The Official Chris Christie Appreciation Thread

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Yawn.  You liberals can be so disingenuous.  You are nothing more than a dishonest Obama cheerleader. 

The good news for you is you have two more years to worship the nan. 

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Fat Man is speaking the truth.   

Gov. Chris Christie: Voters Have Had Enough of Big Spending, Taxes
Wednesday, 05 Nov 2014
By Wanda Carruthers

Voters were sending the message that they'd had enough of big spending and big taxes when they voted out Democratic Govs. Martin O'Malley in Maryland and Deval Patrick in Massachusetts in Tuesday's elections, New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie told "Fox & Friends."

"I think it's a repudiation of big spending, big taxing policies by Gov. Marty O'Malley in Maryland and Gov. Duval Patrick in Massachusetts. People don't want it," Christie said Wednesday.

As chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Christie traveled across the country during the 2014 election season, campaigning and raising money for GOP gubernatorial candidates. He said a map that showed there were now Republican governors in 32 states "looks absolutely fabulous."

Christie maintained Republicans won overwhelmingly in governors' races on Tuesday because voters saw they delivered results, something he said "people want more than anything else."

"We make sure we get the job done. We don't have a lot of bickering and arguing and rancor. We get our job done. And, I think that's what you're going to see from governors over the next two years," he said.

Though Christie explained the unpopularity of President Barack Obama didn't have a great deal to do with this year's gubernatorial elections, he said it did play a factor in why people were unhappy with the direction of the country.

"It's a reflection of the president's lack of leadership — his lack of leadership abroad, his lack of leadership at home. That's what it's a reflection of more than anything," he said.

With the 2014 elections over, Christie said people needed to "take a deep breath" before making predictions about who might run for president in 2016.

"It's a very serious decision for anybody to make to run for president of the United States. People should do that deliberately. And, then make whatever decision they think is best for themselves, their family, and our country," he said.

Christie, who has voiced interest in running for president, said he didn't worry about "punditry analysis" about his sometime brash demeanor, and explained he was "going to be direct and honest and blunt about how I feel about things."

"I think people will judge me up or down based on that," he said. "That's who I am."

http://www.Newsmax.com/Newsfront/Chris-Christie-Elections-Voters-message/2014/11/05/id/605464/#ixzz3IE4xqccC

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Christie Won't Resign as Gov. in Run for Presidency
Friday, 07 Nov 2014
By John Blosser

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to keep one foot firmly in Trenton if and when he makes a run for Washington, D.C.

If he decides to seek the Republican nomination for the White House in 2016, which pundits view as highly likely given Christie's stellar performance as a fundraiser and stumper for Republican candidates in the midterms, he plans to remain as governor while running his presidential campaign.

New Jersey State Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon, R-Monmouth, told NJ.com, "He told me directly that he had no intention of giving up his job. I got the distinct impression that he has no intention of leaving the governorship unless he’s resigning for another job or it’s the end of his term."

Christie's current, and second, term as New Jersey's leader will not expire until 2017 and, while he has not formally announced, he has made no secret of his presidential aspirations.

"A lot of people are salivating over it, but he has no intention of doing it (resigning)," O'Scanlon told The Star Ledger.

Nor does Christie have his eye on any post lower than that of president.

He told the Reuters, "I'm never running for office in New Jersey again. The only job left for me to run for is United States Senate and let me just say this: I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death."

Christie, supporters believe, could handle both tasks, running New Jersey and running for president.

As chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Christie raised a record-breaking $106 million and boosted the GOP to victory in 31 gubernatorial races. It was a performance which,

Phil Cox, RGA executive director, told NJ.com, showed Christie to be "an absolutely tireless and determined" chairman who brought "an incredible amount of energy to the job."

He spent over a third of his second term out of New Jersey, traveling to stump for Republican candidates around the country, NJ.com reports.

RealClearPolitics' average shows Christie running fourth for the Republican 2016 nomination, behind Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. But the poll is very close, with Paul only 0.2 percentage points ahead of Bush and 1.2 points ahead of Christie.

"He has dramatically demonstrated his political bona fides through his stint at the Republican Governors Association," O'Scanlon told the Star Ledger. "No one can argue he's not one of the most important people on the political scene right now."

The day after the elections, Christie lunched with billionaires Steve Wynn, the casino mogul, and real estate tycoon Richard LeFrak at Manhattan's Four Seasons Grill Room, leading to speculation that he was seeking backing for a 2016 run.

http://www.Newsmax.com/Politics/Christie-New-Jersey-governor-president/2014/11/07/id/606000/#ixzz3IPT2OWsT

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Go Fat Man . . . Go Fat Man . . . 

No evidence linking lane closures to Christie, report says
Published December 05, 2014
FoxNews.com

No evidence was found by New Jersey lawmakers to show New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was involved in a plot to close lanes near the George Washington Bridge last year.

Investigators found no conclusive evidence of whether or not Christie was aware of the closures. However, the investigation did find that two former aides of Christie acted with little regard for public safety when they closed lanes near the bridge, a 136-page interim report reveals.

A report commissioned by Christie previously cleared him of any wrongdoing and a lawyer for the governor said in a statement Thursday that the report corroborates that investigation.

"The Committee has finally acknowledged what we reported nine months ago — namely, that there is not a shred of evidence Governor Christie knew anything about the GWB lane realignment beforehand or that any current member of his staff was involved in that decision," Christie attorney Randy Mastro said in a statement.

The report will be supplemented if needed because several critical witnesses did not testify and some important questions remain unanswered.

Christie aides Bridget Anne Kelly and David Wildstein acted with “perceived impunity” by closing the lanes, the report says. It also said the Christie administration did not act quick enough to resolve the closures.

Documents released earlier this year showed that Wildstein, then an official at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Kelly, then an aide to Christie, orchestrated the shutdown, apparently as retribution toward Fort Lee's Democratic mayor. In one email, Kelly told Wildstein, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."

Wildstein later contended that Christie knew about the lane closures as they happened. Christie, a possible 2016 Republican presidential contender, denies that he had any role in or knowledge of a plot to shut down the lanes.

An investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office is continuing. No one has been charged.

The legislative panel is scheduled to meet on Monday to formally release the report to the public.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/05/no-evidence-linking-lane-closures-to-christie-report-says/?intcmp=latestnews

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Christie Preps for 2016, Has Late Nights on Foreign Policy
Monday, 22 Dec 2014

It's after 9 p.m. on a Sunday night in late November and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is deep into a conference call, talking about nuclear weapons and Iran.

One voice is advocating a hard line, arguing against allowing Iran any capability to enrich uranium. Another summarizes the status of current negotiations and argues that forcing Iran to give up enrichment entirely isn't realistic.

This is how Christie has spent many of his nights during a year in which he raised record-setting amounts of campaign cash for his fellow Republican governors and methodically tried to recover from a political scandal involving traffic jams near a New York City bridge. Late at night, away from the spotlight of the midterm elections and 2016 speculation, he's been on the phone with some of the brightest foreign policy minds in the Republican Party, getting ready to run for president.

"They've been much more quiet in general in their outreach and their approach than, say, (Texas Gov.) Rick Perry, who's been very public and active," said Lanhee Chen, who served as 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney's chief policy adviser and is among those that Christie's aides have sought out for guidance.

"And I think that reflects a difference in terms of what they perceive that they need to accomplish here very early on to be viable as presidential candidates," Chen said.

Such preparation is expected from prospective White House candidates, especially those such as Christie, a long-time politician in New Jersey and former U.S. attorney who lacks the foreign policy experience of the favorite for the Democratic nomination, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But the previously undisclosed prep sessions are another indication that Christie's political ambitions are undeterred by the George Washington Bridge scandal and the all-but-formal entry into the 2016 campaign of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a competitor for support among donors eager to back an establishment nominee.

The briefing efforts are led by Bob Grady, a longtime adviser to Christie and a former White House official who has become the point-man on policy in the tight-knit Christie circle. Assisting is Bob Zoellick, the former president of the World Bank and U.S. Trade Representative, and Brian Hook, a former assistant secretary of state who was the Romney campaign's senior adviser on foreign policy.

Zoellick and Grady said some of the sessions have covered Christie's recent trips to Mexico and Canada. Other topics have included Ukraine and Russia, the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq, Iran, and the U.S. defense budget.

The calls, which generally last about 90 minutes, typically begin with several experts discussing a region's history, recent developments and the views of foreign leaders of the countries involved, followed by a detailed question and answer session. The format is designed, they said, to expose Christie to multiple points of view and help him build a deeper understanding of history and world affairs.

"The idea is, the governor will form his own views, and this is the stage where he can get some sort of range of perspectives, some sense of questions that he should be thinking about," Zoellick said. "I personally think, having been through these since the '88 campaign in one form or another, is that it's the best way for him to actually think through and develop a foundation."

Christie has also met one-on-one or on the phone with officials, business leaders and academics, including former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger, and Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass.

While selling himself as a brash straight-talker, Christie has been notably reluctant to share his views about policy issues that fall outside his wheelhouse as governor. That includes immigration, which Christie has repeatedly said he won't discuss unless he chooses to run.

That has triggered criticism, with a Washington Post columnist suggesting Christie was at risk of becoming the "Rick Perry of 2016" — a reference to the Texas governor's dismal performance in 2012 and his inability to recall in one debate the details of his own plan to eliminate three federal departments.

While Christie and his aides have also been reluctant to share other details about their preparations, members of his team, led by his chief political adviser Mike DuHaime and money man Bill Palatucci, have begun a quiet outreach effort to potential donors as well as conservative activists, people familiar with the efforts said.

One of Christie's most loyal cheerleaders, Ken Langone, the billionaire founder of Home Depot, told The Associated Press that he's been chatting up friends and associates who may also be interested in backing a Christie campaign.

"As I talk, I'm keeping a list of people that, if the governor decides to run, these are the people I'm going to go to and say, 'Would you like to help?' " he said.

There is more to be done, and soon, should Christie want to stay competitive in a race defined by Bush's announcement last week that he plans to "actively explore" a campaign.

Christie's people have been less aggressive in feeling out potential staffers in early voting states, and he does not have any kind of political action committee to allow him to raise money to pay for his travel and other campaign preparation.

With nearly a dozen potential candidates raring to go, there is little time left for the behind-the-scenes approach. Florida's Mel Sembler, a former finance chair of the Republican National Committee, said he received a flurry of calls from donors last week telling him, "We're ready," following Bush's announcement.

"Sides," Sembler said, "are beginning to be drawn."

http://www.Newsmax.com/Politics/christie-foreign-policy-2016/2014/12/22/id/614428/#ixzz3Mg7NyyaP

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Christie says Jeb Bush's 2016 ambitions are not a factor
By Maeve Reston
Mon December 22, 2014

(CNN) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday night that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's steps toward a run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination would have no bearing on his own decision about whether to jump into the race, a decision he will make later this year.

Bush's announcement last week that he was "actively exploring" a run was a blow to Christie's ambitions because the two men will be competing for many of the same donors as they test their viability as candidates. But Bush will be leaning on a far deeper network of financial supporters that came together to back the winning presidential campaigns of his father, George H.W. Bush, and his brother, George W. Bush. Many of those donors were intrigued by Christie before the George Washington Bridge scandal broke earlier this year.

During an hour-long interview with Steve Adubato on NJTV, Christie said his decision would be based solely on three factors.

"Is it right for me? Is it right for my family? Is it right for the country ... If I answer 'yes' to all three of those things then I will run. If I don't answer 'yes' to all three then I won't," he said.

Adubato pressed him on how much a run by Bush would affect his plans.

"It's not one of the three questions," Christie said with a faint smile. He did not elaborate on his thoughts or make any comments sizing up Bush as competition.

Christie, who has faced many questions about his temperament as he has moved on to the national stage, also waved off questions about whether his brusque and sometimes confrontational manner would wear well over time.

Adubato noted that Christie's demeanor has in many ways been "his calling card" and how he gets "stuff done," but asked whether he would modulate his behavior to appear more "presidential. "

"No," Christie responded with characteristic bluntness. "Why would I? It's who I am."

"If people want somebody different, then if I ever ran for president, they'd vote for somebody different," he said. "I don't intend to become a phony to win an election."

Christie added that members of the public rarely ask him about those traits, and argued that the subject is an obsession of reporters. In a recent incident where he told a heckler to "sit down and shut up," he noted that many news outlets only ran that sentence without showing him let the man "yell, go on, block the cameras with his signs, speak over me, get booed by the crowd."

The governor said he told the man that he would talk to him later -- a part, he said, that often gets edited out of the footage -- but that he stood by his direction to the heckler to sit down and shut up.

"I don't regret that for one second and I wouldn't change that part of myself," he said.

"What you all do," he said, referring to the media, "is to take that small part and say 'Look at him, all someone had to do was stand up and something, and bang, he says sit down and shut up.'"

"People like to watch that," he said. He joked that his sometime unpredictable demeanor was one reason why people were tuning in to Monday night's hour-long interview.

"I don't think they've seen me punch you yet," he said to Adubato. "But they live in hope."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/politics/chris-christie-punch/index.html

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Let that be a lesson to you Fat Man:  bad things happen when you become a Dallas Cowboys fan. 

Poll: Christie sinks to lowest net approval in 4 years
By KENDALL BREITMAN 1/21/15

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is experiencing his lowest overall ratings in four years, according to a new poll.

In a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, 46 percent of New Jersey voters said they approved of Christie and 48 percent said they disapproved.

Christie’s approval ratings have not recovered since news broke that members of his office were involved in lane closures in Fort Lee in 2013 — now referred to as “Bridgegate” by some.

In January 2014, his approval rating in the same poll was 55 percent, and his disapproval rating was 38 percent. Since news broke of the scandal, his approval ratings have not risen above 50 percent.

“It’s the traffic nightmare that never ends for New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie,” said Quinnipiac University Poll Assistant Director Maurice Carroll. “He was doing fine until one year ago and then, Wham! Bridgegate hit like a 10-car pileup on the George Washington Bridge and the governor has yet to recover.”

An overall rating takes into account both the approval and disapproval ratings of a politician. This poll marks Christie’s lowest rating since June 2011, when approval for him stood at 44 percent and disapproval was 47 percent.

This poll, which was taken Jan. 15-19 among 1,211 New Jersey voters, has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percent.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/chris-christie-approval-rating-114444.html#ixzz3PTXSzdwO

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Let that be a lesson to you Fat Man:  bad things happen when you become a Dallas Cowboys fan. 

Bad things happen when he's a liberal dressing as a repub that closes bridge lanes and throws his staff under the bus for it.

Christie is SHIT as a republican.  Anyone supporting him for prez as a repub is also SHIT as a republican.

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Bad things happen when he's a liberal dressing as a repub that closes bridge lanes and throws his staff under the bus for it.

Christie is SHIT as a republican.  Anyone supporting him for prez as a repub is also SHIT as a republican.

Shut up troll. 

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Fat Man is running. 

Christie launches PAC in significant step toward White House run
Published January 26, 2015
FoxNews.com


Jan. 24, 2015: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during the Freedom Summit in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has taken a major step toward a run for president in 2016, forming a political action committee that will allow him to raise money for a possible White House bid.

The creation of the committee, called Leadership Matters for America, was confirmed to Fox News by a Christie adviser. The paperwork was filed Friday before his address over the weekend to the Iowa Freedom Summit, a conservative gathering in Des Moines.

The committee, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, also allows Christie to begin to hire staffers, build the foundations of a campaign operation and travel across the country as he weighs a final decision on a run. He plans to make such trips starting in February, Fox News has learned.

The move comes one month after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced that he was launching a similar organization, which kicked off an aggressive race to lock down donors and may have drawn 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney into the race.

The PAC's staffers will include Matt Mowers, a former Christie aide, who is stepping down from his job as executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party at the end of the month. Christie is named as its honorary chairman.

"We believe there's a void right now in leadership throughout the country," Christie's chief political adviser Mike DuHaime told The Journal. "We aim to support candidates who are willing to take on tough problems and make tough decisions."

A mission statement on the organization's website echoes themes that Christie has focused in recent speeches, including remarks on Saturday in Iowa in front of conservative activists.

"America has been a nation that has always controlled events and yet today events control us. Why? Because leadership matters," the mission statement reads. "It matters if we want to restore America's role in the world, find the political will to take on the entrenched special interests that continually stand in the way of fundamental change, reform entitlement spending at every level of government, and ensure that every child, no matter their zip code, has access to a quality education."

Christie, a former federal prosecutor who passed up the opportunity to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012, turned quickly toward laying the groundwork for a 2016 campaign after winning a second gubernatorial term in the heavily Democratic Garden State in 2013.

In the past several months, he has held meetings to court donors, convened late-night briefing sessions on foreign policy and made repeated visits to early-voting states, including in Iowa over the weekend, where he vaguely referred to himself as "a candidate."

He takes his next step into the race with several advantages, among them having recently completed a banner year of fundraising as chair of the Republican Governors Association. The group raised more than $100 million on Christie's watch and helped Republican candidates win a series of unexpected races, including the nominally Democratic states of Maryland and Illinois.

Serving as RGA chief also gave Christie the opportunity to travel across the country and build relationships with donors and activists. He is also one of his party's most talented retail politicians, reveling in the kind of one-on-one interaction that voters in the crucial early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire demand.

But Christie also has challenges to overcome, including the still-pending federal investigation into accusations that former staff members and appointees created traffic jams as political payback against the Democratic mayor of a New York suburb by blocking access lanes to the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan.

He's also dogged by questions about the economy of New Jersey, including several recent downgrades of the state's credit rating and sluggish job growth. Christie is also viewed with distrust in certain conservative circles, while other question whether his brash persona and habit of confrontation will play well outside his home state.

While Christie has told supporters to "relax" about the timing of his entry into the race, he has faced mounting pressure to get started after Bush -- whose support and donor base significantly overlaps with Christie's -- said he would "actively explore" a run.

Christie's campaign is likely to focus on many of the themes he's spent years developing in New Jersey, including a pitch that he can expand the Republican Party's tent by appealing to independent, women and minority voters.

Fox News' Serafin Gomez and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Click for more from The Wall Street Journal.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/26/christie-launches-pac-in-significant-step-toward-white-house-run/?intcmp=latestnews

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You disappoint me Fat Man. 

Chris Christie defends Tom Brady
By Alexandra Jaffe, CNN
Tue May 12, 2015

Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks the New York Jets should return any money they were paid to salute members of the military, he said during a Tuesday interview on CNN.

"If the money was paid to the Jets just for saluting the troops, they should give the money back, because we should be saluting the troops because of what they do for our country," he told CNN's Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview for "The Lead."

The Star-Ledger reported, and the Pentagon has confirmed, that the Defense Department and the New Jersey Guard paid the Jets $377,000 over three years for players to salute members of the military and for other advertising. Overall, the Defense Department paid 14 NFL teams $5.4 million in similar programs.

Christie hedged, saying that if the teams were paid "for some other advertisement or something else that I don't know about, then that's a decision for the government to make."

"But If we're actually paying the New York Jets franchise for saluting the troops, then that would be very disappointing," he said.

He had somewhat more sympathy for New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady, who was suspended for four games without pay by the NFL this week for his team's alleged use of underinflated footballs during the playoffs. He said the four-game penalty was an "overreaction" in response to criticism that the NFL had been too soft on players in the past, and suggested that the punishment was so severe in part because of Brady's accomplishments.

"I think it has to do with the fact that (Brady's) wealthy and handsome and famous and successful, and I think people like to take shots at people like that," he said. And so ... from my view, I think the punishment is too harsh."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/politics/chris-christie-tom-brady-deflategate/index.html

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You disappoint me Fat Man. 

Chris Christie defends Tom Brady

If he doesn't win New Hampshire in 2016, he doesn't win the nomination.  He's just pandering to NH GOP voters.

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Fat Man ain't lyin. 

Chris Christie Says Bridge Scandal Was Covered More Harshly Than Clinton E-Mails
May 21, 2015

The Republican speculates about what the media reaction would have been if he had acknowledged deleting e-mails in the so-called Bridgegate flap.
 
Likely Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Thursday that he has been scrutinized far more heavily by the media than Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton when it comes to their respective controversies.

“If I had come out the day after the Bridgegate thing was announced and said, 'By the way, um, all my e-mails are on a private server and I deleted a whole bunch of them and I destroyed the server, but you need to take my word for it, the e-mails had nothing to do with the bridge stuff,' can you only imagine what the reaction would have been?” Christie said on CNBC's Squawk Box.

The bridge controversy stems from 2013 lane closures near the George Washington Bridge that snarled traffic in a town whose Democratic mayor hadn't endorsed Christie for reelection. The story blew up in January 2014, rocking Christie's presidential ambitions. After a months-long federal probe, two of his ex-allies this month pleaded not guilty to criminal charges related to the lane closures.

Christie said media coverage of Clinton's e-mail practices has paled in comparison. In March, before she launched her campaign, Clinton defended herself against the revelation that she had used private, nongovernmental e-mail as secretary of state in the Obama administration and deleted thousands of messages she deemed personal. A Republican-led House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks is seeking e-mail messages and testimony from Clinton. Christie maintained that the "intensity of the coverage and the relentlessness of the coverage is different" between his scandal and Clinton's.

"I do believe that there is an absolute bias and a rush to judgement," Christie said. "You all know this. You saw the coverage of me 15 months ago. I was guilty. Guilty. I had done it. Now we're 15 months later. Where are the apologies pouring in? Not one thing I said on the day after the bridge situation has been proven to be wrong."

In a wide-ranging interview, Christie addressed foreign policy, attacking President Barack Obama and saying he created the power vacuum in Iraq that led to the rise of the Islamic State. He also said the world is more dangerous now than it was before his presidency. Christie also talked about how his experience as the Republican governor of a heavily Democratic state has led him to a different philosophy on arguing social issues like abortion than those of his potential competitors. Christie said it is counterproductive to alienate people who might have otherwise embraced conservative economic policies, but are turned off by a the Republican party orthodoxy on social issues.

"It's your tone and how you talk about it," Christie said. "If you talk about these issues in a way that you are absolutely critical of a person who has a different view than you, and dismissive of them, well then they're going to be dismissive of you as a candidate. If you are talking to a person who is pro-choice on abortion and you're pro-life, and you say to them 'I'm pro-life and that means I'm going to heaven and you're pro-choice and you're going to hell,' well, you know, if that's your tone, they don't care what you have to say about pro-growth policies."

Christie also said his decision about whether or not to run for the White House will rest on how he thinks the campaign will affect his family. He said his wife, Mary Pat Christie, recently left her job at investment firm Angelo Gordon to be home to help their kids adjust.

"It's a lot of time away and you don't want to mess up your kids and that's the hardest part of it," he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-21/chris-christie-says-bridge-scandal-was-covered-more-harshly-than-clinton-e-mails

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Fat Man ain't lyin. 

Chris Christie Says Bridge Scandal Was Covered More Harshly Than Clinton E-Mails
May 21, 2015

Christie also said the reason 65% of NJ residents said he'd make a lousy president is because secretly, they're sabotaging him so he doesn't leave jersey, since they love him so much.

http://wonkette.com/586010/new-jersey-loves-chris-christie-too-much-to-share-him-with-america

So ya gotta giggle when he talks.

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Shut up troll. 

says the troll pretending to be a moderator

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Good work Fat Man.

Christie pardons NJ man whose legally owned gun made him convicted felon
By  Cristina Corbin
Published June 09, 2015
FoxNews.com

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday he pardoned a 24-year-old security guard of all criminal charges, after the man's arrest two years ago for carrying a legally-owned firearm made him a convicted felon.

"I feel so blessed," Steffon Josey-Davis told FoxNews.com Monday. "Gov. Christie knew in his heart this was the right thing to do."

When Josey-Davis was pulled over by police along a New Jersey road, the young security guard never imagined his legally owned gun would be confiscated.


"I feel so blessed. Gov. Christie knew in his heart this was the right thing to do."

- Steffon Josey-Davis

Josey-Davis' nightmare began on the morning of Sept. 20, 2013, when he was preparing to leave his North Brunswick, N.J., home for a job as an armed security guard with Loomis Armored, a company responsible for transporting money to banks.

While unloading his 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun inside his car, his 6-year-old sister wandered into the family's garage, startling Josey-Davis. He quickly tucked the firearm inside the glove compartment and out of the child's view, according to his account.

Hours later, while driving at night with his girlfriend in Highland Park, he was pulled over. Josey-Davis says he was going below the speed limit.

Because he did not yet have a permit to carry the gun -- which was stored, still loaded, in the glove compartment -- he was arrested.

As a result, Josey-Davis had a criminal record and was unable to secure a job -- and his dreams of becoming a police officer are dashed. Josey-Davis sought a pardon from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after mounting a robust social media campaign, including a Change.org petition that has attracted more than 85,000 signatures to date.

He also hired Evan Nappen, a prominent gun rights attorney, to appeal his conviction.

"This is a case of a law-abiding citizen being turned into a criminal by New Jersey gun laws," Nappen told FoxNews.com in an interview last March.

Steffon Josey-Davis' dream of becoming a police officer could be back on, after NJ Gov. Chris Christie pardoned him for a gun charge.

Josey-Davis described the night of his arrest to FoxNews.com in detail.

He said that after he was pulled over, he reached into the glove compartment for the car's registration. He saw the gun, which he had forgotten about, and turned it over to the officers. They took it, issued him a citation for his registration -- which had expired that morning -- and let him go. They told him to return to the Highland Park Police Department the following Monday to retrieve his firearm, he claims.

Josey-Davis said he did as he was told, bringing with him his work credentials and receipts for the firearm. What happened next stunned him.

"They handcuffed me and charged me with unlawful possession of a firearm -- a second-degree felony," he said.

"I almost fainted. My life was ruined -- all my hard work went down the drain," said Josey-Davis, who had no criminal background and had passed rigorous security background checks for his job.

Josey-Davis had purchased the gun a month prior to his arrest at Meltzer's Sporting Goods in Garfield, N.J. While he legally owned the firearm, he had not yet secured a permit to carry it -- giving authorities just cause under state law to arrest him. Josey-Davis claims the pending permit was due to be approved the week he was arrested.

In February, Josey-Davis ended up taking a deal for a year of probation from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office to avoid a sentence that could have carried up to 10 years in state prison. He pleaded guilty to second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon. As part of the deal, the prosecutor waived New Jersey's "Graves Act" and Josey-Davis is serving the probation.

But Nappen then challenged that criminal record.

Nappen claimed that between August 2013 and February 2014, the state had a firearm amnesty in effect, meaning individuals in similar situations were exempt from such charges.

"During that time there was amnesty and he should not have even been charged," claimed Nappen, who said the law during those months allowed for people to retain possession of a firearm "legally or illegally acquired."

"For whatever reason, this law didn't seem to be well known. The state police did a poor job at publicizing it," he said. "I think it's particularly striking that that wasn't raised."

Nappen roundly criticized New Jersey gun laws for being "badly written."

"New Jersey's gun control laws are out of control," he said. "It's clearly evident they need serious reform. The legislature is really ultimately to blame."

In March, the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office vehemently refuted Nappen's claim, saying, "There was no gun amnesty program that would apply under these circumstances."

In a statement to FoxNews.com at the time, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey said Josey-Davis was stopped by police for driving a vehicle with an expired registration. He said that during the stop, Josey-Davis "gave four significantly different versions of the circumstances surrounding his illegal possession of the handgun.

"Additionally, he said he worked for an armored car company, but he did not possess a license to carry the weapon, which was seized as evidence," Carey said.

Carey said he was charged with "having a handgun in the glove compartment of his vehicle" – and that the law stipulates drivers can only transport a gun, unloaded, in the trunk. (Josey-Davis' attorney, though, clarified that his client was specifically charged over the permit issue.)

"Describing his conduct as a simple mistake does not negate the seriousness of this law, which was created to protect police officers and the public," Carey continued. "Illegal gun possession is a second-degree offense, punishable by a prison term of multiple years. This defendant agreed to plead guilty and was placed on probation for one year."

New Jersey gun control advocates claim the law is well-intended and should not be changed in response to exceptional cases such as that of Josey-Davis.

"We think the law needs to take into consideration individual circumstances, but it's still a law that's for the well being of the people of New Jersey," said Rev. Robert Moore, executive director of the Princeton-based group, Coalition for Peace Action, which oversees the gun control project known as "Ceasefire NJ."

"It sounds like these officers were doing their job," Moore told FoxNews.com. "It's up to the courts to decide some kind of leniency given the circumstances."

He added: "We would be against changing the law because of these exceptional circumstances. ... That’s one reason you go before a judge. The law itself should not be changed."

Josey-Davis said Monday he plans to help others who find themselves in similar situations.

"I’m going to encourage other people in the same situation and tell them there’s always hope and never to give up," he said. "I am so thankful I can move on with my life."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/09/christie-pardons-nj-man-whose-legally-owned-gun-made-him-convicted-felon/

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I think every state shouild have concealed carry, but I have to laugh at this line:

"This is a case of a law-abiding citizen being turned into a criminal by New Jersey gun laws,"

No, a law-abiding citizen is one that abides by the law lol.  He carried a gun in his car without a permit.  That's illegal in NJ.  By definition, the man was no longer law-abiding when he "forgot" the gun was in there.  

Do I think the law is crap?  Yes.  Do I think Christie should pardon ALL people that forget and carry illegally in their cars?  Yes.  But to just let one dude off the hook?  that's crap.  

I love how gun laws are so flippant to some people.  333386 carries a gun, he's going to jail, even if he "forgets".  But this dude carries one, and Christie is cool with it.  Selective enforcement.  If some dude named "hussein" forgets he has an AR-15 in his bag and boards a plane, will you be equally forgiving as if some TX coach named Barry does it?   lol

I dont like this law, but it's what the people of NJ decided on, so it should be followed.  Once it's "okay" to throw out laws we don't like, look for the libs to do it too

[Dos Equis]

Good work Fat Man.

Christie pardons NJ man whose legally owned gun made him convicted felon
By  Cristina Corbin
Published June 09, 2015
FoxNews.com

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Monday he pardoned a 24-year-old security guard of all criminal charges, after the man's arrest two years ago for carrying a legally-owned firearm made him a convicted felon.

"I feel so blessed," Steffon Josey-Davis told FoxNews.com Monday. "Gov. Christie knew in his heart this was the right thing to do."

When Josey-Davis was pulled over by police along a New Jersey road, the young security guard never imagined his legally owned gun would be confiscated.

"I feel so blessed. Gov. Christie knew in his heart this was the right thing to do."

- Steffon Josey-Davis

Josey-Davis' nightmare began on the morning of Sept. 20, 2013, when he was preparing to leave his North Brunswick, N.J., home for a job as an armed security guard with Loomis Armored, a company responsible for transporting money to banks.

While unloading his 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun inside his car, his 6-year-old sister wandered into the family's garage, startling Josey-Davis. He quickly tucked the firearm inside the glove compartment and out of the child's view, according to his account.

Hours later, while driving at night with his girlfriend in Highland Park, he was pulled over. Josey-Davis says he was going below the speed limit.

Because he did not yet have a permit to carry the gun -- which was stored, still loaded, in the glove compartment -- he was arrested.

As a result, Josey-Davis had a criminal record and was unable to secure a job -- and his dreams of becoming a police officer are dashed. Josey-Davis sought a pardon from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after mounting a robust social media campaign, including a Change.org petition that has attracted more than 85,000 signatures to date.

He also hired Evan Nappen, a prominent gun rights attorney, to appeal his conviction.

"This is a case of a law-abiding citizen being turned into a criminal by New Jersey gun laws," Nappen told FoxNews.com in an interview last March.

Steffon Josey-Davis' dream of becoming a police officer could be back on, after NJ Gov. Chris Christie pardoned him for a gun charge.

Josey-Davis described the night of his arrest to FoxNews.com in detail.

He said that after he was pulled over, he reached into the glove compartment for the car's registration. He saw the gun, which he had forgotten about, and turned it over to the officers. They took it, issued him a citation for his registration -- which had expired that morning -- and let him go. They told him to return to the Highland Park Police Department the following Monday to retrieve his firearm, he claims.

Josey-Davis said he did as he was told, bringing with him his work credentials and receipts for the firearm. What happened next stunned him.

"They handcuffed me and charged me with unlawful possession of a firearm -- a second-degree felony," he said.

"I almost fainted. My life was ruined -- all my hard work went down the drain," said Josey-Davis, who had no criminal background and had passed rigorous security background checks for his job.

Josey-Davis had purchased the gun a month prior to his arrest at Meltzer's Sporting Goods in Garfield, N.J. While he legally owned the firearm, he had not yet secured a permit to carry it -- giving authorities just cause under state law to arrest him. Josey-Davis claims the pending permit was due to be approved the week he was arrested.

In February, Josey-Davis ended up taking a deal for a year of probation from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office to avoid a sentence that could have carried up to 10 years in state prison. He pleaded guilty to second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon. As part of the deal, the prosecutor waived New Jersey's "Graves Act" and Josey-Davis is serving the probation.

But Nappen then challenged that criminal record.

Nappen claimed that between August 2013 and February 2014, the state had a firearm amnesty in effect, meaning individuals in similar situations were exempt from such charges.

"During that time there was amnesty and he should not have even been charged," claimed Nappen, who said the law during those months allowed for people to retain possession of a firearm "legally or illegally acquired."

"For whatever reason, this law didn't seem to be well known. The state police did a poor job at publicizing it," he said. "I think it's particularly striking that that wasn't raised."

Nappen roundly criticized New Jersey gun laws for being "badly written."

"New Jersey's gun control laws are out of control," he said. "It's clearly evident they need serious reform. The legislature is really ultimately to blame."

In March, the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office vehemently refuted Nappen's claim, saying, "There was no gun amnesty program that would apply under these circumstances."

In a statement to FoxNews.com at the time, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey said Josey-Davis was stopped by police for driving a vehicle with an expired registration. He said that during the stop, Josey-Davis "gave four significantly different versions of the circumstances surrounding his illegal possession of the handgun.

"Additionally, he said he worked for an armored car company, but he did not possess a license to carry the weapon, which was seized as evidence," Carey said.

Carey said he was charged with "having a handgun in the glove compartment of his vehicle" – and that the law stipulates drivers can only transport a gun, unloaded, in the trunk. (Josey-Davis' attorney, though, clarified that his client was specifically charged over the permit issue.)

"Describing his conduct as a simple mistake does not negate the seriousness of this law, which was created to protect police officers and the public," Carey continued. "Illegal gun possession is a second-degree offense, punishable by a prison term of multiple years. This defendant agreed to plead guilty and was placed on probation for one year."

New Jersey gun control advocates claim the law is well-intended and should not be changed in response to exceptional cases such as that of Josey-Davis.

"We think the law needs to take into consideration individual circumstances, but it's still a law that's for the well being of the people of New Jersey," said Rev. Robert Moore, executive director of the Princeton-based group, Coalition for Peace Action, which oversees the gun control project known as "Ceasefire NJ."

"It sounds like these officers were doing their job," Moore told FoxNews.com. "It's up to the courts to decide some kind of leniency given the circumstances."

He added: "We would be against changing the law because of these exceptional circumstances. ... That’s one reason you go before a judge. The law itself should not be changed."

Josey-Davis said Monday he plans to help others who find themselves in similar situations.

"I’m going to encourage other people in the same situation and tell them there’s always hope and never to give up," he said. "I am so thankful I can move on with my life."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/09/christie-pardons-nj-man-whose-legally-owned-gun-made-him-convicted-felon/

Glad Fat Man did the right thing.

Wanted man: Police job offers pour in for NJ man pardoned by Gov. Christie
By  Cristina Corbin
Published June 15, 2015
FoxNews.com

His dreams of becoming a police officer were dashed when an arrest two years ago for carrying a legally-owned firearm made him a convicted felon, but now that he's been pardoned, Steffon Josey-Davis is fielding job offers from around the country.

Just one week after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pardoned him of all criminal charges, the 24-year-old told FoxNews.com he's received encouraging emails and even job offers from police departments as far away as Colorado. Many became aware of Josey-Davis' plight after several stories by FoxNews.com described how an honest mistake with a legally owned gun nearly made him ineligible to wear a badge. After having his record wiped clean,the North Brunswick man finds himself a wanted man - by police departments.

"They saw that I was innocent and they saw my dedication to become something," Josey-Davis said of the offers. "I feel so blessed."

"I just feel he deserves a chance."

- Chief Michael Mier, Copley Police Department

When Josey-Davis was pulled over by police along a New Jersey road in September 2013, the young security guard never imagined his legally owned gun would be confiscated.

Josey-Davis' nightmare began on the morning of Sept. 20, 2013, when he was preparing to leave his North Brunswick, N.J., home for a job as an armed security guard with Loomis Armored, a company responsible for transporting money to banks.

While unloading his 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun inside his car, his 6-year-old sister wandered into the family's garage, startling Josey-Davis. He quickly tucked the firearm inside the glove compartment and out of the child's view, according to his account.

Hours later, while driving at night with his girlfriend in Highland Park, he was pulled over. Josey-Davis says he was going below the speed limit.

Because he did not yet have a permit to carry the gun -- which was stored, still loaded, in the glove compartment -- he was arrested.

"They handcuffed me and charged me with unlawful possession of a firearm -- a second-degree felony," he said.

As a result, Josey-Davis had a criminal record and was unable to secure a job -- and his dreams of becoming a police officer were crushed. Josey-Davis sought a pardon from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after mounting a robust social media campaign, including a Change.org petition that has attracted more than 85,000 signatures to date.

He also hired Evan Nappen, a prominent gun rights attorney, to appeal his conviction.

"This is a case of a law-abiding citizen being turned into a criminal by New Jersey gun laws," Nappen told FoxNews.com in an interview last March.

After a careful review of the case, Christie announced last week he pardoned Josey-Davis of all criminal charges.

Over the next few days, Josey-Davis said he received messages from police departments touched by his story -- some offering him a job as a police officer.

One e-mail came the Aurora Police Department in Colorado, he said, and another from Chief Michael Mier of the Copley Police in Copley, Ohio.

"My message to him was very simple -- should you decide to relocate out of New Jersey and come to Ohio, feel free to apply for a position here," Mier told FoxNews.com.

"I would be more than happy to give him the opportunity to go through the application process," said Mier. "He handled himself very well. He's a nice young man and I just felt bad for him."

"I just feel he deserves a chance," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/15/wanted-man-police-job-offers-pour-in-for-nj-man-pardoned-by-gov-christie/?intcmp=latestnews

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Witness: Noisy Christie exits Amtrak 'quiet car' after complaints
By Eric Bradner, CNN
October 25, 2015 | Video Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Chris Christie was asked to leave Amtrak's quiet car Sunday morning after passengers complained to a conductor about the New Jersey governor yelling at his security detail and into his cell phone, according to a rider.

Christie, a Republican presidential candidate, was on the 9:55 a.m. train back to New Jersey from Washington, D.C., after an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation."

He walked onto the train with a McDonald's strawberry smoothie, already chewing out someone who was with him, possibly a security officer, about a mix-up in seating arrangements, according to Alexander Mann, a passenger on the same train who detailed the Christie incident to CNN in an email and in photos.

Mann wrote that just before the train departed, Christie boarded behind "two men who appeared to be Secret Service agents" -- though that's unlikely, since Christie doesn't yet have Secret Service detail; his staff said he traveled Sunday with one New Jersey state trooper -- and was "yelling at them about some sort of mixup with the seating arrangements and how they had let it happen."

Christie took a seat and began making cell phone calls, despite the "quiet car" markings instructing passengers to refrain from loud conversations or phone use in that portion of the train.

Mann wrote: "The details of the conversation were unclear but it was definitely some sort of work phone call. This went on for 5-10 minutes until the conductor, prompted by passenger complaints, asked him to stop using his cell phone or leave the car. He again started yelling at his security detail and huffed off to another train car. He kept repeating 'frickin' ridiculous' and 'Seriously?! Seriously?!'"

Christie spokeswoman Sam Smith said it was a mistake: The governor hadn't meant to board the quiet car.

"On a very full train this morning, the Governor accidentally took a seat in Amtrak's notorious quiet car," she said in an emailed statement. "After breaking the cardinal rule of the quiet car, the Governor promptly left once he realized the serious nature of his mistake and enjoyed the rest of his time on the train from the cafe car. Sincere apologies to all the patrons of the quiet car that were offended."

Gawker first reported Christie's exit from the car.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/25/politics/chris-christie-amtrak-quiet-car/

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Witness: Noisy Christie exits Amtrak 'quiet car' after complaints
By Eric Bradner, CNN
October 25, 2015 | Video Source: CNN

of course christie is angry.  he looks like shit naked, and he's getting destroyed by a liberal named trump.

[Dos Equis]

Terrific speech Fat Man.

[Agnostic007]

Hope he decides to run for president!