Who's at the helm in NJ?
With Chris Christie named an official part of the Trump transition team, who is at the helm of the Garden State's executive branch of government?
The transition team role will no doubt be a 24/7 commitment. When will we see some indication that the leadership of the State will be turned over to the Lieutenant Governor - at least on an interim basis until the Cabinet and White House staff selections have been completed?
b1rd1e I thought he was dumped or trumped for Pence...............regardless - he sure hasn't been at any helm around here for ....a long time.............and that is the good news
4catmom maybe pretty soon, the dems in the state legislature are looking to start impeachment proceedings in light of what came out during the bridgegate trial testimony. I am rooting for them.
Scottso Christie should be held accountable for the Sandy recovery monies he sent to an out of state management company to be disbursed.......seems the feds re looking for an accounting of it and will be holding us ( the taxpayers ) for the shortfall
.Here comes "Corzine2" , another politician we will be on the hook for his actions.
Steven Christie has been demoted from the head of the transition team to one of the six vice chair positions. I thought Trump would have dropped him completely already, but politics makes for strange bedfellows. Christie should resign his position as the Governor, step away and not cost the taxpayers more money in legal fees for an impeachment proceeding, enough has been spent on the joke of Bridgegate.
JrzyGirl88 
Bug3The Trenton Swamp at the helm (as always)...
Christie filled the Lt. Governor position so Kim can take over...
iJay He was replaced by Pence as the transition team head. Probably so he can be selected for a position in the administration. He endorsed Trump early and I think it will be "rewarded."
kb2755 He has Bridgegate looming over him. Until this black cloud is squashed he will likely be low profile...
Corzine was a good man but not a good Governor. He gave into special interests including those pushed by his girlfriend...
Perhaps not by America or NJ yet but Christie seems accountable by Donald for his. That's two jobs he's been dumped on so far.......fat man just can't buy a clue.
Inner circle seems a tad weird. I mean how can you be at arm's length from your company when your kids who run the business are YOUR closest advisors? Do they all stay at the Old Post Office when they are in Washington? Probably can learn more from the trumpco.gov website.
strangerdanger Corzine a good man!? LOL. Remember MF Global?
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/02/jon-corzine-201202
Greg That was incompetence. Once he left the essentially self-running GS, he fell on his face on his own...
Personally I hope governor do nothing fat boy is leading the butt boy choir in jail about this time next year.. He probably wouldn't do that very well unless there was something in it for him like a Twinkie.. I hope Trump sees what an incompetent self serving jerk Christie is and cuts all ties with him!!!! New Jersey has had a competent governor since Tom Kean..
Mr. tone Christie and Trump have a $75 million dollar revamp, poised for Atlantic City. So far, a lot of prime land has been cleared, already. They have to get rid of the rest of the "undesirable" residents. They want the property for pennies, on the dollar.
They are taxing them into foreclosure. Check out Zillow, and look at the tax history. Last year? up %37! Then, we have lot of these folks, who worked in casinos, their whole life and are now unemployed. My gosh, a 3 million dollar home, in Hawaii, pays less property, than a $125k condo, in A.C.
So, I guess Christie is focusing on A.C., quietly, as he prepares to become our next Attorney general. Hmmm..... quid pro quo, Chris.
sparksjbc1964 Back in the 90s had a friend that thought his condo in Ocean Club was the sh!t, actually it was back then but not now...
Christie the bully has evidently been kicked to the curb by a bigger bully. Family dinner at the Mendham table must be painfully awkward. Too bad.
Yankeefan 
Calico696 "Corzine was a good man"
lmao - I'll have what he is smoking...
"He was charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in connection with MF's bankruptcy in 2011."
Go ask MF Global customers what they think of that piece of garbage after he robbed/louted their accouns?
Libtard idiots...this is what they think are good guys - this guy should be in jail along with Hillary!
Hey Joe Biden - what do you think of Corzine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3VMrKqJSA
RU Do we still pay him? I mean he has not been here much...and I was just wondering. Hmm. Since Trump paid no taxes do we have to this year?
First big laugh of the day...
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/christie_6.html#incart_river_home
and I find this interesting...a private citizen going after The Governor in court, no one gave him a chance, but it just won't go away. love this david v. goliath stuff!
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/bridgegate_misconduct_complaint_vs_christie_can_pr.html#incart_most-read_politics_article
"First big laugh of the day..."
The only laugh is Democrats *still* trying to conflate legal immigrants with illegal immigrants in all of their speeches.
I guess if you are "hard working" it's OK to break the law.
Mark Mc. http://www.live5news.com/story/34525133/lowcountry-businesses-impacted-by-day-without-immigrants-protests
Those that are "hard working" are simply asking for a path. Maybe you should check out the march and talk to some of those hard workers.
I don't live in the low country...
That still doesn't change the fact that *illegal* immigration is the problem - not all immigration in general as these marches/protests try to claim. Hard working or not, if you broke the law to get here you shouldn't be here, and only have yourself to blame if getting caught and deported affects your family.
It's an insult to those who worked hard to do it legally.
"That still doesn't change the fact that *illegal* immigration is the problem - not all immigration in general as these marches/protests try to claim."
Agreed.
Rarely will the word "illegal" be used, and if a reference is made to those who've bypassed our laws to be here the term I generally hear is "undocumented". So when anyone says "undocumented immigrant" they are acknowledging their illegal status by trying to do so in a politically correct way.
justintime I'm not interested in arguing euphemisms. I am interested in a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform package. One that deports law breakers (needing to differentiate between criminals and simple misdemeanor offenses), recognizes the need to provide an avenue towards citizenship especially for those "hard working" illegals with children born in the United States. Blanket deportation of an estimated 11.9 million is simply ludicrous on so many levels. Something there you disagree with?
Yes, we have a "path to citizenship" that many millions of other people managed to follow legally.
Now, go back to your own country and do it the right way... or, if you have committed other crimes while you were here you may need to have a stop in prison first.
How is it fair to the many other immigrants pursuing their citizenship to have criminals (that's what *all* "undocumented" immigrants are) jump in front of the line?
Who said jump in "front of the line"? Your position is deport 12 million people? Is that before or after you build the wall? Sorry, but independent study after study demonstrates mass deportation is simply not feasible economically on multiple fronts.
So...given that, a plan that addresses the reality is required. Certainly not a knee jerk "kick them all out" approach.
My solution is enforce the law as written.
Deport however many we can. Send the message that if/when we find you, you're outta here - zero tolerance. Play the odds if you want, but don't cry me a river if you decide to squat out a few babies while you're here knowing that you are subject to deportation when ICE comes knocking.
And thus the divide. Guess we just leave it there, really no potential for further dialogue. That's the Divided States of America.
BTW, your expression "squat out a few babies". Repulsive. Is that what your wife did? Your sister? Or only sub human illegals?
How is it that a baby born here becomes an automatic citizen ???
Does anyone have a clear understanding of this law ?
Does anyone have a clear understanding of this law ?
Law? More like the actual definition of the word "citizen"
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/citizen
Jim L How is it that someone that could ask that question believes their opinion on the subject is worth reading?
"One that deports law breakers (needing to differentiate between criminals and simple misdemeanor offenses)"
You wouldn't call entering and staying in the country without making your identity known by following the legal path to citizenship being a law breaker? Seriously?
about 300k "anchor babies" a year - or ~8% of all babies born in the U.S. based on 2013 numbers.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/11/number-of-babies-born-in-u-s-to-unauthorized-immigrants-declines/
JIT, do I need to type more slowly? I called them illegals. Need help with that? My point was I believe in prioritizing deportations. I also believe that families should not be torn apart to satisfy a mindless and self- defeating policy.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that ignoring the law for so long has lead to some major problems with no easy answer.
btw, notice the link says "unauthorized immigrants"? Yup, let's keep obfuscating that laws really aren't laws or that they should only apply to other folks.
Again, what about using the existing means of solving this problem: either enforce or change the law?
JIT said: "Again, what about using the existing means of solving this problem: either enforce or change the law?"
I suppose it's possible that you are so naïve that you believe laws are enforced equally in the US. The history of selective enforcement is well documented, and clearly favors Caucasians. Try a little reading...
https://www.unodc.org/documents/ungass2016/Contributions/Civil/DrugPolicyAlliance/DPA_Fact_Sheet_Drug_War_Mass_Incarceration_and_Race_June2015.pdf
What a pointless comment yankeefan. Your solution is to ignore laws and you call me naive? What's the point of a law if it shouldn't be enforced?
Nice link btw. I've posted nearly the same info myself in the past and fully agree that we have a serious problem in our country (multiples upon multiples actually). A problem whose root cause is *selective* enforcement of laws, which may be why I've said on numerous occasions that 1) we have far, far too many laws in the first place and 2) the answer is to eliminate those laws. Which means directing anger toward the place where those laws originated, the legislature, and not the President.
Yet that seems to be your continued solution, selective enforcement by the President, correct? The horse has already left the barn at that point, hasn't it? That's not a solution, it's a reaction and in the end nothing ever gets solved and the problems only get worse. Take your cause to the Congress and then I can see an actual solution that doesn't result in the strange mentality that unequal application of the law is acceptable.
Selective enforcement of the law is not necessarily a racist thing, but something institutionalized in law enforcement. I have a friend, who is a cop and he believes the police get to pick and choose which laws to enforce. He may decide to give people a pass if there are extenuating circumstances or if it is almost the end of the shift and he doesn't want to stay late for paperwork. Also, sounds like he is very concerned about what 'the community' thinks of the police so he tends to not give people too hard of a time.
I brought this whole 'nation of laws' thing up to him and he laughed! He asked if I was speeding due to an emergency wouldn't I want the police to NOT give me a ticket? I said no, not really. If I'm breaking the law, I have ZERO expectation that I'll 'get a pass' if caught.
JIT said: "What a pointless comment yankeefan. Your solution is to ignore laws and you call me naive? What's the point of a law if it shouldn't be enforced?"
Yes, JIT, you are either naïve or unable to accept reality. Or both. My point continues to be that we live in an imperfect world, and we are governed by imperfect people. The link I posted clearly demonstrated my position that unequal application of the law is institutionalized...and a means of perpetuating political goals. My ability to impact the reality is to vote for the candidates that understand the need for reform, and to resist (loudly) the mentality (like yours) that believes that a bad law still deserves to be enforced, regardless of the human consequences. My "team" will continue to resist loudly in the absence of any congressional appetite for changing a short-sighted and self destructive set of laws.
Anyone who drives on Route 80 sees selective enforcement of laws every day. In fact, if you drive the posted limit you will get passed and honked at continuously. So, JIT, the speed limit is a law that is almost universally ignored, by enforcement and the populace. Instead, the police focus on DWI and reckless drivers for the most part. Look closely for the analogy. Happy to help, just ask.
What you're really saying yankeefan, and what I've tried hard to convey with my use of "Republicrats", is that due to human nature Repyblicrats are selfish, greedy, thoughtless, mindless drones that see only self-benefit at the expense of others - one rule for "them" and another for "us". The monkey-sphere in all its glory. What a barbaric trait to put your faith in.
Why do you continually assume that I am naive about it? Could it be that maybe, given even a midicum of thought, viewing the world through the positive lens of solutions rather than a negative lens of defeat that maybe there could be a way forward for the human species that doesn't always result in this most predictable of us-vs-them situations? A situation that surely is moving in a violent direction?
Nothing in life is ever "fair", of course. Heck, I'd even guess that we couldn't agree on the definition of fair.
No yankeefan, I'm not clueless at all. I simply refuse to accept that reasoned answers are never a solution. That seems to be the domain of progressives these days...
Regarding your speed limit analogy, the answer is simple. We're really talking about a designated safe speed, the speed at which an increase in harm is more likely under a given set of road conditions.
A simple limit may be easy to enforce, but the reality is safe driving speeds vary by location, weather, congestion, etc, and even posting the limit has failed to prevent all accidents from happening (another misnomer). So how about keeping the current signage as the safe speed guide, and enforce based on real conditions? You say police do that anyway, so why in the world would it be such a big deal to codify it in law?
I'll tell you why: some folks *like* to feel like they are "getting" something, benefitting over their neighbors. They like laws that are "elastic", because it feeds the human need for selfish satisfaction. That's the human trait you're accepting. Power. Over others. State it in those terms then we'll finally be getting to the crux of the issue.
"So how about keeping the current signage as the safe speed guide, and enforce based on real conditions?"
There's a section on I-77 in Virginia where the speed limit signs are LED, and the speed limit changes as conditions necessitate. I've seen 65 in normal conditions and 35 in fog. Easy peasy, no exceptions needed. Just make the limit reasonable for the normal traffic flow.
More selective enforcement...
http://www.bluejersey.com/2017/03/david-samson-famed-for-his-chairmans-flight-gets-a-soft-landing/
Nothing will get done about illegal immigration, especially not by this president. He's used illegal immigrants to build his own buildings. You think he's going to pay Americans to do these jobs? Not when he can hire illegals for $3, 4, 5 bucks an hour!
If we want to address this problem, we need to imprison ANYONE who hires illegal immigrants. From the mom and dad shop up the street to the local farmer to companies like Tyson, to Donald Trump and his hotels. But that won't happen, b/c, despite what people of EITHER party says, they LIKE the cheap labor.
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