Already an admitted law breaker, New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber has previously advocated immigration protests in New Jersey. What remains to be seen is if Farber will participate in Monday's planned Illegal immigration strikes.
Sunday, April 23, 2006 New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber says she plans to participate at a rally today in Newark in support of undocumented immigrants.
But then, why would anyone expect something different given the incredible story behind New Jersey's current Attorney General, also the first Latino to serve as Acting Governor of NJ?
Former NJ Gov Jim McGreevey was said to be considering Farber for a State Supreme Court post until a few problems came to light.
news broke that she'd gotten 13 speeding tickets over the years, had her driver's license suspended and had two bench warrants issued against her (in 1996 and in '02) for failing to show up for court hearings.
So, what did former Senator and now NJ Gov Jon Corzine do? He made her Attorney General which is also ... wait for it ... "the state’s top law enforcement official and the head of the Department of Law and Public Safety. ...The department is also charged with ... promoting highway traffic safety
And Farber's response during confirmation hearings?
She offered no specifics on her driving history other than to allude to "some personal difficulties" — indeed, she even joked about her record, thanking Corzine "for giving me a job with a driver."
That's right, folks, NJ's sitting Attorney General is a notorious scofflaw and when many law abiding NJ residents will be hard at work on Monday so they can afford to pay the state's high and ever increasing taxes, the highest law enforcement official in our state is likely to be off marching arm in arm with a group of illegal immigrants.
You simply cannot make this stuff up.
Thirteen parking tickets in a working life commuting through urban and suburban New Jersey is not exactly a life of hard core criminality, particularly with the speed traps set up on the NJ TPK and Garden State. Missing the court appearances was stupid, though, particularly for a lawyer. Still, far worse crimes have been committed by many politicians while in office. Rudy Guiliani was notorious for running his motorcade way above the speed limit with cops in tow.
Posted by: Don Thieme | Friday, April 28, 2006 at 09:36 PM
Nevertheless, as a public official she should be setting an example for everyone else through her actions. What type of example does this display?
She is basically telling everyone in NJ that is OK to break laws that you don't agree with if you have enough public support.
Posted by: b0zmeg | Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 02:54 PM
What it really shows is what happens when one party controls government and the other party doesnt even exist in any real sense, in terms of Republican values in NJ, anyway. The Dems in NJ can do anything they want and simply laugh about it. They know they can't lost power no matter what, so there's nothing and no one to hold them accountable. And they take full advantage of it as in the example above. She's a high profile Latino, they want Latino support, so no matter what she does or has done, she'll be taken care of. Jesse Jackson should have moved to NJ long ago. The Dems would make him Sec of the Treasury here if he wanted it. And no one would be able to stop them.
Posted by: Dan | Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 09:15 PM
Sigh...Life in The People's Republic of New Jersey.
"All animals are created equal.
...but some are more equal than others."
Nice post, Dan. Thanks.
Posted by: Steve Schippert | Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 11:02 PM