TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - December 28, 2006 -- New Jersey is getting a new governor - but only for today.
Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri will take over the post because Governor Corzine will be out of town. So will the Senate president, Assembly speaker and attorney general, all of whom are ahead of Kolluri in the line of succession.
Under state law, an acting governor has to be appointed whenever the governor is absent from the state.
New Jersey will get a lieutenant governor, but not until 2010.
Kolluri emigrated to New Jersey from India with his family in 1985 and will be the state's first Indian governor.
Kolluri joked that he won't have enough time to solve the state's property tax dilemma today, but will find time to bring his family and a few friends to the governor's mansion to snap some pictures.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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