The Republican Governor’s Association has a new ad in this year’s New Jersey gubernatorial race, where Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine currently trails Republican former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie in all the polls. The ad has a piece of rhetoric we haven’t usually heard from the GOP — attacking Corzine for being from Wall Street:
“Wall Street banker Jon Corzine told us he’d bring jobs to New Jersey,” the announcer says. “Hello! Unemployment’s up 73%, and our business climate ranks among the worst in the nation.”
Corzine was chairman of Goldman Sachs from 1994 through 1998, and then went into politics after he was forced out of the company’s leadership. Obviously, Wall Street’s reputation these days is nowhere near what it was back then.
This continues an interesting pattern we saw earlier this year in the NY-20 special election — with the Republicans taking the unconventional, populist approach of attacking the Democrat as an out-of-touch fat cat.
