Recall Corzine Now

Wrap up

We're going to be wrapping everything up here over the next few weeks. We had some additional bumper sticker designs we were going to put out, but we just ran out of time. Here's one:

The Battle ends, the War continues...

The deadline for petitions is July 23 and at this point it's pretty clear that, barring a miracle, we are not going to come close to the 1.2 million signatures that we would need to make it to the ballot in November. As I said when we started this effort, gathering 1.2 million signatures over such a short period of time was a tremendous challenge (FYI - that's about 2400 pounds (well over a ton) of petitions), and with the state's requirement that every page of every petition be notarized, and New Jersey's onerous fund-raising limitations for Recall Committees, it just proved un-doable without substantial major-media support.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who helped, who circulated petitions and spread the word. A special thanks goes out to NJ 101.5, and especially Jim Gearhart.

We knew this would not be easy, but we should have no regrets about the decision to try. I certainly don't. We helped put pressure on the Governor, which helped to force him back down on some of his really bad proposals, like the 800% toll increase, and the closure of 9 State Parks. We also helped wake up at least some of our citizens to the terrible job that Jon Corzine is doing.

This Battle is over, but the War for Fiscal Responsibility in New Jersey Government goes on. Please stay involved, please continue to press your legislators to do the right thing, and - come next year - please do everything you can to make sure that Jon Corzine - WORST GOVERNOR EVER - is a one-term governor.

Final Mail Deadline - July 15

I know that most of you are aware that time is running out, because we've recently had a significant increase in the number of petitions coming in. We are still well short, so please spread the word and keep 'em coming.

The last day we may submit the petitions for the recall is July 23, so we are asking everyone to mail all petitions in by July 15.

A number of people have expressed concern that signing the petition might subject them to harassment by the governor or his surrogates. Because of this concern, if, on July 23, we do not have enough signatures, we will not be submitting any petitions. If we do submit the 1.2 million signatures we need and he were to target folks just for signing, he'd have to target the whole state, and he governs like that already!

Please do not send the petitions by Registered or Certified mail, regular First-class is fine.

Download your petitions today!

We only have a few weeks left, and we have a long way to go. Pleae download your petitions today and get them filled out. If you already have filled-in petitions, please send them in!

Washington Post Misses the Point

An article in tomorrow's Washington Post entitled:

Governor Focuses on Fiscal Health of N.J.

is written with all the objectivity of a Corzine for Governor press release. It attempts to paint Governor Jon Corzine's popularity problems as being linked to him trying to "do the right thing" about the dreadful financial condition of the State of New Jersey. Of course, anyone familiar with what's going on in New Jersey knows that nothing could be further from the truth - the only thing Jon Corzine has done about the terrible fiscal condition of the State of New Jersey is to make it worse than ever.

A case in point is the budget he is currently trying to ram through the N.J. Legislature. His budget does not address the cause of our financial problems in any meaningful way, instead, he continues to plunder the State’s treasury and borrow against our children’s future to benefit the political cronies that allowed him to buy the Democratic nomination for Governor in 2005.

Apparently, the reporter for the Post made the same mistake that we, the voters of New Jersey, made in 2005 - he listened to what Jon Corzine says. The problem is that Jon Corzine usually says one thing, then does another.

Jon Corzine says he wants to attack wasteful municipal spending but what does he do? - he cuts the aid to Municipalities that are well-run instead. The reason is simple enough - virtually all of the worst-run, graft-ridden cities in the state are run by his cronies, so he can’t cut there!

Jon Corzine says he wants to bring wasteful school spending under control, then what does he do? He pours billions of dollars into school districts that spend money hand-over-fist on everything but education. Corzine and his cohorts need the votes that money will deliver – so while these school districts cheat children of their futures - Jon Corzine and his Department of Education look the other way.

Jon Corzine says he wants N.J. to stop borrowing money, but what does he do? He tries to push through the biggest bonding scheme ever attempted by any state ever.

Jon Corzine says that the N.J. State Constitution requirement that voters approve all bonding should be followed, but what does he do? He pushes a $3.9 billion dollar bonding scheme through the legislature to fund additional School Construction without voter approval - in spite of the fact that the last School Funding Bond resulted in billions of dollars of waste and fraud, and pennies on the dollar actually spent on school construction.

Jon Corzine is not unpopular because he’s doing the right thing, he’s unpopular because the citizens of New Jersey have come to realize that he may on occasion say the right thing - but do the right thing?

Apparently, Jon Corzine doesn’t even know how.

Keep 'em coming!

Thanks to everyone for all the petitions. I just picked up another box of them today. Keep them coming in, we have about 4 more weeks to gather them up - let's keep the pressure on the Governor!

Getting the word out

Over the last 6 weeks, I've done about a dozen interviews with various media outlets about the recall campaign, and I'm doing some more next week, but unfortunately, news outlets just don't have a very long attention span.

We have about 6 weeks left before the deadline, and we are hoping to get some advertising out in the next few weeks to get the word out to folks who don't generally pay attention to NJ politics, but advertising costs money - that's where you can help. If you can, please send in a contribution

CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE

so that we can reach out to those folks for their signatures and their help. I recognize that in tough financial times, it is a lot to ask of folks to contribute their hard-earned cash, but New Jersey faces even tougher financial times ahead if Jon Corzine remains governor much longer.

If you can help out in any way, please do so. Circulate the petition. Tell everyone you know that there is something they can do, they can sign the petition, and they can circulate it to folks that they know. Call in to radio talk shows, write letters to your local paper, put the Bumper Sticker on your car, etc.

Finally, if you can volunteer, email me at Carl@RecallCorzineNow.com.

We've got 6 weeks left, let's make them count!

Update

We've been at this a month, and it is every bit as challenging as we thought it would be. The problem is not with support, the general public has been very supportive (this is not shocking given what a bad job Governor Corzine has done, and that his approval rate is hovering at 35%).

The difficult part is getting the word out. Most folks just don’t pay a lot of attention to what goes on in NJ Politics (that’s how we got in this mess in the first place), and have no idea what a recall is, or that there is a campaign under way.

That’s not to say we haven’t made an impact, since we launched our campaign, the Governor has backed-off on most of his really outrageous proposals. The problem is, that success is only temporary, and if we let up on him, he’ll be back with more crazy proposals.

So help us keep the pressure on him. Tell everyone you know that there actually is something that they can do to get the message to the Governor that we want real reform in Trenton, not attacks on our towns and our parks. Tell them to come to www.RecallCorzineNow.com and download the petition.

The Bumper Stickers are IN!

The Bumper Stickers are IN!!

Contribute at least $5 and we will send you one of our new Bumper Stickers. Spread the word, and let everyone know just how you feel about the job Jon Corzine is doing on the citizens of New Jersey.

Bumper Stickers

Our new Bumperstickers will be in this Wednesday:

We will be sending them out to anyone who contributes $5 or more to the campaign. Click here:

CONTRIBUTIONS

for the contribution form.