Friday, May 22, 2009
Christie shoots back
Jon Corzine and his Democratic allies have been taking shots at Chris Christie, the Republican that the Democrats seem most worried about. Christie's latest web ad points out that this is nothing but same-old same-old.
What I cannot figure out is why Jon Corzine spent more than $100 million getting elected to Trenton, when he had a perfectly good seat in the United States Senate. That has always seemed like a bad move to me, unless he was trying to set himself up to be president. And that seems really dumb.
2 Comments:
By 
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Fri May 22, 05:39:00 PM:
Oddly enough, Corzine did indeed think he might be able to run for President. His time here in NJ was supposed to shore up public union support. Good strategy, but Obama did it better.
By , at
Fri May 22, 06:07:00 PM:
Politicans seldom spend their own money for elections. Usually they lend money to their campaign.
If you win you repay yourself from the campaign funds which come in later. If you lose it can be harder. But normally a prominent candidate will gradually get the money back, win or lose.
Corzine probably did have a net loss. Maybe a lot. But he has a lot. Risking a few million meant little to him.
