By Matt Rooney | September 14, 2008

Disgraced union leader Carla Katz wins the Save Jersey award for "Most Shameless Politician of the Week."

Carla Katz, unknown to the public for most of her career, fell into the limelight amid ethics questions related to her romantic relationship with Governor Jon Corzine. No one seems to know the details of the relationship other than the fact that, as Enlighten-NJ reported back in August, New Jersey's First Girlfriend made out like a bandit:

The New York Times is reporting Senator Jon Corzine late in 2002 provided a $470,000 mortgage to Carla Katz through JSC Investments, a company owned solely by Corzine. The Senator then forgave the loan in December, 2004; one week after Corzine formally began his candidacy for Governor of New Jersey.

Katz is the President of the Communications Workers of America Local 1034, a union that represents nearly half of all New Jersey state employees. Corzine said the timing of the mortgage cancellation was coincidental.

Check out the Enlighten-NJ post linked above for more articles and info regarding Carla's financial windfalls compliments of Jon S. Corzine. Carla's goodies are reported to include an apartment, a house, and quite possibly, a multi-million dollar state contract settlement.

So why does this make Carla uniquely hypocritical? After all, every politician in New Jersey steals, right?

Carla Katz, whose entire life seems to be subsidized by Jon Corzine and the New Jersey pay-to-play network, has the nerve to accuse Sarah Palin of hurting women's progress:

The McCain team has worked tirelessly to project its vice presidential choice, Sarah Palin, as a "reformer" and a tough, whistle- blowing politician who took on the "old boys" in Alaska and won. But the reality is that Palin is herself completely entrenched in the "old boys network" it claims she fought.

Worse, Palin's policies, which are far to the right of the majority in this country, would not help women but would roll feminism backward and the "old boys" for ward.