Paul Jacob at Townhall asks, "Is retiring NJ Governor McGreevy telling us the whole truth?" Jacob notes that McGreevy's governorship has been plagued with allegations of corruption and fraud, and he gives multiple examples.

Whether these allegations are true or not, I can't say, and I wouldn't want to leap to judgment. I found this passage much more interesting :

McGreevey's rope-a-dope resignation allows Senate President Richard Codey, a fellow Democrat and a 30-year legislator, to lead the state without any democratic check or balance from the voters. Resigning immediately upon his announcement would have been the normal, decent thing to do. But it would also trigger a special election this November. A special election would see more voters than usual, and thus be harder for the Garden State's political powers to control.

When McGreevy said, in his speech, that he would continue on as Governor until November 15th in order to ensure a "smooth transition," I thought that his enabling a transition period was the right thing to do, though it strike me that Nov 15 was an odd day to choose. I thought to myself, jokingly, "Hmmm, I wonder if his paychecks are issued on the 1st and the 15th, and if he's just trying to simplify things for payroll."

Turns out that McGreevy isn't as concerned with a "transition period" as much as he is in simply trying to "hand over" power to whomever he choses, effectively silencing the will of the people of New Jersey. To use a democrat term, he isworking to "disenfranchise" millions of people of their right to vote, of their right to choose who governs them. Where is the media outcry? Where is the NAACP? Where is the ACLU on this one? My god, if a tractor-trailer were to drive too slowly in front a democrat "trying to get to the polls" on election day, these groups would be screaming from the hilltops that the Republicans were behind a sinister plot to deprive people of their right to vote.

Whether the specific allegations of corruption are true or not, unfortunately, McGreevy is probably going to come out of this whole thing relatively unscathed.