Iwant to compliment Managing Editor Mark Rosman on a good analysis of the election for New Jersey governor ("Corzine and Christie: A Couple of Characters"). His column was fair and balanced — a great breath of fresh air from Greg Bean's ultra-liberal and extremely biased opinions.

I understand an opinion column is not obligated to be objective, but without any other opposite column then isn't the paper as a whole lacking objectivity?

The cartoon Doonesbury is another example of this issue in many daily newspapers. It is never accompanied by any conservative cartoons to balance those newspapers out. I apologize for digressing, but Mr. Bean's writing is so left wing that I am bothered — yet I don't skip it.

Mr. Rosman makes some great points and asks legitimate questions of Corzine that voters should remember not just this November — but every election. The state school funding formula is outrageous. The urban districts have no accountability for the money they have been given - right out of the pockets of the rest of the state. The schools have failed anyway.

Why was there no oversight for the billions wasted by the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation? No one is held accountable. It is criminal.

The local officials who share the blame are often overruled by state mandates, for example, all-day kindergarten and pre-kindergarten initiatives that are forcing many districts to eliminate libraries for space. That is all Jon Corzine's fault. He is owned by the New Jersey Education Association.

Which brings me to Chris Daggett. I believe he is absolutely a better candidate. Daggett understands the stranglehold that the public employee unions have on the taxpayer. It is absurd that there are groups getting 4 percent to 6 percent raises when the economy is contracting. It is totally unsustainable.

I do not even want to start on the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing, but I will say the state Supreme Court needs to be reminded that they do not write the laws.

I read "The Soprano State" this summer. It was overwhelming to contemplate the corruption here. We need ethics reform before tax relief. I feel that the quality and integrity of our elected officials is so poor that progress will not come until we remake the way business is conducted in Trenton.

I

thank Mr. Rosman for

writing on these issues. I hope to read more of this from him and Greater Media Newspapers going forward.
Jeffrey T. King
Tinton Falls