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Right...and since when do liberals complain about how much money things cost?



I dunno. You tell me. I guarantee you I'm, definitively, more conservative than you are. So I think you're better qualified to judge that than I.

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I don't think the people of New Jersey should be disenfranchised because of an "expensive and complicated" election. But if you do, then that's something you have to deal with yourself.



I don't see how they're being disenfranchised.

2 years ago they voted for a platform -- why should they be allowed to vote all over again because of a resignation - or rather why would any change their platform vote, making another election neceessary, just because of a resignation?

If they had recalled him (and they probably should for any number of things) then of course they should get another vote; but all signs point to the citizens of New Jersey being happy with what was going on with their state -- just not with their governor himself.

Sudden or "planned" (and don't you think if it was truly "planned" he would've just waited another month to resign making this whole thing moot?) it doesn't matter -- the Constitution was written so that in the case of a resignation the person most likely to share the same platforms as the elected official would take office. If the people of New Jersey don't like that they can follow the Constitutional guidedlines, recall the new guy, and hold another election then.

There's absolutely no logical sense in holding another election because the man who is resigning from office held some very questionable moral standards. He's gone. The problem is fixed. Pointing a finger at the next guy in office doesn't solve anything.


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