what i m doing is trying to change the pension system in new jersey so the pension s actually there for them. we have a benefit problem. it s not an income problem from the state, it s a benefit problem. and it s got to change those benefits. i would love to send the bill to whitman, mcgreevey, cody, and corzine. what i won t live with is sitting off in my retirement somewhere, watching police officers and firefighters and teachers in new jersey not get their pension. when i get this done, ten years from now, when you retire, you re going to be looking for my address on the internet to send me a thank you note, because you re going to have a pension. never said i wasn t going to make the payment. i will make the appropriate payment to the pension this year. all right. that was the thing that made chris christie, blue state republican, wins on running against the big, bloated pensions, against the corrupt democratic establishment that kicked the can down the road and raided the
Probably tell us at a certain point we re picking this up as a criminal investigation. but i still think to start out we should take a look at it as we re hopefully going to do. and, david, you ve covered new jersey politics, you ve covered the down fall of governor defrancesco and governor mcgreevey. you ve seen the roots. looking at past experience covering situations like that, how do you think about what you re seeing right now with chris christie? you know, i actually think that what he s experiencing is kind of a changed political r l reality both outside the state and very much so in state. we had a story on the front page today about that external reality shift. you alluded to some of the problems he s encountering, fund-raising for other republicans. lindsey graham and south carolina has basically said no thanks to the planned visit by
Mcgreevey had a comeback, spitzer, sanford. it happens. i think it s possible here, too. thanks so much for the interesting conversation this morning. pleasure. thanks, carol. you re welcome. alex rodriguez has missed the entire baseball season so far with an injury. now a new report suggests the yankees slugger may never, ever again play baseball. and not because he s hurt.
Correspond sfwl corzine just pushed out of gold map sacs and wanted redemption. mcgreevey resigned in 2004. trenton needed a steady hand. and it had one, richard j. cody, state senate president, next in line to be governor. from the old school. a self-deprecating irishman, a mortician, a basketball coach. he got coalition politics, the public loved him. the tip o neill of trenton. wanted to run for a full term in 2005. up with big thing that cody didn t have. jon corzine s wall let and that s all that matters. in new jersey, powerful county machines still call the shots in party primaries. one by one corzine picked them off, bought them off. the nomination and election went to correspond sfwlin. correspond sfwlin had no idea
We have spitzer involved with a hooker, a prostitute, you ve gone weiner doing something out there on the social media, you ve got mcgreevey involved with a a marriage that didn t quite make sense, john edwards involved, you you ve got witter. why what is the deal? why do we forgive some of these guys and not others? i think we re prone to forgiving people who just committed a sexual indiscretion. but when you take taxpayers money and you leave imagine for a moment that bill clinton, for instance, didn t just have an affair with monica lewinsky, which he never left the white house, by the way, to consummate, instead me disappeared from the white house for a weeks are didn t tell his staff, didn t tell his family, just disappeared and we found out he had taken taxpayer money