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Chris Christie's first step toward rehabilitation? Woo N.J. Democrats.
Chris Christie's first step toward rehabilitation? Woo N.J. Democrats.
In his state of the state address, Chris Christie sought to reestablish a bipartisan image. But overcoming Democrats' hostility is just one major obstacle to his national aspirations.
By Harry Bruinius
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But last week’s revelations that his closest aides had closed access lanes to the George Washington Bridge – an act of political payback creating a traffic nightmare for the city of Fort Lee, all because its Democratic mayor had withheld an endorsement of the governor – has threatened both his ability to govern and his presumed plans to build a national network of support.
“Mistakes were clearly made,” the governor said Tuesday, to open his state of the state address.
But almost immediately, he emphasized again his bipartisan credentials – appealing to the state’s Democratic-controlled Assembly and Senate to “not allow the work that needs to be done to improve the people’s lives in New Jersey to be delayed for any reason.”
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But the legislature’s Democrats appear to be less than accommodating now – if not outright hostile. Leaders announced Monday that they are forming new investigative committees, as well as a special counsel, to investigate the governor’s office.
The US Attorney General is also scrutinizing the traffic scheme, and federal auditors are looking into Christie’s use of superstorm Sandy relief funds to make a tourism commercial that featured the governor as he ran for reelection last year.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0114/Chris-Christie-s-first-step-toward-rehabilitation-Woo-N.J.-Democrats
In his state of the state address, Chris Christie sought to reestablish a bipartisan image. But overcoming Democrats' hostility is just one major obstacle to his national aspirations.
By Harry Bruinius
<...>
But last week’s revelations that his closest aides had closed access lanes to the George Washington Bridge – an act of political payback creating a traffic nightmare for the city of Fort Lee, all because its Democratic mayor had withheld an endorsement of the governor – has threatened both his ability to govern and his presumed plans to build a national network of support.
“Mistakes were clearly made,” the governor said Tuesday, to open his state of the state address.
But almost immediately, he emphasized again his bipartisan credentials – appealing to the state’s Democratic-controlled Assembly and Senate to “not allow the work that needs to be done to improve the people’s lives in New Jersey to be delayed for any reason.”
<...>
But the legislature’s Democrats appear to be less than accommodating now – if not outright hostile. Leaders announced Monday that they are forming new investigative committees, as well as a special counsel, to investigate the governor’s office.
The US Attorney General is also scrutinizing the traffic scheme, and federal auditors are looking into Christie’s use of superstorm Sandy relief funds to make a tourism commercial that featured the governor as he ran for reelection last year.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0114/Chris-Christie-s-first-step-toward-rehabilitation-Woo-N.J.-Democrats
Examples of Christie's "bipartisan credentials":
WNYC: More New Jersey Mayors Say They Think They Were Punished For Not Playing Along w/ Christie
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024316953
No governor had ever failed to reappoint a sitting state Supreme Court justice, but Christie had suddenly done it twice – once for the court’s only African-American jurist, infuriating Democrats, and then again for a justice he actually liked. The governor, enraged, held a press conference to tell reporters, “I was not going to let her loose to the animals.”
The “animals,” in this case, were the Democrats in the state Senate.
Christie said that on the afternoon of Aug. 12, 2013.
On the morning of Aug. 13, 2013, Christie’s deputy chief of staff told the governor’s guy at the Port Authority, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.”
The “animals,” in this case, were the Democrats in the state Senate.
Christie said that on the afternoon of Aug. 12, 2013.
On the morning of Aug. 13, 2013, Christie’s deputy chief of staff told the governor’s guy at the Port Authority, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024309949
Chris Christie urged reporters to "take the bat" to Weinberg
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024308838
Christie Says,"I Am Not a Bully." Here Are 8 Videos of Him Yelling,Name-Calling,and BelittlingPeople
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/chris-christie-bullying-videos
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024306949
Christie's strategy: dazzle them with bullshit.
Christie: Vindictive ass or incompetent buffoon
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/09/1268391/-Christie-Vindictive-ass-or-incompetent-buffoon
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Is Christie a chiropractor? 
by threatening them with retribution and disenfranchisement if they don't agree with him!
rocktivity
So does this mean he's going to be leaving off the Bullying for now?
What's with this bully's creep smiling wife?