A few days ago..that’s when I read it but I didn’t think to post it to the blog.
The race is over obviously. “Fat,” as he was described by his opponent, Chris Christie, the Republican candidate won, which kind of surprised me. Corzine, a former Goldmen Sachs exec and who had been the incumbent governor, holding support from Barack Obama, lost. I haven’t really lived in New Jersey during Corzine’s tenure, but I did hear him speak when I was at Boys State (embarassingly enough.) I can’t speak to the man’s moral character but I had the feeling he was an effective governor, as far as someone who is a fiscally-minded and rational decision-maker. I guess I most remember him as the man who shut down Atlantic City (and as the governor who nearly died in the hospital after a horrific car crash in which his SUV flipped at 91MPH on the Garden State Parkway and he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. He was actually on the way from a Mayors’ Conference in Atlantic City to go mediate between Don Imus and the Rutgers women’s basketball team at the govenor’s mansion in Princeton when the accident happened. He had a state trooper driving and his personal assistant in the backseat, and they walked away, but he had to get airlifted out to the hospital with 12 broken ribs, a broken leg, and about 7 pints of blood loss (no lies.) But he recovered in 3 1/2 weeks and then got back out there (no lie.) I had to write a story about this for my news writing class…so while this is technically off the top of my head I have gone over this information fairly recently.
OK then..
