The War We Should Be Fighting.

We ( the " WOC Generals " ) are not here to discuss Iraq. That topic has been thoroughly covered elsewhere. What we want to do is draw attention to a war on corruption that WE, THE PEOPLE, must wage right here at home, especially where it is needed most, New Jersey. ( Ohio may be next, but even CNN acknowledged during the recent elections that New Jersey is the most corrupt state in our union. ) They did fail to point out the irony, though, that the clips they kept showing of now Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez walking right behind her, and right in the middle of all of her talk of ethics and subpoenas. I doubt you'll see any real ethics reform from Pelosi and company anytime soon. ( If you don't know, Menendez was appointed by current NJ Governor Jon Corzine to the senate seat left open by his departure to run for Governor. Menendez was then re-elected in this past election season, in one of the first races to be called by the networks with almost no precincts reporting. ) What we should be asking all of the 2008 presidential candidates is, " What will you do about political corruption, bullying, and abuse of power here in the U.S. ? " I am talking about the kind of corruption evident in the political machine run by Democratic party boss George Norcross, and practiced in NJ at every level from local police in places like Burlington, to prosecutors like Lou Gallagher, judges like John Harrington, former State Attorney Generals like Peter Harvey, and of course Governor Corzine himself. President Bush got the war on corruption started by appointing Christopher J. Christie as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. This was definitely a step in the right direction, as Christie's office has now delivered 100 convictions in connection with public corruption. ( More are expected from the latest wave of subpeonas and the investigation into " Christmas tree " budget items. ) What we, the people, need to do is keep our government focused on bringing down all of the participants in this corruption. We need to let the presidential candidates know that it is important to us that as president, they will provide Christopher Christie and others like him across the nation all of the support that they need to wage this war right.
For further reading on this topic, please refer to Carl Mayer's The NJ Untouchables blogsite at http://newjerseyuntouchables.blogspot.com/ and my own blogsite at http://waroncorruption-knoxdkm.blogspot.com/