Posted on 01/22/2006 7:27:40 PM PST by ZULU
Last week, the new governor-elect Jon Corzine, was busy at work putting together the members of his new cabinet.
Nothing he did signifies more the kind of radical left-wing agenda this elitist millionaire has in store for the deluded voters of New Jersey than the nomination - or rather cornonation - of Zulima Farber as his State Attorney General.
According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Ms. Zulima, a one-time refugee from Castro's slave camp in the Carribean, learned little from her negative experiences there. If anything, she may have been taking notes. Ms. Farber is an outspoken supporter of strict gun laws while having a record of being soft on those who actually use guns to commit crimes. She apparently feels that removing guns will eliminate crime. She also supports abortion, is soft on immigration laws, and opposes mandatory sentencing. I guess she would rather leave the punishment of criminals up to the likes of a judge in New Hampshire who imposed a 60 day jail sentence on a fiend who raped a young child for a four year period.
According to the Ledger, Ms. Farber recently sat on a state commission which supports relaxing mandatory sentencing of drug dealers - one of the factors for the recent decrease in crime in the Garbage - er, Garden State.
Yet it gets even better.
Despite the feelings of the judge, community, local prosecutors and police, who felt a mandatory sentence of 30 years for a respected teacher who allegedly abducted and beat a man whom he suspected of breaking into his home in 1975, even after the alleged victim admitted he was in error and the teacher's cousin confessed to the crime, Ms. Farber was convinced beyond a doubt the teacher was guilty - in a memo she wrote on the case.
The teacher's conviction was eventually overturned by a federal judge.
While State Public Advocate and Public defender, Farber fired an attorney who dared to criticize a judge and not apologize, and another employee who was accused of - and denied - sexual contact with an inmate.
Ms. Farber's driver license was suspended three times over a 25 year period. Former Governor McGreevey refused to consider her for the State Supreme Court in 2003, citing a bench warrent issued on her for failing to pay a speeding ticket.
Yet Jon COrzine feels she will make a great Attorney General.
All of the above was revealed in an article in this Sunday's Star Ledger for which Ms. Farber refused to be interviewed. Tomorrow she will face a light grilling by the remnant of Republicans in Trenton, lead by Mr. Kyrillos, former head of the Stat Republican Party when the Republicans were swept from State Offices in Trenton.
Given Mr. Kyrillos prior manifest ineptitude as a State Republican Chairman, and the tiny remnant of Republicans left floundering in Trenton, I suspect Ms. Farber has little to fear.
But the presence of such an extreme left-wing renagade in the inner circle of the radical Democrat now sitting ensconced in the Governor's Office in Trenton should give the people of New Jersey cause for extreme unease - and - without a doubt - regret - in the future.
Conservative New Jerseyians - do as I did years ago - LEAVE.
New Jersey has become another one of the Five Boroughs of New York City. Even the politicians in Albany are SOMEWHAT curtailed by the up-state vote.
The flood of refugees from the Five Boroughs has swept over the once fair state of New Jersey like a plague of invading Huns - and they have brought their discredited political philosophies with them - philosophies which helped place Jon Corzine and Zulima Farber in positions of power over there.
I will take issue with one comment - NYC is in far better shape then NJ.
Another reason to move to Connecticut. Lawn Guyland and Leftchester are out of the question, and Jersey is corrupt at all levels.
BTW: New Yorkers have been moving to New Jersey in large numbers since the end of World War II.
The above article has some obvious hit-piece aspects. For instance, convoluted criticisms of positions she took as a public defender. The criminals were her clients, it was her job to argue for them.
I have little doubt she's a liberal democrat like Corzine. Don't know about her driver's license or any of that.
The problem I see is that NJ democrats are so corrupt it's hard to believe anyone can operate at the state level with integrity. For example, I knew of Peter Harvey when he was a fairly nice guy assistant US Attorney. But I know from personal experience that the Attorney General's office under Harvey was a source of at least ignoring corruption.
There is some hope that because Corzine wants to be president, he will clean up Trenton. On the other hand, he made Menendez a senator. Corzine is a leftist, the only question is whether he is also corrupt.
Isn't he indebted to Boss Norcross?
Farber's legalistic talents in a courtroom really haven no bearing on her rectitude, political philosophies, or suitability for an office like Attorney General.
I remember years ago when she was in the Byrne Administration that she was the source of much concern due to unprofessional behavior. This article bears it out.
Unfortunately, I can't recall the other details.
As Corzine is a Democrat, and as the corruption in New Jersey mainly springs from the Democrats (the Republicans in that state being too inept to even function as effective crooks), I find it hard to believe Corzein can be Mr. Clean.
To New Jersey's loss.
New Yorkers - not all of them - but the vast majority of them are rude, brash, extremely liberal and look to government to solve all their problems for them. And I'm speaking of people from New York City, not the State here.
You are right about most New Yorkers. Nevertheless, the "native" Jerseyites aren't much better.
"Nevertheless, the "native" Jerseyites aren't much better."
I agree with you about the current bunch. But agina, there are eceptions, just as with New Yorkers. The state has become too urbanized.
Visit places like the deep south, upper New England, the Midwest and northwest.
You'll notice what I'm referring to.
People there are more polite, civil, friendly and helpful. Also moer chirchgoing and basically decent.
She just got busted within the past few days "fixing" her boyfriend's recent ticket for driving an uninsured vehicle with an expired registration. Why is this woman the top law enforcement officer in the state of New Jersey, anyway?
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