Chris Christie Announces Presidential Campaign

[JackLuis]

Trump may be rich, but Cristie is a bigger threat to Hillz!

Having burned all his bridges in New Jersey – those he didn’t shut down, anyway – Gov. Chris Christie today announced his escape plan: to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2016. There are so many reasons why Christie is likely undertaking this utterly doomed effort: ego, pride, galactically outsized ambition, the fact that everyone in his state hates him so much he might as well spend even less time there than he already does.

 

[JackLuis]

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Chris Christie is now officially running for president – and what makes Chris Christie special is that he is running because he is running, and because what are you going to do about it? The animating purpose of Christie’s entire career is one regionally-accented hostile tautology: why is Chris Christie in the race? Indeed, why does Chris Christie do anything? Because f-you, that’s why.

Christie’s id – which lurks under the surface with the depth and subtlety of a lurid red salami beneath one layer of Saran wrap – operates on a default playground-bully level of self-gratification, self-aggrandizement and opponent-punishment. He wants what he wants because he wants it, often for reasons no more evolved than that it, whatever “it” is, exists. He furthermore wants you to notice that he has things that you also want and, if you are someone with whom he doesn’t agree, he wants you and others to see that he can deny you what you want.

What this Country needs is a New Jersey politician as President-NOT!

 

[Aglaopheme]

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What this Country needs is a New Jersey politician as President-NOT!

That's great! Great because it's all so very true. Who wrote that? Dreaming up gourmet recipes for pop corn for the debates if he can flounder his way into the top ten.

 

[JackLuis]

That's great! Great because it's all so very true. Who wrote that? Dreaming up gourmet recipes for pop corn for the debates if he can flounder his way into the top ten.

I added the link in #2. Opps.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Thanks. I don't normally read opinion pieces, but that on made me chuckle.

 

[contrifan32]

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What this Country needs is a New Jersey politician as President-NOT!

Tell me what YOU know about New Jersey politics and Governor Christie.

 

[dan_c00000]

Chris Christie and running don't belong in the same sentence.

 

[contrifan32]

Tell me what YOU know about New Jersey politics and Governor Christie.

waiting?

 

[contrifan32]

Yea thats what I thought. Good source of information there buddy.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I'm sure he know Jersey is screwed, heading towards bankruptcy, has had their credit rating down graded NINE times, has restructured their debt and OOOOOPS not making their payments.

 

[contrifan32]

I'm sure he know Jersey is screwed, heading towards bankruptcy, has had their credit rating down graded NINE times, has restructured their debt and OOOOOPS not making their payments.

OK, so I see you read Salon too... do you know the whole story?

 

[Aglaopheme]

I don't read Salon. Jersey's problems have been widely reported on. You can except that coverage to be expanded even farther if this run is going to be taken seriously at all. Walker pulled the same crap with Wisconsin's debt to win his last election. That state too is fuggered. Jindal? Yep. Louisiana same problems.

 

[phrodeau]

Tell me what YOU know about New Jersey politics and Governor Christie.

waiting?

Yea thats what I thought. Good source of information there buddy.

OK, so I see you read Salon too... do you know the whole story?

OK Mister Riddles. Tell us what you got.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Tell me what YOU know about New Jersey politics and Governor Christie.

Christie is a typical bureaucratic thug who appears to think that Goodfellas was a historical documentary that should be followed as a code of conduct.

The George Washington Bridge scandal aside (which incidentally has cost NJ taxpayers $11 million).

So far Christie has spent more than 40 percent of his second term, which began in 2014, outside of New Jersey. Much of that travel was for trips to help lay the groundwork for a national campaign, but there were also some jaunts that seemed harder to explain, such as to visits to watch Dallas Cowboys games , the NBA Finals or Premier League soccer. His cross-country work for the RGA raised more than $100 million for the group, but it also cost NJ taxpayers approximately $1 million in traveling security detail costs. That’s more than 10 times the amount that drew scrutiny in Maryland for the 2012 election travels of current 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, who at the time was chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.

He's currently under investigation by the Manhattan D.A. for a Port Authority contract awarded to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, whom Christie called a “friend” in order to accept private jet travel to a 2015 Cowboys game without running afoul of state ethics rules.

He's an embarrassment and should have been removed from office awhile ago.

 

[contrifan32]

Except he was elected for a second term in 2013, by over 60% of the vote in one of the bluest states in the country.

 

[Aglaopheme]

OK Mister Riddles. Tell us what you got.

He came, he spoke, he left without telling us. I was really thinking he or she had some grand justification.

 

[contrifan32]

He came, he spoke, he left without telling us. I was really thinking he or she had some grand justification.

See above ^

 

[Aglaopheme]

I'm scrolling and scrolling.....nope no "whole story" to be found.

 

[contrifan32]

What "whole story" are you looking for?

 

[Aglaopheme]

OK, so I see you read Salon too... do you know the whole story?

OK Mister Riddles. Tell us what you got.

I'm scrolling and scrolling.....nope no "whole story" to be found.

What "whole story" are you looking for?

Exactly!

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Except he was elected for a second term in 2013, by over 60% of the vote in one of the bluest states in the country.

Learn to use the quote function.
The last election was before the latest scandals came to light. He rode a popular vote back into office after Sandy when his actions had him labeled a liberal.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/25/politics/chris-christie-amtrak-quiet-car/

Washington (CNN)Chris Christie was asked to leave Amtrak's quiet car Sunday morning after passengers complained to a conductor about the New Jersey governor yelling at his security detail and into his cell phone, according to a rider.

Christie, a Republican presidential candidate, was on the 9:55 a.m. train back to New Jersey from Washington, D.C., after an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation."

He walked onto the train with a McDonald's strawberry smoothie, already chewing out someone who was with him, possibly a security officer, about a mix-up in seating arrangements, according to Alexander Mann, a passenger on the same train.

 

[phrodeau]

Christie spokeswoman Sam Smith said it was a mistake: The governor hadn't meant to board the quiet car.

"On a very full train this morning, the Governor accidentally took a seat in Amtrak's notorious quiet car," she said in an emailed statement. "After breaking the cardinal rule of the quiet car, the Governor promptly left once he realized the serious nature of his mistake and enjoyed the rest of his time on the train from the cafe car. Sincere apologies to all the patrons of the quiet car that were offended."


Much Ado About Nothing??????

More like a tempest in a teapot, Christie being the tempest.

 

[JackLuis]

Perhaps, a tempest in a tea party?

In other news:

Nurse quarantined in NJ for Ebola is back to sue Gov. Chris Christie

http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Chris-Christie-at-CPAC-300x161.jpg

Oh, oh Darn!​

This past Thursday, Kaci Hilcox, the nurse infamously quarantined in NJ this time last year over fears that she harbored Ebola, announced that she has filed a civil lawsuit against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as well as other government officials. The lawsuit charges that Christie and company “unlawfully and unreasonably detained, isolated and quarantined [Hilcox], without a valid medical or epidemiological basis, and without adequate legal recourse.” The lawsuit, filed October 22 in the US District Court, is receiving support from the American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU) Of New Jersey.

False imprisonment is a felony! Why is the FBI ducking out?

 

[KingOrfeo]

False imprisonment is a felony! Why is the FBI ducking out?

Lack of federal jurisdiction?