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NJ-Gov: Christie Says It "Makes Sense" to Reject Stimulus Money

by: DavidNYC

Tue May 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM EDT


New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie apparently wants to join his party's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:

Transcript:

HANNITY: What do you think of some of these governors who aren't taking some stimulus money? Governor Palin, Sanford, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry. What do you think of that?

CHRISTIE: I think it makes sense. If they're going to put strings on that money, then they're going to tie your hands and make you expand programs. And not be able to have the freedom of choice that people elected you for. Then you shouldn't take the money.

Jed Lewison (my Daily Kos colleague who pulled together this clip) observed that it seems as though Christie isn't just defending the governors who've made noise about rejecting stimulus money. Rather, he's making it sound like if he doesn't have complete disrection to spend the funds however he wants, he'd reject the stimulus cash outright himself. That's $2 billion he'd be spurning, including $60 million in law enforcement funds. Christie, by the way, is a former US Attorney.
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Mmmm
Methinks Lonegan isn't finished just yet.
It's to tack right against Lonegan in the primary
And then claim it was all a big misunderstanding come the general.

I don't think it'll work. I think there's a 30% or so chance that Christie doesn't get out of the primary against the good mayor of Bogota.  

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Indeed
As I eluded above this suggests to me that Christie might have some ugly internals for the primary.
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Hey, Gov. Corzine, look!
Someone just threw you a lifeline!

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26
Corzine will get reelected after all
because of Christie's stupidity.

26, male, Dem, NJ-12
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I think he just handed Governor Corzine ...
... a potentially devastating TV ad.
Lawn signs
Christie is no law and order guy.  He's a Bush bundler who obeyed Karl Rove's orders to go after Democrats and only Democrats with a vengeance.  He also pulled strings to get his brother off the hook and targeted minorities heavily (One of my two state senators, Mims Hackett was prosecuted while Dick Codey wasn't a target.  Mims Hackett?  The long time Mayor of Newark was Christie's Jean Valjean.  He wanted him bad.  A major issue at the trial was that the Mayor was having an affair.  Whoop de doo.)

All of a sudden Christie lawn signs were popping up all over Morris County (his home county and now one of the key Republican spots in north Jersey).  

It's hard to figure conservative support in a Republican primary in the Northeast.  They ususally operate under the radar without the TV ads.  Sometimes they pull big upsets like Bret Schundler the first time.  Sometimes they fizzle.
Based on a luckluster debate I had Lonegan fizzling.

Christie is dangerous.  The papers here cover up his many mistakes and NYC and Philly TV (all we have other than cable) ignore Jersey.  And Comcast acts like they are on Christie's payroll.

I think he's such a hypocritical lying incompetent that he will lose but I have little trust in Corzine putting him away early.

I think the collective advice of SSP
was to attempt to put him away in the primary al la Gray Davis. Even if it didn't work, it would have forced Christie to spend lots more money in the primary.  
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heh
Sounds like a guy on his way to losing a primary.
primaries
I think its always a good thing to primary a Republican in a blue state.  

It always makes them spend some cash, it always makes them tack to far to the right to be electable, and there is always a nutjob out there for us to get some good video footage of to make the whole Republican party look bad.  

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I've been hit hard in this economy
I lost my job.
I'm glad I live in a governor-took-stimulus-money state.

26, male, Dem, NJ-12
Sorry to hear about your job loss
Which state do you live in?  

40, male, Democrat, NC-04
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Maryland


26, male, Dem, NJ-12
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Keep your head up
I won't give you a pep talk about finding a job...but I feel for you.  Good luck in finding a good job.

40, male, Democrat, NC-04
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Thank you.


26, male, Dem, NJ-12
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You're lucky.
I'm unemployed AND stuck with Governor 39% aka Governor Goodhair.

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Oh, you mean...
Governor The-Second-Coming-of-the-Confederacy?

:D

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I always get a chuckle...
when I hear people disparage Perry's 39% win in the governor's race.  I'm not a fan of Perry but he's there because the next closest challenger was the Democrat Chris "29.8%" Bell in a race that featured two high-profile independent candidates.
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I know.
I and a lot of other people on all sides of the political spectrum make fun of Perry's 39% because we've heard him act like he had a strong mandate, especially lately with the secession talk.

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heaven knows what makes sense in NJ
NY started charging recycling fee for coke bottles and cans etc about 25yrs ago. As far as I know, NJ does not have this.

I would have bet NJ going to have a LT gov ahead of having a recycling charge.

What?
you have to pay to recycle your bottles?  Here in Michigan we have a 10 cent deposit, so you actually get money for recylcing (it was your money to begin with, but you get it back nonetheless.)  You may have seen the famous Seinfeld episode?

16, Male, MI-01
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The recycling deposit.
It is 5c in NY, 10c in CA and 0c in NJ.

Not so long ago, New Yorkers would say "You need a gun, go to NJ".

The folks in NJ would fire back "You need a Lt gov, go to NY"

Now they can't even say that.

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Not that I want to sit make fun of someone's weight
But there arent very many "obese" politicians compared to the number of obese people total in this country.

I wonder if that is kind of like a documented thing, people wont vote for the obese guy.  Him and Phil English who Dalkempher defeated are the only fatties i can think of who I'd qualify for this obese desigination.  (Sad)

Huckabee lost all sorts of weight before running for office, Im sure skinnier people do better in politics.

I guess
because skinny people "look better" in front of the TV cameras.

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