GaryBaumgarten

GaryBaumgarten
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Award winning journalist Gary Baumgarten hosts the News Talk Online show on Paltalk.com. He asks critical questions, and invites people from all around the world to talk directly to his newsmaker guests using Paltalk's voice over IP technology. Gary came to Paltalk as director of news and programming from CNN where he was the radio bureau chief and correspondent in New York for a decade, where he covered, among other things, the 9/11 attacks in New York and Hurricane Katrina. He was previously reporter and assistant news director at CBS all news radio station WWJ in Detroit. Prior to that he was managing editor at Detroit Radio News Service and a reporter for the Jackson (MI) Citizen-Patriot, the Detroit News and a number of weekly newspapers. Paltalk is the largest multimedia interactive program on the Internet with more than 4 million unique users. News Talk Online is also syndicated by CRN Digital Talk Radio to cable systems serving an additional 12 million households.

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JULY 14, 2009 10:04AM

What?!? Gov Picking Reality TV Show Winner As Running Mate

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Lieutenant governor candidate?

While I work in New York City, truth is I live in New Jersey, something I don't normally mention because, well, the politics of the Garden State are, frankly, embarrassing. Wheeling and dealing. Public corruption. Resigning governors. It's a mess.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse comes a story in the Asbury Park Press which declares that Governor Jon Corzine is about to pick the winner of The Apprentice reality TV show as his running mate.

That's right - the lieutenant governor candidate on the Democratic ticket likely will be Randal Pinkett. Who by the way, is a successful entrepreneur and a Rhodes scholar to boot.

The paper says the governor is trying to keep this announcement under wraps until Thursday when President Obama visits New Jersey.

Corzine, a former Wall Street banker, is lagging in the polls and may be pulling this publicity stunt to breath fire into his struggling campaign. But here's a suggestion.

The Apprentice is the brain child of Donald Trump who is also known for putting on beauty pageants. Maybe Corzine should choose the winner of one of those contests if he really wants to attract attention to his campaign!

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the apprentice, randal pinkett, new jersey, jon corzine

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Well, a successful entrepreneur and a Rhodes scholar might not be a totally bad choice... (Of course, those qualifications don't necessarily preclude being an idiot or a psychopath...)
Myriad
July 14, 2009 10:20 AM
oh god, I'd heard the same thing. Yeah, Rhodes Scholar and all but let's not pretend this isn't about PR and more PR.

Chris Daggett is running as an Independent. Maybe we can show him some love?
Nikki Stern
July 14, 2009 12:22 PM
Yeah, it's not like other celebrities have ever been in office. Like that Republican actor who starred with a chimp, what was his name again? Or that Republican Senator who was on the Love Boat, or the one who was on Law and Order, or the one who was married to Cher. It may be just a stunt but at least this guy is educated.
ocularnervosa
July 14, 2009 03:20 PM
Randall Pinkett was an impressive young man. I loved it when Trump got into a snit and tried to "dilute" the award by insisting that Randall share it with a truly fourth rate second place contestant. Randall said "It's the apprentice, not the aprentii!"

Corzine could do worse.
zumalicious
July 14, 2009 09:56 PM
And I thought Pinkett would have been even more impressive had he shared the honor. He still would have truly stood out. As it is, the first thing I remembered about him was that he hadn't done so.

Isn't second-place Rebecca now a really bad CNN anchor?

I don't know a whole lot about Corzine. He seems like he has decent ideas, but lacks any charisma to convey them. Is that part of his problem?
suzlipman
July 15, 2009 11:32 AM