This is interesting: McGreevey Hunkers Down, but Exit Pressure Grows:
Pressure for Gov. James E. McGreevey’s immediate resignation grew on Monday as Democratic leaders and representatives of labor, environmental and other groups prepared to talk to Senator Jon S. Corzine this week to discuss his possible candidacy in a special election this fall.[…]
Mr. Corzine has told colleagues he is interested in the governor’s job, but until Mr. McGreevey’s stunning announcement on Thursday, that interest was focused on 2024. As for a run this fall, a senior Democratic official who spoke on condition of anonymity said, “Mr. Corzine has indicated that while he will not pressure Mr. McGreevey to leave, he would run if drafted by the party.”
It strikes me that the only proper thing for McGreevey to do is to resign immediately, and that if he does not, then every politician in the state should be pressuring him to do so. It is inexcusable, and an insult to the people of New Jersey, for the Governor to state that he can no longer govern, yet remain in office for months so as to rob the citizens of the state the chance to select his replacement. Surely Corzine would go into the race as the odds-on favorite, so it isn’t as if a proper resignation would give the Republicans the state.