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So the Attorney General of New Jersey had to resign for trying to get her boyfriend out of a traffic ticket.

Attorney General Zulima V. Farber, in a tense and combative statement, resigned this evening after a state investigation found that she had violated her own department'Õs code of ethics by going to the aid of her live-in companion during a traffic stop.

On the morning of May 26, she was in a state car driven by a trooper when she received a call from Mr. Goore, who had been stopped at a seatbelt enforcement checkpoint. The Fairview police determined that he had a suspended license and an expired registration.

Ms. Farber said she had her driver take her to Fairview, but that she did not intercede in any way, did not speak to any police officers and did not see any tickets. She acknowledged, however, that Mr. Goore had told the police that his companion was coming to help remove some items from his van --Ñ and that his companion was the attorney general.

The governor's office ordered the investigation on July 5, about a week after the first news reports about the traffic incident.

Those reports prompted some Republicans to demand Ms. Farber's immediate resignation, and even some Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had approved her nomination seven months ago, called for her to reappear before the panel to explain herself.

So, to summarize:

If you're a Republican, you can loot the treasury, violate the Constitution, skip out on your military service, ignore warnings of impending terrorist attacks, impede investigations, suppress votes, rig elections, write scurrilous court decisions to give your party the presidency, and -- oh yeah -- start a war under false pretenses.

But if you're a Democrat and get a blow job or try to get your boyfriend out of a traffic ticket, you're in big trouble.

Got it?

We await the shame-faced resignation of every powerful white man that ever got someone off on a traffic ticket.

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