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| Intrigue In Jersey Gov Race |
| 2009-08-11 |
| NEW Jersey's incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine thinks Republican challenger Chris Christie, who's clobbering him in the polls, is hiding something. A press release sent out by Corzine, a former US senator as well as the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, accuses Christie, a major fund-raiser for George W. Bush, of failing to comply with his campaign's efforts to obtain basic information about Christie's stint as the Garden State's US attorney. According to the release, more than 20 requests for Christie's budget, travel expenditures, and no-bid contracts made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have gone unfilled. Jersey State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, says, "Mr. Christie's campaign Web site says he will demand greater transparency and accountability in government. So why doesn't he start with himself? What's he hiding?" According to the most recent polls, Corzine trails Christie by anywhere from 8 to 14 percentage points. One Republican operative tells Page Six, "It's more than a little ironic that Corzine is going on and on about transparency here after what happened with Carla Katz," referring to the governor's ex-girlfriend, the former head of New Jersey's Communication Workers Union. In May of 2008, New Jersey Superior Court ruled that 745 pages of e-mail correspondence between Corzine and Katz should be made public in light of complaints that their relationship might have impacted negotiations between Corzine's administration and state labor unions, but his lawyers appealed the decision. Katz dated Corzine for two years before splitting in 2004. Still, a Jersey Democratic operative said, "Everyone's wondering what's in the documents that the Corzine campaign requested." A Christie campaign rep said, "The campaign has nothing to do with fulfilling FOIA requests, and as such these requests are in the hands of the Justice Department." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 When you have no facts, sow doubt. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2009-08-11 07:58 |