What happens when Lonegan's lawyers start deposing Corzine aides?
By Wally EdgeThere is a clear difference of opinion between Governor Jon Corzine and Nathan Doughty, the Democratic Mayor of Middle Township, over the events that led to the arrest of potential GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan outside Corzine’s town hall meeting on Sunday. Doughty says that the local police department was simply following orders from “the governor’s people.” Corzine said that’s “nonsense.”
One Democratic strategist suggested that Corzine needs to make this story go away – before Lonegan files a civil rights suit against Middle Township and starts taking depositions of gubernatorial staffers and local officials that could make this situation exponentially worse than it is right now.
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and the Police Chief
backs Corzine. The Mayor wasn't there, he was inside. Funny that the Governor's office hasn't been accused of doing this anywhere elese, just in that one town. And the Police Chief in that town says he got his orders from the Superintendent of Schools and the school principal....not from the Governor's office.
Seems to me, if you want to know who ordered the police to do something you ask the Chief. And the Chief said it wasn't the Governor or his staff.
Not sure what you're implying, Chrissy
Nate is a lifelong Democrat, and Middle Township Committee has had a Democratic majority for at least 25 years. As far as I know, every active Democrat in the town has been completely supportive of the Governor.
If there's any policy differences on the toll plan, they are likely based on the need for Cape May County residents to use the Parkway every day -- it is the main highway (and only one of two north-south arteries) that runs through the entire county. And what the electronic toll figures hide are the thousands and thousands of hard-scrabble families who don't have E-ZPass but still pay tolls to drive through their own town to get to the store, go to work, and drive their kids to school.
Or maybe they are based on a mistrust of a far-away authority that's intentionally set up to prevent any measure of public accountability -- but rather, one that's designed to be responsive to Wall Street. Cape May County has been neglected by the Parkway authorities for years -- it is the only stretch of the highway with traffic lights -- an unsafe condition if you've ever seen one. Why should they think it would be any better with a deliberately unaccountable structure?
This is Messy Messy Messy
Agree that now the Gov needs to explore pr options to move this off of the front page.