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To: Sam Citron who wrote (685123)	6/8/2005 12:10:17 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Post back if you ever get out from under the pseudo-scientific fraudsters' boots and have an original thought of your own. I doubt they are cutting you in on the GRANT money, despite your blind support...

To: Sam Citron who wrote (685123)	6/8/2005 12:22:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Hey, Sam... ole Cy must be correct that there is no 'global warming problem'. If there was he would be among the first to know about it.... (For his dome is a most excellent solar radiation detector!)

To: Sam Citron who wrote (685123)	6/8/2005 12:36:35 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Forrester to Face Corzine in Race for New Jersey Governor By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI Douglas R. Forrester, who became a multimillionaire by founding a company that manages pharmacy benefits, won the Republican nomination for New Jersey governor yesterday after vastly outspending six opponents to promise lower property taxes and a crackdown on the state's notoriously corrupt political culture. His victory, coupled with Sen. Jon S. Corzine's clinching of the Democratic primary, sets the stage for a potentially exorbitant race between two extremely wealthy men who have already said they will bypass New Jersey's public financing system so they can spend unlimited amounts of their own money. Mr. Forrester, a former small town mayor, made an unanticipated debut in statewide politics in 2002, losing the United States Senate race decisively to Frank R. Lautenberg after ethics questions forced the incumbent, Robert G. Torricelli, from the race. When Gov. James E. McGreevey resigned last August amid a sex scandal, Mr. Forrester moved quickly, running radio and television advertisements promoting himself as a corruption fighter. Despite the misgivings of some party leaders, a crowded field of Republican rivals and an often rancorous primary, Mr. Forrester's more than $10 million in spending allowed him to dominate the race. No other candidate spent more than $3 million. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Forrester won 36 percent of the vote; Bret D. Schundler, the conservative who was routed by Mr. McGreevey, a Democrat, in the 2001 governor's race, had 31 percent. After a long, chaotic and increasingly caustic campaign, turnout was light and many Republicans said they had ultimately come to the conclusion that Mr. Forrester was more electable than Mr. Schundler, whom Democrats painted as an ideological extremist whose views in favor of school vouchers and against abortion rights were too conservative for a moderate state like New Jersey. Mr. Corzine coasted to victory yesterday against two declared Democratic candidates who did not muster statewide campaigns. But in his victory speech, Mr. Forrester made it clear that he would hold Democrats accountable for the scandals of the McGreevey administration and take Mr. Corzine to task for donating millions of dollars to the Democratic power brokers who run much of the state. "He cannot fix these problems because he has been part of the problem," Mr. Forrester told a chanting crowd at the Forestal Center in Plainsboro. Mr. Corzine, who was pummeled by the seven Republicans, seemed relieved that the race was finally entering a new phase. Even before the Republican contest was decided, Mr. Corzine accepted the Democratic nomination with a pledge to work for lower health care costs and property tax reduction. He also promised to make ethics reform a top priority and assured voters that he would not be influenced by the state's political bosses. "I haven't been anyone's senator but yours," he said to a cheering crowd of Democratic supporters in the East Brunswick Hilton. "And tonight I make a pledge to the people of New Jersey: I won't be anyone's governor but yours." It was a year ago that Republican hopefuls began their intense jockeying for a chance to run against Mr. McGreevey, whose administration had been rocked by a series of fund-raising scandals. Then in August, when he resigned amid a sex scandal, the maneuvering turned into a free-for-all. Many party leaders tried to court a big-name contender into the race, in hopes of avoiding an expensive, fractious primary and the double-digit losses that New Jersey Republicans endured in the general elections the last time Mr. Forrester and Mr. Schundler were atop the ticket. But the prospect of Mr. Corzine's wealth and popularity - his approval ratings were above 60 percent last summer - gave some prospective candidates pause and led one major Republican fund-raiser to say that the party was as outgunned as Davy Crockett at the Alamo. In March, when State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr. announced that he would run for the United States Senate in 2006, it was clear that the field would remain crowded. With the name recognition that came from running in previous statewide races, Mr. Schundler and Mr. Forrester remained far ahead of the rest of the field. Mr. Schundler rallied his devoted following among school voucher advocates and opponents of abortion rights and gun control, and built on that by making property tax reduction the heart of his campaign. Mr. Forrester left many campaign strategists puzzled early on, when he spent millions of dollars to run advertisements outlining ethereal campaign finance reform and calling for the resignation of the CBS anchorman Dan Rather. In April, however Mr. Forrester unveiled his own property tax reduction plan calling for a 30 percent cut over three years, and recent polls show that a majority of potential primary voters preferred it to Mr. Schundler's. Mr. Schundler also faced a fierce challenge for conservative votes from Steven M. Lonegan, mayor of Bogota, who won about 8 percent of the vote. During a series of televised debates in the past two months, the two top contenders blasted each other's records in previous elective office - Mr. Forrester was mayor of West Windsor in 1981-2 and Mr. Schundler was mayor of Jersey City from 1992 to 2001 - trading accusations of tax increases and irresponsible borrowing and spending. New Jersey has favored Democrats in the past decade, so most political analysts say they believe Mr. Corzine begins the race with an advantage. But Mr. Forrester has the wealth to blunt the financial advantage Mr. Corzine has enjoyed over other candidates. The senator's job approval ratings have also dropped in recent polls, as Republicans have criticized him and the Democratic Party has been beset by revelations that tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money was misspent by the School Construction Corporation and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. "I think Republicans are tired of the he said/he said of the past month and are ready to sink our teeth into a piece of meat worth sinking them into," said Tom Wilson, state Republican chairman. "Bring on Jon Corzine." Josh Benson contributed reporting for this article.