Christie's disappearing "values." What is he hiding?

by: Adam L

Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 07:30:59 PM EDT

If you haven't heard the latest, here is one that will hurt Chris Christie from both the left and the right. Seems like his "Shared Values" page from his website has been taken down. Now, you may ask, "so, what's the point"?

Well, here is what the missing page used to say:

"I am pro-life." [....]
"I also believe marriage should be exclusively between one man and one woman [....]I believe that marriage should remain the exclusive domain of one man and one woman. If a bill legalizing same sex marriage came to my desk as Governor, I would veto it. If the law were changed by judicial fiat, I would be in favor of a constitutional amendment on the ballot so that voters, not judges, would decide this important social question."
I am honored to have been endorsed by many key pro-life leaders from around New Jersey including Congressman Chris Smith, former Mayor Bret Schundler, State Senator Gerald Cardinale and State Assemblyman Jay Webber. I am devoted to giving a voice to and taking action for those that are unable to protect themselves.

Christie's campaign said that the page was taken down "for technical reasons". Now, I wonder if it is because he "technically" didn't really mean that during the primaries when he ran hard to the right - causing many of Lonegan's supporters to question whether he was pandering then. Or, it could be because he wants to run and hide from his "true values" - ones that are far outside of the mainstream and pander to the far right.

So, this is even worse than saying these things in the first place - the true conservatives have to wonder if Christie was trying to play them in the primaries. And independents, moderates and the roughly 50% of NJ voters who don't know enough about Christie should wonder if he is trying to cover up his true positions - just as he is covering up for all of his other conflicts of interest and corrupt ties.

I wonder if this will go back up on his site when it is "revamped". If not, Christie should explain why something that he was so proud of proclaiming a few weeks and months ago is suddenly something that he doesn't want New Jerseyans to know about.

Either way - it doesn't look good for Christie.

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Rolling eyes (4.00 / 2)

Chris Chrisite: Running from the Values he lied about having.

activist for hire.

by: Jay Lassiter @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 00:42:15 AM UTC

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I look forward (0.00 / 0)

to seeing his old values appear as they were on his new website. I've never seen someone say they took something down because they were moving it to a new website.

He said the campaign is planning to relaunch the Web site in coming days and was taking down things added to the original site.

So does that mean they haven't done anything else on the new site yet since this is the only section removed and transferred apparently?

by: Jason Springer @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 09:40:15 AM UTC

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look under Questions for Chris (0.00 / 0)

the shared values content apparently was repurposed for this section.

by: denniscmcgrath @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 11:44:48 AM UTC

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not really better though (0.00 / 0)

here is the link and much of the strong right wing language is gone.

It still leads to questions on why he felt the need to retool only his "conservative credentials" and nothing else.

Scott Garrett - on the wrong side of, well, everything.

by: Adam L @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 12:16:43 PM UTC

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