Lt. Gov. Guadagno breaks with Christie, won't vote for Trump

[factfinder_77]

Source: New Jersey Local News

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno is breaking with Gov. Chris Christie and says she will not vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, and hasn't decided if she'll vote for a third party candidate or not at all.

So, too, is the only declared 2017 GOP governor candidate, Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerset), who says he likely won't vote in November, and is calling on Trump to voluntarily step aside.

For years, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno has been a Christie loyalist, never publicly taking a position that differed from that of her boss and deflecting most of political questions to the governor to whom she owes her job.

That changed on Saturday, when Guadagno answered a question on Twitter from an editor at the south Jersey publications The Daily Journal and Courier-Post about her reaction to an explosive video of Donald Trump's boasting of a cavalier attitude about sexual assault.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/10/lt_gov_guadagno_breaks_with_christie_wont_vote_for.html

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I didn't even know they had a Lt. Gov

let alone what her name was. She was apparently flying so far under the radar that you needed sonar to track her. And Philly is S. Jersey's media market. Amazing!

[Demit]

2. Oh she's a piece of work herself.

Out of the same mold as Christie. I forget the particulars, but there was a college (or something) wanting to do an archeological dig (or something) but she could see the site out of her window & it messed up her view so she had it squashed. Lol, my details are hazy but google her. She's as vindictive & ruthless with people as he is.

[factfinder_77]

3. This one - 2nd Horrifying Tale of Abuse of Powerr by Christie's Lt Go Kim Guadagno

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1/20/1271106/-2nd-Horrifying-Tale-of-Abuse-of-Powerr-by-Christie-s-Lt-Go-Kim-Guadagno

In January 2011, Mr Aubrey testified before the New Jersey State Assembly Tourism and Arts Committee, in favor of a bill that would prevent an archeological dig in Trenton named Petty’s Run from being backfilled.

The decision to bury the site was linked to Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno. The Republican former federal prosecutor and Monmouth County sheriff had become the state’s first lieutenant governor in January, 2010.
In November, 2010, she announced that she was “to refill the area next to the Statehouse as soon as possible to improve the grounds.”

Newspaper articles explained that Guadagno could see the site from her window and considered it an “eyesore.”

The bill to rescue the site was initiated by two Trenton-area Democratic members of the state assembly: Bonnie Watson Coleman (who at that time had claimed to be bullied by Governor Christie, who would later put her to a “Willie Horton” type of context) and assemblyman Reed Gusciora (later to be labeled “numbnuts” by Christie).

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Ahhh... this is a new office then

I was just searching around and apparently the state Constitution was amended to create the position effective in the 2009 election due to something I *do* remember happening there - numerous "acting governors"!

[Demit]

6. Thanks! It's why I figured why bother impeaching Christie, she's just as bad.

Looks like she's making her move now. I hope the good peeps of NJ have been burned enough by the Jersey Whale & will be wise to her by the time she runs again.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I can imagine.

I suppose since Chrisitie is such a blowhard that few others can get words in edgewise when it comes to media coverage!

I do hope Jersey is fielding some (somewhat non-corrupt because completely non-corrupt is about impossible there) Democrats when their terms are up.

[forkol]

7. Well, I guess everybody forgot...

She played a big role in Bridgegate too.

Remember the other part of Bridgegate where the mayor of Hoboken stated Hurricane Sandy aid was being held up by the mayor not approving a high-rise that David Samson wanted built?

Remember, she was 'allegedly' the one that passed on to the mayor that the reason why the aid was being held up.

She of course, denied it.

She's just as bad as Christie.

[The Wizard]

8. she started her 2017 canpaign.

Trump not getting any traction in NJ. Distance is required for political survival. Christie is angling for a Trump appointment.