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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81241)	11/3/2006 8:28:07 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

spookie e phillipps, why do you need to lie every day about others?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81241)	11/3/2006 11:55:37 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

Corzine Bets a Lot in Backing a Controversial Senator A lot at stake, indeed. Not just for Mr. Menendez, and not just because a Democratic loss in this Democratic state could cost the party control of the Senate. For Mr. Corzine, it would be a personal rebuke, a told-you-so moment for colleagues from Trenton to Washington who had cautioned against picking Mr. Menendez. A defeat would be particularly stinging for Mr. Corzine, who had been chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “He will become a goat in the eyes of many Democratic activists,” said Bruce E. Cain, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley and director of its Washington Center. Mr. Corzine said in an interview on Wednesday that he had a “high degree of confidence” that Mr. Menendez would retain the slight edge he has held in polls. But after an event in Newark with Essex County officials, Mr. Corzine said he would accept responsibility for whatever happened on Tuesday. “Hold me accountable,” he said, using the same phrase he used the night he was elected governor last year, and again in his inaugural address in January. This time, Mr. Corzine has had to endure speculation in Democratic circles that Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, who succeeded Mr. Corzine as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, did not agree with the choice of Mr. Menendez and preferred former Gov. Richard J. Codey, who remains enormously popular. Mr. Corzine’s commitment was never more crucial than in early September, when federal prosecutors reportedly began to examine the records of a nonprofit community agency that paid more than $300,000 in rent to Mr. Menendez for a property he owned in Jersey City, while receiving millions of dollars in federal grants with his help. Mr. Kean pounced on the disclosure as proof that Mr. Menendez had a flexible set of ethics, and then went on to warn that the Democrats might drop Mr. Menendez from the ballot in the same way former Senator Robert G. Torricelli was replaced at the 11th hour by Frank R. Lautenberg in the 2002 Senate race. The reported subpoenas were issued by the United States attorney, a Republican, and Mr. Corzine questioned whether the timing was politically motivated, and his support of Mr. Menendez calmed frazzled Democrats.