Chris Christie calls Marco Rubio "boy in the bubble”

War...

Via Breitbart:

Chris Christie is not finished with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
Speaking to a gaggle of reporters, the New Jersey Governor mocked Rubio as “the boy in the bubble” who continued to ignore his record on contentious issues like immigration reform.
“I’m not the boy in the bubble … you know who the boy in the bubble is up here – who never answers your questions, who’s constantly scripted and controlled, because he can’t answer your questions,” he said this morning, using the phrase “boy in the bubble” five times in only a few minutes.
Christie defied the media narrative that Rubio’s third place win in Iowa would help him sew up establishment support. He challenged reporters to take on Rubio once he got to New Hampshire, pointing out that the freshman senator was too cautious and scripted.
“Time for him to man up and step up and stop letting all of his handlers write his speeches and handle him, because that’s what they do,” Christie said. “But that’s what you have to do for someone who has never done anything in life.”
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Defiance: Feds sneak seven Syrian refugees into New Jersey...

I wonder how Gov. Chris Christie is feeling about hugging Obama now? Obama just stuck his finger in Christie's eye.

A family of seven Syrian refugees was quietly ushered into their new home in Paterson in a climate so tense that the agency working to help the family shunned media attention as Governor Christie continued to rail against bringing them here in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
The political firestorm over Syrian refugees — which erupted when links between the Paris attackers and the Islamic State group in Syria came to light — has heightened anxieties among advocates, who worry the families they’re working to help will be denied services like Medicaid or food assistance.
The family’s arrival comes two weeks after Christie refused to permit more Syrian refugees to settle in New Jersey and vowed to prevent them from getting public services. Christie, who was campaigning on Monday for the GOP presidential nomination in New Hampshire, again slammed the Obama administration for what he said was a lack of information-sharing about refugees, through a governor’s office spokeswoman. The Obama administration, at the same time, offered a new program for notifying governors about refugees in their states.

Fun Tweet: Chris Christie gets mercilessly booed

To all my Twitter friends this is for you!! #GovChristie getting Booed at #Haskell2015 #AmericanPharoah @ABC pic.twitter.com/DkbchYEzxo

— LoriK (@Redheadsays) August 3, 2015

Tweet of the Day: Christie pulling NJ out of Common Core..

Chris Christie still hugged Obama and hails from a high tax, high gun control state. No thanks. 

After backing away from previous position on immigration pathway, Christie pulling out of Common Core. Pronounced rightward turn.

— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) May 28, 2015

Is NJ Chris Christie a climate change true believer?

If you examine Christie's position, he has left himself a lot of wiggle room. He says global warming is real and humans contribute to it, but the degree is subject to debate. That isn't too different from what many labeled as deniers believe. It is warmer than 150 years ago, but we were in a period known as the little ice age at that time. Humans do likely contribute to warming, but man-made CO2 is clearly not driving warming. CO2 has risen dramatically in the last couple of decades, but the temperature has been stable for 17 years. As you can see, it isn't what Christie said as much as what he did not say. I don't believe he can be trusted to not flip completely and go for a carbon tax or more CO2 regulation if he were to win.

Via The Hill:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie broke slightly with many of the announced and potential Republican presidential candidates, saying that climate change is real and that humans contribute to it.
“I think global warming is real. I don’t think that’s deniable,” Christie said at a Keene, N.H., event, according to MSNBC. “And I do think human activity contributes to it.”
Christie later added that the degree to which humans contribute to climate change is still subject to debate.
Christie has previously acknowledged a human role in climate change, but he has not recently spoken about his position in depth.

RINO Heartache: NJ donors deserting Chris Christie

I once had high hopes for Chris Christie. After he hugged Obama during hurricane sandy, I quickly lost interest. Also, he has failed reign in New Jersey's high taxes or restrictive gun laws. If Republicans want a GOPe candidate, Jeb is a better choice. If they want a conservative-leaning candidate, Gov. Scott Walker actually crippled public employee unions in Wisconsin. Christie mostly just runs his mouth.

Via The Observer:

Last night the Observer reported on the surprising muscle Gov. Scott Walker had shown in assembling four different New York City events. Those included two meet-and-greets with high-powered Republican influencers—Rudy Giuliani’s remarks at the first ensured that everyone in the country would know that Mr. Walker was in town—and two traditional fundraisers.
The Observer has learned that last night’s fundraiser was attended by at least four prominent New Jersey donors, further calling into question the hold New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie can exert over his home state contributors.
Mason Simpson, an attorney from Holmdel who practices law at Brown Rudnick, attended the event and describes himself as an enthusiastic convert. In an interview with the Observer, Mr. Simpson said, “I was extremely impressed. I went there undecided and not very excited. I left with a very positive impression and will be supporting him.” Mr. Simpson, who has been active in support of Republican candidates including Senator Thom Tillis, said that he had decided against supporting Jeb Bush because “by virtue of his last name, he cannot beat Hillary Clinton. That disqualifies him.”
As for Mr. Christie, Mr. Simpson said, “I thought Christie did a great job in his first year and that was the last time he had any success. He hasn’t accomplished anything since his first year and seems to have been running for president the whole time. I had really high hopes for Christie but he petered out and became a big disappointment. My property taxes are still outrageous.” Keep on reading...

Feds launch criminal investigation into New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?

If only the Feds were as concerned about the IRS targeting taxpayers because of their political beliefs...

Via ABC News:

Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, as well as members of his administration, a man at the center of the investigation told ABC News.

The U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey has interviewed former Hunterdon County Assistant Prosecutor Bennett Barlyn, who claims he was fired because he objected to Christie officials dismissing indictments against political allies of the governor. Barlyn confirmed the investigation to ABC News. It was first reported by the International Business Times. 

“It is true,” Barlyn told ABC News, saying he was interviewed by federal authorities at his Pennsylvania home this week. “I also provided the investigators with names of people I thought could furnish firsthand information.” 

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey joins the 1%

This is how Obama did it.

Via NYT:

As Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey waited to depart on a trade mission to Israel in 2012, his entourage was delayed by a late arrival: Mr. Christie’s father, who had accidentally headed to the wrong airport.
A commercial flight might have left without him, but in this case, there was no rush. 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.
Mr. Christie loaded the plane with his wife, three of his four children, his mother-in-law, his father and stepmother, four staff members, his former law partner and a state trooper.
King Abdullah of Jordan picked up the tab for a Christie family weekend at the end of the trip. The governor and two staff members who accompanied him came back to New Jersey bubbling that they had celebrated with Bono, the lead singer of U2, at three parties, two at the king’s residence, the other a Champagne reception in the desert. But a small knot of aides fretted: The rooms in luxurious Kempinski hotels had cost about $30,000; what would happen if that became public?
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Image of the Day: Governor Christie holds hands with Nancy Pelosi...

I would seriously consider cutting my hand off. 

 
Via North Jersey

Governor Christie and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi put aside their partisan political differences — and at one point clasped hands in prayer — to celebrate the opening of a drug treatment and workforce development center in Jersey City Monday.
The celebration of Martin’s Place, named after Martin Luther King Jr., drew a mix of politicians to the heavily Democratic city. Former Gov. Brendan Byrne, a Democrat, and former Gov. Tom Kean, a Republican sat alongside Christie, a Republican considering a run for president.

Chris Christie's Opinion of Hobby Lobby Decision: "Who knows"

It looks like Chris Christie's big pair has shriveled some...

Interesting: Bridget Anne Kelly, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former deputy chief of staff, might cooperate in Bridgegate investigation

Lawyers tapped for the Internal investigation have cleared Chris Christie of wrongdoing in the Bridgegate scandal, but the report was hard on Gov. Chris Christie's former deputy chief of staff. She is not a happy camper.

In a statement obtained by the Newark-based Star-Ledger newspaper, Kelly's attorney Michael Critchley condemned the Christie-commissioned report released on Thursday, saying "the report's venomous, gratuitous, and inappropriate sexist remarks concerning Ms. Kelly have no place in what is alleged to be a professional and independent report."
He also hinted that, given the right circumstances, Kelly would cooperate with the investigation. "Ms. Kelly is not a liar," he said in the statement. "If Ms. Kelly were provided with the appropriate procedural safeguards," he went on, she would be "fully cooperative" with the probe.

NJ Gov. Chris Christie booed at Super Bowl event

Change...

Via Politicker:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal today followed him all the way across the George Washington Bridge and into New York City.
At a Times Square Super Bowl hand-off ceremony, where Mr. Christie was on hand to pass the figurative baton to Arizona’s governor, who will host the game next year, Mr. Christie was booed both when he was introduced and as he addressed the sports fans gathered.
“We hate traffic! We hate traffic!” a heckler chanted in the back of the crowd.
“Boooooo!” someone else yelled.

Several other journalists reported hearing boos as well.

Former Port Authority official and high school friend of Christie claims he knew...

Ruh, Roh!

Via The New York Times:

The former Port Authority official who personally oversaw the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, central to the scandal now swirling around Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, said on Friday that “evidence exists” the governor knew about the lane closings when they were happening.

In a letter released by his lawyer, the former official, David Wildstein, a high school friend of Mr. Christie’s who was appointed with the governor’s blessing at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the bridge, described the order to close the lanes as “the Christie administration’s order” and said “evidence exists as well tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference” three weeks ago.

Gov. Chris Christie's re-election campaign and the state Republican Party get grand jury subpoenas

Hmm...

 Via NYT:

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey conducting a preliminary inquiry into accusations that aides to Gov. Chris Christie shut down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge as political retribution have issued grand jury subpoenas to Mr. Christie’s re-election campaign and to the state Republican Party, the lawyer for the campaign and the party said Thursday.
A person briefed on the matter said the prosecutors had also issued grand jury subpoenas to a number of the 20 people and entities — including both potential witnesses and people who have come under scrutiny in the inquiry — that received subpoenas last week from a New Jersey legislative committee whose investigation largely parallels the federal inquiry.
“We can confirm that the Christie for Governor re-election campaign and the New Jersey Republican State Committee received subpoenas for documents from the U.S. Attorney’s office, in addition to the subpoena the campaign previously received from the state legislative committee,” the lawyer, Mark D. Sheridan, said in an email.
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Governor Chris Christie calls for an end to the war on drugs...

Well, it has been an abysmal failure. However you feel about legalizing some currently illegal substances, the current system isn't effective. It's time to try something different.

“We will end the failed war on drugs that believes that incarceration is the cure of every ill caused by drug abuse. We will make drug treatment available to as many of our non-violent offenders as we can and we will partner with our citizens to create a society that understands this simple truth: every life has value and no life is disposable,” Christie said during his inaugural speech this morning.
The governor expressed desire to help those struggling with drug addiction in a bipartisan manner. “And, while government has a role in ensuring the opportunity to accomplish these dreams, we have now learned that we have an even bigger role to play as individual citizens. We have to be willing to play outside the red and blue boxes the media and pundits put us in; we have to be willing to reach out to others who look or speak differently than us; we have to be willing to personally reach out a helping hand to a neighbor suffering from drug addiction, depression or the dignity stripping loss of a job,” said Christie.
Governor Christie’s inaugural remarks are being applauded by drug policy reform advocates.

Chris Christie is in trouble with major GOP donors?

The Tea Party isn't going to bail him out. That's a fact.

Via the Corner:

By the time Christie romped to reelection in November, the chattering class was pronouncing him the front-runner in the race to clinch the GOP nomination in the 2016 presidential election. Some were comparing him to George W. Bush, who was elected after Democrats held the White House for eight years and who, in the final years of his governorship, courted donors and party operatives in Austin as he plotted his run for office.
No longer.
“The idea that he’s the prohibitive front-runner is over,” says a Republican strategist. Among the party’s money men, the reaction to the scandal that has rocked Trenton for the past week is divided. While some remain firmly supportive, others say the release of e-mails showing that one of Christie’s top aides colluded to close traffic lanes leading onto the George Washington Bridge has confirmed their worst suspicions about him. “This is one of the few moments where there’s not a pack mentality,” says the strategist.

Gov. Chris Christie's credibility on Bridgegate denial takes a hit...

Hmm...

Via WSJ:

Gov. Chris Christie was with the official who arranged the closure of local lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 11, 2013 — the third day of the closures, and well after they had triggered outrage from local officials beset by heavy traffic.
It isn’t known what, if anything, Mr. Christie discussed with David Wildstein that day, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official was among the delegation of Mr. Christie’s representatives who welcomed him to the site of the World Trade Center for the commemoration of the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks there…
Mr. Christie addressed Mr. Wildstein in a news conference last week, saying he had not encountered him “in a long time.”
“I have had no contact with David Wildstein in a long time, a long time, well before the election,” which was held Nov. 5, Mr. Christie said last week. “You know, I could probably count on one hand the number of conversations I’ve had with David since he worked at the Port Authority. I did not interact with David.”

Fort Lee Mayor to Chris Christie: “Don’t call me, but call the families who were waiting three, four times longer for emergency service agencies..."

Why is NJ Gov Chris Christie hiding records of where federal funding for Hurricane Sandy victims is going?

Perhaps he is using this money as his secret doughnut fund...

Via Breitbart:

The Asbury Park Press, a southern New Jersey newspaper, reported on Friday that the paper has been requesting information from Chris Christie’s administration for months on where federal funding for Hurricane Sandy victims is going–requests that, so far, have yielded nothing in return.
In a report by the Press’s Bob Jordan, the paper notes that the Christie administration had promised they would release government records of how Sandy funds were being used–both federal funds (requested by the Fair Share Housing Center) and private funds from contracts (requested by the Press). To the paper’s request, the state had answered that they would be sharing “hundreds” of files on the matter, including those surrounding funds for the statewide “Stronger than the Storm” ad campaign, “on a rolling basis” starting in October.
Having heard nothing of the sort out of Trenton, the paper aired its grievances with Christie on Friday.
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Finally, a reason to start the 'Elect Chris Christie to Senate Campaign'

Obama would miss he best bro...

(CNN) - Exactly how disgusted is Chris Christie with the total lack of compromise in Washington?

"If I was in the Senate right now, I'd kill myself," the Republican governor of New Jersey told the Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board. The response came when Christie was asked what he would do if he was a member of the upper chamber during the current crisis.