False Advertising

by: Adam L

Wed Nov 24, 2010 at 02:15:50 PM EST

Chris Christie has learned from this and is trying to perfect it here in New Jersey before the citizens of this State find out.  One can certainly look at his consistent "aggressively defensive" behavior when called to defend its questionable nature when it comes to what you see is NOT what you get, as much as he likes to say it is.

And as he enters his second year as Governor, we also see signs of the carefully crafted façade meant to hide a very disturbing and dark side more interested in accumulating power to settle personal scores.  He talks about "education reform" but sides with an admitted liar smear artist making an example of a special education teacher who happened to throw herself in front of a van to save her students as a contrast to his so-called virtuous side.  A side that has him portraying himself as looking out for students and "good teachers"; yet he blames teachers for the students not having adequate supplies and calls the students "drug mules" in the fight he picked with the teachers union.

Even his "YouTube moments", where he gleefully starts a fight with a constituent, a reporter or anyone who doesn't suck up to him are completely manufactured - and that is when someone sneaks through his handpicked "fanboy" Town Hall meetings - just like the ones that George W. Bush used to hold when he was trying to dismantle the social security system.

His "Reform Jersey Now" fund that is controlled by friends and political allies with secret donations and no transparency is a backdrop for his hand-picked Town Hall meetings where he is all about other people's transparency - as long as he and his closest buddies don't have to abide.

He scoffs at any compromise and flat out lies about being victimized when his lies are easy to refute with actual text messages or emails, videotape or other documentation - being shown as the Emperor with No Clothes (sorry for the visual).

And his signature issue - the property tax "toolkit" and cap masquerade as something new, even though a cap already exists, his proposals merely shift any responsibility from him to the local levels and none of them address the real underlying issue of "home rule" and consolidation of services; for starters.

We already know that he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt for his many contradictions and conflicts of interest and "do as I say, not as I do" edicts.  We also know that Christie uses the same methods of distraction to cover up the fact that what he says and what he does are usually opposite.