One of Governor Jon Corzine’s goals for 2008 is a new state energy plan – that’s one of the reasons he opted to attend a global warming conference in Portugal the week before the November mid-term elections. So far, the odds of Corzine achieving a successful energy plan appear slim – because of infighting within his administration.
A meeting of key administration officials last week did not go especially well: Corzine policy advisor Gary Rose wound up having quite a fight with two cabinet members – Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson and Board of Public Utilities President Jeanne Fox. The hot-headed Rose, my way or the highway kind of guy, wound up screaming at the cabinet members before he stormed out of the room.
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--While the boss is away --
Where is Abelow or another voice of reason? This is where Jeanine Larue worked wonders-brokering peace between all the competing Corzine interests. Rose has fought with everybody. Sounds like he needs a timeout!
Rose fights with cabinet
A timeout? This guy has been in time out since Kindergarten.
While he was lecturing Jackson and Fox I guess someone asked him about his "Office of Non-Economic Growth" that has produced NOTHING since this Old Tired Guru came back from the dead to only fall Asleep during the last two years.
This guy did do one thing since coming in with Guardrail Jonnie, he has managed to steal money from the Commerce Commission budget to pay for those 11 do nothing's that he has working for him in the state house.
He has this, so experienced, crew working out of the state house - We all can see the tremendous results of how this has really impressed the Business Community………
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeanne Fox..., humm maybe he was trying to keep her from
misappropriating funds, again!
Who Should We Lean Toward?
As a bystander, of course, it is impossible to know which side to lean toward in this internal spat, without at least knowing what issue or issues prompted the fight, and the positions taken by each of the participants! (Notice I avoided taking the ill-advised line of wondering which side to agree with. Given the left wing bias of this whole crew, that would be way too much of a risk!)
But suddenly, the Administration scold makes her appearance here on Politicker to offer her advice, above! Mom in Law (MIL) has now raised the canard of canards as her defense for Lisa and Jeanne, prompting her to conclude that it is Gary Rose who needs a time out.
Says our frequently ill-informed opinionator:
"This is where Jeanine Larue worked wonders-brokering peace between all the competing Corzine interests."
Now MIL, don't you know Jeanine is off working wonders and being paid oodles and boodles of taxpayer dollars as a lobbyist for the state, representing a state institution? She is just too darn busy earning that big fat wad of OUR money, doing all the important things that lobbyists for State institutions do when they lobby the State.
Well . . . either that is true, or she is being vastly over paid with OUR money!
Which is it MIL?
And as for the dispute itself, consider if you will the propensity of Jeanne Fox to willy-nilly preside over the tossing away ratepayers money on useless enterprises -- i.e., the Snydertown Road gang rip-off of a few years back, the one that that mysteriously disappeared into the cold case file at the AG's Office? Remember the SCI report?
Given that, our guess would be that there is at least some merit in those of us in the public hearing what Gary Rose has to say on the still mysterious topic that caused him to bolt from a meeting.
As for MIL's odd day care allusion, it is beginning to become clear to some of us that it may be the entire Corzine Administration that needs to be given a "time out." In fact, as long as we're on the topic of "energy policy" perhaps the proper term should be "lights out."
by Trochilus
What Can We Surmise From The Fact That...
.....the substance of the argument is not mentioned in the "story"?
Clearly Wally, being an objective reporter, would have filled us in if he knew.
So we are left to assume that the fact of a fight was leaked by one of the parties who feels that their side of the argument would have been a loser in the public arena. But then why wouldn't the other party leak the substance?
Maybe there was no substance to the argument and it was just about stupid ego/personality crap? If that's the truth; Corzine should fire the whole lot!
Why the fight???
Annie understands...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4lCXt7JKo
;-)
From Frederick Douglass
Hey Nick
As usual Blah Blah Blah - from someone who knows nothing about nothing!!!!!!!!