State Police Chief Says Christie Helicopter Denied Homeland Security and Training

by: huntsu

Wed Jun 01, 2011 at 03:46:02 PM EDT

It is important to understand that State Police helicopters fly daily homeland security missions, and use flight time for training purposes, more so lately as we acclimate our pilots to the new aircraft. These are flight hours that would be logged in any event.

So if Christie weren't traveling to watch his son play baseball and to be courted by rich Republicans at the tax-payer funded Governor's Mansion, that helicopter would have been flying homeland security missions and training state police personnel.

Nice.

The Bully is a Coward

by: huntsu

Sun May 08, 2011 at 10:32:00 AM EDT

While charming a town hall audience in Manalapan Wednesday, Gov. Chris Christie called on a woman who had an unusual question for him. She asked what he thought about creationism being taught in schools along with evolution.

The governor paused and took a sip of water, quipping, "That's a new one." It was also a tricky one for the governor of a moderate state whose conservative credentials help make him a GOP star. ...

"I think it's really a dangerous area for a governor who stands up from the top of the state to say you should teach this, you shouldn't teach that," Christie said.

No, Governor, it's not a tough one.  Here's what your answer should be: "Science should be taught in science classes, and religion should be taught in Sunday School."

It ain't rocket science, though maintaining your "conservative credentials" in the face of lunacy appears to be.

Christie: I was wrong

by: Hopeful

Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 05:00:00 PM EST

Christie said he was "wrong" in previously claiming that he would not be "bound by" the contract struck between unions and former Gov. Jon Corzine last June. The agreement called for 10 unpaid furlough days while deferring a wage increase in exchange for a no-layoff pledge through December 2010. It means two 3.5 percent wage increases are scheduled to take effect in the upcoming budget year, one in July and one in January.

No doubt Christie will try to drive a very hard bargain on the next contract, but Corzine did a good job in re-opening an existing contract, where he had traded pay increases for state workers having to pay for health care. When Corzine then wanted to take away the pay increases, he saved the state money while properly negotiating with the unions. Josh Zeitz puts it more unkindly:

"Chris Christie should be thanking Jon Corzine for saving him money," Zeitz said. "It's not Jon Corzine's fault that he doesn't understand the job ... He should try negotiating."

Another question is whether Christie knew he was wrong all along? I bet he did, his budget stories never held up to scrutiny, but after all, it worked. For unkindness and hilarity, let me go this time to conservative Rick Shaftan:

#RINO #Fraud @GOVCHRISTIE  WON'T LAYOFF ONE STATE WORKER

Christie Not Running As a Republican?

by: huntsu

Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 08:41:39 AM EDT

The Chairman of the Republican Party - the Grand Ol' Party - is reported to have said that Chris Christie is not running as a member of the party.

Richard LaRossa in PNJ reported that he has multi-sourced a comment by a frustrated Jay Webber (the bold is from the original):

According to multiple sources familiar with the meeting, an exasperated Webber blurted out: "This doesn't help Chris Christie because Chris Christie isn't out there running as the Republican candidate."

Jay Webber is the hand-picked Republican state chair of Chris Christie, and also is someone who ran against an incumbent Republican to get his Assembly seat.  And he says that Christie is not running as the Republican candidate.

Now, from a strategic perspective that's probably the right move.  Republicans are a significant minority in the state, and haven't won in a long time.  The positions of the Republican platform are unpopular in the state, so running an honest campaign and telling the voters of New Jersey what he actually intends to do would be a loser.

Christie cannot -- and Webber admits this -- win a campaign by telling the truth about what he wants to do as Governor.  He has to stick to platitudes like "end corruption" and "cut taxes" without telling anything about his real plans.

Which is why he won't tell us his real plans.  It's why he won't say what parts of the budget he will cut, how many employees he plans to lay off, what departments he intends to gut, what policies he wants to pursue.  

All he will do is stand there and say, "I put people in jail!  Cut taxes!"

Because telling the truth, for Christie, is a loser.

Terrorist Tried To Turn In FBI Informant -- For Terrorism!

by: huntsu

Fri May 11, 2007 at 07:37:43 AM EDT

There's the repeated political use of terror alerts, which suspiciously stopped right after the 2004 election. 

There's the "home grown" Florida terrorists who the government claimed wanted to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago but had no plan, no weapons and the only contact they had with al Qaeda was with the FBI informants. 

Now we have an amazing new twist to the Fort Dix Six where one of the "terrorists" Chris Christie arrested this week: he tried to turn in the FBI informant for plotting to attack Fort Dix!

Also, one of the men, Tatar, called a Philadelphia police officer in November, saying that he had been approached by someone who was pressuring him to obtain a map of Fort Dix, and that he feared the incident was terrorist-related, according to court documents.

Did Christie and the FBI know that one of their terrorists was trying to foil the terrorist plot?  And did the FBI or the US Attorney General tell the Philadelphia Police to back off?  It's another couple questions some enterprising reporter should ask him.