RINO Chris Christie screws the GOP again...

NJ Governor Chris Christie will have a special election this fall to fill Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s term. He won't have it at the regular election time because he doesn't want those extra democratic voters to turn out then. There is no requirement to call a special election. Christie could appoint a Republican to fill out Lautenberg’s term.

Via National Review:

Governor Chris Christie is expected to call for an October 2013 special Senate election at a press conference this afternoon in Trenton, N.J.

But did he have other options?

According to a legal document obtained by National Review, Christie did. He could have appointed a Republican to serve out the remainder of Frank Lautenberg’s term, with the next election to be held in November 2014, rather than a special election this year.
“The governor may make a temporary appointment and that person would serve until someone is elected at the next succeeding general election, held in November of 2014.

The winner thereof would serve a full six-year term beginning in January of 2015.”

Insiders tell me that the November 2014 option was advised as the best course of action by national GOP officials, but Christie decided to go his own way.

Demo Sen. Frank Lautenberg: Planned Parenthood Opponents "Don't Deserve the Freedoms That Are in the Constitution"

More intolerance from the left...

Via RPC:
"They [Tea Party Republicans and the majority of Americans who don't want their tax dollars funding Planned Parenthood] don't deserve the freedoms in the Constitution, but we'll give it to them anyway."

NJ Gov. Chris Christie on Sen. Frank Lautenberg: “All he knows how to do is blow hot air,”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) isn't fond of Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg and he isn't afraid to say it.


The Hill reported:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is not particularly fond of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), saying in a recent interview that he is full of “hot air.”

The new governor said he did not appreciate Lautenberg’s criticism of his decision to cancel an $8.7. billion rail tunnel project that has been planned for more than a decade.

“All he knows how to do is blow hot air,” Christie said in a profile published in New York Magazine. “So I don’t really care what Frank Lautenberg has to say about much of anything.”