Chris Christie on the Beach

Crockett

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The New Jersey Governor, never one to shy from in-your-face abrasiveness, had his picture taken on a New Jersey Beach after issuing an order to shut down government services, which includes New Jersey State beaches.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chris-ch...use-shuttered-n-j-public-beach-143608505.html

I'm really not against a governor taking advantage of state issued perks for a job he does.

Mostly, I'd like to know where he got his beach chair. It looks really sturdy.
 
Crockett said:
The New Jersey Governor, never one to shy from in-your-face abrasiveness, had his picture taken on a New Jersey Beach after issuing an order to shut down government services, which includes New Jersey State beaches.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chris-ch...use-shuttered-n-j-public-beach-143608505.html

I'm really not against a governor taking advantage of state issued perks for a job he does.

Mostly, I'd like to know where he got his beach chair. It looks really sturdy.
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Use the "retreat" governors mansion...but he was pretty stupid to step out onto the beach after playing the close all beaches card as a budget negotiation maneuver. I used to think Christie was pretty bright and unfairly maligned because he wasn't extreme enough in either direction. Now he's simply acting. His political career appears to be over which his approval rating hovering around 15%.
 
OUBubba said:
I think it's much ado about nothing. Bad optics? Yes. Big deal? No. The guy lives there.
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He doesn't live there....it's a vacation mcmansion the state provides for the governor. I agree that using the mansion was not an issue. It's the beach that was the problem. Unless your name is Trump, supporters/voters have a general disdain for the "do as I say, not as I do" actions.
 
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Government shutdowns are bogus altogether. Politicians always seem to figure out how to keep the shutdowns from personally impacting them.

Basically they're about political theater - make the shutdown broad enough to inconvenience people on a superficial level and get their attention (closed parks and furloughed employees who will later be given backpay and therefore a free vacation - and rightfully so, BTW) but not broad enough to cause real crisis (closed schools, shutdown police, fire departments, entitlement benefits, and military).

If politicians can work out budgets to keep "essential services" (a meaningless and arbitrary term that actually just means "politically consequential") functioning, then why can't they work out budgets for all programs? Are the public park budgets tougher to work out than the dramatically larger and more politically charged public school budgets? I can't imagine that being true.
 
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Mr. Deez said:
I've never seen anybody sink so far. He's the Enron stock of politicians.
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Notwithstanding countless bad decisions, it's beyond me how CC would dare hang out in Jerry Jones' skybox and cheer for the Cowboys during a playoff game.

The NJ gov lives and works 60 or so miles from where the Giants play. Sure it seems harmless but those people take traitorous sports allegiances seriously, especially from the guy running their state and representing them.

The Cowboys/Giants rivalry has been at its heights in recent years. And there's tubby on prime time TV cheering demonstrably for the team his constituents intensely hate.

As a Cowboy faithful I thought it was awesome, which means people in New Jersey were sickened by it. :smile1:
 
Brad Austin said:
Notwithstanding countless bad decisions, it's beyond me how CC would dare hang out in Jerry Jones' skybox and cheer for the Cowboys during a playoff game.

The NJ gov lives and works 60 or so miles from where the Giants play. Sure it seems harmless but those people take traitorous sports allegiances seriously, especially from the guy running their state and representing them.

The Cowboys/Giants rivalry has been at its heights in recent years. And there's tubby on prime time TV cheering demonstrably for the team his constituents intensely hate.

As a Cowboy faithful I thought it was awesome, which means people in New Jersey were sickened by it. :smile1:
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Dang, I agree with you. A guy who obviously had no concern for optics even before his rise/fall. I listened to a "liberal" journalist who knew him from high school and spoke very well of him. He just said, as we grew into adulthood we disagreed but he always looked up to Christie. He did hand it to Marco that one day.
 
OUBubba said:
He did hand it to Marco that one day.
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He absolutely did. I was a Rubio supporter and it was a devastating blow. Rubio was still rolling strong at the point, and CC ended any outside chance he had in that debate.

In a race (both sides) highly fueled by desires to rid Washington of double-talking politicians, CC trapped Rubio into looking like the very definition of the enemy.
 
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