http://www.nj.com/columns/expresstimes/political/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/10611974654360.xmlState has its own potential actor/politician
Monday, August 18, 2003
By KATHERINE BLOK
The Express-Times
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New Jersey has Bruce Willis, the action movie star and part-time rock 'n' roller. Willis is a Republican and, with Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, a partner in the Planet Hollywood theme restaurant chain.
Jeremy Jedynak, chairman of the New Jersey Young Republican Federation, launched draftbrucewillis.com on Tuesday. The Web site says, "Republicans have lost the last two statewide elections in New Jersey. If California is an example of what is possible, Bruce might be our guy to change that."
Though Willis does not live in New Jersey, he grew up in Salem County and attended Montclair State University.
According to internal polls on Jedynak's Web site, about two-thirds of visitors to the site support the recall of Gov. James E. McGreevey. Willis would win an election against McGreevey with 72.7 percent of the vote, if it was up to Web site visitors.
But to hold a recall election in New Jersey, McGreevey opponents would need to collect 1.16 million signatures on a petition. State law requires 25 percent of the people who voted in November 2002 to sign on. California recallers collected 1.3 million signatures, but needed only 897,158, or 12 percent of the number of votes cast for governor in 2002, to force the election scheduled for Oct. 7.
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Comment: Recall is a little tougher in NJ. On shortwave, the Canadian show Media Zone explained CA's predicament better than you'd here it discussed in CA! (Including the Jarvis Prop. 13, destruction of public education, and the whole "iniatiative" which caters to special interests and the wealthy with an axe to grind, NOT the average voter--which has left the state with single issues like "3 strikes" meaning bucks wasted on expensive prisons for 3 time pot smokers at the expense of the higher education system! But I digress....) And, they speculated on other states (like NJ) in the same mess and how undemocratic this recall crap is, esp. in CA....