1. First, Prince Harry went to Mantoloking and got a fleece jacket,
Greeting Prince Harry at the Jersey Shore the best way I know how; with his own Royal Fleece: twitter.com/GovChristie/st…
— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) May 14, 2013
Maybe there’s something to the fleece,
2. In case you were looking, Napoleon’s penis is in New Jersey. Jimmy Hoffa’s whereabouts are yet to be confirmed.
ABC, CNN and NBC are shocked, shocked! that NJ governor Chris Chistie was not invited to speak at CPAC this year. There’s even a Memeorandum link by now.
Apparently their hopes of Christie being a front-runner among conservatives have been dashed, since “At least eight potential presidential contenders will be speaking at CPAC”. You’d think that by now, political reporters would have figured out that Republican and conservative are not synonyms.
But let’s not disabuse them of their notions, and encourage them to believe that, if Governor Christie beeeehaves, he’ll be invited to next year’s Oscars.
This actually looks interesting,
Tune in Sunday, January 15 to see Oprah travel to the home of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to discuss his lifelong struggle with weight, why he resisted a run for the White House and more.
Leave it to Chris Christie to put a heckler in its place,
UPDATE, Tuesday, 10 January,
Some woman at Slate, clearly not from NJ (where we all know what’s going down is about to happen), is in high dudgeon, claiming that N.J. Gov. Chris Christie Responds to Female Hecklers With Offensive Oral Sex Joke.
Rick Moran did some research,
I believe the proper nomenclature Ms. Bosch is looking for is “going down on,” not simply “going down.” The fact is, there might be 50 uses for the phrase “going down” — including the usage Mr. Christie was employing, which, according to the Online Slang Dictionary, was “to happen” as in “It’s about to go down.” (Sorry Ms. Bosch: No reference to oral sex in the OSD.)
Don Surber has the Top-10 P*rn lines from Star Wars,
WaPo bulletin:
Chris Christie not running for president in 2012, source says
Christie has called a 1 pm press conference in Trenton to announce the decision.
We need him in NJ.
UPDATE, 1:03PM,
“New Jersey, whether you like it or not, you’re stuck with me.”
Christie confirms he’s not running.
VIdeo:
Governor shoots down ‘Jersey Shore’ tax credit
Christie suspended the film tax credit program in 2010 to close a budget deficit, but the 2009 season still qualified for the credit.
“I have no interest in policing the content of such projects,” Christie said in a statement. “However, as chief executive I am duty-bound to ensure that taxpayers are not footing a $420,000 bill for a project which does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the State and its citizens.”
To those of you who don’t live in New Jersey, please be advised that orange-dyed overexposed (in every meaning of the word) inebriated louts are the exception, not the rule, to the Garden State’s inhabitants.
Jersey Shore is awful enough that companies pay the orange-dyed “stars” not to use their products:
The Situation doesn’t usually require a lot of motivation to lose the shirt. But Abercrombie & Fitch wants him to go one further — the company has offered to pay “Jersey Shore” cast members to stop wearing clothes carrying their brand.
The preppy teen retailer said Tuesday it would pay a “substantial payment” to Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino or any cast member who stops wearing its clothing on the popular MTV reality show because the series is “contrary to the aspirational nature of the brand.”
Coach didn’t like Snooki carrying their purse to the bar, either.
Thank you, Governor Christie for ending the $420,000 Jersey Shore tax break.
And, A&F, you can pay me to not wear your clothes any time, too.
Cross-posted in The Green Room.
Christie’s Too-Good Reasons for Not Running
As was the case with Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie’s reasons for not running, ironically, prove that he would have been a worthwhile candidate.
His family comes first, along with the fact that
3) I’m staying in New Jersey. I am not just going to quit halfway through my term. The people trusted me, and I feel like I owe that trust and faith some fidelity.
The paradox, that is, that the best qualified are not the ones who would choose to run, is what makes politics what it is.
while talking about Governor Christie: N.J. Senate President Stephen Sweeney was in the middle of a live interview,
Lightning Almost Hits Christie Foe On TV: MyFoxPHILLY.com
Gateway Pundit says it’s a sign! I say it’s the weather.
New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Benefits Rollback for Work Force
New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday approved a broad rollback of benefits for 750,000 government workers and retirees, the deepest cut in state and local costs in memory, in a major victory for Gov. Chris Christie and a once-unthinkable setback for the state’s powerful public employee unions.
The Assembly passed the bill 46 to 32, as Republicans and a few Democrats defied raucous protests by thousands of people whose chants, vowing electoral revenge, shook the State House. Leaders in the State Senate said their chamber, which had already passed a slightly different version of the bill, would approve the Assembly version on Monday. Mr. Christie, a Republican, was expected to sign the measure into law quickly.
It wasn’t simply “a few” Democrats. As Tom Blumer points out,
Given that the Assembly has 47 Democrats and 33 Republicans, it took more than “a few Democrats” to get the law passed in the Assembly by the 46-32 margin indicated. If all Republicans voted “yes,” 13 Democrats, or over a quarter of the total, also had to support the bill.
Indeed, both the Senate and the Assembly are controlled by Democrats, by 60% and 59%.
The legislation will sharply increase what state and local workers must contribute for their health insurance and pensions, suspend cost-of-living increases to retirees’ pension checks, raise retirement ages and curb the unions’ contract bargaining rights. It will save local and state governments $132 billion over the next 30 years, by the administration’s estimate, and give the troubled benefit systems a sounder financial footing, mostly by shifting costs onto workers.
Workers in the private sector have been doing that forever, and paying for the government workers’, too.
Senate president Steven Sweeney, Democrat, supported the bill.
The fight over benefits reflected both Mr. Christie’s ability to exploit the divisions among Democrats, through his alliances with more conservative Democratic party bosses and legislators, and his success at using the public-sector unions as a foil in his drive to shrink government spending. It has also allowed a nationally known but highly polarizing governor to claim the mantle of bipartisan conciliation, telling audiences that New Jersey is setting an example that other states and the federal government should follow.
The bill applies to all state government workers and
to a much larger number of county, town and school district workers, because most local governments participate in the state-run pension and health care systems.
Stacy and Jazz are amazed that the people of New Jersey may even be understanding the state’s dire fiscal situation.
Who knows, at this rate, maybe Americans will understand the nation’s dire fiscal situation.
The grey-haired lady, which the Star Ledger says is a “retired history teacher”?
WyBLog googled her,
She’s Co-Chair of the Government Relations Committee for the Hudson County Education Association (ie the Teachers’ Union).
One could only wish the reporters could actually, ehm, report.
