In '09, is Christie the Hillary and Lonegan the Obama?
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterChristopher J. Christie got a big headline yesterday with the indictment of former state Sen. Joseph Coniglio. But his victory in prosecuting another prominent public official was tempered a bit by a Wednesday New York Times story harshly critical of “the way he has conducted business” and a Thursday editorial that slammed him around.
Has the aura of inevitability around Christie as the Republican nominee for Governor in 2009 faded?
The next election is nineteen months away, and it’s not even a sure bet that Gov. Jon Corzine will seek reelection. But of the few Republican candidates on the horizon, this winter belongs to conservative activist and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, whose name is associated with the defeat of two ballot measures in November’s election, and who has taken a stand at the forefront of the anti-monetization movement, warming him to the type of mainstream Republican politicians with whom he’s feuded with in the past.
Add to that the Democrats’ criticism of Christie for handing a federal oversight contract worth $28 to $52 million to his former boss, John Ashcroft, and you have an interesting dynamic developing.
“All of a sudden Steve’s got a lot of new friends,” said political strategist Rick Shaftan, a close aide to Lonegan. “Not that Steve’s necessarily running, but they’re saying this might be the guy here.”
Lonegan has his own troubles. By his own admission, he’s under investigation by the state Attorney General’s office. But Lonegan is the one who publicized that at a press conference, accusing Attorney General Anne Milgram and the Governor of conspiring against him as retribution for his outspokenness. And Lonegan, who campaigns vigorously against illegal immigration, was caught employing two undocumented workers in October to assemble signs for Americans for Prosperity – an anti-tax group for which he serves as the state director. (Lonegan said that at least one of the men is documented).
Lonegan still hasn’t decided whether he’ll run for Governor, saying that he’s certain he can turn the state around, but isn’t sure that the Republican Party is ready for him. They weren’t in 2005, when Lonegan ran for the office and finished in a distant fourth place – behind Doug Forrester, Bret Schundler and John Murphy.
Lonegan downplays the significance of his troubles to voters.
“It’s not as bad as a congressional investigation for giving out huge no-bid contracts to friends,” said Lonegan, who is an unpaid PolitickerNJ.com columnist. “I’m enjoying what I’m doing very much. The question over the next year is whether the party is ready to take a leadership role, draw a line in the sand and take on this government. Or do they want to be the minority party?”
If Lonegan does wind up as the long-shot candidate running to the right of the more mainstream Republican, he may want to look to the 1978 U.S. Senate campaign of Jeffrey Bell, who, like Lonegan, was an anti-tax conservative, and was considered the underdog against four-term incumbent Republican Senator Clifford Case. Bell hammered home a call for tax cuts and squeaked out a 1% victory.
Bell went on to lose to Democrat Bill Bradley in the general election, however, and the state hasn’t elected a Republican Senator ever since.
“If there’s an analogy to my race it’s that you need to make sure the one issue is pounded into the consciousness of the voters,” said Bell, who now works as a lobbyist in Washington. For Bell, that issue was championing a 30% income tax cut. Now, he said, the issue that New Jersey faces one of the highest tax burdens in the country.
“I think Lonegan has that knack of getting things front and center, in a kind of populist perspective that bothers a lot of voters….. The one danger is he likes to jump on things as they come up – that’s what I understand from reading about him -- and you can get diluted with too many different themes if you don’t watch it.”
Still, despite Christie’s recent woes and Lonegan’s PR victories, the current U.S. Attorney remains the preferred candidate of the party leaders and elite.
“The truth is that Chris [Christie] continues to be the star attraction for most party leaders in terms of the potential candidate for next year,” said GOP State Chairman Tom Wilson.
Wilson did credit Lonegan with being an articulate voice in the opposition to the ballot measures, and as an effective opponent of the Governor’s toll hike plan.
Particularly telling was when Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr. demanded an investigation into Lonegan’s arrest at one of Gov. Corzine’s toll plan town hall meetings.
For years, Lonegan has been as active against those he saw as moderate Republicans as against Democrats. In his recently-published book, Putting Taxpayers First, he rails against leadership of both parties.
“I think everybody recognizes that Steve brings an awful lot to the discussion and debate and his ability to look at this from a different perspective that’s not tainted whatsoever from the Trenton thinking,” said Wilson.
Democrats are undoubtedly thrilled to be able to criticize the once nearly untouchable Christie, at whom many still harbor bitter feelings for dropping subpoenas on U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez at the height of a hotly contested Senate campaign against Kean, Jr.
New Jerseyans are painfully familiar with no-bid contracts, said Ingrid Reed, director of the Eagleton Institute’s New Jersey project. It is, in other words, an issue that could potentially resonate with voters.
“It’s a general comment about campaigns that you don’t want to have to explain yourself. In other words, if something comes up and you have to explain why or how it happened, that takes you off of your message, and in fact who you are,” said Reed. “It’s a complication in what looks like a totally perfect situation for a candidate.”
But prominent Republicans refuse to consider the calls for Christie to explain himself anything but Democrats playing politics.
State Sen. Joe Kyrillos, a confidante of Christie’s, said that Christie doesn’t discuss his gubernatorial prospects with him.
“It’s obvious that big sharp knives are out for the U.S. Attorney. It’s very clear and well-orchestrated,” said Kyrillos. “The guy’s trying to do his job, and by all accounts he’s doing an excellent job. I didn’t see people getting too upset when [former U.S. Sen.] Bob Toricelli was named federal monitor by a federal judge – probably a federal judge that he had a hand in nominating.”
The potential of a Christie run still has at least one Republican hesitant about whether he’ll run.
Morris County Freeholder John Murphy has a not-so-friendly history with the U.S. Attorney– he faced a lawsuit from Christie after beating him in a freeholder primary in the 1990s. But if Christie does decide to run for office, Murphy said that having someone else from Morris County with such a high profile could dim his own chances.
“That doesn’t mean you don’t run because someone’s going to be anointed, but you certainly have to take pause and look at the playing field,” he said. “Right now if most people were being honest as we sit here in February 2008, he would clearly be the favorite.”
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ask bret
bret who?
bret schundler, the last conservative to get his clock cleaned in a NJ gov's election. standing to the (far) right of bret, steve doesn't have a chance.
Run Steve Run!
Steve has the message, the support, and the momentum to carry Republicans to victory in 2009. No other Republican has all that. Mr. Christie might be a nice guy, but we have seen how far one issue ethics candidates have gotten in state wide elections .... nowhere!
Christie
Congratulations on bagging Coniglio, but what took so long? I'm sorry but you should have been able to take out at least 30 sitting Senators in that time. If you are looking for some low fruit, look at the patronage of Kevin O'Toole. It would make Coniglio blush.
O'Toole's wife is getting $45K from the Essex County Board of Elections, his sister Eileen is getting $76k+ from Cedar Grove Township, his sister Sharon Gebhart is getting $76k+ from the Essex County Improvement Authority, and his Father receives so called consulting fees of $25k from the Essex county North Ward Center. Consider these are on going payments year after year.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill
Bret
Bret ran as a conservative in the primary and won big. Then he moved to the middle for the general election and lost as a moderate not a conservative.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill
Run, Steve, Run!
No offense to Christie, who is an excellent prosecutor, but NJ is a fiscal nightmare and the state needs the attention of someone who knows about economics and budgets. Steve Lonegan knows economics and budgets better than anyone who has run for governor since I earned the right to vote 23 years ago.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
Answer to your headline
Only if there is a Republican President, because neither of these two clowns could win Governor.
How Does Lonegan Know Budgets?
The guy ran a town of 9.000 residents. What was his budget? $8 million?
Go Steve Go!!
New Jersey's Mayor, Steve Lonegan is EXACTLY what this State needs to straighten it out. He would make an excellent Governor and would be beholden to no one.
Shills
Losers Legitimizing Lying Lonegan, are you kidding that guy wreaked havoc on Bogota. More importantly he falsified a public record and then sued me because I exposed his misconduct - his acse was dismissed on a motion for summary judgment.
The guy sues people into silence and then calls himself a free speech advocate.
The guy hates illegal aliens and then hires them in order to save a few dollars.
The guy took huge campaign contributions from Dan Allen and then supported Dan Allen's dense development in Bogota.
The guy asked a cop to strong arm a candidate for county committee (out the race) and then suspended the cop for 60 days when he refused to strong arm anyone.
I believe Lonegan is an unpaid contributer to this site, I wouldn't be surprised if he is paying you to let him use this space for his rants.
Steve Lonegan sued me because I said "I think he'll look good in an orange jumpsuit." My opinion hasn't changed, now that the AG is ready to cuff him and take him away I feel even stronger about it. I also feel comfortable (for the first time since he sued me) exposing his misconduct again.
C'mon Steve sue me for defamation again, the civil suit will be a great investigative mechanism toward your anticipated criminal case.
Currently Anonymous
Why do you have to resort to namecalling? What does that bring to the debate? "Clowns?" Your party brought us Jim McGreevey. You live in a glass house and certainly should not be throwing stones.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
what a silly headline
The Hillary/Christie : Obama/Lonegan analogy makes no sense whatsoever.
Lonegan got 24k votes in the '05 primary. (it was like 9% or something?), which was 4th place....he's not a serious politician, he's little more than a gadlfy.
Lonegan's in that Alan Keyes, Gary Bauer type category.
He's more like the Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich to Christie's Hillary.
Lonegan is strange
Speaking as a run of the mill NJ surbunite mother wife, I find Lonegan strange strange strange. Christie's platform is a lot more relevant considering our impeding recession. All he has to do is tie corruption to higher everything tolls, taxes and he has a brewing CHANGE message. He can actually pick apart Corzine's message and say he really is about changing the way NJ does business or something like that. Lonegan give me the hibbejeebies when I see him on TV.
A better analogy is ...
Christie as a Big Mac and Lonegan as a White Castle double cheese burger w/extra onions ... tough choice ... it depends on one's particular mood, I reckon.
Everyone keeps picking on me
Still with the allegations Bill? Have the little people taken you back up to the spaceship again?
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
Why?
Why would Steve give you the hibbejeebies on TV? At least, unlike Corzine, he does not require a full body scan to attend one of his meetings.
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
Are these the best
Are these the best Republicans New Jersey can put up? A has-been illegal hiring sensationalist and a office-seeking crony in the Justice department?
Woo-hoo!
How about neither.
Hate to break the news to everyone but neither of these guys will get the support of the RLC Grass Roots.
Christie is horrible, period. And after Lonegan went smooching with Estabrook recently, he pretty much sealed his fate as well.
Actions do speak louder than words, Sorry Steve, but sleeping with the enemy just cost you alot of vigorous support.
What a shame,
T.P.
christie is toast
His only issue is ethics, which sadly the voters dont even care about in this state, and he even managed to bullox that up with the no-bid Ashcroft contract. Mr. T would laugh at this GOP "A" Team
Is that all ?
A part time lawman and media hound.
The GOP needs more voices period
Steve Christie and Chris Lonegan....
.....either one will lose big against any mainstream Democrat.
When will NJ Republicans learn that this isn't a state dominated by right wing fanatics?
Christie is dirty; the fact that he's not being indicted for anything himself is indicative of who's in charge of the "justice" system and/or that he's engaged in morally criminal behavior that hasn't yet been legislatively criminalized.
Chris Christie is the Republican version of Joe Ferriero....a creature of a pay to play system that is tantamount to legalized bribey.
Lonegan is not hiding what he is; it's written all over him in flashing neon...an ideologue and a hypocrite.
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Note to Richard Zeundt re Bill Brennan's revelations re Lonegan: Is resorting to childish ad homiem attacks on Brennan the best you have to offer us?
Richard, is there any part of the following that you can factually dispute?
Brennan says
"More importantly he falsified a public record and then sued me because I exposed his misconduct - his case was dismissed on a motion for summary judgment.
The guy sues people into silence and then calls himself a free speech advocate.
The guy hates illegal aliens and then hires them in order to save a few dollars.
The guy took huge campaign contributions from Dan Allen and then supported Dan Allen's dense development in Bogota.
The guy asked a cop to strong arm a candidate for county committee (out the race) and then suspended the cop for 60 days when he refused to strong arm anyone.
I believe Lonegan is an unpaid contributer to this site, I wouldn't be surprised if he is paying you to let him use this space for his rants.
Steve Lonegan sued me because I said "I think he'll look good in an orange jumpsuit." My opinion hasn't changed, now that the AG is ready to cuff him and take him away I feel even stronger about it. I also feel comfortable (for the first time since he sued me) exposing his misconduct again.
C'mon Steve sue me for defamation again, the civil suit will be a great investigative mechanism toward your anticipated criminal case."
From Frederick Douglass
Bergenite
There are more whose names haven't really surfaced yet...
I don't think Christie is running..the MSM has done a good job at killing his chances already.
The way the libs talk about Lonegan now...
...is the same way they talked about Ronald Reagan thirty years ago.
Truth hurts in NJ
Steve Lonegan proudly proclaims the truth. He has been exposing many secret instances of corruption. Many people are grateful and have joined Mr. Lonegan in voting down ballot questions and telling Governor Corzine not to bond away future generations. Unfortunately, there are many cranks who refuse to acknowledge the truth of Lonegan's positions. Those detractors, present on this comment board, resort to ad hominem arguments.
Cranks: address the substance of Mr. Lonegan's arguments. Stop attacking his person and appearance.
Laus Deo,
Jesse O. Kurtz
Managing Editor for The Atlantic City Scoop
http://cityofatlantic.wordpress.com
Jesseokurtz@gmail.com
cranks?
I did not attack Lonegan's person or appearance. I cited facts which cannot be refuted, those facts establish Lonegan as a liar, a hypocrite, a bully and a CRIMINAL!
If he weren't about to get arrested, I'd be afraid to publish my thoughts or those facts (he has a lot more money than me) because he has a history of filing Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Partcipation.
I'm suing him now and only one of us is telling the truth, see you all in Court.
Honorable mention!
Trustee says he'll sue over Web postings Friday, December 21, 2007
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD
CLIFTON -- James St. Clair, a newly elected Board of Education member, has filed a civil complaint against online users who posted disparaging comments about him -- including claims that he belongs to Alcoholic Anonymous and has been drunk at board meetings.
According to documents filed in state Superior Court, St. Clair "has been subjected to public scandal and disgrace and ridicule and contempt" as a result of the Clifton forum postings on nj.com.
The users' posts were "totally, totally false," St. Clair said Thursday. "I have never, never been to an AA meeting in my entire life. I don't drink liquor.
"These cowards hide behind the anonymity of a screen name and think they can say anything about anyone without repercussions. When we find out who these people are, my lawyer will start action against them."
Court documents state that two anonymous posters, "Cliftonn" and "Unite," wrote several messages about St. Clair on the forum on Oct. 11. The lawsuit seeks punitive damages, attorney fees and costs. St. Clair's lawyer, Anthony V. D'Elia, said his client is also asking a judge to order nj.com to release the user's names.
"This guy has been a teacher for 35 years," D'Elia said. "He's raised his family in the city. He's not going to take this lying down."
D'Elia said the comments could have stemmed from a group of residents who are critical of the school board and whom St. Clair publicly criticized at a recent board meeting.
This isn't the first time messages on online forums have led to lawsuits in North Jersey. In May, state Superior Court Judge Daniel Mecca dismissed Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan's defamation lawsuit against Bill Brennan, a former Teaneck firefighter, and former Councilman George Silos. Mecca said the pair's Web postings -- which claimed Lonegan allowed illegal activity while he was mayor, intimidated political rivals and promised favorable votes to campaign contributors -- were not libelous.
And in March, as part of a lawsuit settlement, former West Milford Councilman Joseph Elcavage publicly apologized for using an online forum to accuse Councilman Jim Warden and his girlfriend of behaving inappropriately at a town holiday party.
The Lonegan Democrat.
What liberals don't get is that Lonegan was re-elected time and time again because the local Bogota Democrats were basically a bunch of morons.
Had Fede embraced Lonegan's record instead of run away from it he would have won and that fool McHale would have been sent back to Dumont.
Christie couldn't even win for freeholder or assembly, what makes anyone think he's more qualified to run the state than Lonegan?
Lonegan know how to cut spending. He's not afraid to take on embedded special interests like the PBA or the Teacher's who are bankrupting New Jersey.
He's hated because it was Lonegan, not Christie through his ethics complaints that got the ball rolling on clowns like Bryant, James, Coniglio and others. If Christie had any respect, he would thank Lonegan for having the guts to file those complaints!
Lonegan is the only conservative, republican or independent who has the guts to expose this asset plan as nothing more than a bonding boondoggle for political insiders and lobbyists looking to pass this ill fated scheme.
Yet the GOP still searches for someone other than Lonegan. Earth to Tom Wilson, please resign and get out of the way so the GOP can compete again at the state level.
If people like Wilson have their way, we'll have liberals like Baroni being promoted for governor who is in the hip pocket of the unions in his district.
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!
Vote for Steve -- he runs a press conference to...
tell the world he thinks the public corruption division of the AG's office is investigating him or putting together a grand jury or something along those line -- anything for a headline.
Demsanddonts is right about one thing only. Lonegan won in Bogota only because the Dems he faced ran weak campaigns. Being mayor of Bogota, a town where 1,100 votes will get you that office, is not exactly winning a tough competition.
Things are different on the state level. Lonegan would not even be able to win Bogota against apathetic Democratic opposition, if he did not run in the most off of the off year elections, ’95, ’99 and ’03. Years when no governor, senator or president headed the ticket and thus turnout was very low – which is quite helpful to the small coterie of highly motivated Bogota Republicans who had apathy on their side.
In ’95 Lonegan’s Bogota cronies ran as plausible reformers, but by ’98 or so their control of this tiny town had gotten to their heads. Lonegan was very bad for business in Bogota. If you have nothing to do take a drive down Bogota’s Main drags (Fort Lee Road, Main Street and Palisades Ave.) and see the empty store fronts and dead construction sites.
Lonegan is no business genius, in fact my experience with him, and as a Bogotian I actually voted for the dummy five times for various offices before I got to know him personally, leads me to believe he is fairly dim witted. While I don’t worship at conservatism’s altar, I do respect principled conservatives. However, Lonegan is not a principled conservative, he is a put Lonegan first hypocritical, self-obsessed charlatan that masquerades as a conservative. He does have a “brain” on his side – Rick “Mountaintop Media” Shafton, the P.T. Barnum of the Strom Thurmond wing of the NJ Republican party. The Lonegan opinion pieces on this site seem to me to be retreads of his Bogota Lonegan political propaganda that was probably authored by Shafton. BTW, Lonegan’s opinion pieces on this site are nothing less than shameful political self-promotion.
The only thing I know for sure about Lonegan’s business sense is that he hypocritically hired undocumented workers and then according to the newspapers gave roughly three different contradictory stories about how the workers ended up in his garage putting together his political campaign signs. In other words it looks like he tried to cut corners by paying below market wages and skipping FICA taxes for these off the books laborers. I’m not saying that he necessarily ran his kitchen furnishings business that way.
Lonegan will be remembered for a revolving door of Bogota town administrators, one of which became his gubernatorial campaign manager. He’ll be remembered for putting his former gubernatorial campaign chairman on the Bogota payroll as a second prosecutor, and for Borough slate to end up on the property of two Bogota councilman during his administration, and for the priceless “you’re running this town as your own f’ng monopoly board” comment that one of his political rivals made, and for having a police officer allege in a legal certification that one of Lonegan’s campaign contributors bragged about donating to Lonegan’s governor campaign in return for preferential zoning treatment, and for another Lonegan campaign contributor and business associate representing the brother of the first campaign contributor in front of the Lonegan appointed zoning board, and for Lonegan’s appointing another NJ Americans for Prosperity employee to the same Bogota zoning board, and for quixotic losing legal actions on the part of himself and the Bogota governing body, and for frittering away property tax dollars on legal actions and employment hearings that happened to be centered on his political enemies, and for what I think is providing cover for politically motivated job cuts in another southern Bergen town, where he was hired as a consultant or administrator or something.
He will also be remembered for destroying the Bogota Republican party.
Here is a video of his cronies (about five minutes into it notice how Mayor “Liedagain” got caught in an inconsistent statement about discussing a personnel matter in closed session):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbDf88fKQMg
They are ALL out of office now. ALL.
Here is another video of Bill Brennan exposing Lonegan for the inconsistent statement buffoon that Lonegan is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPmWYS913Cw
Six of the seven members of the Bogota governing body are now Democrats and the seventh, who is not a die hard Lonegan loyalist, won election by just a few votes. He may also be remembered for his influence in Bergen County Republican circles, including his support of the disastrous Caliguire for County Exec campaign. Now, apparently a number of NJ republican pols seem to be willing to trade wandering in the wilderness to being led by the nose by an avaricious headline grabber that is in turn being led down the primrose path by Mountaintop Rick. Just when you thought the NJ GOP couldn’t fall further. BTW, whatever you say about Corzine, he has more business sense in his pinky fingernail than Lonegan ever had – you don’t end up climbing to the top of the most powerful investment bank in the world by winning off year elections against weak Democratic opponents in tiny towns.
It will be neither of these guys...
Christie: no known views... Is he a conservative? Does he want the job? At least he will get 40% of the vote.
Lonegan: Lacking as a tangible candidate... never got above 38% in any election out side of Bogota (congress, state senator, governor primary). Lost all creibility as a leader when he had illegals working for him.
Forbes should run at this rate....
Bill
"I cited facts which cannot be refuted, those facts establish Lonegan as a liar, a hypocrite, a bully and a CRIMINAL!"
This might a shot in the dark but maybe this is why you got sued.
What evidence do you you have of Mayor Lonegan being a criminal? You can't just go around calling people criminals, Bill. That's illegal. You are clearly somebody who is consumed with anger and hatred.
"Never hate your enemy, it clouds your judgement"- Michael Corleone
Let's see what Brennan says
Once again it is "he says, he says".
Brennan says, "he did this, he did that", but nothing has been proved. Brennan is being paid to carry out this attack on Steve by people he gets paid to represent.
Now he says that the AG is going to come and get Steve also. Does he have "inside" information on Grand Jury hearings? If so, both he and the person providing this information will be going to jail since releasing secret grand jury hearings is illegal. Maybe the AG should be calling Brennan and finding out who is giving him information.
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
Inside information
How do you know he is about to be arrested Bill? Who is giving you inside information on Grand Jury hearings? Chris Christie should be investigating you and this secret source for leaks.
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--
Nick Lento and the Main Stream
Nick,
Even Bloomberg is getting it right, the USA is in a free fall to 3rd world status. Part of it is your mantra where anyone who dares to adhere to basic American values of the Constitution, English Language and rule of Law is called a nut.
Todays mainstream Democrat party stands for NOTHING that is American it its core. Both Hillary and Obama are both international socialists .
As for Christie his association with Ashcroft might hurt him.
If Coniglio and spouse are not jailed its over. As for Lonigan his association with illegals will certainly hurt him.
sorry, paladin
But bret cozied up with the NRA, NJRTL, and Newt Gingrich. He believed his own press and thought NJ would elect a conservative.
Once again, Bret who?
No Challenge From Lonegan
Lonegan offers no challenge to Christie.
Christie is actually appreciated by the people.
Lonegan is a loudmouth, mis-informed political hack who hasn't done anything for Bogota except for some corrupt developer who contributed to his campaign.
In fact, Lonegan never disclosed his donations to run his last campaign against the ballot questions. He claims over $300,000 from his national organization as an "in-kind" donation. You're crazy, right!
The point of ELEC is to actually disclose where your money comes from, not launder it through some national organization.
Are their NO better
Are their NO better Republicans out there than Christie or Lonegan? I mean, come on! What about Bill Baroni, or Mike Carroll, or even Joe Kyrillos. I know I'm grasping at straws, but they has to be SOMEONE out there!
What evidence?
I have the falsified record! This is why I got sued and this is why I won!
"He's hated because it was Lonegan, not Christie through his ethics complaints that got the ball rolling on clowns like Bryant, James, Coniglio and others. If Christie had any respect, he would thank Lonegan for having the guts to file those complaints!"
What you failed to mention is that fact that Lonegan got hit with an ethics complaint months before he filed any against others. The complaint against Lonegan was lodged by a fellow Bogota councilmember. In classic a Lonegan bait and switch he papered the State with bogus complaints in order to distract from his violations.
Leaks? Didn't Lonegan hold a press conference? Bogota is a mile square, when DPW employees get questioned by the AG's Office it is only a matter of time before the whole town knows why. It isn't much longer before I get calls from Teaneck firefighters wondering if I know anything about Lonegan getting arrested.
You'd like to start a new investigation wiothout finishing this one, not this time Steve!
What?
You got sued because you called Steve a criminal and said he would look good in an orange jumpsuit. You did not win, the case never went to trial, since the judge threw the complaint out. But while on the subject of being a criminal, why not tell everyone here how you have been convicted in Teaneck? How did you look in the orange jumpsuit?
Steve said that he felt the New Jersey AG was investigating him. Your post said he was going to be arrested. Who told you that? Who is giving you inside information? Are you being paid by Corzine? How much are they paying you?
Just about every elected offical gets an ethics complaint filed against them. And most of them are bogus. Why shouldn't Steve file them himself? Like you said yourself, Christie should thank Steve for leading the way!
Now here is one for you, on your video tapes, it says you are from Little Falls. You once were a Teaneck fireman. Why are you in Bogota? Why are you now showing four year old tapes regarding a labor issue in Bogota? Why are you trying to defend public employees who were not doing their jobs on town time, but were engaged in activities like making private cell phone calls while they should have been doing their jobs! Are you defending the corrupt practices that Steve is trying to expose?
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
--Theodore Roosevelt--