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The Contrarian: With Friends Like These…

Veronica Rajadnya — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:04:31 +0000

Governor Chris Christie’s official endorsement of GOP candidate Mitt Romney evokes the image of a precocious schoolboy responding to the newly enacted anti-bullying legislation in NJ:

Standing up for one of his shier classmates with a grandiose display of support, the student defends the other for those aspects of their character that incited negativity (“He’s not a kiss-ass; he just knows how to work the grown-ups…”) and chides the others for acting in such a manner unbecoming (“Bullying is against the rules now and it’s just dumb; it’s not like you have a good reason to tease him except…

The Freak Show: Run, Christie, Run… Or Not!

Hal B. Selzer — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:22:22 +0000

Governor Chris Christie recently announced [again] that he will not bow to the wishes of the Republicans clamoring for him to get into the race for the Republican nomination for 2012. He has said before he won’t run, so it’s not exactly news, however he had given some indications of vacillating about the decision. Could he change his mind again at this point? Yes, but it does seem like the time frame wouldn’t allow him to make a run at this late date in the primary process.

There’s good reason why Republicans have been so anxious to get him into…

Reality Check: GOP Vacuum

James Campion — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:31:30 +0000

In the 6/22/11 submission of this space, “The Courtship Of Chris Christie,” I referred to several members of the New Jersey governor’s staff emphatically repeating the same thing: Under no circumstances would Christie be running for President of the United States next year. Period. In fact, the further the conversations progressed, the more agitated the voices became. It was as if I were joking or idly prodding to make a mockery of what Christie had told several CPAC gatherings and would be telling the former mayor of New York and perpetual fringe candidate Rudy Giuliani in what was considered…

Reality Check: The Courtship Of Chris Christie

James Campion — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:19:57 +0000

Desperate Republicans Beg New Jersey Governor to Beat Obama

“I’m 100 percent certain I’m not going to run,” New Jersey’s Governor told CNN this week. It is the same thing he’s told the local press for months and what Chris Christie told the Republican elite this past winter. It is what he said matter-of-factly to former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani a couple of days ago at a very public Manhattan power lunch. Soon he will be forced to repeat this to a committee of five separate conservative groups and one national Tea Party fund-raising firm next week when…

Deleted Scenes: Get To The Choppa!

JJ Koczan — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:32:17 +0000

A big—and frankly, enjoyable—stink was made this past week when our illustrious rising Republican star governor, Chris Christie, while taking a break from cutting school budgets, hating gays and swiping giant lollipops from bonnet-clad babies in oversized strollers (or whatever it is he does with his afternoons), took a helicopter to watch his son play baseball. This, my friends, is adorable.

It’s a perk of the job, was the argument from his office. Actually, what they said was more or less, “The money’s spent anyway and if we don’t let them fly, the pilots just get drunk and gropey, so…

The Freak Show: Time For The Republicans To Put Up Or Shut Up

Hal B. Selzer — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:48:53 +0000

The midterm elections are over, and the Republican Party now controls the House of Representatives, and while they don’t control the Senate, they have enough of a presence to help dictate what legislation gets through. So let’s see if the so-called “party of no” will use their gains to try and get some of their ideas enacted.

Both Senator elect Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey have pointed out that the Republican gains aren’t a mandate, but a choice by the people to give them a shot, and they are now, essentially, on probation. Gov.…

Politics and Thieves: Chris Christie Spikes the Muslim Political Football

John R. Bohrer — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:52:12 +0000

Chris Christie is back from vacation, rested and ready to kick some ass.

At a press conference earlier this week, state senate President Steve Sweeney welcomed back the New Jersey governor and said, “You look great.”

“Bad news for you guys,” Chris quipped.

Aw, it’s funny because it’s true. Because Governor Christie isn’t just making state legislators look bad, he’s making politicians everywhere look like chumps. He did so by taking an admirable position on the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” which the AP thinks is an odd moniker since it’s a Muslim community center and not actually at the World…

Before Media Hits, Chris Christie Snooki Socks 136,000 Jersey Girls

John R. Bohrer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:08:32 +0000

It’s not good for New Jersey to have a bar that celebrates the moment when a large intoxicated man punched out a petite young lady over a stolen drink. But stop by The Beachcomber in Seaside Heights and maybe you’ll get to sit in “Snooki’s Chair,” the very perch from which the MTV‘s Jersey Shore starlet was knocked. And don’t worry if the seat’s taken: you can still order a “Snooki Punch,” which swishes rum, melon liquor, pineapple juice and cream into a cocktail that no one would dare fight over.

Stuff like this hurts New Jersey’s image…

Chris Christie: The Bully-Leader Bows Booker, Tops Trenton

John R. Bohrer — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:05:06 +0000

This month’s Quinnipiac poll asked New Jersey to choose: is Gov. Chris Christie a ‘bully’ or a ‘leader’? As if the two are mutually exclusive! Teddy Roosevelt was both a bully and a leader. (The guy was probably even shouting, “Bully!” whilst leading people.) For anyone who’s been following state government lately, the answer is undeniable: the Republican mammoth is both bully and leader.

Because Christie grasps what Jimmy Breslin calls the essential truth of political power: it’s smoke and mirrors. An illusion. “If people think you have power,” writes Jimmy The Great, “then you have power. If…

New Jersey’s Faux Revolution: Governor Chris Christie’s Reduce Government Experiment

James Campion — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:33:07 +0000

When the Reality Check News & Information Desk moved its operations to the mountains of Northwestern New Jersey in the late summer of 2001, there was some trepidation as to the level of local politics it would cover. There had been major fallout in New York from years of underhanded and admittedly vicious attacks, not to mention ill-conceived unabashed mockery from Albany to Gracie Mansion, never mind Westchester contacts that became both rankled and legally vindictive. But the pull of N.J. politics and its tawdry history whet our appetite for shenanigans like never before.

When called upon we came with…