Tom Wilson NJGOP Chairman

Corzine Lacks Ethical Principles to Be Governor
--NY Times Report Provides Insight into His Character and Connections--
Trenton, NJ - Republican State Committee Chairman Tom Wilson, in response to today’s New York Times profile of Jon Corzine, issued the following statement:

"The New York Times today finally put in print Jon Corzine's dirty little secret: he is controlled by the party bosses and he's bought his support.

He cannot change New Jersey.

Joanne Corzine, the one person in the world who probably knows Jon Corzine best has confirmed what we've said all along: According to the NY Times, she was quoted as saying -- Corzine is a man with blind ambition who will do whatever it takes – ethical or not, legal or not – to get what he wants.

While his wife's comments are hard-hitting, what's even more chilling is what this article reveals about Corzine's true relationship with bossism and corruption in New Jersey. With George Norcross and the others party bosses who are driving this state into the ground.

This dirty little secret – which is a frightening truth, might have gotten out sooner if Peter Harvey had released all the tapes –

Think what we might know about Jon Corrine if Jim McGreevy hadn't made Peter Harvey Attorney General

If Peter Harvey hadn't "lost� the video tape, Corzine’s ex-wife's disclosure might not have been such a bombshell.

But in this state where the bosses control everything from evidence to the flow of homeland security grants, it took our United State’s Senator own wife to nail him – and lay out his connection to the party bosses.

It took the outrage of his own ex-wife who saw how the process, how the corruption eroded the principals of her husband and she saw no other course of action than to speak and tell the public that her husband is not fit to be governor.

Joanne Corzine said, 'I think it's made him lose sight of anything but success, getting to where he wanted to get.'

She said she noticed a change in her husband soon after he decided to run, in 1999, for the Senate.

She said she had been taken aback by the blatant way party leaders bartered their endorsements in return for campaign contributions, and thought that her husband would be, too.

But he brushed aside her concerns, calling them naive, she said.

Today's report in the NY Times raises many more questions about Jon Corzine’s associations with New Jersey's politically corrupt machine – from Jim McGreevy to Bob Torricelli, to Charles Kushner, who is in jail – to Susan Bass Levin who is under investigation by the FBI.

But the answer to the looming question for voters in the state of New Jersey is clear – Jon Corzine completely lacks the ethical principles required to be governor."

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