Chris Christie town hall disrupted by protesters again

[Laxman]

Source: Star-Ledger

A group of Rutgers University students, as well as union representatives, were kicked out of a town hall meeting with Gov. Chris Christie today.

The group rose up in unison after Christie finished answering a question about why parents who send their children to Catholic schools have to pay taxes to support public schools and started shouting at the governor, blasting him for his handling of Hurricane Sandy relief aid.

One of the protestors called out a chant and the rest echoed it, line by line.

"Governor Christie, we are here to demand, you stop your corrupt uses, of Hurricane Sandy money," they said. "There are still families without homes who have received no aid."

Read more: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/03/chris_christie_town_hall_disrupted_by_protesters_again.html#incart_m-rpt-1

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I think I'm starting to come around to the wisdom of this...he need to be dogged everywhere he goes.

[AgingAmerican]

1. He is very thin skinned

This is the perfect vehicle for going after him.

[LibGranny]

2. Unfortunately, he doesn't look "thin" skinned!

[AAO]

3. Sooner or later his head (or his belly) is going to EXPLODE!!

[rocktivity]

10. I don't know if that's a metaphor or a fat joke

but his slow but steady weight loss has definitely been in a holding pattern since all of this started.


rocktivity

[AAO]

12. Probably because he stopped the crack cocaine.

Any drug that raises your metabolism is going to cause you to lose weight (everything else being equal). If you need to stop it, you will most likely gain it all back + more.

[FSogol]

4. The poster child for high blood pressure.

Resign and work on getting healthy for your trial, Christie.

[Beach Rat]

5. The description of the protesters

I don't understand why they have to be described as Rutgers students or union members. Why not just "pissed off NJ residents demand answers"? Doesn't it kind of de-legitimze them by making them some kind of political tools? Can't people just be ticked off? I know I am.

[cui bono]

6. Yeah, I don't know if I would say de-legitimize, but it definitely pits them as one team

vs another. "Students" and "union members" will be equated with "liberals" so now this can be looked at through partisan eyes, when it's not that at all if you look at the Sandy fund debacle.

[Beach Rat]

7. That's exactly what I meant!

That's a much better way of putting it. You've got it.

[cui bono]

8. Sweet.

And welcome to DU btw...

[daleanime]

11. But isn't that the job of the MSM?

[AAO]

13. Any time you can say "students", you are belittling them as naive neophytes.

You need to get inside their minds. And I'll tell you, it's not worth what I'm being paid!

[sheshe2]

9. Keep the pressure up, he doesn't take it very well.

Then~

[Holbrook22]

14. Disruptors!

[PeoViejo]

15. Evil Pie-hole

Jabba the Toast.

[closeupready]

21. lol, "Jabba, the Toast" - 'of Trenton'?

[PeoViejo]

22. Trenton State Penitentiary

[underpants]

16. Were the tea baggers "disrupters" in 2009?

Is this the lead on every newscast?

Just asking.

[Cha]

17. christie gets caught with the ugliest rabid looks on his face..

Good on the Protestors and not a bad idea having him dogged everywhere. He thinks he's rehabilitating himself with his little fake town meetings where they can't talk about the Elephants in the room.

Thanks Lax

[Enthusiast]

18. All Republican governors need to be dogged everywhere they go.

[Laxman]

19. Christie Has Undercover State Troopers...

taking pictures of protesters at the Town Hall meetings now. How Nixon of him!

Chris Christie prepared for protesters, hecklers at town hall in South River


Once polished and predictable, the governor’s town hall meetings now have it all:

Hecklers, back talking from the audience, pugnacious responses from Chris Christie himself — and now a police controversy.

A few hours after the town hall ended in South River today, a top state Senate Democrat accused the administration of using a "Nixonian tactic", citing published reports that claimed a state trooper took pictures of protesters escorted from the meeting.

"Having undercover State Police officers taking photos of people who are exercising their right of free expression at the governor’s Town Hall meeting is a Nixonian tactic that has no place in New Jersey or anywhere else in this country," state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) said in a statement. "I can’t imagine what rationalization the governor would have for allowing this to happen but it comes across as an act of political intimidation."

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/03/chris_christie_prepared_for_protesters_at_town_hall_in_south_river.html

[closeupready]

20. He makes me sick just LOOKING at his jiggling jowls.

[Laxman]

23. NJ Attorney General Tells Christie.....

stop photographing the protesters! At least someone has some connection with reality in this administration!

Attorney General to State Police: Stop photographing protesters at Chris Christie town halls

The acting state attorney general and the State Police superintendent today ordered the State Police to stop photographing protesters at Gov. Chris Christie’s town hall meetings "for security or any other purposes."

The order came the day after a town hall meeting in South River where a man who identified himself as a member of the State Police photographed people who interrupted the governor’s usually highly orchestrated events.

Acting Attorney General Hoffman issued the following statement:

“The State Police is responsible for the safety and security of the Governor and the public at town hall meetings. In doing so, the State Police are careful to guarantee that First Amendment rights are respected and the public — whether expressing positive or negative sentiments toward the Governor and his policies — have ample opportunity to make their positions known. That said, the Colonel and I have instructed the State Police to no longer photograph at these events for security or any other purposes.”

State police on Tuesday would not confirm or deny the person taking pictures was a member of the State Police.

The ACLU of New Jersey, which earlier today called on State Police to “come clean” about photographing people “engaged in First Amendment protected free speech.” With the administration’s about face, the organization urged the immediate destruction of records of the pictures, and the creation of a policy.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/03/attorney_general_to_state_police_stop_photographing_protesters_at_chris_christie_town_halls.html#incart_river_default