A day after going into “beat up on Peter Harvey” mode, two columnists in the Sunday papers get in their whacks at the feckless New Jersey Attorney General.

Trenton bureau chief for the Gannett papers, Bob Ingle, has been fed up with Harvey for awhile, since he got caught getting comps from the Atlantic City casinos that Harvey is technically supposed to be watching as top legal officer in the state. Ingle makes the same comparison I did, that Harvey was announcing his investigation into Blockbuster Video almost at the same time the big Monmouth county contractor bid sting was going down. Ingle notes that Harvey is also part of the state oversight into the Schools Construction Corporation. That’s the body that was given almost $9 billion in money to build schools all over the state and has so far mismanaged that sum of money as only the government can. With a few years to go in the program, the SCC needs another $6 billion to finish.

The Star-Ledger weighs in with an article, “The crime-fighters and a simmering rivalry“, also making the comparison between Harvey and US Attorney Chris Christie. “In a few hours last week, U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie placed more elected officials in handcuffs than New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey has in three years”. The writer tries to defend Harvey, but the democrats quoted in the article are critical of the failed attorney general.

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