Posted on 08/16/2004 2:40:59 AM PDT by kattracks
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards used to say, "They'd have to catch me taking money under the table or find me on top of a chubby boy to get what they're after." What they were after was a jail term for the charming rogue and they got it. The cause was money, not some chubby boy.
Now we have in James McGreevey, the not-resigning-soon-enough governor of New Jersey, the confession of a homosexual extramarital affair and a host of corruption charges involving a number of people who have given money to his campaign. That pretty much fulfills Mr. Edwards' formula for losing a public office as the result of what we shall gently call inappropriate behavior.
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The duplicity, corruption, and just outright stupidity this brief recounting of our chosen leaders (I am a lifelong resident of New Jersey) is offered to indicate something is terribly wrong with voters who have demonstrated a virtual death wish so far as any sensible governance of the state is concerned.
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Add to this the appalling indebtedness of New Jersey and the impossibly high property taxes, and "New Jersey and you. Perfect together" no longer applies to anyone living here. The Garden State is, for all practical purposes, in the poorhouse. We can thank the succession of governors and the most profligate, for-sale-to-the-highest-bidder legislature in the nation.
Therefore, if you think your state the worst-run in the nation (other than pre-Schwartzenegger California), I invite you to measure it against New Jersey and will caution that there is no defending New Jersey anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
I've lived in Louisiana most of my life and while I've heard many, many controversial quotes by Edwin the Corrupt, I've never heard that one. What he actually said was worse: "the only way I can lose this election is to be found in bed with a live boy or a dead girl". Even after statements like that those lame-brain, let-the-good-times-roll, beer-soaked nitwits down in Cajun country continued to vote for him.
It sounds as though they've got some of the same types in Jersey.
Now I know why so many people here in Florida used to live in New Jersey.
Nothing can ever top, "I'm kind of a wizard between the sheets myself", referring to his opponent, David Duke's klan connections.
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