The Media And Our Right To Know

This impacts NJ, more than the nation. But no media, including in NYC, exposed former Governor Jim McGreevey when he appointed Golan Cipel to head our state's Homeland Security department. Think about that. The media knew for years he had issues. In press circles in NJ, there was no secret to what was going on.

But when it came to a corrupt out of control Democrat governor who appointed an in-experienced non-US citizen boyfriend to such a critical post, our media helped him to cover it up. And this wasn't long after 9/11.

So much for the media and America's right to know, or their concern for National Security. Fausta has more on recent pathetic events. Between McGreevey and the Menendez investigation, NJ may just go for a Republican Senator, after all.

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[NortonPete]

Just another day in the NJ Neighborhood http://www.nj.com/newslogs/starledger/index.ssf?/mtlogs/njo_ledgerupdate/archives/2006_09.html#184901] Neighborhood
[quote]Corzine urges Bryant to step down
Gov. Jon Corzine today called for Sen. Wayne Bryant to step down as head of the powerful Budget and Appropriations Committee, amid charges the South Jersey legislator steered millions in funding to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey after he was given a no-show job.

“Sometimes in other legislative situations, people step aside until due process follows its course. There are many precedents where people step aside while an investigation goes on,” Corzine said during a news conference in Newark. “I think I’m making a clear enough suggestion.”

Neither Bryant nor his attorney returned calls for comment.

According to the federal monitor overseeing the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Bryant pressured the state institution to create a no-work job that essentially allowed him to “lobby himself” for taxpayer funds.
After the Camden County Democrat took the job in March 2003, state funding for the university’s School of Osteopathic Medicine, near Camden, increased substantially - from $2.7 million in 2003 to $5.83 million in 2004. However, no one could document any real work Bryant did on campus, said the monitor, former federal Judge Herbert J. Stern, who was appointed in December after the university ws threatened with criminal prosecution for Medicaid fraud.[/quote]

[b0zmeg]

Leave it up to the idiots in Jersey to vote Democrat!!

[NortonPete]

I'm from NJ and although I often feel like an idiot I must inform you that
NJ overwhelmingly votes Republican. How so? Well during any election if you
look at a county wide map you'll see 95% of the state votes Red! There is
this tiny sliver of Blue precincts located from Trenton to Jersey City which
includes Newark. Oddly enough if you are unfortunate enough to drive through these
areas on Election Day you will not see any activity at polling stations.
Elsewhere in the suburbs there are long lines and double parked cars of voters
waiting to vote Republican. But somehow mysteriously there are always more
Democrat votes counted. Well as you can see our officials are above reproach
this must be just a good honest turnout of dead people.