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"“I'm not saying that Whitney Houston is a role model. She's not a role model in that respect, in every aspect of her life. But what she is is a cultural icon in the history of this state,” he said. “I'm disturbed by people who believe ... because of her history of substance abuse, that somehow she's forfeited the good things that she did in her life. I just reject that on a human level.”
Christie is a former board member for the Daytop Village addiction treatment program in Mendham, the town where he lives and Houston also resided. He is also proposing to divert nonviolent drug offenders out of the criminal-justice system into mandatory addiction treatment.""“I'm not saying that Whitney Houston is a role model. She's not... more
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Gov. Christie should be applauded for loudly voicing his frustration and saying he is "tired of dealing with the crazies" who criticized his appointment of an Indian American Muslim to a judgeship.
As an attorney, Judge Sohail Mohammed defended Muslims detained after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Mohammed came to the United States when he was 10, studied electrical engineering, and then studied law at Christie's alma mater, Seton Hall University.
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Mohammed worked with Christie, who was then the state's U.S. attorney, to build better relationships between law enforcement and Muslims.
Last week, Mohammed was sworn in as a judge in the same Passaic County courtroom where he became a U.S. citizen. But his attackers have decided that because of his religion, the new judge is likely to violate his oath of office.
http://articles.philly.com/2011-07-31/news/29835907_1_christie-crazies-terrorist-attacksGov. Christie should be applauded for loudly voicing his frustration and saying he is... more
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Chris Christie probably won't be invited to this lawmaker's 4th of July barbecue.
New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney slammed the governor on Friday after reviewing his line-item veto of the state budget.
“This is all about him being a bully and a punk,” he told the Newark Star Ledger. “I wanted to punch him in his head."
Sweeney had just risked his political neck to support the governor’s pension and health reform, and his reward was a slap across the face. The governor’s budget was a brusque rejection of every Democratic move, and Sweeney couldn’t even get an audience with the governor to discuss it.
Sweeney also called Christie "a rotten bastard" and compared him to Henry Potter, the miserly antagonist in 'It's A Wonderful Life.'
Politico reached out to Christie's office, who refuted Sweeney's comments.
"The Governor met with Steve Sweeney and Speaker Oliver for 1 1/4 hours privately on Monday afternoon June 27th, met with Sweeney on Tuesday before the bill signing, and spoke to Sweeney again on the phone Tuesday," the aide said. "Contrary to what the Senate President said, he was not sitting in his office 'like a nitwit' on Wednesday; he was in session with the Senate all day on Wednesday into the late evening — not waiting for the Governor to call him about a meeting."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/03/chris-christie-punch_n_889565.html#/
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Who doesn't? {grin...}Chris Christie probably won't be invited to this lawmaker's 4th of July... more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie doesn't want to be vice president and most voters in his state agree because they don't think he would do a good job, found a poll released on Tuesday.
Christie has been touted by some Republicans as a rising party star since taking office last year, but after saying he does not plan to run for president in 2012, the former prosecutor has been suggested as a potential running mate.
A Quinnipiac University poll found 2-1 New Jersey voters say Christie -- who pushes a lean government and low-tax agenda -- would not make a good vice president, reflecting a similar poll sentiment toward Christie running for president.
When it comes to his role as New Jersey governor, the poll found that 44 percent of voters approved of the job he is doing and 47 percent disapproved, driven by female dissatisfaction.
The telephone poll of 1,610 voters found that women disapprove of Christie's job 54 percent to 36 percent, while men approve of his job 53 percent to 39 percent.
"Gov. Christie is having a big problem with women, perhaps because they care more about schools and disapprove 60-34 percent of the way he's handling education," said Maurice Carroll, Quinnipiac University Polling Institute director.
The state's highest court recently ruled that education cuts of about $1 billion last year were unconstitutional and shortchanged disadvantaged students. The court ordered the state to spend about $500 million more on its poorest schools.
Earlier this month, Christie announced a pilot program that would allow private companies to run public schools in some of the state's chronically underperforming school districts.
"Should the state spend more on poor schools? Most think so. A larger majority think ALL schools should get more state money. Narrowly, voters say the court was right to order the additional spending on poor schools," Carroll said.
"How to get the money? Cut spending, rather than raise taxes, voters say. But they'd go for a 'millionaire's tax,'" he said.
The poll was taken between June 14 and June 19 has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/chris-christie-vice-president_n_881168.htmlNEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie doesn't... more
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Christie has proposed cutting Medicaid eligibility to absurdly low levels: from the current maximum income of $24,645 to $5,317 a year for a family of three.
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The same guy who uses state helicopters (at thousands of dollars a pop) to chauffeur his well-fed ass around to watch his son's baseball games has had enough of freeloading parents who rely on medicaid - And he wants to do something about it.
If he gets his way not only would a father working fulltime at a minimum wage job not be eligable for Medicaid coverage for his wife & newborn baby at home -
But a Single Mother of 2, working Halftime for Minimum Wage would also be told to pull herself up by the bootstraps and find some other way to provide medical care for her sick children.
In fact Any family of 3 that makes more than $103 a week would no longer be eligable for medicaid in NJ - a change that would cut 23,000 working poor off of medicaid.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/02/231147/christie-medicaid-recipients-rich/Christie has proposed cutting Medicaid eligibility to absurdly low levels: from the... more
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There were cheeseheads, signs calling for the recall of Gov. Chris Christie, and chants about solidarity.
Bemoaning what some called a nationwide attack on the middle class, poncho-clad public workers flooded Trenton Friday in a show of support for employees in Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker has called for an end to collective bargaining. The rally, organized by the state AFL-CIO, attracted a crowd of about 3,100, State Police said.
"All of New Jersey’s middle class is hurting, but this governor and his right-wing supporters are trying to start a middle-class civil war," said New Jersey Education Association President Barabara Keshishian. "The ultimate goal is to destroy all unions."
The speakers, who included both national labor leaders and representatives from Wisconsin, painted a grim picture of millionaires getting richer while the middle class shrinks.
"Nothing less than the fate of our middle class is at stake right now," said Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO national president. "Public employees didn’t cause New Jersey’s budget problems. They didn’t cause New Jersey’s pension problems."
In the crowd, some said they gathered in the rain to support middle-class workers across the country, while others honed in on New Jersey labor issues. Ralliers toted signs saying "Stop the war on workers," "Negotiate don’t dictate" and "Cut the FAT from the budget. Fire Christie."
"The governor should be aware he needs to bargain in good faith," said Michael McGarvey, a professor of art at Stockton College. "We don’t think the budget should be balanced on the backs of public employees."
In his budget address Tuesday, Christie said private sector workers "support the rich benefits of public employees." He’s pushing for major givebacks from the workforce, including paying more towards their health premiums and downgrading future pension benefits.
"Every firefighter in the state is displeased with the governor," said Steve McConlogue, a firefighter captain in Elizabeth.
Jessica Shaw, 29, who works for CWA local 1040 in Hamilton, said many of her family members belong to unions. Her friends and family have already taken hits from frozen wages, furlough days and higher payments for health care.
"I think he’s a bully," she said of Christie. "Balancing the budget is the right priority but not on the backs of working people."
Christie was in Washington Friday at the National Governors Association meeting. In a Thursday night radio interview on New Jersey 101.5, he said he didn’t care about the rally.
"They’ll show complete and utter disrespect for me you can count on it," Christie said. "There’ll be all kinds of ugly and hateful signs. That just shows their character. When I talk about these things I talk about them on the issues."
As the public workers rallied, so did about 50 conservatives at a rally sponsored by Americans for Prosperity half a block away. The counter-protesters held flags reading "Don’t tread on me" and pumped classic rock through the speakers before Americans for Prosperity State Director Steve Lonegan blasted the unions.
"It’s really easy to turn out a couple thousand people when you’re using your union dues to do it and you only have to move 20 feet from the building. It’s an awful lot harder for us to take a day off from work and to come to Trenton in the rain," Lonegan said. "Folks, every one of you standing here now is representing 10,000 taxpayers that are at work today."
Lonegan said most of the state’s elected officials are beholden to union "bosses" and that "it’s time the taxpayers fought back."
"Here’s my message to our friends down the block: Go back to work. We’re paying you," he said. "Go back to work. We can’t afford it anymore."
Leaders of New Jersey state worker unions whose contracts expire in June said they are ready to come to the table as soon as possible. "We have no interest in putting people out of work, we have no interest in layoffs," said Charles Wowkanech, president of New Jersey AFL-CIO. "We’re taxpayers, we’re working families, we want the sacrifice to be equal."There were cheeseheads, signs calling for the recall of Gov. Chris Christie, and... more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey has no legal obligation and does not intend to return $271 million in federal aid earmarked for a canceled tunnel project, a spokesman for Governor Chris Christie said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Federal Transit Administration had set a deadline of Tuesday night for the state to make the payment and Christie has repeatedly said New Jersey should be under no obligation to pay the money back.
"As is by now abundantly clear, Governor Christie canceled the project due to multibillion-dollar cost-overrun projections for a project that previously had an agreed-upon price tag of $8.7 billion," Christie's spokesman, Michael Drewniak said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the state's legal counsel filed a response with the FTA on behalf of New Jersey Transit, saying the FTA had changed "key assumptions about costs and risks" relating to the project, bringing the projected cost to $13.7 billion.
The commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan would have been America's largest public works project. Christie canceled the project in October, citing billions of dollars in projected cost overruns that would be borne by the state.
The tunnel, which would have linked New Jersey and midtown Manhattan, became a lightning rod in the run-up to the November 2010 election, pitting those calling for more federal infrastructure spending against those who said such projects cost too much.
The Republicans went on to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Christie, who inherited the project from his Democratic predecessor, is a rising star in the Republican party and is often mentioned as a potential presidential candidate.
(Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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I forget, what do you call it when somebody gives you money to do something, then you not only scrap the project but refuse to return the money?NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey has no legal obligation and does not intend to... more
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Lisa Segal wakes up every morning locked in a fetal position, her muscles in spasm from multiple sclerosis.
She’s 59 years old, and has tried everything. The only medicine that relaxes those muscles and settles her nausea is marijuana.
So when her supply runs out, she drives an hour from her Gloucester County home to Philadelphia, and walks the streets to buy pot, leaning on her cane. It scares her to death, but it’s better than spending her remaining years curled up in bed, in pain.
“These are not people I want to deal with,” she says. “I have nightmares that the police are going to come into my house and arrest me.”
The medical marijuana movement aims to end this official cruelty, and allow people like Segal to live in dignity. That was the idea, anyway, when the Legislature passed the law last year. It was supposed to be up and running by now.
But thanks to Gov. Chris Christie, this effort has gone terribly off track. So Segal still has to sneak to Philly for her fix, like a criminal.
“The way the rules are written now, I’ll have no choice but to continue doing what I’m doing,” she says.
http://www.jackherer.com/archives/christie-sabotages-medical-marijuana-program/Lisa Segal wakes up every morning locked in a fetal position, her muscles in spasm... more
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