Now Corzine's Storm Troopers Crack Down on Toll Opponents

You knew it had to happen. The Governor read the tea leaves and determined he would not be able to ram his toll plan through the legislature. He planned his listening tour to start in places where he hoped only his syncophants would be so that even if they didn't agree, they would be extra polite about it. Even though people did drive from far away to comment, they were not out in numbers.

The story headline in the Trentonian today is "Freedom of speech stunted at guv's talk". A police office decided to stop former mayor of Bogota Steve Lonegan from distributing literature at the event. How did he do it? He arrested the outspoken former mayor. We shouldn't be surprised. This is the same administration that we commented on in this post a couple of months ago. The referenced post was an attempt by the Governor's office to get the Asbury Park Press to stop making fun of the toll plan.

This entire thing disgusts me. We have an ineffective governor who has absolutely nothing to show for his time in office aside from a massive increase and expansion of the sales tax, higher property and business taxes, an apology for slavery, repeal of the death penalty (which NJ never administered properly anyway) and a half billion increase in school spending. And now he stoops to arresting opponents at his listening tour.

Pathetic.

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