In New Jersey, Jon Corzine’s Failures Haunt Phil Murphy’s Out-of-Touch Gubernatorial Campaign

In the New Jersey governor’s race, Democrat nominee Phil Murphy may be trying to hide his decades-long career at Goldman Sachs and his reputation as a political insider who uses his personal wealth to buy favors, but Murphy can’t hide the numerous similarities and connections between him and failed Governor Jon Corzine. Both Democrats invested millions of their personal wealth to buy the nomination and governorship, and if elected, Murphy would govern just like Corzine, resurrecting the worst of his out-of-touch tax-and-spend policies. The people of New Jersey deserve more than second coming of Jon Corzine in the statehouse – but that’s exactly what they would get with Phil Murphy.

An new op-ed in The Star-Ledger details the close connections:

“One thing you’re certain to learn about Phil Murphy is that he is a rich guy.

Like many other rich guys, he made his fortune working for Goldman Sachs, a plucky little investment firm located in lower Manhattan specializing in capitalizing on other people’s misery. Murphy’s rich guy-ness, and the company for which he worked, has drawn some comparisons to an old friend of ours- former governor and guy who misplaced a billion dollars of someone else’s money- Jon Corzine.

We’re just getting acquainted with Phil Murphy, but his links to the former governor do allow us to take a stroll down memory lane with Jon Corzine.”