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NJ's Car Tune: "Who You Gonna Call?"

Car-stop trouble with the law,
Got your back against the wall?
Ain’t no order that’s too tall
For “Call and Haul” Farber

Yes, New Jersey citizens, we’ve got a doozey in our controversial State Attorney General, Zulima Farber: successful attorney, certified (and well-ticketed) speed racer, and apparent power lifter able to unload heavy vans on a moment’s notice.

Republicans are calling for the scalp of Jersey’s numero uno Legal Eagle because she was driven by a state-trooper to a police stop in Fairview where her live-in boyfriend, Hamlet Goore, was about to have his van impounded. Seems as though Goore was ticketed for driving an unregistered van with a suspended license.

Quite familiar with roadside police encounters (she’s reportedly had 12 speeding tickets, four bench warrants and three license suspensions of her own), Farber says now she merely went to the Memorial Day weekend scene in her state-owned SUV to help a loved one.

To help him unload his van.

Farber arrived and had some words with the mayor of Fairview who also was on the scene. (“We chit-chatted,” she said.) The local cops, who found themselves now keeping company with the state attorney general and her trooper and the mayor, suddenly had a change of heart. They said, er, never mind on that impounding of the van. The cops apparently allowed Goore (license suspended) to follow Farber back to their North Bergen home.

Farber says she realizes only now – let’s hope she is quicker than this in the courtroom – that her mere presence on the scene might have given the local cops a “misimpression.”

Farber: “My intention was merely to help Hamlet unload the things that were in his van.”

The Cuban-American Farber, whose legal career often has been nestled in the arms of state and county governments, almost didn’t get her appointment as Attorney General because of the weight of her own driving record. But such burdens seem to be no heavy lifting for Farber.

Despite her own troubles with state driving authorities, Farber was the co-chair of Corzine’s ethics advisory board during the governor-elect’s transition.

Oh, and she was a a contributor to a 2001 report from the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (she was a board member) entitled: "ROADBLOCK ON THE WAY TO WORK:DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSION IN NEW JERSEY." The report said that the 860,000 suspended New Jersey drivers in 2000 were deprived of the ability to work and more than half were suspended because they did not pay fines and fees. It is just so unfair, said the paper.

There have been no details reported recently about the length of the Farber-Goore relationship, but they seem to be a perfect match in one regard. News reports say Goore has had his driver’s license suspended 11 times.

How did they hook up, through the Motor Vehicle Commission computer dating service?

posted by Lou Antosh @ 9:55 AM