Governor Corzine and What He Says

Dear reader, this is our governor in New Jersey . . . the one who promised the most ethical adminstration. The one who promised transparency.

“If you were , I’m hypothesizing; I’m not stating anything , if you were going to pay a tuition bill or something over a period of time … you pre-funded it. I could have done that,” Corzine told The Star-Ledger.

As we documented here during the campaign, paying off the president of the state’s largest union boss is bad business. Now it comes out that there were more payments (in addition to the nearly $600,000 Corzine paid Katz).

How much evidence do we need to understand that Governor Corzine is unethical. Should not the voters have been privy to this information before they voted for him?

Can we trust Governor Corzine?

Recall, he told us he was done with one-time budget gimmicks. Yet, that is exactly how this year’s property tax rebate is being funded.

Page 66 of his new budget lists $301 million in diversions from dedicated funds. But if you throw in the $672 million they’re grabbing from the surplus and $668 million in sales tax money they put in reserve that won’t exist next year, the grand total of one-shot sources comes to more than $1.6 billion.

Corzine’s word means nothing. Just look at your bottom line: are you paying more in property taxes? Are you paying more at the store? All this happened on his watch and he said it wouldn’t.

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