Even peers are fair game for Christie

[no_hypocrisy]

He has been calling out other governors, breaking a tradition of collegiality.



Through the years, the 50 members of the ultra-exclusive club had an understanding: No trash-talking in public.

Then Chris Christie came along.

The Republican governor of New Jersey has, in just the last several weeks, gotten into spats with fellow governors - all Democrats - from Connecticut, Illinois, and Maryland.

"It's not done. It's just really not done," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who studies gubernatorial history.

"The governors, as a group, are very different from Congress. They view each other as colleagues. Unless they run for president against each other, they're not really competitors," Sabato said.

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http://articles.philly.com/2011-03-13/news/28686165_1_christie-andrew-cuomo-democratic-governors

[hobbit709]

1. He's no-class not low-class.

along with general all round asshole.

[rfranklin]

2. He's a bully...and he can't help himself...

He didn't last long as a freeholder in Morris County, NJ, because he attacked everyone else on the board and I believe they were all Republicans at the time. He will self destruct again.

Soon more people would know the freshman freeholder, although to hear observers tell the story – thirteen years removed from the initial pomp of the Kean triumphal – Christie didn’t exactly overwhelm the Morris County Republican organization. It wasn’t that he didn’t get government or arrived at freeholder meetings unprepared

That wasn’t it at all.

He just appeared unusually ambitious, particularly when, just two months into his first term as a freeholder, he announced his intentions to run for the State Assembly. He said he’d accomplished all he needed to at the county level and that it was time to move on to Trenton.

His colleagues saw that as a particularly audacious move.

Christie wasn’t from Morris County, after all, and to the old dog wing of the party, if his Essex County roots weren’t transgression enough, the challenge epitomized bad form.

http://www.politickernj.com/max/26275/political-career-three-parts-chris-christie-freeholder

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Wow

[monmouth]

5. Remember the old days of Hudson County being the "bed of corruption.?"

I worked for State Police at the annex in New Brunswick way back when, if you wanted a job at the NJ Turnpike, it was almost a requirement to be from Hudson. Dems were in power then in Monmouth so I got my job...LOL, fond memories...

[tanyev]

4. It's OK, he already knows how he can win the presidency.

[DrDan]

6. probably not a good idea - job growth by state was just announced - and guess who was 50th