Where is Christie?
Somebody should call him in Mexico and tell him our taxpayer's investment just failed in Atlantic city.
Is it real
MeisterNJ 
Summer 
Caged Animal Probably went straight there when he heard he had to personally appoint three members to the Oxford Town Committee within 30 days. LOL
Calico696 
5catmom The beach is nice,the town a dump.The millions of dollars tossed away over the past 20 years we could of knocked down all the crumbling houses and turn it into a real beach town,maybe 55 and over communities(no burden on schools,and a tax base)but all the money went to the casino's and never to the town itself.Look at it now..what a shame.
I don't see it as people with half-empty glasses. I see it as people with pockets half-empty and are rightfully making their disdain for taxpayer-funded financial disasters known.
Personally, I've never once seen my taxes go down due to a taxpayer investment in a private enterprise so the anger over the failure in AC is well warranted.
emaxxman 
Old Gent Let him stay there. As far as he is concerned, New Jersey only consists of the jersey shore.
botheredbyuu2 I don't know about everybody else,but this past year was the first time in years I had to pay the state 1K(this is with additional $ taken out of check)so he has done nothing to improve nj's financial problems.I think we have to get someone who cares about the state instead of a presidential run.
mistergoogle It's a shame about the casinos. I am not an AC fan but the closing of the casinos is such a huge revenue loss and job loss for our state. Hopefully there will be a plan to use the buildings in a constructive way, perhaps senior apartments. We don't need massive empty buildings just sitting around our state.
hack in town Where is Christie you ask?? I would check the following places first...........
A&W Restaurants
Applebee's
Arby's
Au Bon Pain
Back Yard Burgers
Baskin-Robbins
Benihana
Blimpies
Bob Evans Restaurants
Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits
Bonanza Steakhouse
Bonefish Grill
Boston Market
Buffalo Wild Wings
Burger King
Cafe Rio
California Pizza Kitchen
Captain D's Seafood Kitchen
Carl's Jr.
Carrabba's Italian Grill
Checkers
Cheesecake Factory
Chick-fil-A
Chili's
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chuck E. Cheese's
Church's Chicken
CiCi's Pizza
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
Culver's
Dairy Queen
Dave & Buster's
Del Taco
Denny's
Domino's Pizza
Dunkin' Donuts
Einstein Bros. Bagels
El Pollo Loco
Famous Dave's
Fatburger
Fazoli's Italian Foods
Firehouse Subs
Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries
Godfather's Pizza
Golden Corral
Green Burrito
Hardee's
Hometown Buffet
Hooters
Huddle House
Hungry Jack's
IHOP
In-N-Out Burger
Jack in the Box
Jamba Juice
Jason's Deli
Jimmy John's
Joe's Crab Shack
KFC
Krispy Kreme
Krystal
Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken
Legal Sea Foods
Lion's Choice
Little Caesars Pizza
LongHorn Steakhouse
Long John Silver's
McAlister's Deli
McDonald's
McCafé
Moe's Southwest Grill
Nando's
Noah's Bagels
Noodles & Company
O'Charley's
Oberweis Dairy
Old Country Buffet
Olive Garden
Oporto
P.F. Chang's China Bistro
Pancheros Mexican Grill
Panda Express
Panera Bread
Papa John's Pizza
Penn Station East Coast Subs
Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
Pizza Hut
Pizza Ranch
Pollo Tropical
Ponderosa Steakhouse
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
Potbelly Sandwich Works
Qdoba Mexican Grill
Quiznos
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Rally's
Red Burrito
Red Lobster
Red Robin
Red Rooster
Romano's Macaroni Grill
Round Table Pizza
Roy Rogers Restaurants
Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
Ruby Tuesdays
Ruth's Chris Steak House
Sbarro
Schlotzsky's Deli
Shake Shack
Smashburger
Smoothie King
Sonic Drive-In
Starbucks
Steak 'n Shake
Subway
T.G.I. Friday's
Taco Bell
Taco John's
Tim Hortons
Togo's Eatery
Waffle House
Wendy's
Whataburger
White Castle
Wienerschnitzel
Wingstop
Zaxby's
Zoup!
Great idea for the seniors ! They can all take turns walking the lovely neighborhoods hoping they don't get bopped on the head by the ghetto rats.
Senior apartments on beachfront property? Don't hold your breath or should I say inhaler?
I think they show dis allow the on line gambling because plople now find it so easy lo play and come a way broke
Taking a page from Obama, when Rome is burning, let's eat some cake: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/chris_christie_romney_slam_obama_at_governors_nj_birthday_bash.html
Meanwhile, elsewhere in NJ, Christie sets record for most rating cuts ever as NJ gets flushed down Christie's economic policies drain: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/christie-gets-record-eighth-rating-cut-on-pension-moves.html
Methinks he will run for President just to desert his sinking ship.......:>( Well at least he still has his friends to lend a hand.
When he comes back he is going to turn your pensions in hybrid plans and then cancel all retiree medical benefits to save a lot of coin...
iJay 
btownguy Naw, just woke now to a new day. Wouldn't it be ironic if a future Democratic Governor had to make such cuts as a last resort? Anyone with half a brain sees the spending problem growing exponentially. In private lives, such behavior leads to bankruptcy...
Apparently in public coffers, Christie's financial behavior leads to bankruptcy too. It's not just this recent move to re-engineer the pensions and health plans; economically Christie's policies have kept the state back in the turnaround race when compared to state's where government economic policies are not lame.
Fact is he could have seen this one coming for years but kept "blue skying" his budget year after year making revenue forecasts that only his staff (since he knows nothing) believed. Year after year.
Fact is his policies have not created new jobs, increased income or anything economically equal to the national average, surrounding states, much less with states with strong economic leaders.
Sure he didn't create the pension and health care problems, he just papered over them with pie-in-the-sky revenue forecasts. And he has not affected the NJ economy positively in any other manner as well. He has increase taxes for most using smoke and mirror property tax tricks, he has lowered taxes on the upper tier, and dares to claim to be holding the line on taxes. The only line he held was against business where we rate 50th in taxes (defined as highest.....) Our foreclosures were legendary amongst the states while our home prices plummeted faster than most states. Our poverty rate is at a 50-year high. Now, up against his own fiscal wall of a bad revenue forecast, getting caught for once again shorting the state's pension responsibilities as a one time stop gap measure to save the budget, suddenly when his revenue falls short for another year, he punts to his faithful "state workers suck" mantra for the fix. Each time he gets in a pinch, he rolls out a last-gasp fix, and then rolls ahead to the next blue sky budget.
So yes, we must enact pension reform but CLEARLY that does not fix the problem. It just makes his admirers say "Atta boy" until about June of 2015 when once again.......... It is NOT the FIX for what ails NJ economically. Christie does not have a clue what to do there.
Because that won't change that fact that economically, Christie's policies are a total failure.
From the Mercatus Center 1/2014 (and it hasn't gotten better)
Cash Solvency --- NJ is number 36
Budget Solvency --- 50!
Long Run Solvency ---- 50!
Service Level Solvency ---- 39 (ability to get local services)
State Fiscal Condition Index ---- 50
As of August, BusinessInsider places us 36 for economic growth citing unemployment change of 1.8% and income change of .8%.
Forbes puts us at 32 for Best States for Business and Careers with costs being the culprit while QOL is number 3 in the nation.
Basically, economically, NJ is NUMBER ONE in the bottom tier of the 50 states. Not quite in the bottom ten worst states, but just hovering above.
However, a bright note. For the New Economy, NJ is number 10 by Forbes so feel safe, computer, broadband networking and even telephone geeks.
Point is it's not just the pensions, it's not just this current budget disaster, it's Chris Christie ------ economically the guy is a dud, has been, and I am pretty sure he always will be.
mistergoogle, right on the money! (no pun intended)
Governor Blame-it-all-on-public-employees sole interest at this point is positioning himself for the 2016 presidential race, and anyone who believes otherwise is blind. He's selling NJ down the river with his "business tax incentives" that fail to create jobs and have helped lead to yet another downgrading of NJ's credit rating.
And now he thinks the solution to Atlantic City's economic disaster is...ready for this? More tax incentives!
He signs agreements to repay debts, and then welshes on them. How did he get through law school without passing Contract Law 101?
Our roads and bridges are crumbling, and he refuses to even consider the only intelligent way to replenish the Transportation Trust Fund by increasing the gasoline tax. After all, Presidential Candidate Christie wants to be able to run on the "I never increased taxes in NJ" platform.
I hope for the sake of his family that Mary Pat balances the checkbook and not him!!
JerryG Just hit the news, another $64 MILLION in tax cuts to two northern New Jersey business:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/nj-approves-64-million-to-2-north-jersey-co-s-1.1085993
I hate to say it JG, but we should be offering tax incentives to business. We need revenue (jobs) and rate-ables (buildings and houses) to slow our speed circling the drain. The problem is he is "deal making" onesy twosey like a carnival huckster to stop individual businesses from leaving. If I ran a company still, I would be lining up at his door asking WIFM gov? I'm leavin on a jet plane, what will you give me?
To gain jobs and rate-ables, we need tax incentive programs to attract new business (there's a foreign concept), like NY's (where these companies were sprinting off to), as well as retain what's left. Having the highest business taxes combined with complex regulation is just not going to do it.
To gain enough revenue to stem our stink-hole of a state budget, we need not only to have pension (including double dipping) and health care reform for public workers, we need to make our state tax system fair. Under Christie, the bottom 20% pay over 11% in taxes, the top 20% pay 7%. That is blatantly unfair even to flat tax advocates. Since 2009, only the top 1% have seen their taxes actually drop. Have you?
It will take both cuts and increases to bring this thing in line especially if we have to keep doling out tax breaks to businesses to keep them out of New York, PA, and Delaware. And we need marketable programs, not back room deals, to establish NJ as the best place to do business. We have the best business people, the best workers, now we just need a governor with a financial head on his shoulders versus a number-nuts with his head where the sun don't shine.
Good question - where is Christie? He's lost 85 pounds since having his lap band surgery -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766221/Potential-presidential-candidate-Chris-Christie-reveals-lost-85lb-gastric-band-surgery.html
fitter At the end of the day it is just to expensive for companies to relocate to NJ. There are many factors that companies need to look at that make it cost prohibitive,housing/cost of living, transportation, etc. Don't be fooled by New York States commercials about all these companies relocating there. A lot of companies are moving out of New York but their not advertising that.
kb2755 IF you mean Christie Brinkley, she is probably out looking for another rich husband.
Reggie Voter Christie Brinkley is worth about $100M; I'm guessing she's more interested in a buff 25-year old than some old guy with money at this point in her life, lol
ianimal perhaps but how many rich guys did she go thru to get there? starting with the race car guy...
Who is Cristy Brinkley and how is she getting all these rich guys to marry her ? Good for her ! Why marry some poor slob and have to eat hot dogs for dinner several nights a week.
Lol, she was a supermodel... I doubt she ever would have needed a man to support her. Do you think Gisele married Tom Brady for his money? She's worth a hell of a lot more than he is.
Im going to google Crissy so I can get a better grasp of the situation. Gisele ? Like a deer ?
Gisele - $320M net worth, earned $38M in career. Makes 128K per day, that's just under $48M per year if she works all the time.
Brady - $120M net worth, $26.5M salary
Not going to catch her, money-wise.......
Christie -- $4-5 M net worth, $175K per year, but wife makes close to $400K; jointly gives about $25K to charity ---- that's less than 5%. Pikers.
btw Gisele is ugly. There are women in our town and even on this forum that are prettier.
Where is he is right. He's disappearing right before our eyes. Says 85lbs not accurate but none of your business. And neither is the fact I am out of state again, this time only CT.
Wonder is he can write off all those new suits as a business expense.......
Wonder if his tailors are 24x7........
However he did it, and whatever it was, and no matter how many new suits you burn this year, you go Chris. U lookin better.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/chris_christie_throwing_his_weight_behind_tom_foley_must_once_again_address_it_too.html#cmpid=nsltr_strybutton
Did everyone see Chris at the Dallas game yesterday in the owner's box? He was the one dressed as the Great Pumpkin. The group hug after the win was really creepy and then he went skipping into the locker room I hope for the celebration.
Did we pay for him to fly there?
Is he taking a vacation day today?
Does this mean we have to entertain Dallas management at Giants games?
Need I say more.......
http://www.app.com/story/sports/nfl/2015/01/04/christie-cowboys-game/21270679/
Just google it to hear the nation's comments :>)
After seeing that clip. While eating my morning breakfast ---
Has anyone else realized our governor is functionally equivalent to Shoprite's Scrunchy Bear?? Ever see the two in the same place at the same time? Just saying.
GC Seriously? Grow up.... The governor of nj can't be a Dallas fan? And the weight comments? So childish. If someone said those comments to your child you would all be at the principals office screaming "bullying".
You must all be giants fans
I'm not in a position to criticize anyone for being heavy, but New Jersey has too many problems for him to be such an absentee governor, thinking he's going to be president.
He's got work to do here, and I don't think that Jersey gruffness that we enjoy here, plays very well in international diplomacy.
And, I know this drives BLD crazy, but I've gotta do it ... this is coming from a registered Republican who voted for Christie.
Andy Loigu 
pmnsk It makes football harder to watch when they keep an iso camera on Jerry Jones' booth. Or on Tom Coughlin or Rex Ryan's wacko brother.
How about keeping the camera on the field?
Amen, Reggie Voter.
Too many dang sideshows with football coverage on national TV.
An insult to the fans' intelligence.
A registered Republican? I'll take your word for it but am shocked based on past comments. I guess I shouldn't jump to conclusions but fair warning, not far off from asking for a voter id card to substantiate.
This is a problem for all politicians and it is because we have "career" politicians. None of them are where they are supposed to be, regardless of party affiliation. The President on down to Sate level are always campaigning for their next election as opposed to actually working.
Coming up to the past major election cycle, I am guessing the Pres. spent at least 9 months outside of DC doing nothing than pushing his stump. Same with the Pres before him also. Not a political party thing, but a gross negligence thing by all involved
Some comments, not mine:
"Was Chris Christie really humping Jerry Jones' leg?
Did anyone else see the part where Jerry rubbed Christie head and called him a good boy?"
"At a minimum it’s “awkward.” Gross is more like it."
"I feel sorry for Jerry Jones dry cleaner who has to clean Chris Christie's ecstasy off of his slacks tomorrow"
"What one man finds awkward, or in this case 99.999% of the men living on this planet, Chris Christie finds extremely erotic. Who am I to judge?"
But wait, there's more......... :>)
Good to have NJ in the news again.
He can be a Cowboys fan, no problem. But when they played the Giants and he was in the Cowboy box, thats disrespectful to the people of NJ. JMO! :)
WHY?!?!? The giants are a NY team last I checked, so why would that be disrespectful to NJ?
Darrin A government official (our governor) accepted lavish gifts from an out of state business man. Nothing to see here...move along
Their name may say NY, but they play in NJ, bring revenue to NJ, so they are a NJ team. He should support that. IMO.
Jerry paid for most of Christie's trip to Dallas - NJ taxpayers paid for his security detail.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/jerry_jones_paid_for_chris_christies_trip_to_dallas_to_root_for_cowboys.html#incart_river
" But when they played the Giants and he was in the Cowboy box, thats disrespectful to the people of NJ. JMO! :)" BBY
REALLY??? LMAO.....that's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! IMO!
Christine The Republicans know how I'm registered, I get all that mail.
I like to think of myself as a moderate, progressive Republican, the last one of those was probably Nelson Rockefeller.
Oh excuse me, but didn't NJ taxpayers pay for Governor McGreevey's affair? I believe we did!!!
outsider Funny New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
pressures the port authority to award a contract to a development company partially owned by Jerry Jones and we are not supposed to think there's anything wrong when Jones flys Christie down to Texas to take in a game
Andy - Anyone who ever met you would never question your honestly for a second. No need to have to explain for a microsecond.
Mr G - No, that crude photoshop attempt isn't it. Sure the synchronicity of being fixated on fleece is initial impetus, but the occupation of commercial spokesperson is the real nexus. Scrunchy has all sorts of fun with the kids but he doesn't actually manufacture anything himself. Christie has talked up lots of sweet tasting ideas and implemented next to nothing. COAH is still there, Abbot essentially in place, school mandates breaking the bank, even the crowning pension compromise achievement was weak, yet he's out of money to pay for roads while turning down education money in order to borrow instead and be bankrupted by the interest payments. Something as bad as his promise to clean up car insurance doesn't even seem mentionable compared to all the rest.
Still Scrunchy leads the parade, and sells sugar and HFC to kids. It's all Christie fun and games and millions fundraising for the political party. Just like his tenure as US Attorney, he's stumping all the time and waiting for his staff to do all the work then hold a press conference to get the glory. Only problem is his people don't have any solutions, they're making it even worse.
Andy has got it right - it's no weight joke, it's about absenteeism. There's work to do and what work is done is pretty poor at that.
"Sure the synchronicity of being fixated on fleece is initial impetus, but the occupation of commercial spokesperson is the real nexus."
Say wha?
Where's my Webster's.......:>)
How 'bout them Cowboys!
http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2015/01/hysterical_cartoon_chris_christie_as_a_dallas_cowboys_cheerleader.html
Anyway, I'm leaning toward voting for Rand Paul in the primary ... he seems to be the only one in the bunch with a clear head about foreign policy.
The thought of Christie being president scares me, to be quite honest. I don't take his "candidacy' seriously at all.
This is the same Christie who used to tell people to never accept a gift, not even a cheap lunch.
That was before he got the governor's office and all its perks.
I'd rather have a governor who visits homeless people on a cold night and gives them hugs ... rather than one who hangs out in a plush owner's box and gives hugs to billionaires.
Christie has spoken his opinion on "gifting" numerous times.
As a Morris County official, Christie stopped county officials from accepting gifts from people and firms doing business with the county.
Now he uses the "friends and family" exception to excuse the Dallas shindig.
He also appoints Port Authority management.
Christie endorsed a deal between the Port Authority and Legends Hospitality LLC which is partly owned by Jerry Jones; Dallas Cowboys organization.
Perhaps no fire, but certainly a lot of smoke. Perhaps time for a traffic jam.
Good post, mistergoogle.
Did anybody see the interview where Curt Schilling said he didn't get into the Hall of Fame because he's a Republican?
Well, it's well known that Roger Clemens is a Republican. Hmm, now I know why he's not getting in. LOL! Wow, Barry Bonds and Raffy Palmeiro must be really big Republicans.
If Schilling gets the Vice Presidential nomination in '16 ... I'm done with that party.
You just don't like Schilling because he's a big Steelers fan, Andy (-;
He might not ever make it into Cooperstown, but one of his socks soaked in his blood did. That's more than most ex-players can say, lol.
I never knew Schill is a Steelers' fan.
Learn something every day. Thanks for that info.
One thing about the Hall of Fame, the museum recognizes things that guys did who are not in the hall --- guys like Rose, Bonds, etc.
Even an Alex Ochoa bat is in there --- he did have his moments.
But the Hall of Fame plaques are sacred. Heck, I'll move this to the MLB site but first, Ted Williams was a Republican ... I remember him campaigning for Reagan and Bush --- the "liberal" media did not keep him out.
By the way, I was asked just recently by someone I've known for over 40 years, if I have a Hall of Fame vote. Even though I covered Phillies games regularly in the 70s I never traveled with them and I've been told a lot of guys got a vote by being sports editors of dailies ... which I was ... but I never pursued it.
I did have a Heisman Trophy vote, even though I only went to one or two college games a year, did mostly the high schools and the Eagles when they were home on Sundays.
OK, Chris attended Green Bay game with orange sweater. According to Daily Record:
"Jones has referred to Christie as his team’s “mojo” because Dallas has won the last five games Christie has attended wearing the orange sweater for good luck."
I heard he actually said Morejo, but hey, that's just me.
Christie picked 38-28 Dallas "“Well, as confident as you can be being on the road and (facing) a team that’s undefeated at home,” Christie told The Associated Press before the game, which the Packers won 26-21. “But I feel pretty good. The team’s played well, and it’s going to be a good day.”
A hug and a handshake later, he was off to the box.
After the game "U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan tweeted a picture of himself in the stands with the tagline: “Do you need a hug now?”
Christie's Dez Bryant moment was memorable.
Of course his mood changed shortly thereafter. He was heard on the phone to PA trying to close Green Bay's bridges....... :>)
Well, he gave a pretty decent speech in Trenton yesterday, covered a lot of themes I also would have covered.
But I never like when politicians use the word "entitlements" ... people have worked hard for a whole lifetime to earn a safety net in their older years.
Work on some solutions to our problems, rather than just depict aging people as bad guys, OK?
Lots of people never made a bundle of money because they had cheap employers, don't ever forget that.
A few things that have been discussed regarding shortages of funding for social security benefits and how to keep the system solvent long term ...
* Creating more jobs for the elderly.
* A means test, with reduced benefits for the wealthy.
* Taxing of benefits for the wealthy.
* Restraints on wasteful health-care procedures.
* Authorization for part of our taxes to be shifted to personal retirement accounts.
Not sure what this has to do with "where's Christie" or even his state of the union since it is not a NJ state issue but.........
* Creating more jobs for the elderly.
Say wha? I mean not a bad thing, but what does it have to do with keeping SS solvent. Of course, if we follow some of your other ideas, we may have more old folks entering the work force ........
* A means test, with reduced benefits for the wealthy.
* Taxing of benefits for the wealthy.
I agree with means testing, to a point. I mean it is your money, you put it in. So I can see means testing reducing and/or delaying the payout but there has to be a reasonable expectation that you might, and I say might, like if you live forever, that you will at least get some of your money back.......
* Restraints on wasteful health-care procedures.
Slippery slope, but I agree, but has nothing to do with SS. This is Medicare.
* Authorization for part of our taxes to be shifted to personal retirement accounts
NOPE. SS was never meant to be more than a safety net. It was not meant to be a retirement account. It is a personal bank account of the last recourse, not a profit center one should risk. Letting people gamble with their safety net is as risky as trapeze without a net. Perhaps sexy, perhaps some people feel they deserve to risk their money, and I'm sure everyone feels they can do better than special T-bills, but I feel no one should be risking their, and our, safety net. Remember, if they risk and fail, it's not just they who suffer. We either leave them in the cold or cover their losses.
Everyone's retirement portfolio should be a diversified blend of risk and reward. SS is the lowest risk element; live with it.
Other ideas:
* Reduce Fraud (especially Medicare)
* Privatization (NOPE, feel the same way as shifts to personal accounts)
* Adjusting payouts and minimum age payout dates for younger participants (the biggee)
* Change COLA formula to "chained CPI." (a minor change)
* Raise the SS tax cap currently capped at incomes of around $107K. (a no brainer)
* Include excluded workers (state and local govt, ministers, etc.) in the system (another no brainer)
* Improved education (this is a weird one but since many people think SS IS their retirement program and therefore don't build another, we need to change this stupid idea and explain the mindset that people can retire on the safety net. End result might be more people making more money, retiring later, and even means testing out of the system ---- yeah, it's a weird one but minimum benefit of getting people to understand you can't live well off SS would be beneficial.
Remember, Social Security needs help but is not broken. The system is solvent until 2033 and I think last year did not run a deficit. The system also funds a huge percentage of our national debt, the largest single holder at about 16%, next is the Fed at 12% and then --- China 8%, Japan 7%. We need re-engineering here, but not structural revolution.
Medicare is broken, busted, and in triage existing in a fractured broken market, a completely different kettle of fish.
Good info, stuff which Christie needs to examine if he wants to be a good president.
Ain't gonna happen in this lifetime, sorry.
Where's Christie? It would be nice if he would realize he's lost and needs to get back to the business of NJ. A state of the state should not be a state of the union or a political ad for his Presidency.
Worse State of the State speech ever.
He definitely has his eyes on the big job. More or less like what he is doing. Do not like him for the gas pipeline through the Pine Barrens though...
And he has to bow to the Zionist powers unfortunately:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/30/chris-christie-apologizes_n_5058758.html
With the rigged system you cannot get elected unless you profess your unbreakable allegiance to the state of Israel. Why not just make it the 51st state to legitimize the BS...
This guys a local hero but not ready for national stage and will be a buffoon in international waters.
Sure hope he runs.
That's what happens when a community organizer becomes president, even if he got a law degree for Harvard.
"New Jersey Governor Chris Christie launched a Political Action Committee (PAC) this week called Leadership Matters for America. The website for the PAC is LeadershipMattersForAmerica.Org, aka LMFAO."
Bonv "The website for the PAC is LeadershipMattersForAmerica.Org, aka LMFAO."
That's so funny I fell out of my chair!
https://vine.co/v/OteqbA7qgqt
Mark Mc. "And he has to bow to the Zionist powers unfortunately..."
While I am not Jewish, that remark strikes me as being somewhat anti-Semitic. I really hope it wasn't intended that way...?
Stop with the Anti-Semitic stuff. I am pro-USA and when a foreign nation and its goons are manipulating this country I speak up...
Remember the lottery in the 70's? They had two scratch offs....a dollar each, paid at least two dollars or more for a win. Now there is 50 different scratch offs..ranging up to $30 each. 10 different paper games all paying less each year. Add that to the average property taxes of 6-8k a year. Where the heck does it all go!!?? Tennessee property taxes are literally a tenth of N.J. They have police, schools etc., also.
terry page Chris apparently thought Jersey was New Jersey and recently travelled to England to find out while snagging some freebies and looking Presidential.
There, in London, he mooched into a soccer game where fan's cheered him on. According to MSNBC: "As he left the stadium amid a throng of somewhat inebriated football fans, the scrum of reporters and cameras drummed up some interest in the man at the center. “Who are you? Who are you?” a cluster of young men started chanting around him."
Christie vowed to reimburse the team for the tickets. Honest.
Later Chris stopped in London for some word waffles on the Measels debate calling for "balance" between parental wishes and governmental controls and then saying whattaya crazy --- get the vaccine. Of course the initial comments were targeted to boost NJ/English pharmacutical trade as Christie poohed poohed vaccines while touring a MedImmune laboratory that produces, guess what, vaccines. Savvy negotiator no doubt employing the reverse pysch sales strategy.
He then went on to slam our President in front of foreigners, a time honored custom, over the topic of trade negotiations and negotiating in general. Nothing like airing the dirty laundry in front of strangers to make you look like a stand-up guy.
Just before his free dinner by David Cameron, Chris said that Cameron was a good guy for taking many of the austerity measures that Chris has bequeathed to the residents of NJ who don't go to free games and get free meals in London.
Next we'll go round the world with Chris as the NY Times highlights the lavish freebies he took after changing the law to allow foreign governments to lavish luxury trips and accommodations.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Tricks, gimmicks and all sorts of shady dealing are the tools of trade for the Christie Administration. Eliminate rebates for some, defer rebates for others, raid dedicated funds, ignore legally obligated payments, double and triple fees an tolls and all the while his cronies are enriching themselves. Christie will leave the state with nothing solved and the state in a condition of financial ruin.
As promised.......
OK, this one you got to read to believe.
Makes you wonder what he will steal as President.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/nyregion/in-christies-career-a-fondness-forluxe-benefits-when-others-pay-the-bills.html?_r=0
I wonder how much $$$$$ that trip cost New Jersey and I see even brought the wife along
NY Times: "The private plane, on which Mr. Christie had his own bedroom, had been lent by Sheldon G. Adelson, the billionaire casino owner and supporter of Israel. At the time, he was opposing legislation then before the governor to legalize online gambling in New Jersey.".
Sheldon certainly didn't get a "big bang" for his buck, considering that the online gambling that he opposed is now legal in New Jersey.
This man is living a pipe dream if he thinks he will even win a presidential primary the only way he will see the inside of the White House is if he takes a tour. It's funny how Chris Christie signed an executive order allowing the governor and the governor alone to accept gifts from foreign governments
The British press wasn't kind to him ... one headline said he was discussing "weighty matters" and another one said British officials were meeting with "big mouth."
My kids saw Christie at a restaurant in Chester,nj for lunch. He had his whole family and two big black vehicles, 3 state troopers for guardsman. So... that lunch cost about 3k to enjoy. They probably didn't even pay. We did.
Nothing new, saw McGreevy with the same setup going out to dinner with his then wife in the Ironbound section of Newark...
What is new is that the guy would made his bones as US Attorney on his vendetta against public corruption made law allowing foreign governments to lavish gifts n trips upon NJ's Governor. So for all you know, Isreal paid for his lunch.
Meanwhile, a new Federal probe is launched into Christie squashing Grand Jury indictments against one of his buddies where somebody got fired for trying to make the case.
I would tell Chris re the Presidency that he shouldn't quit his day job, but alas, he already has.
Now before you lean back on your old "oh it's just the Dems trying to keep a good man down" defense, remember, Dems want this guy to run. Please, run Chris run.
mistergoogle
although governor Puff and stuff has 4 or 5 federal probes going on right now the squashing of grand jury indictments are not one of them federal prosecutors are just talking to all involved there is no official investigation going on
let's face it, N.J. is now controlled by criminal factions similar to modern day crime families. After being chased out of illegal doing's by RICO laws and such they've sensibly migrated to where they are now in charge. Now the Republicans. & Dems are crime family's with actual Godfather's lieutenants & soldiers shaking people down & keeping everyone in line.
Mr. G. foreign governments should not have this much power in our government. The federal government is for us, the USA not countries such as Israel. Don't blame Christie, even Rand Paul had to bow a little bit to be a contender. Historians 100 years from now will cover all of this as common sense, just not common sense understanding now and why our federal system has not been adjusted to greatly reduce foreign government interference...
Thus the term probe Old Gent, but you too are correct.
Don't blame Christie when Christie passed Christie's law favoring only Christie by allowing foreign governments to gift Christie, and only Christie, ad nauseum at ungodly levels? And then takeing full advantage by going first-class-plus all the way..... Read the article posted above about his slovenly behavior. You've got to be kiddin on this one. Find another state with such an eggreggious law or another sitting governor that acts like this taking legal bribes from foreign assets.
Only Hillary Clinton comes close to his outrageous behavior BUT at least she didn't pass the damn law, she just followed it. He PASSED the law to allow him to be bought, legally.
And then on top of that, his record for fighting public corruption is what propelled him to the governor's mansion in the first place. Speaking of that, has anyone inventored the silverware there lately....... :>)
I've heard of Russia under Putin described as a "kleptocracy" as of they govern to steal and enrich themselves. Same could be said about NJ. Democracy is broken my friends.
Uh, Putin killed people to control the ruling class in Russia; big difference from NJ.
A drop in the bucket does not make it right and given he is probably over $1M in "gifting" bribes, to me, that's a pretty big bucket.
"Same could be said about NJ"
And the entire US, of course.
I think I'll bring back my other gravatar now as a reminder:
"Don't Steal: The government hates competition."
justintime The Chris election machine seems to be grinding down: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/us/some-chris-christie-supporters-now-turn-their-backs.html
And it gets more humorous: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/chris-christies-no-apology-tour-115269.html
I just love it when they cry "the media is all noise." Or “I almost feel bad for the president,” Christie said, making clear that he didn’t at all feel sorry for the president. “He’s like a man wandering around in a dark room, feeling around the wall for the light switch of leadership.” Nothing like a guy running against a guy who ain't running......
“There’s only one Chris Christie, everybody, and this is it,” the 52-year-old Garden State governor said Monday night." Well, he got that right.
Meanwhile, what he got wrong is the other candidates even picking his campaign funding pockets in his own backyard. I just hope he stays in the race, the clown car just won't be the same without our big buffoon
Budget Update:
Chris started February by hitting the floor sitting: http://gawker.com/imagine-chris-christie-falling-out-of-a-chair-forever-1683091667. Of course, he was out of NJ, in Philli, doing some radio.
Then, after declaring "mission accomplished" over the pension four years ago, he was governor-slapped for $1.6B by a judge who said: "not quite accomplished spanky" as he was ordered to pay the payments he promised to pay but pilfered. Christie quickly reacted in his budget address by rolling out the same old plan that he gutted before stating, it's all cool, me and the NJEA got a deal. The NJEA immediately said "not quite accomplished spanky......."
Now Chris will return to the town meetings starting tommorrow taking time from the national stage to craft some tasty tidbits for those national stage haters gotta hate soundbyte lovers. Well, at least he's in NJ making national news versus being in IOWA making NJ news.
I believe he is in California today doing a little fundraising there was a great New York times article about how for the last 12 years or so New Jersey has been in court suing Exxon Mobil for nearly 10,000,000 yes that's billion dollars for contaminating land and waterways near their refineries in New Jersey and the state won but just before the judge was to reveal how much Exxon Mobil would have to pay Gov. Krispy Kreme told the states district attorney to settle out of court for 250 million less than 3% of what the state originally wanted
Chris actually spotted in NJ today getting ready for those townhalls. Given Exxon et al, it ought to have some choice "shut up, sit down, somebody ought to hit that guy with a baseball bat" moments.
The newest poll has his lovers at the low of 35% and disapproval at a high of 51%. George Bush called to thank him.
bush was a better president than obama ever could be, and bush was not a good president.
BrotherDog 
BDog: beyond your opinion, got any facts here cause I have a big one that's important to me:
Bush military death toll: 4803
Obama military death toll: 1926
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/11/conservatives-say-obama-has-lost-more-us-troops-than-bush-thats-crazy/
And many inputs on the economic front: http://www.bushtoll.com/
I don't think you will find much support for your view other than opinion given that Bush may have been one of, if not the, worst President in history. Hoover will thank him in heaven for taking him off the hook.
obama is the worst president in US history, hands down, he's much worse than even jimmy ("i'll never lie to you") Carter was, this is no contest,
TRENTON -- While the snow continues to pile up this winter, and memories of last year's heavy accumulations still haven't melted away, the Fiscal 2016 budget unveiled by Gov. Chris Christie last week cuts snow removal funding for the coming winter in half.
Highlights of the governors' $33.8 billion proposed spending plan for Fiscal 2016 include a $44 million reduction in "winter operations/snow removal," a 49.3 percent reduction from the current fiscal year.
So if we think there are problems this winter - just wait till the next one.
That works perfectly with the Christie mantra of only announcing budgetary shortfalls in the last quarter so that it's a total emergency and no one has time to ask, "how the frack did we wind up with this mess."
Probably will take credit for lower cost, more efficient snow removal for nine months until the hammer comes down, the sky is falling (literally), and we need an emergency funding source with no time to look back and see where Chris screwed up again.
Last night, Friday 3/7/2015, Chris dined at Donald's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. where he keynoted some Repubs. Today he's off to Iowa spreading his manure at an agricultural summit. Can you say "Soooooie."
On Thursday, NJ Troopers unions sued Chris for stealing back the pension deposits for 2014.
Perhaps for his flight back, Chris can read his next report card from The National Review, you know, conservative, William F. Buckley, real supporter: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/03/christie_to_be_criticized_with_george_washington-i.html
Busy, busy, busy.
The_Bishop Yes they were Ijay. Then Christie claimed "mission accomplished" and he would pour $2.4B into the fund. He continued this claim in NJ and across the land for a long, long time. Then he stole the money back in 2014 to fix his failed budget, failed because he miscalculated blue sky revenues while his programs to fix NJ's economy faired much worse than other states.
Now unfortunately his time is winding down. Unfortunate since it's way too early for him to depart the clown car; we have only just begun to laugh. I guess the good news is we will have room for two more clowns :>)
Why? Well some Sandy folks even came to Iowa to heckle the gov who responded: ""I think you understand, I'll deal with you here the same way as I deal with you in New Jersey," Christie warned, half-jokingly."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chris-christie-interrupted-by-heckler-in-iowa/
Point is if they're willing to go to Iowa, then you've got a lot of baggage.
I would like to know why before Gov. Krispy Kreme came into a office the state was paying about $150 million that's about the average a state would pay Wall Street to handle pensions and now the state is paying over $600 million to Krispy Kreme's friends on Wall Street
Yesterday Chris was actually in NJ at a townhall defending his $228M deal versus the $8.9M on the courtroom table. Chris said: "it's actually a really nice settlement and they'd have to say something nice about me." Later he went Sargent Shultz on them and said: "The attorney general makes the decision. I don’t interfere with the attorney general." Apparently our NJ top dog knows nothing, does nothing, and influences nothing in his own administration as he has noted many, many times in the past. Bridge, what bridge?
But the important part was his disclosure: ""They're going to have to clean up everything no matter what it costs, and we're going to get the $225 million on top of it," Christie said. "If you read The New York Times you'd never know this." Christie stressed: "They have to fix everything that they polluted to state standards and there is no cap on what they have to pay.""
Yes he is right that the deal details have not be disclosed; apparently we too know nothing. But we do know that the $228M is actually $180M post legal fees. We also know that the court case called for a full clean up; the "clean up" Chris says is "nice" is a simple capping leaving all the crap where it lies. Can you say 1,000 years of drip, drip, drip.....
Speaking of lieing, so what is the deal Chris. Or do you really know nothing there too?
From: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/03/christie_breaks_silence_on_exxon_settlement_blasts.html
NJAG statement: http://nj.gov/oag/newsreleases15/pr20150305b.html
Current Cleanup: http://www.epa.gov/region02/waste/fsexxon.htm
"Speaking of lieing, so what is the deal Chris. Or do you really know nothing there too?"
Could he is sharing a speech writer with Hillary?
number10 Even if they're are sharing speechwriters, don't make it right. And Chis made a bad deal and now is lieing his CYA off. Hillary is still in denial foot dragging mode on the emails.
Hillary isn't lieing, yet, on this one. She is Clintonian foot dragging. After waiting as long as she could, instead of getting an independent review, she said "i've looked myself and here are the ones I say are of state." Yeah right. Now she waits to see if it dies down or whether she has to do what she should have done all along. Typical Clintonian delay strategy and most disappointing.
Not only has Krispy Kreme has been busy, busy, busy but his buddies has created his Super Pac, America Leads which, while formed earlier, was just announced a few days ago. It's lead by Phil Cox from Christie's RGA days. According to NBC News "Cox helped lead the RGA....." OK, I really couldn't have said that better (think about it).
Remember, Super Pacs are third party unlimited fund machines that do their own thangs. Kind of like political pit bulls which ought to be real funny given the bar raised by bully boy.
So far, Home Depot founder has announced support. However, as of March 9th, America Leads has reported $0 in donatations.
Keep up the good work, we'll be watching for that Exxon pay back.
If anyone wondered why Sampson announced his retirement and why the firm, a firm he helped found, changed its name then you can be sure this is why.
Until they come down we won't know who and what is in the indictments but the best educated guess is that the whole rotten Christie administration, a government for sale that has plundered New Jersey and driven it into fiscal chaos, will be coming down and one hopes that includes the lout in the governor's seat.
Even if Christie is not among the indicted it will be the end of his campaign for president and may indeed present the New Jersey legislature with grounds for impeachment. One hopes federal housing is in the governor's future -- at Alenwood, Pa. but even if not him a lot of people around him are going to go to prison and they will belong there.
Finally. My earnest hope is that they all go to jail, including our esteemed governor. To condone the criminal activity that went on around him by claiming not to know what was going on with his staff is disingenuous at best. Perhaps he doesn't understand that he's supposed to know what's going on (and I'm willing to bet he did) and that the buck stops with him? I am especially looking forward to seeing Bridget Kelly get the book thrown at her - what a despicable excuse for a public servant, which I suppose could apply to all of them, now that I think about it .Ms. Kelly, meanwhile, has been publicly silent for 15 months. But in a rare statement in May, her lawyer alluded to a wider network involved. “Anyone who thinks they are going to rewrite history and make Ms. Kelly a scapegoat,” he wrote, “is gravely mistaken.”
Jail for Christie? Don't make me laugh and there are a lot of people in Trenton that should go first by a long shot:
1) The double dippers
2) Legislators that do not represent the people in a broad sense of NJ but rather a subset represented by powerful unions and special interest groups
I know where Chris Christie isn't going to be in Tennessee at the NRA convention Christie and Paul are the only Republican presidential candidates that were not invited to speak at the convention
The last time I looked, New Jersey taxpayers had forked over $6.5 millions to private lawyers to issue a report that gave Christi a bearhug for his brilliance and cleanliness during the whole mess. We'll see just what the bill of indictment says when it comes out, but I'd like to see those lawyers eat every page of that whitewash when Christie is implicated
Well keeping up on the topic, recent stories include: There Isn’t A Chance Chris Christie Is Going To Win The Nomination (Because Nobody Likes Him) http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/13/there-isnt-a-chance-chris-christie-is-going-to-win-the-nomination-because-nobody-likes-him/
Or " http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/chris-christie-buys-the-iraq-line/?_r=0\" I think that's because he had extra cash after selling NJ a bridgegate.
Of course pandering in Massachusetts is worth.....nothing. "Chris Christie defends Tom Brady" http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/politics/chris-christie-tom-brady-deflategate/
Next up, we now have Christie's grocery bills which have shrunk by more than the 85lbs he has lost over the past two years. He was spending over $1,000 per spree mostly at Wegmans. Well, Chris has been eating out a lot, I mean out of state that is. In 2009, NJ state police spent $22K to protect Chris on trips. Last year --- just under $500,000.00, a tad of an increase. Keep paying those taxes, man's on the move.
I will probably regret this at the next Democratic downfall but on the status of Chris's run for the Presidency. "It's De-lovely."
"I feel a sudden urge to sing the kind of ditty that invokes the Spring
So, control your desire to curse while I crucify the verse
This verse I've started seems to me the "Tin Pan-tithesis" of melody
So to spare you all the pain, I'll skip the darn thing and sing the refrain
The night is young, the skies are clear
And if you want to go walkin', dear
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely"
(cole porter, sung by ella fitzgerald)
strangerdanger For what it is worth, Babe Ruth was a Democrat.
He endorsed Al Smith for president in 1928.
Had Al won, we may not have had the stock market crash of 1929, and the Great Depression.
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