Who Will Take The Silver?

by: Couch Potato Politics

Fri Feb 25, 2011 at 07:33:59 PM EST

Call it clever politicking or call it an outright baiting the hook but no matter what you call it, it is a shameless and vile attempt to place a target of hate on the backs of hardworking, middle-class public workers.

A governor is supposed to represent all of the citizens, not just those who are ideologically aligned with him. This governor has showed that he will not bend or negotiate anything to his ideological opposites. He acts as if a weak democratic voter turnout were some kind of mandate empowering him to run roughshod over public workers and union members throughout New Jersey. At the same time, he begs poverty for the state and asks nothing of the millionaires in sacrifice and, in fact, asks less of them than anyone else in the state.

Given recent events regarding New Jersey State Public Defender, Yvonne Smith Segars' letter exposing Christie's attack on her constitutionally protected position, it begs the question, "Does this man know have no shame?"

It is time for a careful reflection on the last year of Chris Christie's performance and to ask the honest questions. Who does he really represent, the majority population of New Jersey in the working poor and middle class or the millionaires and his own aspirations to higher office? Performance would speak to the latter.