(Flickr/Bob Jagendorf) As you might have heard, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, whom many Republicans are begging to enter the presidential race, is facing a bit of a PR problem, since he took a state helicopter to go to his son’s baseball game, then exited the helicopter and was driven the last 100 yards to […]
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Chris Christie’s Curious Relationship with the Truth
Yesterday, The New York Times took a moment to note New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie‘s loose relationship with the truth: Mr. Christie, a Republican who took office in January 2010, would hardly be the first politician to indulge in hyperbole or gloss over facts. But his misstatements, exaggerations and carefully constructed claims belie the national […]
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Chris Christie Joins The Stealth Jihad.
The “stealth jihad” isn’t just for Muslims anymore — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has come under fire from conservatives over his appointment of Indian American Muslim lawyer Sohail Mohammed to the state bench. George Zornick is documenting the freak-out — my favorite reaction has to be from Scott Johnson at Powerline, who notes, “The […]
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Chris Christie Will Yell at You, Give You Millions.
Jason Zengerle has a new profile of New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who apparently does his best to manufacture the famous YouTube moments where he berates constituents who disagree with him. But what interests me far more than his media strategy is his strategy for buying off local Democratic Party bosses: His political alliance […]
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Great Job, Chris Christie.
Last month, I noted New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie‘s opposition to a federal rail project that would have doubled rail capacity under the Hudson River as well as provided tens of thousands of needed jobs to New Jerseyans. The project, which would have been the largest infrastructure investment in the country, was yet another victim […]
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Chris Christie is Just an Observer.
At least, that’s what he said in a press conference yesterday on the Cordoba House controversy: My principles on this are two-fold. One, that we have to acknowledge, respect and give some measure of deference to the feelings of the family members who lost their loved ones there that day. But it would be wrong […]
