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Carl Lewis: Chris Christie Wanted Me Out Of Senate Race
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/20/carl-lewis-chris-christie_n_4633565.html<snip>
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis says Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropped a plan to appoint him the state's first physical fitness ambassador when he launched a political campaign against a Christie friend.
Lewis said Monday the governor called to dissuade him from running as a Democrat for state Senate in 2011 against Republican Sen. Dawn Addiego (ah-dee-AY'-goh). Lewis says he was told the fitness program they'd been developing wouldn't materialize if he ran. Lewis says the governor felt the post "was a carrot he could pull away."
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Christie is a nasty, vindictive, ReTHUG scumbag! The pattern is there for all to see.
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"Christie is a nasty, vindictive, ReTHUG scumbag!"
No wonder the GOP establishment would love him to be their standard bearer. The only mystery is why the TPers don't recognize his basic thuggishness. It must be the Obama hug effect.
So far as I am concerned, ANY GOP candidate is anathema. I could care less which crazy they finally nominate although it is always fun to watch the supposed "frontrunners" implode one by one. All I know is that I would never, ever - in a hundred million years - EVER - consider the GOP option acceptable as President of the US.
IMO, any Dem who would is in dire need of some serious consciousness raising. 