New Jersey Scraps New Slogan After Finding It Used Elsewhere (DOH!)

New Jersey Scraps New Slogan After Finding It Used Elsewhere

POSTED: 10:54 pm EDT May 6, 2006

TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey: We're Not So Good With Slogans.

The state has jettisoned "Come See For Yourself," its second attempt at a tagline in less than a year. It was the product of a statewide contest set up by then-acting Gov. Richard J. Codey last fall, after he rejected a consultant's offering: "We'll Win You Over."

State tourism officials said legal issues led them to scrap the latest slogan, explaining that West Virginia and other states previously used "Come See For Yourself."

"We are proceeding without the slogan. We will revisit the next steps at the end of the year," Karen Wolfe, a spokeswoman for the state Commerce, Economic Growth and Tourism Commission, told The Press of Atlantic City for Saturday editions.

Codey, now state Senate president, dismissed "We'll Win You Over" because he said it reminded him too much of when he was single and asked girls out on a date.

"Come See For Yourself" was the top choice among more than 11,000 telephone and online votes cast by residents for five finalist entries in the contest. Codey unveiled the slogan with great fanfare in January, saying the Garden State's catch phrase "should hint at our true beauty."

http://www.local6.com/news/9172130/detail.html

Here's a slogan for em: "We ain't new york but we play it on tv"

how about "new jersey: all turns from right lane"?

"new jersey: free to enter, pay to leave"?

I still say we ought to use the standard NJ good morning greeting:

"New Jersey: Go F*** Yourself". ;-)

New Jersey: Baby, this place rips the bones from your back.

Comedian Robert Wuhl had a bit about a governor or someone from New Jersey wanting to make Born to Run the state's anthem, and he went through the song piece by piece pointing out that ripping bones from one's back wouldn't look good on a flag, suicide is not normally found in anthems, etc.

TlalocW

I hadn't heard about that. Guess that's what one might call "concrete and vivid" language, LOL.

How about: Property Taxes Higher than Most Peoples' Salaries!

Actually, I like the place or I wouldn't have lived here 25+ years.

Did you know a NJ town was voted the number one best place to live in America for 2005? Here's the link:

http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/




Cher

We turn LEFT from the right lane.

:rofl:

New Jersey: Not As Corrupt As Louisiana.

hardly encouraging.

No offense to any New Jersey natives on the boards- I'm sure it's a lovely place.

The NJ Turnpike corridor gets a bad rap and along much of its northern length, it pretty well deserves it. Get west of the Turnpike, or south of Exit 8, and the picture changes remarkably. The Jersey Shore is famous, but as I'm not a beach person, and grew up in The Bronx, I can't speak to its attractions. I'll leave that to someone who's grown up in the state to champion.

Even those like me who grew up in NYC run down New Jersey (or as we call it disparagingly, "Jersey"). Move here, though, and it can be an eye-opener. I've lived in Northwestern New Jersey for fifteen years and I'm still discovering the state.

Keep listening, you'll hear the good stuff. :)

Watchung Mountains

need I go on?

couldn't believe how New Englandish lots of it is

George Washington Bridge, precisely because it had that New England feel to it. :)

On the Delaware, lots of huge Victorian Homes, trees...

Google "Victorian Days" for more.

I'll be touring not too far from there tomorrow...I'm heading to The Ship Inn in Milford. :)

Is it possible that NJ residents voted for it because they'd seen or heard it before and it smacked of familiarity?

Why did it have to be original? What are these "legal issues"? Can states Trademark phrases in the English language now?

Would anyone have noticed or cared that other states used it if NJ hadn't scrapped it and made the rejection a minor news story? Would some other state's tourism board have sued ours?

I don't get it.

What's that SMELL? New Jersey!

I dunno if I made that up or not....I think I read it here awhile ago

:)