Governor Corzine Comes to Millville

7 April 2009 @ 23:42 | Posted in » New Jersey, Politics

Tomorrow, Governor Jon Corzine will be in town.

Corzine will be at the Cumberland County Improvement Authority, located at 2 High St., at 4 p.m. to make an announcement regarding the intersection of routes 49 and 55.

The first thing I thought of was how Corzine shunned Cumberland County in doling out nearly $1 billion in federal transportation stimulus funds.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine revealed Thursday the 55 transportation projects that state officials chose to receive New Jersey’s $894 million share of federal transportation funding. Not one Cumberland County project was among them.

Why would Corzine sneak up on Millville tomorrow? To make political amends for the above. It is an election year after all. Millville government didn’t even know he was coming.

I suspect that Corzine will do the dance: talk about the importance of Cumberland County, talk about the need of expanding the roads here, talk about how government (and particularly, he) is concerned for the community here, and tell us that he will do all he can to help out. He’ll do all this without committing to anything. No money will be slated, just a promise that he’ll do something in the futre.

How could he possibly come up with cash now? He would be raked over the coals for spending if he produce dollars tomorrow.

I hope to make the meeting, although I will be late if I get there. I am not too concerned as the last time I went to see Corzine here in town, I waited more than an hour and a half before I left. My time is too valuable to wait.

Should I attend, let it be known I will have a camera with me. Middle Township tabled a motion last night to seriously curtail the public’s recording of open public meetings. It sounds like they are going to re-tool the legislation. If one is in public, he is recordable. I know Millville’s council has made some comments over the years in this regard. The tax they they negotiated with Comcast to be levied against the taxpayers to cover the equipment to record the meetings is still in place. The last time I saw one of those tapings, it was unwatchable. I’ll record it myself, thanktyouverymuch!