I thought this mailer was a little weird when I got it over the weekend....couldn't tell right off it was a Corzine promotional piece, and that's exactly the way they wanted it. Basically it's an application for an absentee ballot that's made to look official, but actually it promotes Corzine and tears down Forrester.
Here's the link to the story from today's Bergen Record, which is doing a pretty good job covering the race as well as a bunch of stories about toxic dumping by Ford.
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I'm maybe going to hold my nose and vote for Corzine, but he's just another New Jersey gangster in a suit, who used the Joisey political machine to lean on Richard Codey, our current gov, who's doing a decent job, to drop out of the race. Codey, incidentally, would probably whip either Corzine or Forrester in a three-way race. I was actually thinking of writing in Codey as a protest, or voting for one of the Indy candidates, but if the polls stay close I'll have to suck it up and vote Corzine, because Forrester is another one of those billionaire GOPuppets who talks one way and will act another -- I moved to Jersey from Maryland, where Gov. Ehrlich was a typical example of this bait-and-switch manuever (with thanks to Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend, arguably the worst candidate for office in American history).
New Jersey is an excellent example of how political corruption is not limited to the Republican party, and how the quest for power and money is what corrupts, not any particular ideology. If you were to tear down the corruption in Jersey, what you'd end up with is another Republican State. Then we'd have to tear that down, too.