Acting Attorney General Jeff Chiesa will be able to drop the “acting” modifier from his title very soon, Save Jerseyans. He received the overwhelming assent of the state senate’s Democrat-dominated judiciary committee earlier this morning. The vote was unanimous: 12-0. Here’s Mr. Chiesa’s professional bio, courtesy of the Senate GOP:
Chiesa served as Chief Counsel to the Governor from January 2010 to December 2011, when he was nominated to be Attorney General. He served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2009, last serving as the Executive Assistant to the U.S. Attorney. He also served as Counsel to the U.S. Attorney and as Chief of the Public Protection Unit, where he supervised a group of Assistant U.S. attorneys primarily responsible for the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases involving bank robbery, child pornography, human trafficking and identity theft.
What this biography doesn’t include is his legal alma mater: the Catholic University of America (CUA) located in Washington, D.C. New Christie COS Kevin O’Dowd is also a CUA grad and another well-known NJGOP’er, my good buddy Mike Donohue (Chairman of the Cape May GOP), also went to law school at CUA. Yours truly is an alum of CUA’S Arts and Sciences school, but I came home to Rutgers for my JD. Hopelessly loyal to New Jersey!
The general trend is what I find most interesting: Catholics are taking over American government, particularly on the right side of the aisle. Yes, many of these leaders of tomorrow are Hispanic like Marco Rubio. Many more are not. The U.S. Supreme Court is 5-4 Catholic (and on a lot of other things, too). Mitt Romney’s two most prominent challengers for the GOP presidential nomination, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, are both practicing Catholics (Note: Newt converted to Catholicism at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception next to CUA’s campus where his wife was a member of the choir).
And, of course, our very own Governor Chris Christie is a Catholic and a Seton Hall law graduate. A plurality of New Jerseyans share their Governor’s religion.
Plenty of academics – secular and religious – are already debating how (if at all) an increasingly Catholic political culture will affect American governance. We’ve been a Protestant majority country for our entire history; that’s about to change if current demographic patterns hold.
It’s something to think about.
(Note: Newt converted to Catholicism at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception next to CUA’s campus where his wife was a member of the choir).
Which wife? Door number 1, door number 2, or door number 3?
The current one, Callista. She's got a great set of pipes. Heard her participate in a live Christmas concert.
There are soooo many crude comebacks to this that I just can't take it!! LOL….
This fantasy then leads to an old fashioned brokered convention where Chris Christie or Mitch Daniels emerges from a brokered convention.
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