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...Across the Hudson, Democrat Jim McGreevey holds a double-digit lead over Republican Bret Schundler in the race for New Jersey governor. Schundler, a former mayor of Jersey City, is leaning heavily on claims that his opponent will raise taxes. McGreevey, the current mayor of Woodbridge, hopes to appeal to left-leaning and centrist voters by portraying Schundler as an anti-choice, pro-gun conservative...
...dwelt on his loss. Instead, they say, he has focused on traveling, teaching, giving little-noticed speeches and writing a book with Tipper about strengthening families. He has stoked up his political action committee, and he's stumping on behalf of Democrats like New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jim McGreevey. But what does he think about last year? Few can say. An associate recalls asking Gore what he thought the mistakes of the 2000 election had been. "He gave me a look that said, 'Well, I won, didn't I?,'" the associate says. That we-wuz-robbed zeal may keep party...
Whitman's Democratic opponent is James McGreevey, a state senator and mayor of Woodbridge (pop. 93,000), the state's fifth largest city. McGreevey has made up for a lack of statewide name recognition with an energetic campaign focused on the weakest parts of Whitman's record: property taxes and auto insurance. New Jersey's electorate has a habit of choosing its politicians on pocketbook issues. "It's an expensive state to live in, and people are concerned about money being taken out of their wallets for any reason," explains pollster Mark Mellman. New Jersey leads the nation in average...
...McGreevey contends that Whitman had four years to find a way to brake the runaway insurance premiums, without results. Whitman responds that she has a good plan now, which would lower rates for drivers who agree in most cases not to sue for pain-and-suffering damages. She condemns McGreevey's proposal, in which he would simply order insurance companies to roll back rates, as unconstitutional. On the property-tax battlefront, McGreevey charges that Whitman's much celebrated cuts in state taxes have forced property taxes up by shifting the revenue-raising burden to school districts and other local authorities...
...people." But she convinced voters she felt their pain over Governor Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase. It was her vow to undo the damage with a 30% income-tax cut that gave her a winning margin of 26,093 votes. This time, though, it is the feisty McGreevey who seems to be connecting with New Jersey's dollars-and-cents voters. The closeness of the race has already hurt Whitman's national reputation. To save her governorship, she will need to show voters she understands that their lives, even in these prosperous times, are not a walk...