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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Election Day Scene: Going for Corzine in Glouco

Inquirer staff writer Jacqueline L. Urgo reports:

In Gloucester County, most voters seem quick to want to tell you who they voted for in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race and why. And they mostly seemed to be going for Gov. Jon Corzine outside polling places in Deptford and Woodbury.

“Corzine is the least of our problems,” said Bob McGroarty, 68, of Woodbury, a retired lawyer whose vote when strictly Democrat. “People want to blame him for a lot of things, but he's been trying to work responsibly with the problems of this economy.”

Bill and Diane Boesenhofer, retirees from Deptford, said they were happy to vote for Corzine again.

“He's gotten a bad rap,” said Bill Boesenhofer, 76.

Lisa Watson, 36, of Deptford, said she had briefly considered voting for independent Christopher Daggett, but changed her mind at the last minute.

“I was worried that a vote for Daggett was really a vote for [Republican candidate Chris] Christie against Corzine,” Watson said. “I absolutely do not want to see Christie as governor of New Jersey.”

But Elizabeth Riggins, 65, of Woodbury, said she has been a Republican since Ronald Reagan won her over with his charm years ago.

“I had to vote for Christie,” Riggins said. “I just cannot see giving Corzine another four years to raise our taxes.”

Frank Pino, 56, a union electrician from Deptford said that while his union urged him to vote for Corzine, believing the Democrat favors labor more so than Christie, in his heart he wanted to vote for the Republican.

“I’m mad at Corzine, but in the end I voted for him,” Pino said. “It was a real philosophical struggle for me. I don't think Corzine really has done enough for the labor unions in this state, but I'm sure Christie would do nothing at all for us.”

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Posted by Inquirer Online Desk @ 12:41 PM  Permalink | 2 comments
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Posted 01:26 PM, 11/03/2009
AbnInf
It's a dead heat and Urgo could manage to find only one person voting for the republican. Intersting. NJ mindlessly votes for liberals every election. What do you get for it? The highest taxes in the nation. And yet people still vote for a guy who's solution is to raise highway tolls 300%. And property taxes of course. And every other tax. If this failed governor gets re-elected the whole state deserves to go bankrupt.
Posted 02:06 PM, 11/03/2009
unophillyphan
Let's not forget how well the republicans took care of our country during the Cheney-Bush years: Two wars without victory; Banks that basically wrote the regulations that governed them failing, begging for the largest wellfare check issued by the U.S.; Federal budget with astronomic deficit to be matched only by the intelectual deficit of Cheney, Bush, Powell, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and many-many more; No effort to work with unions, indeed the opposite was the norm. Voting Republican cleerly is not the answer.
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