N.J. Senator Tarred, Feathered

Stephen Sweeney, a New Jersey state senator from Gloucester County, thought he had a good plan to reduce the size of state government. And now, ha ha, everybody hates him for it.

National union leaders called the state senator to a meeting in Washington, D.C., where they told him that, as a union official himself, ” “it was disgraceful to talk this way,’ ” Sweeney recalled.

And Gov. Jon Corzine “basically was adamantly opposed to anything we talked about there,” he said. “I had thousands of people (at a rally) calling for my head; they had rats with my picture on it. It was really ridiculous.”

While his plan offended everyone, now people are reconsidering it because the state is hemorrhaging money. Everything works out in the end!

Sweeney makes unpopular proposal [Camden Courier-Post]