McGreevey in the Olympics opening ceremony.
Posted on 08/13/2004 7:13:08 AM PDT by olde north church
PETITION DRIVE!!! CLICK LINK TO DOWNLOAD PETITION FORMS
MCGREEVEY + CODEY CONFLICT OF INTEREST ON DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP LAW
CODEY IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SUCCESSOR -- FIGHT -- MOBILIZE AGAINST TRENTON
MCGREEVEY RESIGNS AS NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR MCGREEVEY PREVENTS SPECIAL ELECTION!!! CALL NJ STATEHOUSE!!!!!EVERY SECOND --- EVERY MINUTE --- EVERY HOUR -- EVERY DAY --- EVERY WEEK --- UNTIL MCGREEVEY VACATES THE STATEHOUSE!!!!!
The trentonrevolution has started!
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This guy needs to go.
This guy definitely needs to go. Wish I lived in NJ so the legislature would listen.
Can you put a mailing address on the petitions?
Off topic question...have you seen any editorials from the NJ papers?...any links?....thanks..
Thanks
Yes, the Asbury Park Press, Monmouth County,has an editorial today (Friday) asking for McGreedey to step down now. I was really amazed to see it coming from a liberal paper like the Press. Here is the link http://app.com/
I would say to e-mail trentonrevolution@hotmail.com if they have instructions for follow-up.
Thanks...sent e-mail.
Funny, logistics are never a worry when its time for a Republican to go.
I am not usre but I would bet even money that it probably has something to do with "pension for life" kicking in if he serves so many days in office.
Never underestimate the Demopervs to consider every angle at the public feeding trough.
To disenfranchise the voters of New Jersey.
from what I have read about NJ electoral law, everything must be done with 60 days of the election for it to qualify for a special election.
but wait, how much time was their between the Torch and Lautenberg, shouldn't that stand as precendent?
Good point!
Boy oh boy. I wonder if the Gay & Lesbian groups understand that they are being used to cover this guy's @$$?
And his wife in hand. How gullible are voters in NJ?
Where do we send the hardcopies?
...."asking for McGreedey to step down"...
Asking, ASKING? WHY NOT DEMAND????
McGreevey likes to screw people 24 x 7. NJ voters, are you ready to bend over and take it? Clinton will provide the ice.
The petition is great, but one problem: the signature lines are too close together for a normal signing (at least with MY clumsy fingers). Any way to insert a 1/4 or 1/2 space between the lines? Oh, and yes, I did scale up the text size.
Red herring issue. The scheduled national election in November can have a governor line added quickly.
Thanks for your e-mail, When the petition download form was created, a mailing address was not considered (actually, the "brain trust" didn't think about it). There should be info re this situation by Saturday 08 14 2004. Thanks for bringing this the attention of our staff, again, haste makes waste.
trentonrevolution
NJ GOP leaders currently holding news conference calling for McGreevy's immediate resignation.
Following is my letter to media outlets editorial departments.
Washington Post
Letter to the editor:
McGreevey should resign and he should resign now, and a new election should be held ASAP.
McGreevey put the people of New Jersey and America in danger by putting his
totally unqualified lover in charge of Homeland Security for the state of
New Jersey, one of the most pressing and sensitive issues facing us today.
This cannot be repeated often enough, McGreevey was derelict in his duties and
responsibilities as governor, he did not care an iota about safety for the People of NJ.
He put the citizens of New Jersey and our entire nation at risk from terrorists for
the most selfish of reasons, his personal sexual gratification.
McGreevey actions were nothing less than criminal and he should face the stiffest of charges
for his selfish and reckless behavior.
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Excellent - thanks!
He already resigned (sigh). Now all that's open is the negotiation of the date he leaves office. It is well before 60 days before the general election, so that they don't even have to have a special election.
Someone posted the NJ law, and it looked like it is intended that the office be filled on this November's election, IMO.
“Fifty years ago, Chief Justice Vanderbilt restated the principles that guide our decision in this case: ‘Election laws are to be liberally construed so as to effectuate their purpose. They should not be construed so as to deprive voters of their franchise or so as to render an election void for technical reasons.’”“The concept is simple. At its center is the voter, whose fundamental right to exercise the franchise infuses our election statutes with purpose and meaning.”
“[T]he right to vote would be empty indeed if it did not include the right of choice for whom to vote. . . . ‘The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government.’”
“The right of choice as integral to the franchise itself, unlike universal suffrage, is grounded in the core values of the democratic system established by the framers of our Federal Constitution when this country was founded.”
“A fundamental principle of our representative democracy is, in Hamilton’s words, ‘that the people should choose whom they please to govern them.’ 2 Elliot’s Debates 257. As Madison pointed out at the Convention, this principle is undermined as much by limiting whom the people can select as by limiting the franchise itself.”
“Those precepts have directly informed the decisions of this Court and of our lower courts interpreting New Jersey election law in a variety of factual contexts.”
“It is in the public interest and the general intent of the election laws to preserve the two-party system and to submit to the electorate a ballot bearing the names of candidates of both major political parties as well as of all other qualifying parties and groups.” (emphasis in original)
“The general rule applied to the interpretation of our election laws is that absent some public interest sufficiently strong to permit the conclusion that the Legislature intended strict enforcement, statutes providing requirements for a candidate’s name to appear on the ballot will not be construed so as to deprive the voters of the opportunity to make a choice.”
AND MY OWN PERSONAL FAVORITE:
“When this Court has before it a case concerning the New Jersey election laws, we are directed by principle and precedent to construe those laws so as to preserve the paramount right of the voters to exercise the franchise. We have understood our Legislature, in establishing the mechanisms by which elections are conducted in this State, to intend that the law will be interpreted ‘to allow the greatest scope for public participation in the electoral process, to allow candidates to get on the ballot, to allow parties to put their candidates on the ballot, and most importantly to allow the voters a choice on Election Day.’”
From the Newark Star Ledger, the biggest and most liberal paper in NJ:
McGreevey falls short of the full truth
Friday, August 13, 2004
Gov. James E. McGreevey chose a curious construction yesterday in the wording of his stunning announcement that he is a homosexual and will resign his office on Nov. 15. "My truth," he said, "is that I am a gay American." Not the truth, but "my truth."
It was a painfully sad declaration, not for what it said about McGreevey's sexual orientation but for what it said about the truth of him as a politician, as governor, as a family man.
The people of New Jersey will be sorting out the truth for quite a while now. But certainly they weren't told the full story -- "the truth" -- yesterday.
McGreevey's six-minute speech, eloquent at times and clearly emotionally draining for him and his family, was intensely personal and yet, at its core, still not completely honest.
He talked about his first wife and his daughter from that marriage; he talked about his second wife, Dina, who stood by him as he spoke, and their daughter.
And McGreevey, raised in an Irish-Catholic family, the product of a Catholic education, talked about how he had known he was gay for years but did what he thought was the right thing. His words were that he "forced" what he thought "was an acceptable reality onto myself."
"At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is," he said as he announced, with an odd sort of belated pride, that he was gay.
To some, that will be enough to brand McGreevey a liar who used his family shamefully. Others would say that is the painful reality of being gay and politically ambitious in a culture that is still relentlessly unforgiving of anyone out of the "mainstream."
Yesterday, McGreevey said, rightly, that being gay should have no bearing on whether he can govern. But his declaration was no shining example of an exit from the closet as a matter of principle.
Why did he decide that on Aug. 12 he would announce he was gay? It is not as if there had not been speculation about it for years.
He said he was stepping down because his sexual orientation left the governor's office vulnerable to threats.
Even that wasn't the whole truth. Elsewhere it was being said that the man with whom he had an affair, a man McGreevey had tried to place in a high state government job, had tried, bizarrely, to extort millions of dollars from him.
To stand before a nationally televised press conference and discuss such deeply personal issues had to be difficult, and no one should diminish the courage it took. But if the extortion story is to be believed, McGreevey had no choice. He was going to be outed.
As shocking as the announcement was, the suggestion that McGreevey will continue to govern for a time as if nothing happened was equally disturbing.
By staying in the governor's office until Nov. 15, McGreevey prevents a special election this fall to replace him. After he resigns, the Democratic president of the state Senate, Dick Codey, will become acting governor through January 2006, when McGreevey's term expires. Even in the surreal drama of yesterday's events in Trenton, politics were very much at play.
In a way, it's too bad this is the way it had to end. Turmoil has marked McGreevey's governorship since he took office, but the most damning thing that was said about him was that he showed abysmal judgment in selecting those officials around him. Never was there a suggestion that he would profit financially.
Amid the controversies, he placed himself in the forefront of important issues, many of which we endorsed, such as support for stem cell research and enactment of the state's domestic partnership law, as well as the Highlands preservation program. Regrettably, these now are not the achievements for which he will be remembered.
Instead, he will be recalled as the governor who confessed to an adulterous affair with another man and then, smiling, walked out of the room with his wife at his side.
That's the real pity of what McGreevey calls "my truth." He was dishonest with himself and those closest to him. And he was dishonest with New Jersey.
The Asbury Park Press is a Gannett (read far leftist) news organ.
The Dems probably wish McGreevey would go away as soon as possible - before the rest of this sordid little story breaks - but they need him to hold out until the Mental Institution masquerader Codey takes over and gives Corzine an opportunity to provide the citizens of the Garbage State what they apparently want so deparately - total socialist Dmocrat government.
THanks for the info..my take, FWIW..the DEMS WILL SCREW THIS UP..They'll decide to try and hold onto the governor's office, via this "delayed" resignation..but theelectorate is gonna get pissed, royally..Wellstone "Memorial" 2
They did not let him off easy--a bit tougher than I would have predicted.
Thanks for the link (I am so link-challenged, lol!). It takes more than words and nicely-phrased requests, though. I like the brash, FReeper-style of sending petitions around. I also like the 180 forms FReepers are sending around to have sKerry sign to get his military records released.
If you missed it, see my comment (#25).
You have to admit it, McGreevey has a way with words.
Listening to his speech made him almost sound like a hero.
But then DimocRats are always glib at covering their butts when they are exposed to the elements.
I have been rethinking this issue.
All the papers in Jersey are calling for McGreevey to resign early.
All the papers in Jersey are liberal and pro-Democratic.
So WHY do they want him to resign early???
I think I figured it out.
If McGreevey resigns early, there will be no chance for a special primary election in either party. The party bosses nominate the candidate. In the Dems case, its Corzine or "Daddy moneybags".
The Republican Party leaders on the other hand can select what the rank and file Republicans in Jersy have so far rejected in a primary - a liberal Republican (the State Republican leaders in Jersey are a bunch of liberal wussies). So THEY avoid having conservative Schundler or Forrester as candidate and can select, say, Leonard Lance of Tom Kean's Administration and now a legislator, Tom Kean, Jr., an up and coming liberal clone of his Daddy, or even the big magilla himself - Tom Kean Senior.
And the newspapers??? They are happy because the New Jersey public gets to elect a liberal or a liberal as governor.
Thanks for the petition
There is no mailing address indicating where to send the petitions.
Who is going to collect, collate and deliver the petitions?
And to whom or which organizations are these petition going to be delivered?
They are going to be listing further info on trentonrevolution.com. I personally have seen two other petition sites. One is an online petition, which does absolutely no good to non-computing signee, the other is for a radio station.
I'm going to send an e-mail to trentonrevolution and see what's up. I will list their response/instructions.
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