�1848 Whig Elected Governor
Daniel Haines 1848�1851 Democrat Elected Governor
16 George F. Fort 1851�1854 Democrat Elected Governor
17 Rodman M. Price 1854�1857 Democrat Elected Governor
18 William A. Newell 1857�1860 Republican Elected Governor
19 Charles S. Olden 1860�1863 Republican Elected Governor
20 Joel Parker 1863�1866 Democrat Elected Governor
21 Marcus L. Ward 1866�1869 Republican Elected Governor
22 Theodore F. Randolph 1869�1872 Democrat Elected Governor
Joel Parker 1872�1875 Democrat Elected Governor
23 Joseph D. Bedle 1875�1878 Democrat Elected Governor
24 George Brinton McClellan 1878�1881 Democrat Elected Governor
25 George C. Ludlow 1881�1884 Democrat Elected Governor
26 Leon Abbett 1884�1887 Democrat Elected Governor
27 Robert Stockton Green 1887�1890 Democrat Elected Governor
Leon Abbett 1890�1893 Democrat Elected Governor
28 George T. Werts 1893�1896 Democrat Elected Governor
29 John W. Griggs1 1896�1898 Republican Elected Governor
Foster M. Voorhees 1898 Republican Acting Governor
David Ogden Watkins 1898�1899 Acting Governor
30 Foster M. Voorhees 1899�1902 Republican Elected Governor
31 Franklin Murphy 1902�1905 Republican Elected Governor
32 Edward C. Stokes 1905�1908 Republican Elected Governor
33 John Franklin Fort 1908�1910 Republican Elected Governor
Horace Baker 1910�1911 Republican Acting Governor
34 Woodrow Wilson2 1911�1913 Democrat Elected Governor
James F. Fielder 1913 Democrat Acting Governor
Leon R. Taylor 1913�1914 Acting Governor
35 James F. Fielder 1914�1917 Democrat Elected Governor
36 Walter Evans Edge3 1917�1919 Republican Elected Governor
William Nelson Runyon 1919�1920 Republican Acting Governor
Clarence E. Case 1920 Republican Acting Governor
37 Edward I. Edwards 1920�1923 Democrat Elected Governor
38 George Sebastian Silzer 1923�1926 Democrat Elected Governor
39 A. Harry Moore 1926�1929 Democrat Elected Governor
40 Morgan Foster Larson 1929�1932 Republican Elected Governor
A. Harry Moore3 1932�1935 Democrat Elected Governor
Clifford Ross Powell 1935 Republican Acting Governor
Horace Griggs Prall 1935 Republican Acting Governor
41 Harold G. Hoffman 1935�1938 Republican Elected Governor
A. Harry Moore 1938�1941 Democrat Elected Governor
42 Charles Edison 1941�1944 Democrat Elected Governor
Walter Evans Edge 1944�1947 Republican Elected Governor
1 Resigned as Governor to become Attorney General of the United States
Well, then call me a proud, patriotic, jingoistic, flag-wearing “racist” if you must. It’s a pity, however, that I don’t smoke cigars, have my own talk show, carry extra weight or pop pills (except vitamins).
By the way, does your theory hold true for black people who wear flag pins as well?
Full moon?
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
…and racists.
Dead,
You should at least take Edward Byllynge off that list because of that whole Quaker land deal thing in 1673.
(Edit above)
It would be very hard….
“It would be very hard…”
Are you referring to your head?
LOL!
I’m glad I amuse you, Lasermike. I will think of you when I wear my American flag pin as I watch a Memorial Day parade somewhere this weekend.
Steve Adubato is a slick, well-packaged character (unlike his father) who says absolutely nothing time and again save the absolutely bloody obvious. So he took the opportunity to plug his forthcoming book (sure to be a classic of monotonous self-absorption) in the process of a very mild knock of Corzine. That he lives in Montclair and gets lucrative TV gigs does not give him either real credibility or cultural validity.
And mikey, I’ve never read that Cheney was a client of the current “Washington madam” in the news (there have been several others, all of them money-grubbing, self-justifying tax evaders). Where did you glean this titillating tidbit? But if he was, I can at least assume he has a (sort of) sex life. Not as active a one as Bill Clinton, perhaps, but probably a better one than Bill’s Senatorial spouse likely has.
As for Dems smart enough not to be caught with their hands in the “hooker jar” (from whom did you pilfer that phrase, laserlad?), well, let us start with Wilbur Mills, Earl Long and Gary Hart, continuing down through several Kennedys, etc.. Honest, mikey, it’s a long Democratic list. Really, did you honestly believe that patronizing demi-mondaines was purely a Republican thing?
Nor should you be so quick to automatically call others “racists,” mikey. I thought we’d agreed that you’d dispense with such colloquialisms, which in and of themselves are evidence of your own strongly, ah, “judgmental” tendencies. This may play well when you idly chew the fat with your fellow “progressives” (you know, the ones who all supposedly commiserate with you about my verbal fencing with thee) but is otherwise dismaying evidence of your lack of intellectual heft.
Will I see you at any Memorial Day parades, mikey?
And mikey, calling others “racists” (and “war criminals” and “neo-Nazis” and “Nazis” and….) is the first refuge of an utter loon.
Mikey, Interesting that you’d quote Samuel Johnson. A great wit the likes of which you’ll never poses.
In Boswell’s “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (the definitive biography of Johnson) it’s made clear that Johnson was speaking of false patriotism masking self-interest.
Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: �Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.� But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest.
Truly Mikey, I wonder how much of your nonsense is due to such parroted “sound bites” without depth or understanding.
When I think of you Mikey, I think of another Johnson quote:
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
“…never possess”
As my old history professor said “It’s the same old story”! Name calling,tit for tat. A bunch of lockstepping rally monkeys for the left and right posting repeated “His stories”…still nothing gets done. Watered down Bills “full of sound and fury signifying nothing”. Half moon madness on a weekend when we should remember the dead and hail the survivors of this bloody war….Paz in Flux
Whenever I wear a suit I always proudly wear my flag pin.
Mikey, your bigotry and hate is not an endearing quality. Nor does it make you a credible liberal apologist.
It’s so cool that Steve Adubato wrote his new book – and that his dad is back in the news. They can fill the empty hole in my life once Tony goes.
I don’t believe Corozine loves any of them hoes…
I hope you’re NOT talking about the basketball team again!