Kean's Rutgers speech ignores gridlock in Trenton

Spring has sprung in Hackensack.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Former Gov. Thomas Kean looks awfully pleased with himself in the photo on Page 1 of The Record today.

And Staff Writer Mike Kelly heaps praise on Kean's message to Rutgers University graduates: 

"We need to restore the fabric of our society. Our country is becoming ... more and more divisive" (A-6).

But Kean was referring to Washington, not Trenton, where a fellow conservative Republican, mean-spirited Governor Christie, rules with a veto pen.

What compromise?

The GOP bully also remains locked in battles with Democrats over education funding, appointees to the state Supreme Court, a tax surcharge on millionaires and other issues.

State finances are a disaster under Christie, as is job creation, mass transit and pride in our Garden State -- even as he courts wealthy donors for a possible
White House run (A-1 and A-3).

Did Kean ignore Trenton's dysfunction lest critics jump all over the deficits he ran up when he was governor from 1982 to 1990?

Kelly and pal Kean

Kelly wrote numerous columns lionizing Kean when the former governor was co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission.

In view of that pronounced bias, why did Editor Marty Gottlieb think Kelly was the best reporter to cover Kean's speech? 

In Kelly's thumbnail photo on A-1, his shit-eating grin tells you as much: The reporter seems to be saying, I got away with another Kean love fest.

Guns in Paterson

Oneil "Fuzzy" Linton, 23, survived the island of Jamaica's notorious gun violence, only to die in Paterson, where he was beaten and shot early Sunday morning (L-1).

The story sends the message that if you live in Paterson or visit Silk City, you can't rely on the police to protect you.

Noisy pigs

On L-5,  A photo of the Renegade Pigs, a club that rides noisy Harleys, appears under this over line:

 "RENEGADE PIGS HAVE A HEART

It should read:

"AT LEAST SOME OF US HAVE EARPLUGS"