NJ voters are so over Chris Christie
ram said:
Statists would definitely take a dump in your bathtub, then use regulatory barriers to make it difficult for you to get it cleaned up then fine you for not cleaning it up.
And there you have it. Democracy in action. The only way not to have statists in power is to use the power of the state to force people into fending for themselves, then having the state maintaining it to keep them all from helping each other or taking advantage of each other.
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/21/chris_christie_refuses_to_release_800000_in_state_credit_card_bills/
Related: NYT - Chris Christie's Battle Against Transparency
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/opinion/chris-christies-battle-against-transparency.html?_r=0
DottyParker said:
Salon: Christie Refuses to Release $800,000 in state credit card bills
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/21/chris_christie_refuses_to_release_800000_in_state_credit_card_bills/
Related: NYT - Chris Christie's Battle Against Transparency
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/opinion/chris-christies-battle-against-transparency.html?_r=0
Thats a lot of hot dogs.
Even at Met Life Stadium prices this is a lot of hot dogs and beer:
"On 58 occasions, Christie used a debit card to pay a total of $82,594 to Delaware North Sportservice, which operates the concessions at MetLife. The governor's office did not provide any receipts, business reasons or names of individuals entertained, but defended the expense."
http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2015/05/chris_christie_spent_82k_on_food_at_giants_jets_ga.html#incart_river
There can be no question. The man has a sense of entitlement that knows no limits.
We have not had an ethical governor since the days of Florio, Byrne and Kean.
We are a laughingstock.
was he at every Giants and Jets game? 58 occasions - dude was never in Trenton.
One of the late night guys said: "in Christies defense two of the games DID go into overtime."
Chris Christie humiliates himself on Fox News: Why his “they want me to stay” howler is a load of BS
"In what should have been the interview’s most contentious moment, [Megyn] Kelly noted that polls in New Jersey indicate “by a 65-29 percent margin, [Christie] would not make a good president. They know you the best, why shouldn’t we trust them?
They want me to stay,” Christie replied. “A lot of the people in the 65 percent want me to stay. I’ve heard that at a lot of town hall meetings — ‘I want you to stay."
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/19/chris_christie_humiliates_himself_on_fox_news_why_his_they_want_me_to_stay_howler_is_a_load_of_bs/
One word to describes this interview; DELUSIONAL!
author said:
Could we like borrow a Governor from another State?
For all practical purposes he has been a governor from another state.
Every thing he does is done with the aim of pleasing primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.
But now everybody owes him a big apology over grilling him over Bridgegate! He is beyond delusional!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/21/dear-chris-christie-sorry-i-did-my-job.html
"Could we like borrow a Governor from another State?"
I heard Sarah Palin was looking around New Jersey recently. ;-)
I put together a shortlist of local temping agencies for her. It might be a better fit sincere it appears she can't hold down a job.
Christie's big lie on Bridgegate | Editorial
Star-Ledger Editorial Board By Star-Ledger Editorial Board on May 21, 2015 at 7:43 PM
Our apologies for being repetitive, but the governor told another big lie this week, this time on national TV.
Mark this as installment #562 in a continuing series.
The topic was Bridgegate, and the channel was Fox News. Here's what he said:
"The U.S. Attorney said in his press conference a few weeks ago there will be no further charges in the bridge matter. He said that affirmatively three or four times."
So move along, folks. Bridgegate is history.
The truth is about a mile away from that. Here's what U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman actually said:
"Based on the evidence that is currently available to us, we're not going to charge anyone else in this scheme."
But what if more evidence emerges? Fishman made clear that is possible.
The two Christie loyalists who were indicted, Bill Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly, each face a theoretical maximum of 86 years in jail. That gives them incentive to provide new evidence in return for leniency.
"It's not uncommon for people after they are indicted to plead guilty," Fishman said.
For those who still didn't get it, he added this: "It's like the end of Downton Abbey. You've got to wait for a whole 'nother season."
Was this just an innocent mistake on the governor's part? No way.
Christie used to have Fishman's job, so he understands how these cases work. This is not a nuance that would escape him.
No doubt, this lie will impress some base voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. Fox News did not push back on the claim, so how would they know?
But if there's any consolation, it's the fact that New Jersey no longer believes the guy. In a recent poll, 69 percent said he's not telling the truth about Bridgegate.
Our question: What is the other 31 percent thinking?
From the Newspaper that endorsed him for re-election. I guess they are trying to make amends.
Nice. This reminds me of a joke from the Soviet Union. It would seem that Christie is like Brezhnev.
Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev are all travelling together in a railway carriage. Unexpectedly, the train stops. Lenin suggests: "Perhaps we should announce a subbotnik, so that workers and peasants will fix the problem." Stalin puts his head out of the window and shouts, "If the train does not start moving, the driver will be shot!" (An allusion to the Great Purge.) But the train doesn't start moving. Khrushchev then shouts, "Let's take the rails from behind the train and use them to lay the tracks in front". (An allusion to Khrushchev's various reorganizations.) But still the train doesn't move. Then Brezhnev says, "Comrades, Comrades, let's draw the curtains, turn on the gramophone and pretend we're moving!" (An allusion to the Brezhnev stagnation period.) A later continuation to this has Gorbachev saying, "We were going the wrong way!" and changing the train's direction, and Yeltsin driving the train off the rails and through a field.