Loretta Weinberg lobbies Christie on 101.5

by: Rosi Efthim

Fri May 20, 2011 at 09:40:44 AM EDT

"Loretta in Teaneck" comes on at 22:17, saying she hopes she finds a kinder, gentler governor this time (she does not). She lets him know she reintroduced the bill to restore $7.5 million state funding for women's health care, which he has thwarted, sidestepped and avoided allowing his Treasurer to explain why the Christie front office thinks funding is unworkable. As soon as Weinberg is off he phone (and Christie has the microphone to himself) he accuses Weinberg of wanting to run NJ "down a rat hole" with your money.

Christie's false claim that denying this funding - and making Weinberg and other legislative advocates come up with funding alternative after funding alternative, all of which he ignores - as not fiscally responsible is not credible. It's not that there is no money. It's about Christie's funding priorities, which means it's about Christie's political ideology (and not, as he claims, about Weinberg's). Even 101.5's Eric Scott seems to grasp this. He finds millions for corporate welfare. For glitzy casinos. For white elephant superdupermalls with 600-foot ski slopes (ironically by the same $400 million figure he blew with NJ's Race to the Top money). Christie's solution is largely to direct women seeking care to go to hospitals, an obviously non-efficient way to get care, and an unwanted overloaded of non-emergent patients in hospital ERs.

Click the arrow in screen's lower left, not the middle, to start video.
Christie arrives at 2:28 & starts speaking at 3:20.
Weinberg calls in at 2:28.
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