What's the deal with Senator Corzine? - Democratic Underground

Allenberg

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Thu Nov-03-05 09:57 PM
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What's the deal with Senator Corzine?

I've been looking at vote results from the senate, and his name has come up as "not voting" in a whole ton of them.

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Wilms

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Thu Nov-03-05 09:59 PM
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1. Noticed one last week. And realized he's in a campaign.

:shrug:

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LittleClarkie

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:00 PM
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2. Yeah, that happens.

Kerry hasn't missed much this year, but last year during the campaign he missed a bunch of times.

I think it depends on how close the race is.

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karynnj

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:09 PM
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5. You wonder in these days of many types of secure communication

that there can't some way for Senators (or congressmen) to be able to vote remotely under certain specified circumstances.

Maybe:
- if they are hospitalized
- for people competing in election
- funerals etc.

It is not only the legislator, but the area he/she represents. Corzine likely knew the issues and he shouldn't have had to choose between campaigning in the last week before an election.

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blm

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:01 PM
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3. He's been campaigning for the last few months for Governor of NJ.

Guess you must have missed that with all the other news going on.

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Allenberg

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:06 PM
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4. I was going to say

we lost the cutting prices for Medicaid generic drugs by a single vote :(

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blm

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:14 PM
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6. Except that not all votes work like that. It would have lost anyway.

Vote totals are almost always known. If a senator has a scheduling conflict, it's determined first if a corresponding senator for the opposition will also not be voting, and if there is no opposition senator who will be absent, the senator (Corzine) would show up to vote.

And, also, even ties are still GOP wins as Cheney is the tie-breaking vote.

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Orangepeel

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:24 PM
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7. also, the Senate games the votes

republican senators up for re-election soon might be allowed to vote in a way that will look good for them, as long as the vote is going to go the way republicans want. If Corzine was there to vote, they doubtlessly would have called somebody back and made them vote against.

One can question the ethics of a Senator like Corzine not voting because his vote wouldn't have made a difference, but we can be sure it wouldn't have made a difference

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Allenberg

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:29 PM
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8. I'm not questioning his ethics

it just would have been nice to get the 50-50 split to make it look that much worse for the Republicans. It went 50-49 against.

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blm

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Thu Nov-03-05 10:58 PM
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9. That's wherethe gaming comes in. see, a GOP senator thinking he needed to

vote for a bill because he's in a blue state for instance, would tell his leader he has to vote with the Dems for re-election reasons. well, if they have the vote, they let him do it. If they don't they force him to stick with them.

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