Corzine Your Way
May 20, 2008
This Thursday at 8 p.m. NJ My Way teams up with Emmy Award-winning anchor Steve Adubato for a new edition of Corzine on the Line, a one-hour interactive program that lets the citizens of New Jersey directly question the governor about the most pressing problems facing the state.
NJ My Way subscribers, and visitors to our website, can submit email questions by clicking here. The program’s producers will pick the “toughest, most relevant” questions to ask the governor live on the air, Steve said.
In northern New Jersey the program airs on WNET, channel 13, and on WBGO Jazz 88.3 radio. In South Jersey, it’s WHYY, channel 12, and sister radio station 91 FM. You can also listen online at www.nj.com.
With the state budget crunch, there is no shortage of issues to ask the governor. “People don’t talk about the debt, but about the impact of decisions made because of the 36 billion dollar hole,” Steve told us.
“They are concerned that property taxes are going up because state aid to the cities is flat. They are going to want to know which state parks are going to open and which are going to close. They are going to have questions about college tuition because state aid to higher education was slashed. They are going to ask about hospitals in urban areas closing because state aid for charity care is being cut by hundreds of millions of dollars.”
The program will feature about a dozen emails and another dozen phone calls. During the last edition of Corzine on the Line, producers received some 700 emails. But readers of NJ My Way can expect a response even if their question is not read on air — after the previous show, the governor’s staff replied to everybody who wrote in.
It is very exciting in this in age of Internet-dominated politics to be able to use the technology as a tool to make democracy work a little better,” said Steve. “The NJ My Way partnership is a very good thing because there’s a whole new group of people engaged with the site who might not know we have the governor and can now participate.”
Submit your question. Let our top elected official know what you think, whether he likes it or not.
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