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The aide who said his boss, Governor Corzine, deserves a seat belt
ticket, shows in one incident what is wrong with this country. What
purpose besides press whoring wopuld be served by giving the governor
a no-seatbelt ticket? If Governor Corzine had been seated in the
back, the normal place for a guy being chauffered around, he would not
have had to wear a seat belt.
But the Governor wanted to show he was driving with the state trooper,
that the trooper was his driving companion, not his lackey. For that
class behavior, Corzine finds that the "suicide seat," the front
passenger seat, is aptly named. His broken femur was impact impact
from the guard rail, an impact that would have smashed the governor
whether or not he was wearing a seat belt.
The zero tolerance policy that Corzine's aide believes in is typical
of the political trash that pollute American politics. Show no mercy,
give no second chances and just follow the attitude best expressed by
Donald Trump's show The Apprentice: "You're Fired!"
If the aide thinks the police should give passenger Corzine a ticket,
why stop there? Put every cop and firefighter and EMS driver on
notice: wear seat belts or get tickets. Corzine is the top law
enforcement official in New Jersey, what goes for him goes for the
cops in that case. Or some other Corzine aide could show some sense
and drop the matter of the seatbelt ticket.
For a guy in critical condition, facing months of agonizing physical
therapy, a seat belt ticket now is mean spirited overkill. Trouble
is, mean spirited overkill summarizes the mission policy (not
statement) of most punitive government law enforcement actions.
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Posted: Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:04PM
Aide: Corzine Deserves Seatbelt Summons
http://1010wins.com/pages/353364.php?contentType=4&contentId=411065
CAMDEN, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine should be ticketed
for not wearing his seatbelt during a crash that nearly killed him.
Corzine's Chief of Staff, Tom Shea, said Corzine deserves a summons if
he ignored the law requiring all front-seat passengers to wear
restraints.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that state
troopers have tried, but failed in the past to persuade the Governor
to wear a seat belt.
Corzine was out of surgery on his broken leg around 11:30 a.m.
Saturday at Cooper University Hospital, where he has been treated
since he was critically injured in an SUV crash Thursday, his
spokesman said.
The operation began around 10 a.m. Doctors said Thursday that
operations scheduled for Saturday and Monday would both focus on
cleaning out his broken femur.
The crash occurred around 6 p.m. Thursday. Corzine's two-car motorcade
was rushing from a speech in Atlantic City to the governor's mansion
in Princeton for a meeting between disgraced former radio host Don
Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team.
The governor was riding in the front passenger seat of an SUV, which a
state trooper was driving and which was carrying an aide in the back
seat, when it was hit by another vehicle that swerved to avoid an out-
of-control red pickup truck. The SUV was sent crashing into a guard
rail along the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township.
On the scene and after he was taken by helicopter to the Camden
hospital, Corzine was able to speak cogently, said his aides and
doctors.
Unlike the trooper and his assistant, who did not have serious
injuries, Corzine's body was ravaged by the accident.
The 60-year-old governor, who was apparently not wearing a seat belt,
broke his leg, 12 ribs, his and a broken collarbone. He also had a
head laceration and a minor fracture on a lower vertebrae.
After he arrived at the hospital, doctors hooked the governor up to a
ventilator and inserted a metal rod into his femur, or thigh bone.
PHOTO: Jeff Corzine, left, and Jennifer Corzine, the Governor's son
and daughter at a news conference outside Cooper University Hospital
in Camden, N.J. on Friday.
A doctor said the 6-foot-3 former Marine and investment banker had
about seven pints of blood replaced Thursday. The average adult male
has about 12 pints of blood.
Dr. Robert Ostrum, who performed the initial surgery, said he hoped
the governor would not need more operations after the one Saturday and
a second scheduled for Monday. The purpose of both, he said, would be
to clean his femur, which was broken in two spots and ripped through
his skin.
Doctors have said Corzine faces several months of physical therapy for
the bone.
And as long as he's using the breathing tube, Corzine won't be able to
do his duties as governor.
State Senate President Richard J. Codey is serving as acting governor.
1010 WINS ARCHIVE: Corzine Lucky to be Alive
ticket, shows in one incident what is wrong with this country. What
purpose besides press whoring wopuld be served by giving the governor
a no-seatbelt ticket? If Governor Corzine had been seated in the
back, the normal place for a guy being chauffered around, he would not
have had to wear a seat belt.
But the Governor wanted to show he was driving with the state trooper,
that the trooper was his driving companion, not his lackey. For that
class behavior, Corzine finds that the "suicide seat," the front
passenger seat, is aptly named. His broken femur was impact impact
from the guard rail, an impact that would have smashed the governor
whether or not he was wearing a seat belt.
The zero tolerance policy that Corzine's aide believes in is typical
of the political trash that pollute American politics. Show no mercy,
give no second chances and just follow the attitude best expressed by
Donald Trump's show The Apprentice: "You're Fired!"
If the aide thinks the police should give passenger Corzine a ticket,
why stop there? Put every cop and firefighter and EMS driver on
notice: wear seat belts or get tickets. Corzine is the top law
enforcement official in New Jersey, what goes for him goes for the
cops in that case. Or some other Corzine aide could show some sense
and drop the matter of the seatbelt ticket.
For a guy in critical condition, facing months of agonizing physical
therapy, a seat belt ticket now is mean spirited overkill. Trouble
is, mean spirited overkill summarizes the mission policy (not
statement) of most punitive government law enforcement actions.
----
Posted: Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:04PM
Aide: Corzine Deserves Seatbelt Summons
http://1010wins.com/pages/353364.php?contentType=4&contentId=411065
CAMDEN, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine should be ticketed
for not wearing his seatbelt during a crash that nearly killed him.
Corzine's Chief of Staff, Tom Shea, said Corzine deserves a summons if
he ignored the law requiring all front-seat passengers to wear
restraints.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that state
troopers have tried, but failed in the past to persuade the Governor
to wear a seat belt.
Corzine was out of surgery on his broken leg around 11:30 a.m.
Saturday at Cooper University Hospital, where he has been treated
since he was critically injured in an SUV crash Thursday, his
spokesman said.
The operation began around 10 a.m. Doctors said Thursday that
operations scheduled for Saturday and Monday would both focus on
cleaning out his broken femur.
The crash occurred around 6 p.m. Thursday. Corzine's two-car motorcade
was rushing from a speech in Atlantic City to the governor's mansion
in Princeton for a meeting between disgraced former radio host Don
Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team.
The governor was riding in the front passenger seat of an SUV, which a
state trooper was driving and which was carrying an aide in the back
seat, when it was hit by another vehicle that swerved to avoid an out-
of-control red pickup truck. The SUV was sent crashing into a guard
rail along the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township.
On the scene and after he was taken by helicopter to the Camden
hospital, Corzine was able to speak cogently, said his aides and
doctors.
Unlike the trooper and his assistant, who did not have serious
injuries, Corzine's body was ravaged by the accident.
The 60-year-old governor, who was apparently not wearing a seat belt,
broke his leg, 12 ribs, his and a broken collarbone. He also had a
head laceration and a minor fracture on a lower vertebrae.
After he arrived at the hospital, doctors hooked the governor up to a
ventilator and inserted a metal rod into his femur, or thigh bone.
PHOTO: Jeff Corzine, left, and Jennifer Corzine, the Governor's son
and daughter at a news conference outside Cooper University Hospital
in Camden, N.J. on Friday.
A doctor said the 6-foot-3 former Marine and investment banker had
about seven pints of blood replaced Thursday. The average adult male
has about 12 pints of blood.
Dr. Robert Ostrum, who performed the initial surgery, said he hoped
the governor would not need more operations after the one Saturday and
a second scheduled for Monday. The purpose of both, he said, would be
to clean his femur, which was broken in two spots and ripped through
his skin.
Doctors have said Corzine faces several months of physical therapy for
the bone.
And as long as he's using the breathing tube, Corzine won't be able to
do his duties as governor.
State Senate President Richard J. Codey is serving as acting governor.
1010 WINS ARCHIVE: Corzine Lucky to be Alive
