Chris Christie update: GOP front-runner once again?

[DonViejo]

Also: The New Jersey Legislature panel investigating Bridgegate may compel Christie to talk

ELIAS ISQUITH

-snip-

Here’s the latest Christie happenings:

* A new poll from Fox News shows Christie technically leading the pack as the presidential choice for GOP voters. Christie takes in about 15 percent in the poll, with Sen. Rand Paul and former Gov. Jeb Bush close behind, both at 14 percent. Yet as is the case for Bush and Paul, too, the poll also finds Christie losing to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical 2016 matchup, nearly by double digits.

* The panel formed by the New Jersey Legislature in order to investigate the Bridgegate incident is readying to call forward people to testify. While the panel has so far announced no plans to do so, the Wall Street Journal reports that it may attempt to force Christie himself to testify. Assemblyman John Wisniewski, a co-chair of the panel, says calling forward Christie is ”a possibility but not a certainty.“

* A new editorial from the South Jersey Times slams Christie for his new anything-goes stance on campaign finance. “We suspected that they were hanging on by a single lug nut,” the editors write, “but the wheels just fell off Gov. Chris Christie’s campaign finance reform bus, we can now report.” The editors note that Christie once bragged of his comprehensive plan to enact greater regulation of campaign finance in New Jersey — but now that he’s set his eyes on Washington, his earlier passion for good government seems to have dissipated.

###

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/17/chris_christie_update_gop_frontrunner_once_again/

[djean111]

1. Yes - everything that we think should sink Christie - everything is stuff his base, and the GOP,

admire greatly. Bullying, corruption, anything like that - is actually a PLUS.
I never thought Christie was counted out.

[kardonb]

5. CC

it just shows how desperate the GOP is for ANY remotely viable candidate , as usual,flip-flopping around , and clueless .

[randys1]

2. Christie could be their dream candidate

He already hates minorities, as we now know if you were a minority and need Sandy relief funds, you stood a better chance of balancing bowling balls while standing on your head than getting those funds.

Lets see, he hates working people so much he bullies FEMALE SCHOOL TEACHERS

So, of course the rightwingers love him...

Again, broken, we are broken

[Robbins]

3. GOP

Why don't they just give it to Hillary if they are so delonsial to give nomination to Christie. He is born loser now. ANything Christie would bring up Bengri Hillary has the scandal In NJ to bring up.

[Kablooie]

4. There's plenty of time for America to forget all about bridgegate. It's what Americans do .

Unless he's actually charged with anything.

[Pakid]

6. I sometimes ask myself how did the GOP become so insane

Wish I had the answer maybe then we could find a cure before they completely destroy America

[Arkana]

7. Hooray, he's leading the lug nuts by 1 point

and he has 15 percent.

Seriously?