Forrester? Ach, no. Belongs to the same
club as too many people I loathe.
Corzine? Almost tolerable. Somewhat fewer loathesome people in his
club.
Matt Thieke (
Green Party)? I guess I mostly agree with the guy's
positions.
So my decision is between Thieke, someone whose positions I agree with most, but have never heard of (how is his name pronounced?), and Corzine, the guy who is most likely to beat the Republican.
Corzine and Forrester seem pretty similar on most issues (compare:
Corzine,
Forrester).
On social issues, there's next to nothing of substance in their position statements to help discern what their positions are. Corzine has tended mostly to vote left-of-center on social issues in the Senate. Forrester has no such record to judge him by, but we can get some sense based on the fact that he got the nomination partly because he is not known to be a social conservative. So he might (or might not) be sort of similar in his beliefs to Corzine, but republican party pressures might at times force him to take public positions somewhat to the right, whatever his own beliefs. ON the other hand, since the NJ Republican Party tends to be rather liberal compared to most other states' Republican parties on social issues (and in fact more liberal than a few states'
Democratic parties), maybe the difference here is only marginal.
On environmental issues, Corzine's position statement is somewhat more explicitely "green". Forrester doesn't take strong positions, except on a few particular local issues. We might expect him to be at least somewhat to the right of Corzine, but how much is hard to guess. Again, party pressures might cause him to take more pro-business stands. But Corzine has at times voted pro-business, against his supposed pro-environment ideals. So maybe we shouldn't use environmental issues as a decision point.
Both say they want to bring affordable health care to New Jersey. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Ditto on housing costs. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Their positions on property taxes are rather different. But blah blah blah blah here, as well. When budget time comes, the Legislature and local governments will push back. But perhaps we can guess that Forrester might prove to be a more merciless budget-line slasher. It would depend on what he tried to cut (funding for education? or funding for cronie jobs? or funding for useless cronie commissions?)
On corruption in NJ politics: more blah blah blah blah blah. No one is going to take a position in favor of corruption.
I don't know what I'm talking about.
