Hey teacher, do you mind if I ask who you plan to vote for in the NJ governor's election? I'm not quite sure how you feel about it.

Michael Madonna was quietly fired by Governor Corzine last week. However, not before he filed for another state pension in recognition of his services to the State of New Jersey. He already receives $87,000 for his work as a police officer. Corzine gave this bum the job, and also lent $400k to his girlfriend, at the time of dumping his wife.

I read the report. It reads like a movie script!

Call for N.J. to pick tough corruption buster

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
By CHARLES HACK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

New York City's former top cop, who now runs the Bayonne's longshoremen's union local, said yesterday's report that exposes the agency created to stamp out waterfront corruption as riddled with misconduct makes him hopeful New Jersey will appoint strong leadership to the agency.

In a blistering report released yesterday, the New York Inspector General said the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, formed to combat corruption within the New York and New Jersey ports, has become riddled with abuse - misusing federal Homeland Security funding, hiring unqualified cops and allowing convicted felons to get jobs.

Robert J. McGuire, the administrator of the International Longshoremen's Association Local 1588, who served as New York City police commissioner from 1978 to 1983, said that to achieve "solid reform," Corzine will have to appoint a seasoned law enforcement officer with solid experience of fighting organized crime and corruption to co-lead the commission.

Yesterday's report concludes that former New Jersey Commissioner Michael Madonna, along with former New York Commissioner Michael Axelrod and former Commission executive director Thomas De Maria, failed to "adequately or responsibly oversee" operations. Each state appoints one commissioner, who earns $43,500 per year to serve the commission.

Axelrod and DeMaria left the agency in 2008. Just last week, Gov. Jon Corzine, who was briefed on the report three weeks ago, quietly fired Madonna, who was also a former State PBA president.

"This is critical time for reform of the Waterfront Commission," McGuire said. "We have made major inroads to remove organized crime from the docks of the New York Metropolitan Area and it is imperative that we have a New Jersey commissioner to ensure that the New York commissioner has the requisite backup."

The Star Ledger contributed to this story.