As many of you may or may not know, I am neither a Democrat or Republican, but rather I describe myself as a Libertarian. Although since the Libertarian party in NJ, like in many states, is held hostage to liberals whose only memory of the 70s and 80s is the old LP plank supporting legalization of drugs, I end up voting GOP.
In the summer Chris Christie held a commanding lead over Jon Corzine, one of the more inept public officials to disgrace the NJ statehouse. But recently the legacy media outlets have marvelled over how Corzine closed the gap to the poll's margin of error. Since most NJ political reporters use the AP wire as their source of information we are treated to the same liberal views repeated ad nauseum, or in those rare cases where actual new writing is taking place it filtered through an editor who is mandated to maintain the MSM liberal skew on the pages.
I feel confident I can say this as not one feature piece has bothered to point out why Corzine will win and we, the taxpayers of New Jersey will lose.
That reason is named Chris Daggett.
"Who?", you ask.
"I don't know!", I respond.
Aside from an August nod from the Sierra Club I can find no discernible notes of interest. But don't let the endorsement of the über-liberal environmental group, or that he worked for Corzine's DEP fool you, much of his career has been spent in the public sector working for Democrats and Republicans alike, usually serving in environment related endeavors.
Don't get me wrong, even I maintain that it is essential that we be good stewards of our environment, just without the confiscatory practices usually endorsed by the Sierra Club.
So how exactly is a Daggett candidacy as an Independent going to get Corzine elected?
In NJ there is about 5,000,000 registered voters.
In the summer Chris Christie held a commanding lead over Jon Corzine, one of the more inept public officials to disgrace the NJ statehouse. But recently the legacy media outlets have marvelled over how Corzine closed the gap to the poll's margin of error. Since most NJ political reporters use the AP wire as their source of information we are treated to the same liberal views repeated ad nauseum, or in those rare cases where actual new writing is taking place it filtered through an editor who is mandated to maintain the MSM liberal skew on the pages.
I feel confident I can say this as not one feature piece has bothered to point out why Corzine will win and we, the taxpayers of New Jersey will lose.
That reason is named Chris Daggett.
"Who?", you ask.
"I don't know!", I respond.
Aside from an August nod from the Sierra Club I can find no discernible notes of interest. But don't let the endorsement of the über-liberal environmental group, or that he worked for Corzine's DEP fool you, much of his career has been spent in the public sector working for Democrats and Republicans alike, usually serving in environment related endeavors.
Don't get me wrong, even I maintain that it is essential that we be good stewards of our environment, just without the confiscatory practices usually endorsed by the Sierra Club.
So how exactly is a Daggett candidacy as an Independent going to get Corzine elected?
In NJ there is about 5,000,000 registered voters.
- 1.8 million Democrats
- 1 million Republicans
- 2.5 million unaffiliated
- 2500 "other"
True to form most registered voters fail to exercise their constitutional right to chose their leaders and stay home the first Tuesday of November, so the number of registered voters pales to actual voters.
In that respect NJ is similar to the nation as a whole with 40% being straight ticket Democrats, 40% being straight ticket Republicans, and roughly 15% pretending not to favor either party while still voting for the party they always do. That leaves us with approximately 5% of the actual voters, which is far less than registered voters and a mere fraction of the state's population being the independents that will have the biggest say in who will be calling Drumthwacket home for the next four years.
Which usually means the Democrats win because, and only because, they have a more organized on the ground effort to get people to vote... namely the unions. Between the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, NJEA and the SEIU they get the votes out by encouraging their members to vote and encouraging their spouses and other family members to vote for their party of choice... the Democrats. Organized labor in NJ has people on their full time payroll cruising blogs, message boards, and related websites to get their message out and to drown out any dissenters. These same people make phone calls to members and their spouses to make sure they know who to vote for.
But 2009 promised to elect another Republican to the statehouse, partially out of contempt for Corzine, who has demonstrated his contempt for us. And partially as backlash for the Democrat debacle in Washington.
But the voters needed to put Christie over the top will be casting their ballots for Daggett as an expression of disgust for both parties... a sentiment I heartily agree with... but not today.
Daggett will play the spoiler, like Ross Perot, splitting the truly non-committed voters, those who would be voting against Corzine, rather than for Christie or Daggett.
And the stakes are real for New Jersey folks. Not only will Corzine continue to tax and spend for four more years, the reason this election is so important, to Obama, the DNC, and the megalomaniac Corzine, is much more important than the state confiscating what the federal government hasn't already taken from our paychecks.
Following the 2010 census there will likely be redistricting in NJ, in part due to a likely loss of a House seat. One of the most important jobs a governor has is to be in office for this redistricting. In NJ the state head of the party to which the Governor belongs gets to appoint 4 of the 13 seats to the "non-partisan" redistricting board and the Governor gets to appoint one "non-partisan" member... and this on top of the 4 members already representing their party assigned by the Assembly and State Senate.
Stacking the deck 9 to 4 could only be considered non-partisan in New Jersey.
So rather then praise Daggett for his attempt at tilting windmills as an unknown candidate content not to publicize his candidacy he should be scorned for contributing to the DNC's effort at permanent control over the US House of Representatives.
And though this may qualify me for a tinfoil hat I would not be surprised if Corzine himself sent a check (or checks) to Daggett for his campaign. I went to Daggett's website to test out my theory since one of the reforms Daggett wants to enact is that candidates publicly post that names of contributors and the dollar amounts. I thought he would have posted it on his website as an example for others, but I was wrong.
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