If Mr Corzine wins in November, one of his main tasks (other than cleaning up state politics) will be to do something about New Jersey's locally levied property taxes, the highest in America, and another big campaign issue.

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Do you think that this is something that should just be still left up to AFRICOM versus a larger contingent?

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"If they fail to do that and something else comes up, the rings won't be tarnished, they'll be broken, " he said.

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