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Four years ago, the brutish members of the Laborers International Union endorsed then-Gov. Jon Corzine, who was being challenged by Chris Christie.
Corzine lost, and now the 20,000 members of the union in New Jersey are throwing their support behind Christie's bid for a second term, according to a Page 1 story in The Record today.
Let's hope the union's endorsement is the kiss of death for the GOP bully, who hasn't been able to lower the state's 9.9 percent unemployment rate, the highest since 1977.
You wouldn't know that from the sub-headline:
Job creation earned
backing, leader says
But the story reports on the jobs created to clean-up and rebuild from Superstorm Sandy, to finish the entertainment-retail complex known as American Dream Meadowlands and other current work.
An obese Christie looks like Papa Bear in today's A-1 photo with union members or a pig splashing happily in mud.
Accidents 'R' Us
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes and her deputy, Dan Sforza, needed a large photo of a non-fatal accident to fill the Local news section today (L-1).
An SUV driver was Googling where to buy The Record in Hackensack on Tuesday, when he missed Exit 66, rolled over an embankment and landed right-side up.
The photo caption doesn't say in which direction the driver was going nor that he wouldn't have found any Hackensack news in the paper today or on Tuesday.
One-track mind
Also on the Local front, Road Warrior John Cichowski continues to ignore the vast majority of commuters, who drive or take mass transit to work, choosing again to focus instead on a small number of bicycle riders.
He writes about "people [who] drive on two wheels to work in Manhattan."
The PATH rail system hasn't been fully restored in the seven weeks since Sandy, but Cichowski is refusing to leave the office to interview any of those commuters.
Not all us laborers is that dumb. For one thing we are the work horses of the job site so if you think we is that dumb maybe no building would get built if we wasn't there.
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