Who voted for this turkey?

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At least it's on the front page. An assessment of Governor Christie's campaign promises and what he's accomplished -- or hasn't accomplished -- is crowded down into a corner of Page 1 today in The Record of Woodland Park. The page is dominated by a cold murder case and the would-be Times Square bomber.

Don't bother reading the Christie story. You won't be getting a property tax break this year -- not even a rebate check. You'll probably be paying more, to make up for cuts in state school and municipal aid, and you'll definitely be paying more if you take mass transit. Hoping for a state pension? Christie won't be contributing any state money to it, either.


Christie loves drivers so much (more than even Road Warrior John Cichowski), he won't be raising the low gasoline tax to ease the burden on others, and he's giving the Borgs and other rich folks a pass, too.

"Christie fixes will take time"

The headline says it all. But you probably knew that. Did you vote for this turkey anyway?

As for the rest of the paper, it's back to the news business as usual. That means no Teaneck or Englewood stories in Local, and only a short follow-up on the charges against Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa. The county prosecutor is recusing himself, citing a conflict that involves a witness.

When the Zisa story broke last week, it covered almost the entire front page. When The Record and its parent, North Jersey Media Group, moved out of Hackensack last year, not a line appeared in the paper. This is what the Borgs call "responsible journalism."

Inside the Sunday news meeting

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What might have been said during the Sunday afternoon news meeting of editors at The Record in Woodland Park:

"OK. What have we got for A-1 tomorrow?"

"A teacher was murdered in her Dumont home, and a soldier from Ramsey died last week in Afghanistan."

"Is Governor Christie a suspect in the murder?"

"No. But her husband is."

"What else?"

"We have a nice feature on all the unemployed professionals who got census takers jobs."

"Don't mention that Victor got one of those jobs. What about the rest of Page 1?"

"We've been getting a lot of heat for not having minority or female columnists, so why not run Tara's column
out front on the guy who won the Masters. His wife has cancer."

"Plenty of wives have cancer. Plenty of husbands lost their insurance and their wives have cancer.
Plenty of wives have probably died of cancer during the recession. What's the connection here?"

"We don't have anything else."