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N.J. Gov. Chris Christie could face recall election in 2012
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Aug 15, 2011 04:38pm |
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| Author | TOM HESTER SR. |
| News Date | Friday, August 12, 2011 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Tim and Joanne O‘Neill of Collingswood and Newark-base pro-labor lawyer Bennet Zurofsky of Maplewood have set a big goal for their fledgling political organization, NJ-CAN: Late this year or early in 2012, they intend to seek the signatures of at least 1,317,000 of New Jersey’s 5.27 million registered voters — or 25 percent of them — to force an election to recall Gov. Chris Christie.
“A recall petition is not that difficult,” O‘Neill, a supervising clerk with the Camden County Board of Social Services said on Thursday. “It’s just a matter of getting people to sign it.”
O’Neill, who describes himself as a Democratic foot soldier since before Gov. Jim Florio was elected in 1989, said NJ-CAN’s announced plan to try to recall the Republican governor, so far, has garnered the endorsement of the Industrial Union Council and Labor for Peace and has caught the interest of firefighters union leaders.
O’Neill said the effort is not a disguise for the public employee unions who are enraged at Christie and 22 “Christiecrats” who teamed up with him to raise the cost of health and pension benefits for 550,000 state and local public workers in an effort to save the financially-struggling benefit system from ruin. But O’Neill added it was the decision of Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Assembly Speaker Sheila Y. Oliver (D-Essex) and 20 other Democrats to join Christie in hiking the benefit costs that led him and his wife and Zurofsky to launch NJ-CAN." |
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