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Related: About this forumFacing scandal at home, Christie set to launch national tour
Source: Reuters
Facing scandal at home, Christie set to launch national tour
BY GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI
WASHINGTON Tue Feb 4, 2014 7:24pm EST
(Reuters) - Battling investigations over the "Bridgegate" scandal in his home state, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie plans to embark on a national tour that will give him a chance to raise money for fellow Republicans, woo conservatives and show party leaders that he is not politically toxic.
Christie - widely viewed as the leading contender for the 2016 Republican nomination for president before the scandal over traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge exploded a month ago - plans to spend the next month crisscrossing the nation as chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA).
In a tour that will test whether his power as a party fundraiser has diminished, Christie is scheduled to appear at fundraisers for Republican candidates, party strategy sessions and other meetings in Illinois, Texas, New York, Maryland, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
One of Christie's stops will be at a meeting of the influential Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The group snubbed Christie last year, in a move that many saw as retribution for the governor's kind words for Democratic President Barack Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, which struck New Jersey just before the 2012 presidential election.
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BY GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI
WASHINGTON Tue Feb 4, 2014 7:24pm EST
(Reuters) - Battling investigations over the "Bridgegate" scandal in his home state, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie plans to embark on a national tour that will give him a chance to raise money for fellow Republicans, woo conservatives and show party leaders that he is not politically toxic.
Christie - widely viewed as the leading contender for the 2016 Republican nomination for president before the scandal over traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge exploded a month ago - plans to spend the next month crisscrossing the nation as chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA).
In a tour that will test whether his power as a party fundraiser has diminished, Christie is scheduled to appear at fundraisers for Republican candidates, party strategy sessions and other meetings in Illinois, Texas, New York, Maryland, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
One of Christie's stops will be at a meeting of the influential Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The group snubbed Christie last year, in a move that many saw as retribution for the governor's kind words for Democratic President Barack Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, which struck New Jersey just before the 2012 presidential election.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/us-usa-politics-christie-idUSBREA1401A20140205
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Facing scandal at home, Christie set to launch national tour (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2014
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Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)1. Christie soon to be a Baby Huey
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"Why won't anybody play with me?"
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. well, hell, he might as well
tour all over the country.
God knows he can't do a Governor's job.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)5. I wonder what the people of NJ think about this?
They just re-elected the guy and now he's taking off...they gotta be bummed...
SunSeeker
(51,368 posts)3. This was supposed to be a victory tour for him. Then bridgegate happened.
Ha!
trusty elf
(7,349 posts)4. "Christie plans to embark..."
kairos12
(12,817 posts)7. Funny. But you ruined Krispy Kreme for me, for life.
kairos12
(12,817 posts)6. He can call it the Bridge to Nowhere Tour.