Forrester for Governor

Why I'm voting for Forrester for governor of NJ tomorrow:

   1. Property taxes
   2. Breath of fresh air

Why I'm not voting for Corzine tomorrow:

   1a. Non-responsive as US Senator from NJ*
   2a. He can buy the politicos and he can buy his senate seat and he can buy the union endorsement and he can buy the advertising but he can't buy me and what else does he have to offer except money?

* I happen to have an interest in a  bill before the Senate called the Kidney Care Quality and Improvement Act of 2005 (S.635) which addresses pre-treatment education for awareness of End-Stage Renal Disease, increased Medicare funding for dialysis treatments and their removal of existing barriers for dialyzing at home. If you are not interested in this, you should be because modern medicine has developed palliatives and curatives for what ails you - such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. - and now people are outliving their kidneys. The kidney is a sophisticated and complicated organ that cannot yet be replicated or replaced. What this means is that as more people live longer, dialysis becomes necessary to do the work their kidneys can no longer handle.

I contacted Corzine for 2 things: to find out where he currently stands on this bill and to urge him to support this bill. I emailed, I called and I wrote to his senate office. No response. My local dialysis facility invited him to come and visit and to hear the concerns of the patients, the physicians and the staff who face mounting challenges regarding quality and adequacy due to increasing costs but fixed revenue for dialysis. So then I emailed his NJ gubernatorial campaign to see if he would respond to a potential voter.

Three times. No reply. While his web people were very busy leaving comments on the websites of NJ bloggers and directing the party faithful to swarm conservative and/or republican postings, no one could find the time to reply to my email requests for information. Not so interactive after all.

All I wanted was a position statement on Senate Bill  S.635 from the US senator who represents me. Is that expecting too much? I don't think so. If he can't be bothered with the people he represents as senator, I can't expect that he'd be any different as governor.

UPDATE: The race has been called for Corzine. The majority of voters in the state prefer that the party of corruption retains its chokehold on the pocketbooks of the citizens. The Jersey joke is alive and well.

Comments

[TPB, Esq.]

I'm with you on Forrester. To that, I'll add that I'm voting for Beck & O'Scanlon for Assembly over Panter & Morgan. I know all four candidates, and I can't stand the brazenly dishonest campaign run by Panter & Morgan.

[daughter]

this post is long and uninteresting and has nothing to do with my birthday.

[Jim - PRS]

Forrester here too. Easy choice.

[Mark Wintle]

I'm curious how long you gave him to reply.

Suzette says: "I contacted the senate office in June or July and the invitation to visit the dialysis facility was issued in September. Everything else was in between. "

[schmed]

I'll trade you your Crooked Corzine for our piss-ignorant Kathleen Bobblehead Blancstare and throw in the sAints' owner Tom Benson to boot.

At least the US Attorney assigned to NJ is still guaranteed full employment.