Two New Jersey newspapers denounce Chris Christie's 'abysmal' performance

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Two New Jersey newspapers denounce Chris Christie's 'abysmal' performance

Asbury Park Press and Courier News deride governor’s claims of successes in office, pointing to reader survey labelling Republican candidate a failure

Alan Yuhas in New York
@alanyuhas
Saturday 2 January 2016 13.58 EST

Two New Jersey newspapers on Saturday called Governor Chris Christie a failure for his state, rejecting the Republican presidential candidate’s sales pitch to Americans that he has an accomplished record and sound judgment.

The editorial boards for sister papers the Asbury Park Press and the Courier News denounced the governor, joining the Star-Ledger in loudly criticizing Christie and citing residents who consider their governor “a failure across the board”.

“New Jerseyans, it seems, positively hate the job he’s doing for the state,” the Courier News board wrote.

Drawing from a survey, the Press graded Christie’s performance in the last year. It handed down poor marks in nearly every subject, flunking the governor on the environment, energy, gun control and transparency. He received Ds on the economy and leadership and at best he received a C, regarding the state’s recovery from Hurricane Sandy.



Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/02/new-jersey-newspaper-editorial-chris-christie-abysmal-asbury-park-press-courier-news

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[mountain grammy]

2. Let the trials begin! Good riddance, governor.

[Festivito]

3. He gets his best grade for the one time he listens to Democrats!

for hurricane Sandy.

Republicans were mad at him for doing that! Tee-hee-hee.

[mahannah]

4. Meaningless unless voters respond.

[farleftlib]

9. His approval rating is at 33%

and those are just the dead-enders who love anybody with an R after their name.

[napi21]

5. From all I've heard, he's putting all his prez efforts into NH. Hopefully, NH id close

enough to NJ that they'll read, or at least hear about the REAL OPINIONS of New Jerseyites, and sent that guy packing back home! Even though the newspaper in NH endorsed him, the voters need to know the truth.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

6. Chris here folks: I'm a good person !

The people of New Jersey just love me ,they know I'm all about preserving a way of life. I just wish they would find a way to preserve the freshness of the donut piles. A few hours air time and those donuts seem and taste like week old bad news !
And to those newspapers, if they don't have anything good to say about me, it shouldn't say anything at all because no news is good news !

And by now you should think they would know that I don't get mad in public but I do get even !

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[NJCher]

7. that's pretty bad

When two of the state's newspapers come out and denounce one's performance with a review like this, not to mention the fact that he has been out of state 200 days of the last year.

I particularly liked this observation: “The governor is widely and rightly seen as a secretive, devious officeholder with a taste for luxury and a thin skin,” the board wrote.

I work in state and county government as a teacher, and I see the mismanagement, the waste of taxpayer money, and lack of leadership. Somebody needs to take control in this state.


Cher

[Helen Borg]

8. Uh oh, he'll cut gas and electricity the buildings!

[saltpoint]

10. Christie's favoritest favoritest team

the Cowboys aren't doing so hot this year either.