Local officials plan final Corzine push after Obama visit
By Chris Sykes, Staff Writer
Municipal officials said they will work to re-elect embattled Gov. Jon Corzine after President Barack Obama makes his final appearance in New Jersey.
Obama is scheduled to appear Sunday inside the Prudential Center for a campaign rally to urge residents to re-elect Corzine. The president also will appear in Camden on Sunday.
Obama appeared in Holmdel during the summer, then returned to New Jersey for a rally in Hackensack last week. During that program, Obama asked attendees to get “fired up” to help Corzine.
“Your voice can elect Jon Corzine governor once again of New Jersey,” Obama said. “I need you. Jon needs you. Getting health care done depends on you. Getting energy done depends on you. Improving our schools depends on you. So I’ve just got one question for you: are you fired up?”
Corzine’s re-election has been in doubt throughout the campaign, from the early days when Republican candidate and former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie had double-digit poll leads, to now as an independent candidate, Chris Daggett, is eating into Corzine’s and Christie’s support.
East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser said he planned to attend Sunday’s program and vote for Corzine on Tuesday.
“The man’s record of accomplishments during his time in office speaks for itself regardless of what anyone says, and that would be enough to get him re-elected even if he didn’t have the support of President Obama,” said Bowser. He also will be unopposed as he will soon begin a fourth 4-year term as mayor. “The fact that he does have the backing of the country’s first black president, who has said he needs him and everyone else who supported him in his successful run to becoming president to now support Jon Corzine, should put him over the top on Election Day.”
In neighboring Orange, Mayor Eldridge Hawkins Jr. said he will join supporters inside the Prudential Center. Hawkins agreed with Bowser on Corzine’s election prospects.
“The voters in Orange and the rest of Essex County are going to come out on Election Day and show their support for a governor who has made it possible for them to build new schools in their towns, enrolled thousands of uninsured children for healthcare and medical insurance benefits for the first time, and who has taken on the daunting and longstanding problems of property tax reform and balancing the state budget,” said Hawkins. “I’m going to vote for Corzine because of what he has done in office and what I know he wants to do for us in his second term.”
Municipal officials said they will work to re-elect embattled Gov. Jon Corzine after President Barack Obama makes his final appearance in New Jersey.
Obama is scheduled to appear Sunday inside the Prudential Center for a campaign rally to urge residents to re-elect Corzine. The president also will appear in Camden on Sunday.
Obama appeared in Holmdel during the summer, then returned to New Jersey for a rally in Hackensack last week. During that program, Obama asked attendees to get “fired up” to help Corzine.
“Your voice can elect Jon Corzine governor once again of New Jersey,” Obama said. “I need you. Jon needs you. Getting health care done depends on you. Getting energy done depends on you. Improving our schools depends on you. So I’ve just got one question for you: are you fired up?”
Corzine’s re-election has been in doubt throughout the campaign, from the early days when Republican candidate and former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie had double-digit poll leads, to now as an independent candidate, Chris Daggett, is eating into Corzine’s and Christie’s support.
East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser said he planned to attend Sunday’s program and vote for Corzine on Tuesday.
“The man’s record of accomplishments during his time in office speaks for itself regardless of what anyone says, and that would be enough to get him re-elected even if he didn’t have the support of President Obama,” said Bowser. He also will be unopposed as he will soon begin a fourth 4-year term as mayor. “The fact that he does have the backing of the country’s first black president, who has said he needs him and everyone else who supported him in his successful run to becoming president to now support Jon Corzine, should put him over the top on Election Day.”
In neighboring Orange, Mayor Eldridge Hawkins Jr. said he will join supporters inside the Prudential Center. Hawkins agreed with Bowser on Corzine’s election prospects.
“The voters in Orange and the rest of Essex County are going to come out on Election Day and show their support for a governor who has made it possible for them to build new schools in their towns, enrolled thousands of uninsured children for healthcare and medical insurance benefits for the first time, and who has taken on the daunting and longstanding problems of property tax reform and balancing the state budget,” said Hawkins. “I’m going to vote for Corzine because of what he has done in office and what I know he wants to do for us in his second term.”
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Comment by Jim Gerrish on October 28, 2009 at 9:27pm -
The link to Daggett's Internet site is: http://daggettforgovernor.com
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Comment by Jim Gerrish on October 28, 2009 at 9:26pm
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Independent candidate Chris Daggett is doing more than eating into support for Corzine and Christie, he is showing the nation that there is another choice besides spendthrift Democrats and do-nothing Republicans.Both those candidates approved and ran the most negative campaign seen in NJ in a long time. Neither candidate seemed able to tell what good he would do, only what terrible things would happen if the other candidate got elected. Fortunately, the only true gentleman in the running, Chris Daggett, stuck to simply stating his plan to cut property taxes without commenting on the obvious bad manners and behavior of his opponents. I have been getting hate mail from both Republican and Democratic candidates that are filled with lies about Daggett if anyone cares to check the actual records they cite. They seem to forget we have this thing called the Internet and we can check on candidates these days and find out if they are telling the truth or not. I will be voting for Chris Daggett on Tuesday and hoping that enough people use the Internet to check him out. You can start with : Let's use this opportunity to stand up to both Democratic and Republican Parties and let them know their jobs are in jeopardy.
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