For the past three weeks, the citizens of New Jersey have been largely flipping out over Gov. Corzine’s car crash. Should he get a seat belt ticket? Should the Trooper driving him get a ticket? He was speeding (91 in a 65!) to get to a stupid photo opp. The Trooper was answering a text message while driving. Any number of things people are going on about.

Here’s the genius part. Corzine could have put this stuff behind us almost immediately by calling up Col. Fuentes (Superintendent of the NJ State Police) and having a Trooper issue a seat belt violation, publicly, complete with Corzine writing a check for $46 for the ticket. Instead, he’s dragging things out, resulting in the state’s population being dragged into discussions about seat belt tickets and speeding, rather than focusing on the actual problems NJ has.

I certainly do not wish anything bad on the man personally. Politically, however, is another matter altogether. I wish the political figure would start acting like a leader and actually doing something that’s good for the state, even good for us dissenters who chose to vote for someone else. Like, say, fixing corruption in our state government, or say, getting a handle on school spending in this state.

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