Independent Daggett gaining in NJ Governors race; largest NJ newspaper endorsment

[nyrgoal99]

I am a big Daggett supporter and he has gone from 4% to 17% in a month.

Today, the Newark Star-Ledger (biggest NJ newspaper) endorsed daggett.


This is going to be interesting

[silverhandorder]

What is he all about?

[max]

If the communist Star Ledger is endorsing him, it can only be because they want him to take GOP votes away so scumbag Corzine from Goldman Sachs wins.

[Chester Copperpot]

there was a guy I saw running for governor in NJ but I didnt think it was daggett... Isnt there a liberty candidate running?

[nyrgoal99]

Daggett has said he will lower property taxes by up to 25% by expanding the sales tax to cover pretty much everything. It isnt the best solution, but better than Corzine and Christie who has no plan. I will be voting for him in November.

[max]

Daggett has said he will lower property taxes by up to 25% by expanding the sales tax to cover pretty much everything. It isnt the best solution, but better than Corzine and Christie who has no plan. I will be voting for him in November.

We could have had conservative Steve Lonegan had the entire NJ GOP Establishment not come out against him and in favor of that fat criminal creep Christie....It was a close primary.
Lonegan would have clobbered Corzine.

[nyrgoal99]

We could have had conservative Steve Lonegan had the entire NJ GOP Establishment not come out against him and in favor of that fat criminal creep Christie....It was a close primary.
Lonegan would have clobbered Corzine.

I voted for Lonegan, I wish he won

[Imperial]

I wish Kaplan (the Libertarian) were running a more high-profile race in New Jersey.

As it is, he doesn't have enough funding or name recognition. Daggett however qualified for public funding and has held some public policy positions. He is a former Republican but also leans pretty liberal. The Green Party declined to run a candidate against him so as not to split the vote.

I'd just vote for him to signify I am fed up with the system. Christie and Corzine are the same- when Daggett is polling this high, he can really shake up the system.

[t0rnado]

Kaplan is much better. I saw the debates and Daggett said that he'd only consider signing a medical marijuana bill if it had a plethora of restrictions. Corzine said he'd sign the bill that passed the Senate without restrictions.

[Umbro2914]

Daggett's not so anti establishment as many think, check out his history and who appointed him

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

NJ has more criminal syndicates than a can of worms

[Imperial]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/nyregion/12daggett.html

I like this Daggett character.

[frasu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/nyregion/12daggett.html

I like this Daggett character.

+1

[tangent4ronpaul]

I caught the debates too and daggart didn't stand out for me - Christi did, so I looked him up and liked what I saw:

allow citizens to buy health insurance across state lines
veto any bill that raised taxes unless it passed by a 2/3 vote
establish a "red tape cutting" study board to gut unproductive state regulations and make the state more business friendly. !!!! - when have you ever heard a politician talk about getting rid of regulations???
lower income/property taxes
etc.

posted a link and some of his promices here:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=214407

-t

[frasu]

... and in the same time:


While serving as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie authorized the tracking of people through their cell phones without first obtaining a warrant, the American Civil Liberties Union said yesterday.

The ACLU released documents provided by the Justice Department showing that the U.S. Attorney's Offices in New Jersey and Florida had been granted permission by court order to "obtain mobile phone location information without making a judicial finding of probable cause."

The practice is not illegal, a point Christie and the U.S. Attorney's Office stressed yesterday. But the ACLU called it a violation of privacy, saying federal officials were flaunting the Constitution and "drunk" with power.

"Big Brother is tucked away in our cell phones, and the man behind the curtain is Chris Christie," said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the ACLU in New Jersey.

The whole story here. (http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1240546004173070.xml&coll=1) New Jersey is not exactly the hotbed of liberty lovers.

[emazur]

YouTube - Lou Dobbs Interviews Independent NJ Governor Candidate Chris Daggett (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWOkj6GanHU)
YouTube - New Jersey Star-Ledger Endorses Independent Chris Daggett for Governor (Lou Dobbs) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdGHh1IdTqg)