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Wanna find out how much money -- and how often -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine contributed for his failed re-election attempt?

Or how little his successor, Republican Chris Christie, spent out of pocket in comparison?

That information, along with a slew of other state and local political campaign contributions data, is now at your fingertips.

The New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, or ELEC, recently unveiled a searchable database on its Web site,

http://www.elec.state.nj.us/

that allows internet users to study the source and amount of state political campaign contributions.

The database is available under the blue 'search the database' tab on the left side of the ELEC home page. For some races, the database reaches back to 1981.

According to the database, Corzine started contributing to his re-election effort on Feb. 1, 2006, with a $100,000 contribution. Corzine made 59 personal contributions or loans to his primary and general election campaigns between 2006 and Sept. 21, 2009 -- spending $16.45 million.

Corzine's successor, Chris Christie, spent some of his own money, too. He and wife Mary Pat both made $3,400 contributions for his primary campaign on Jan. 20 -- and gave another $3,400 each for the general election race on June 17 ... spending a total of $13,600 in personal dollars.

At the time Christie made his donations, the former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey listed his occupation as "unemployed." He'll soon be able to list his occupation as New Jersey's 55th governor.

 

1 comment:

• Barry McSame (136) posts 11:52 am

  Behold the greedy capitalist pig, Jonboy Corzine-Katz. All his poverty-level "constituents" going to bed hungry, and cold, waking up, and doing it all over again. Paterson, Passaic, Camden (!), fading A.C., murderous Newark, junky Jersey City, state-run PeeVille schools, it's all a mess. Whuile he burnbs thru millions in a gerandf EGO-QUEST for affiramtion,. Corzine-Katz reminds me of warmongering Bob McNamara - another Democrat genius - scurrying around with his new book to wash the bllod of Vietnam off his technocrat hands. NJ is a disgrace, really, as America's wealthiest, and sometimes 2nd-wealthiest state re: per capita income. Princeton Univ. is its sole showcase. All that wealth transfer - extortionate taxes and fees to support a steadily-expanding welfare state. Only years of Democrats, governors and legislatures, with some faux Republicans like Whitman and Kean now and then for comic relief, and the venereal McQueervey, made it into a HUGE FAILED STATE. Let's not hear about "white wealthy Republicans" so much now, OK, hypocrites? You've showed us your idea of Democrat governance. It's all about special interests who for decades now have owned the DEMOCRATS, the party of poverty, and favors-for-sale. ObamaCare will be no different. It's coming from the same hoity-toity aristocracy, one with a darker complexion.

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