Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I’m stunned and happy to admit that I was wrong. An e-mail from my friend Ted Endres:

N.J. governor pays seat belt ticket

Gov. Jon S. Corzine has voluntarily paid a $46 fine for violating state law by not wearing a seat belt during the trip in which a car crash left him critically injured, his spokesman said Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_re_us/corzine_crash

From the Yahoo article:

Corzine met with State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes, Attorney General Stuart Rabner and two state police investigators Tuesday at the governor’s mansion in Princeton to discuss the accident, spokesman Anthony Coley said.

As the meeting ended, Corzine asked Fuentes for a ticket, Coley said. Fuentes wrote one, and Corzine wrote a check for $46, Coley said.

Governor Corzine has paid the fine and will cover his own medical costs related to the accident. The only thing I would have liked to have happened differently is for the Superintendent to actively give Corzine the ticket rather than have him ask for it.

I’m happy the Governor has voluntarily held himself accountable. I’m not happy that he saw himself as above the law to begin with, or that the law even exists.