Chris Christie vetoes minimum wage increase

[Report1212]

Christie the moderate?

This minimum wage increase would’ve brought the wage to $8.50 and then tie it to the consumer price index for the future. Christie said he wanted instead to raise the wage by only 25 cents this year, and then 50 cents the next year and 25 cents more three years from now.

A recent Quinnipac poll found that 82 percent of New Jerseyans support simply raising the wage to $8.50, showing that the governor is siding with the far-right in his veto.

Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/chris-christie-vetoes-minimum-wage-hike-that-82-percent-of-new-jerseyans-support/

[hollysmom]

1. not a moderate - a koch man with a democratic legislature.

[supercats]

17. Agreed!

Same old Republican crap....He's just a "real republican" with a bad temper.

[duffyduff]

26. He's as bad as the rest of the wingnut governors

He's also extremely anti-public education.

[Cha]

2. Well I hope those who are working for minimum wage in NJ

get involved in the voting process when he's up for re-election.

[Mnemosyne]

3. Then he should have to try to live on it for six months. Asshole. nt

[Report1212]

4. His net worth is apparently $4 million

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/chris-christie-net-worth/

[Mnemosyne]

10. Disgusting pos thinks he knows what anyone that is working poor needs or 'deserves'.

God, I hate most of the rich.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Can the NJ legislature overturn the veto?

Seems like the sensible thing to do now.

[4_TN_TITANS]

6. With 82% of the popular vote

one would think so, but the will of the people is not the first priority of elected officials in this country these days.

[WCGreen]

7. I wonder where the national media is right now...

Remember how much they made of his bi-partisanship durring the Huricane.

Now he is behaving just like a run of the mill "let them eat cake" Republican...

[sulphurdunn]

21. The national media

has already anointed him a frontrunner for the 2016 presidential race. He's a very 24/7 news cycle political product because he does a caustic and obnoxious fuck you tough guy God Father kinda schtick. They also want Rubio because he will serve as their more or less Latino mimic and maybe a Bush of some sort because the family crime syndicate would give them a long run family dynasty story to bust the dam of the right wing money machine.

[OldDem2012]

8. I knew it couldn't last....Christie's true colors are showing once again. nt.

[awoke_in_2003]

24. Unfortunately you are right...

I was willing to give him some slack- he got rid so it.

[BlueJazz]

9. I don't know...that's like $14,000 (after taxes) per year. Way too much money..

..for the little people.

[bongbong]

23. It IS too much money

With that kind of Deluxe Dough, they can buy a heater for the tent that they live in under the bridge. WAY too luxurious.

[athena]

11. He does not represent the people.

It is so wrong that he would veto something that passed both the senate and the assembly and is supported by such a majority of the people. I hope people will remember this later this year when he's up for reelection.

[valerief]

12. See? I wish people would stop praising him. He's a REPUBLICAN!!!!! nt

[TheKentuckian]

25. but...but...but he didn't spit on the President when his state was desperate

[kimbutgar]

13. I wonder if he will win re-election handily now?

This should be hung around his big fat neck between now and election day as an albatross.

[mokawanis]

14. Another rich prick Repuke

So he thinks people working for minimum wage only deserve another 500 bucks a year? He's no moderate, he's just another Republican asshole.

[Deep13]

15. one term nt

[secondvariety]

16. There's

the Christie I've grown to despise.

[rurallib]

18. there is no longer such a thing as a moderate Republican

just varying shades of asshole.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

19. Gee whiz...

He seemed like such a nice guy.

[Politicub]

20. People who thought he is a moderate are fools

He vetoed NJ's gay marriage bill, too.

Hopefully the leopard will continue showing his conservative spots.

This DUer had to bite his tongue when people were falling all over themselves to praise his assholery. It just happened to be directed toward his own party at the time. I knew it wouldn't last.

[hollysmom]

27. don't forget

tried to get a huge tax cut for the rich, succeeded in eliminated tax on those earning over 400K, unbalanced the budget, destroyed a grant from the federal government because he didn't like it, tried and is trying to under cut the teachers union, tried to introduce voter id, but was laughed out of the legislature. If it is on Koch's list, he tried to do it, just dd not get very far, Not to mention his attitude besmirches NJ

[Caeser67]

22. And to Think

The so-called media was trying to do everything in their power to make him look more Moderate during Hurricane Sandy.

As that great poet G.W. B. said: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] — shame on you. Fool me — [pauses] — You can't get fooled again."