ABC News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Corzine's campaign records: $131M in his own money spent over 3 elections; 2 wins, 1 loss United States - Politics - Campaigns and Elections - Campaign finance - Election Reform
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I know that the RGA ran plenty of ads against Jon Corzine because they were all over my television during the campaign, but now we know just how much those ads cost to air: Led by Mr. Barbour, the RGA raised and contributed $7.3 million to the campaign of New Jersey candidate Chris Christie, allowing him to put up enough TV advertising to hold off both a late-surging Gov. Jon Corzine,...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Promoted by Jason Springer: Here is JRB's take. The White House wants David Paterson out of the running for New York's 2010 gubernatorial election. Paterson hopes they'll reconsider. Because hey -- it worked for Jon Corzine . In early August, David Axelrod and Patrick Gaspard met at a New York City hotel with Corzine's campaign staffers, asking whether or not the incumbent governor...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In an interesting read, Senate President Dick Codey barely waited until the votes were counted before he started telling some of the back stories of the twists and turns in the Corzine campaign. Codey said he got a call from the White House a week after Vice President Joe Biden appeared at Corzine's poorly attended primary night kickoff rally in West Orange in June. "They...
MoreMonmouthMusings (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
How does a Republican beat a Democratic incumbent who can outspend him/her 4-1, in a deep blue state? Even as they were announcing his unpredictable early victory last night, pundits were still being critical of the Christie campaign. "Terrible, awful, not pretty, etc." is how many continue to described the campaign. Here's my question to the columnists, editorial boards and...
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
(Via Libertarian Republican , who also has a mug shot) Remember: the Corzine campaign has no idea who this Jason Shih is. The quote is “… the campaign doesn’t know who he is .” So he has no connection at all with the campaign, right? No connection whatsoever . Shih also reportedly had 10 paychecks from the Middlesex County Democratic Committee in...
David Drake (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Jason Shih was arrested for possession of Ecstasy . NJ.com : Jason Shih, 25, was pulled over on Route 17 by East Rutherford police around 11:30 p.m. Friday for allegedly talking on his cell phone. Police found 19 Ecstasy tablets and hundreds of small glassine bags used for distributing drugs, police spokesman Capt. William Schanel said. Schanel said Shih told police he was an official in Corzine's...
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Despite a last-minute push from President Barack Obama incumbent Jon Corzine's campaign just couldn't muster enough momentum to beat Chris Christie. It was a very somber mood at Corzine headquarters in East Brunswick. The former governor conceded and then said, regardless of the outcome, he sees a bright future for New Jersey.
Politik Ditto (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
AP.com : Chris Christie, an aggressive former prosecutor who racked up a perfect conviction rate in public corruption cases and became the darling of New Jersey's Republican Party establishment, has unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular Gov. Jon Corzine. Christie, 47, on Tuesday became the first member of his party in a dozen years to win a statewide contest in heavily Democratic New Jersey....
American Power (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Look, the guy claims he's assistant deputy director to Democrat Jon Corzine's re-election campaign. But with that much incriminating evidence in the car, shoot, I'd play stupid too. (And, of course, with Republican Chris Christie edging ahead in the polls , Corzine's clinging on for dear life; for Christ 's sake he can't deal with a totally fubar campaign drug bust at the...
The Saloon dot net (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is locked in the political fight of his life. With just hours left before voting, polls show a neck-and-neck race between Corzine and GOP candidate Chris Christie, with Independent candidate Chris Daggett pulling significant support. Obama and VP Biden are making last ditch pitches for the embattled governor. But evidence is building that Corzine’s...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Early Saturday morning, 7Online.com , the website for ABC's New York affiliate WABC-TV, reported the previous night's arrest of Jason Shih, an alleged campaign worker for Governor Jon Corzine (D-NJ) charged with " possession of a controlled narcotic and paraphernalia that is used for distribution ." For some reason, although the headline " Corzine campaign...
The WyBlog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Is there still any doubt that "independent" candidate Chris Daggett is a stalking horse for Jon Corzine? The NJ Democratic State Committee admitted today that they are running robocalls on behalf of Daggett . (h/t Memeorandum ) The calls are critical of Republican Chris Christie and are being targeted at likely Christie voters. Hey, I should feel special, I got one! Remember too that...
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
NEWARK -- In English, and repeating a few slogans in Spanish, Gov. Jon Corzine greeted about 75 seniors here at senior home in one of a whirlwind of stops on the day before voters decide on the next governor of...
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
As we expected, the Corzine campaign are pulling every dirty trick out of the Democrat playbook to get their boss re-elected (since he's long since realized there is zero case for it based on the merits). We surmised a few days back that independent candidate Chris Daggett's mere existence in the campaign at this point was being paid for by Corzine, if not in cash, than...
