Lonegan says poll holds a message for Corzine
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterConservative activist Steve Lonegan isn’t surprised that Gov. Corzine’s fiscal restructuring plan is so unpopular.
A Quinnipiac poll released today puts the public’s opposition to the plan at 73%.
The more Corzine has tried to promote his fiscal restructuring plan, Lonegan said, the more distasteful the public finds it. As he’s traveled across the state to protest it, Lonegan has found mostly sympathetic reactions.
“The more he speaks, the worse his numbers get,” said Lonegan. “But what this really says is that people don’t want the Governor to hold spending flat. They want real cuts, not tinkering around the edges. Real tax relief – that’s the message. I don’t know if Corzine’s going to get the message.”
Lonegan said that he deserves some, but not all, credit for the public’s perception of the Corzine’s plan.
Corzine last week postponed the remaining town hall meetings to promote his plan until after Tuesday’s budget address.
Former Republican state Sen. Bill Gormley, who Corzine has enlisted to help sell his plan, said that he’s not surprised about the public’s negative reaction to it so far. After Corzine proposes his budget cuts, he said, the public may be more open to the issue.
“I’m not surprised that they act negatively to this, but people are going to become more and more conversant,” he said. “The people are going to know more about his plan and budget cuts than they ever have before.”
Gormley said that Corzine’s upside down, 37%-52% approval rating was nothing compared to former Gov. Jim Florio’s after he proposed tax hikes in 1990.
“At least he didn’t do toilet paper,” said Gormley, referring to Florio’s infamous proposed sales tax on the product.
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Who is worse?
"Lonegan said that he deserves some, but not all, credit for the public’s perception of the Corzine’s plan."
I dont know who is worse. The megalomaniac who thinks the public will be blown away by his genius plans to restructure the state fiscally or the fool who thinks he somehow invented public opposition to the Governor's silly little plan. I think someone should tell Lonegan that he is an obscure joke who very few people (outside of Political circles) have even heard of.
--Saint Joe--
AP Wire: Sun rises in East yet again
In response to this news, promethial conservative demi-god Steve Lonegan stated that he deserved some but not all of the credit for the repetitive natural phenomenon; a phenomenon that some observers actually believe occurs as a matter of cosmic forces beyond the control of the former Bogota Mayor.
Lonegan's Right: Listen to the Polls
and every time Lonegan ran for something outside of his home town he was told by the polls to go back home. He couldn't even win a primary, much less a general.
About time.
It’s been two whole days without a Steve Lonegan story. OK, O’Kurtz, Rooney, Shafton, Shalhoub and Zuendt – time to start posting for your bud.
Loved this one from Demsanddonts on Sunday the 17th: “A real conservative with a real set of stones can turn this state around. That man is Steve Lonegan who will wipe Jon Corzine up and down the state like a mop on a gym floor on hot night in August!”
I think they only mopping Stevie will be doing, will be on the jail house floor.
Lonegan. Right again.
All the Lonegan haters can cry, bitch and pout, but the hard reality is that he gets it.
His conservative message is resonating and all the Bill Gormley's in the world who can be bought off with two hot dogs and a soda won't matter much in this battle to save us from this ill conceived plan.
It's hysterical when Corzine rolls out the likes of Roger Bodman, who hasn't been involved in a real campaign in about twenty years claims to be a Republican while lobbying down in Trenton. It's enough to make you puke.
Why any real Republican would assist a liberal democrat on the ropes tells you how badly we need change in the Republican Party.
If you don't like Steve,
You must be a socialist, liberal, envious nut case.
Advice to Corzine
A friend of everyone is a friend of no one. You have a dilemma, all the special interest are squeezing you, the NJEA, the CWA (Karla Katz), the building trades unions, the State Police, the Insurance Industry, the Pharmaceutical Industry, Bond Industry, etc. You must face the fact, NJ is bankrupt and it is time to wield the ax. Don't worry who was at fault, that's politics, figure out how to fix it, that is responsible. Start with 10-15% across the board cuts, and give no favoritism. They will all have a fit but cannot deny the fairness and they will have to live with it.
Don't sell any revenue producing entities, sell the wasteful drain on New Jersey's resoursces. Here is a suggestion:
If you want to sell assets, I suggest you unburden the NJ Residents of the Moter Vehicle Inspections requirements like Florida did, and sell their assets. The Real Estate has tremendous value and will bring in a billion while cutting costs. There are 32 Inspection Stations that could generate property taxes to the communities where they exist. This is a solution especially since ther is no evidence of a positive benefit except providing employment to people at the taxpayer's expense.
If you, Governor, would come up with a solution that was not rooted in "Politics," you would have a better chance of making it fly. Politics is the reason we are in this pickle, it is not going to be the solution to get us out!
"Maybe the reason Senator John McCain's campaign has failed to get any traction is that the debates show him to be the kind of arrogant and condescending know-it-all who would be the most dangerous kind of President." - Thomas Sowell, Random Thouts, December 2007
Next Step To Save NJ
Qwerty, thank you for the acknowledgement. I do support Steve Lonegan. I applaud and joined his lead on defeating two of the ballot questions. Now, I am a foot soldier against the Governor's plan to sell out my future and our assets. There is no shame in following a leader. I do hope that you feel an equivalent level of comfort following your leader.
By the way, who might your leader be? Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lyndon Johnson, Jon Corzine?
Republican Conscience, good idea with selling the inspection stations.
Here is another idea, Repudiate NJ's Unconstitutional Debt. The Unconstitutional portion is 27 of the 30 billion dollars in bonded debt. Print, sign, and circulate this petition to repudiate unconstitutional debt, http://libertyprosperity.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/petition_of_grievances_2-16-2008.doc.
Laus Deo,
Jesse O. Kurtz
Managing Editor for The Atlantic City Scoop
http://cityofatlantic.wordpress.com
Jesseokurtz@gmail.com
Or you
Or a person like you.
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
Sounds right
It will take a real leader to turn this state around. Steve very well could be that person.
It does not take much of a person to tell others they can have everything. It does take a person with a true set of "stones" to tell them the truth, nothing is free.
Just remember one little fact sonny, government can only give, what it first takes!
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--