Author: Kari
1) Corzine wants to sell the Turnpike and/or raise tolls to oh let’s say….the mortgage on your house.
2) He has stated that this will likely happen even if his specific plan fails.
3) The Executive Director of the Turnpike Authority, Michael Lapolla, is resigning this week.
4) Corzine is in charge of naming his successor.
5) Corzine’s Chief of Staff and Chief of the Office of Economic Growth, previous colleagues of his at Goldman Sachs, are resigning in the next few weeks.
I don’t believe in coincidences when it comes to Corzine’s schemes….ahem….policies.
Corzine and Democrats in Trenton have already been accused of trying to develop this proposal in secret, presumably because they knew that, outside of their own Trenton/Wall Street group, NO ONE would support it. “The only people who will benefit from the governor’s convoluted plan to sell the turnpike are the Wall Street bankers, who will collect big, fat fees from the financing of the Turnpike sale and their clients… selling the Turnpike will become New Jersey’s Enron debacle,” according to Republican Senate candidate Robert Colletti.
Apparently to our Governor though, support and approval of the citizens of NJ is not much relevant. The Star Ledger reports, “Gov. Jon Corzine said today that even if his toll plan is scotched, it’s likely tolls will rise by 50 percent anyway.” Ya know, it’s good to be Jon Corzine. Even if the legislation he wants doesn’t get passed in the legislature, he can just appoint someone Executive Director of a major state entity and get it done that way. How nice for him.
Corzine is expected to name the new Director in coming weeks. Look out New Jersey, it could get ugly.
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