Corzine Is Taken Off Ventilator »
Posted By Alexia 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsGov. Jon S. Corzine was taken off the ventilator he has been relying on to breathe for more than a week Friday afternoon, although doctors warned he might need the breathing tube reinserted depending on his pain levels and other potential complications. In a brief written statement issued after 5 p.m., Mr. Corzine's staff said he had been off the ventilator since 12:25 p.m. and breathing on his own since. His doctors were not quoted in the statement, nor did they appear at Cooper University Hospital here to answer questions from reporters. They have given few details about the governor's condition or treatment during the week he has spent in their intensive care unit.
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ABANOCLA1 year, 5 months ago
Maybe he can get all better, go out again and break more laws, like no seatbelt and driving 91 in a 55 or 65mph zone, whatever it was, and I realize the State cop was drivng, he should be ticketed as well......makes you kinda wonder about the whole accident, maybe if they weren't bombing up in the fast lane, the other car in the granny lane might have been able to move over and avoid the guy from the shoulder????
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
Yes, all of which is true. However, he was not driving the vehicle. Doesn't some of the blame lie with the State Trooper who was exceeding the speed limit? I know in PA it is common for Governor Rendell's limo driver to drive at speeds in excess of 100 mph. Whether the Governor is wearing his seat belt or not, that is definitely reckless on all PA highways.
Rather than slamming the NJ Governor, ask whether the gov of your state has a driver who moves so fast.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
In mine, I can certainly say YES. I would not put it past Governor Rendell. He has been known to speed to Harrisburg in excess of 100 mph. So say the reports in the papers.
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elzorro21621 year, 5 months ago
I wonder if your opinion of him would be different, had it been your dad or mother. We are quite quick to judge aren't we Libbsuck?
Regardless of the situation my prayers go out to him and the families of those involved.
Z
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blackolives1 year, 5 months ago
Just like a true liberal hypocrite. He passes all types of restrictive laws on the rest of us lowly citizens, yet feels he is against the law. Just like mayor Daley and Bloomberg who want to ban all gun ownership, yet each has a small army of armed cops guarding them and their families 24/7. Or like that clown Edwards and Gore who cry about global warming, yet live in 29,000 square foot mansions, with private jets and super yacths. Hopefully the little liberal sheep will see that their leaders are foolish liars.
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stephen-johnson1 year, 5 months ago
I hope that Corzine makes a full recovery, then gets voted out of office in the next election. You would expect good judgement in the governor of a state, but driving at 90 mph without a seat belt is anything but.
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PsychoHosebeast1 year, 5 months ago
No kidding. We're talking about a guy here who almost died, hurrying to get to the big, once in a lifetime opportunity to secure the black vote for himself by showing up at the Don Imus press conference... which makes this whole thing all the more absurd. The headline should say "Media****** Pays the Price."
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KSUmarksman1 year, 5 months ago
I know its probably innapropriate to mock this situation but:
this is exactly what happens when you don't wear your seatbelt. So buckle the heck up unless you want to breathe and eat through tubes for an unspecified period of time.
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goodgrief1 year, 5 months ago
Corzine - lib billionaire
Typical of his ilk. You know, the kind that tells us to give up our SUVs while they keep theirs. The kind who leaves global warming and damn america for creating it lectures on a trail of burnt jet A. The kind who bemoans the state of healthcare while making sure his taxpayer funded plan is all-inclusive and first-rate. The kind of tells us we must find alternative energy as long as it isn't windmills within view of his estate.
The kind whose whole philosophy is "do as I say, not as I do".
Corzine is one of those in spades!
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leftwingwhackos1 year, 5 months ago
this ahole got just what he deserved! gas guzzling suv, no sb and going 90 mph!!!big liberals love to tell us what to do, eat, wear, smoke...hypocrites! hey rosie! got gun control? fat all gore! got big energy consumtion at home!!!they all suck!!
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icanread1 year, 5 months ago
Corzine is a evil man. I wish he had died as well as the nazi cop with him.
90 mph in a ozone depleating vehicle
Armed Guards that are Nazi like with Automatic Weapons
No Seat Belt
Just to rush to see nappy headed hos, and they didn't even ackknowleged that he was in an accident or felt bad about it.
Where is shooter Cho when we need him?
Vote Democrat!
Kiesha
Sarasota, Florida
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stephen-johnson1 year, 5 months ago
I'm no Corzine fan, but it is really disheartening to read the ill will directed at him personally (as opposed to his ideas) by some people on this thread. No one should have to endure what Corzine has over the last week, even though it was his own foolish actions that brought it upon himself.
Again, I wish him a speedy recovery
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Sundevil1 year, 5 months ago
You'd have to be a complete moron or have some kind of death wish to travel in a vehicle at speeds approaching 100 mph. without wearing a seatbelt. I wonder which category Mr. Corzine falls in to...???
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chevydog1 year, 5 months ago
Thought that his might be one of those rare threads where insults don't fly in all directions. Yeah, the guy should have been wearing his seat belt. And yeah, he should have told the State Trooper driver to cool it on the speed. No great political isssue here. Just a guy who acted foolishly (may have been for quite a while) and is now paying for it. Hope he gets better soon. When and if he pushes some controversial issue in NJ, then is the time to jump on him.
Sundevil-- Don't know whether you're younger than I am or not. But going at speeds near 100 mph with no seat belt is practiced by a significant percentage of teenage drivers (have no idea of specifics). Most of them don't get killed. Or become governors, for that matter.
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ABANOCLA1 year, 5 months ago
46 bucks, and the tax payers will be paying how much for his medical care cause he was not? Who is getting screwed here? lol
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Twistoflex1 year, 5 months ago
I had just driven out of Manhattan and through the Meadowlands late one night when I noticed I was being tailed by a cop. The cop began driving parallel but a little behind me, tailing me as I went down this connecting highway between Route 3 and Route 17. In the last seconds I put on my right signal and quickly exitted onto Route 17 in Rutherford, NJ. The cop sped across lanes - without signalling - and tailed me down the ramp. Then he signalled me over.
He told me that he pulled me over because my plate wasn't in the DMV database. I told him it was impossible because my car was due for an inspection that month. He demanded my papers. I didn't have my wallet. He ticketed me for not having my license: $180 and told me, "Our mistake, you ARE in the DMV database."
This was a Carlstadt cop. I challenged the ticket on the basis that I was falsely detained. It was a real mafia court. Not a single case where state's evidence was presented: no cops showed up. (cont'd)
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Twistoflex1 year, 5 months ago
(cont'd) The Judge made everyone line the walls of the courtroom and go before the Prosecutor - even if you were pleading not guilty. It was a gruelling process that took hours. Every now and then the Mafia Judge would tell people that they could get out faster if they pleaded guilty and paid their fines.
Three hours later, when I finally went before the prosecutor, I told him I was pleading not guilty. I told him I was falsely detained and he tells me it was "community policing". I told him the charges were irrelevant since it was in legal terms, fruit of the poison tree. He exploded. "No fruit of the poison tree!" When I asked him to explain he said "Fruit of the poison tree is if you were pulled over for no reason and the cop sees some marijuana on your seat ... it would be inadmissable."
Dumb?
In the end I paid a reduced fine ($50) because they were going to set a "trial date" and waste more of my time.
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WhoKilledCommonSense1 year, 5 months ago
Point 1 - What the gov did was wrong, and yes I do believe he was the one in control of how fast they were going.
Point 2 - Almost everyone in politics is a hypocritical being telling us to do one thing and doing another.
Point 3 - He did endanger other lives and should face consequences for it.
Point 4 - Do I feel sorry for him? Yes.
Just as I'd feel sorry for anyone who is hurting unless they're a terrorist.
And finally, Point 5 - Did he get what he deserved? Maybe.
However, if we were to go by that rule, what do the rest of us deserve? I'd really hate to get what I deserve, even though compared to some, I'm a really nice person. I still screw up.
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B1BLancer1 year, 5 months ago
I wonder if Corzine's carbon footprint is as big as Algore's.
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Carl_R1 year, 5 months ago
It's always the same story, laws are made for the average Joe, not the troopers, governor, assembly persons, etc. I drive the Palisades Parkway every day. On many occasions I have had a PIP cop fly past me (and recently I have been taking notice of the car number) only to find them at the southern end of the parkway in the pizza shop next to the King's Supermarket stuffing their face, oh yes, with their patrol car illegally parked as well. So tell me, what's the urgency here, were the hunger pains too great? When their done, there back on the Palisades with their radar looking to give out a ticket for the same thing they just did. Wonder if you told the cop you were very hungry and you needed to get something to eat if he would let you off?
It is always the same story from the bottom to the top, do as I say, not as I do, I am better than you. I wonder how long it will take to issue tickets in the Corzine case or should I just dream on?
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aceofspades11 year, 5 months ago
aniokly - you from NJ? if so what has Corzine done that has been adverse to NJ other than try to kill himself for being a reckless passenger?
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Gypsy12201 year, 5 months ago
The Governor had an accident. Many of us get into a car without a sestbelt. Many of us speed. Many of us run around meetingwith people it is called work. And who said it wasn't important to meet with the Rurgers Team and Imus must be missing the point that we have a national problem called equality for women and ethnanticities .
We should be praying a man who serves his government is in critical condition instead of condeming him. Anyone out there ever lose someone in a car accident. WellI did three times and it really sucks regardless of extenuating circumstances.
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Carl_R1 year, 5 months ago
There is a big difference here, Corzine took an oath of office to uphold the laws of the State of New Jersey, not to abuse them. He is the chief executive of the state, a person to be looked up to as an example.
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aniokly1 year, 5 months ago
No, I a, not from N J, but my niece is, and she says the first thing Corzine did was raise taxes, and fees. Typical Democrat leadership. Tax, tax, and more tax, on every level.
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aceofspades11 year, 5 months ago
Aniokly- Im not from NJ but from NY - taxes must be real bad in NJ hahaha - I pay 30 cents a gallon LESS in NJ for gas - NJ has the lowest gas taxes in the country - damn Dems- oh I forgot NY has some of the highest taxes - our Gov was Pataki - A republican with a Republican controlled state legislate -- guess he forgot he was a Republican
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