{"id":2058,"date":"2017-07-06T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:08:36","slug":"kim-guadagno-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/kim-guadagno-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Guadagno"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I will start talking about Kim Guadagno, the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey. She is the Lieutenant Governor and also the Secretary of State.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Per Wikipedia<\/a>, \u201cKim Guadagno is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and the District of New Jersey. She was also Assistant New Jersey Attorney General. Serving as deputy chief of the U.S. Attorney’s office’s corruption unit from 1994\u201398, Guadagno was responsible for the corruption prosecutions of former Essex County Executive Thomas D’Alessio (a Democrat) and of Somerset County Prosecutor Nicholas Bissell (a Republican). In 1994, in a case involving an executive of lottery contractor GTECH Corporation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office was criticized by the judge overseeing the case for the disclosure of grand jury testimony in a sentencing report; the issue was never referred for further ethical or legal investigation. The lottery executive went to jail.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She served as deputy director from 1998 to 2001 in the Division of Criminal Justice, where she supervised prosecutions of a $40 million financial fraud and of David L. Smith, creator of the “Melissa” computer worm. She taught legal research and writing at Rutgers School of Law\u2013Newark from 2003 until Nov. 2009. In 2005 Kim Guadagno was elected to Monmouth Beach’s non-partisan governing body as one of its three Walsh Act commissioners<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So she has a similar history to Chris Christie and does have political experience as the elected Sheriff of Monmouth County in 2007. Just comparing Guadagno to Murphy as to political experience, she wins hands down.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now I will go to her campaign website<\/a> and the first thing you see is the following,<\/span><\/p>\n

For A Better New Jersey <\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

Auditing Trenton. Lowering property taxes. Creating opportunity. Our campaign for a better New Jersey starts with you<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So right in the beginning you find out that she wants to audit the state government, lower property taxes and wants to create opportunities for businesses\/voters. Then it says that action must be taken and states that \u201cNew Jersey<\/em>‘s problems will never be solved if we leave it up to the Trenton insiders, special interests and liberal elite. New Jersey deserves better<\/em>.\u201d I have to agree that we the voters let the full time politicians, special interest groups and the political elite run roughshod over the people of New Jersey. The big problem is can she do anything to stop this group of insiders from continuing to ruin our state? I for one don\u2019t know if she or even Murphy can stop all the political shenanigans from continuing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next week I will continue talking about Kim Guadagno.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike<\/span><\/p>\n