Chris Christie, average garden variety bully, caves in when called out on two important issues

[nonperson]

Christie talked a shit load of what he KNEW was nonsense regarding the NJ Supreme Court verdict on school funding, threatening to ignore the Court, and he refused to sit down to fair collective bargaining with the state workers' unions over benefits.

The Supreme Court gave its decision and the unions sued Christie for unfair labor practices and the loud mouth from Mendham caved in like the typical garden variety bully he is. This guy has nothing but mouth yet the Republicans clamor for more of him nationally although Christie is proving himself to be the largest empty suit in New Jersey history. New Jerseyans are noticing and this mammoth failure of an incompetent bully is dropping in popularity like a mastodon in a tar pit.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/nj_attorney_general_faces_ques.html

N.J. attorney general faces questions on Christie's threat to defy Supreme Court over school funding

Published: Friday, May 06, 2011, 6:00 AM Updated: Friday, May 06, 2011, 9:22 AM
By Salvador Rizzo/Statehouse Bureau

TRENTON — A late afternoon Assembly budget hearing flared into an all-out constitutional debate Thursday when legislators asked Attorney General Paula Dow to settle the predominant legal question in Trenton: Can Gov. Chris Christie defy the state Supreme Court?

The governor has threatened to ignore the justices if they order him to find an extra $1.7 billion for school districts, but he has refused to elaborate on his controversial stance.

Instead, it was Dow who faced a barrage of hypotheticals from members of the Budget Committee: Could Christie be disbarred? How would an unfavorable ruling affect public safety?

Finally she was asked: Does the Supreme Court have the power to enforce its decision?

"Last I heard they don’t have a police force," she shot back. "I have one."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/nj_supreme_court_orders_state.html

N.J. Supreme Court orders state to prove Christie's funding formula is sufficient

Published: Friday, January 14, 2011, 6:48 AM Updated: Friday, January 14, 2011, 3:35 PM
By Star-Ledger Staff

TRENTON — After cutting spending for schools by about $1 billion last year, the Christie administration today was ordered by the New Jersey Supreme Court to prove the reduced funding can sufficiently provide a "thorough and efficient education" to the nearly 1.4 million children in the state’s classrooms.

The state’s highest court, which last week heard oral arguments in the long-running Abbott v. Burke school funding case, appointed a "special master" to hold further hearings — and report by March 31— on the constitutionality of the current funding levels.

Calling the obligation to fund schools "a fundamental responsibility of the state," the Supreme Court again named Superior Court Judge Peter Doyne to hold hearings in the case and submit proposed fact-findings and conclusions of law. Doyne served as special master in an earlier round of the Abbott case, in 2008.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/05/nj_supreme_court_does_its_job.html

N.J. Supreme Court does its job, and Chris Christie yields

Published: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 5:52 AM Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 5:58 AM
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board

Gov. Chris Christie was bluffing when he threatened to defy the state Supreme Court over school funding, and that comes as a relief. His tough talk at public forums was red meat for conservative fans, but chilling to anyone who believes in the rule of law.

It is also gratifying to see that the court showed a sturdy fidelity to its convictions, even in the face of this attempt at intimidation.

The ruling itself was Solomonic, a splicing of competing demands that left no one fully satisfied. It is clearly good news for children in the state’s poorest districts, which will receive an additional $500 million in aid.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/gov_christie_seeks_to_change_h.html

Gov. Christie seeks to change health benefits of state workers through collective bargaining

Published: Friday, May 27, 2011, 6:00 AM
By Ginger Gibson/Statehouse Bureau

TRENTON — After asserting for months that state employee health benefits will be overhauled through legislation, Gov. Chris Christie’s office is now seeking the changes through collective bargaining with the state’s largest employee union.

"He’s out of his cage!" read a memo to Communications Workers of America members obtained by The Star-Ledger, joking about Christie’s comments in March that he was looking forward to collective bargaining.

"Let me at them," Christie said at the time, showing his willingness to go out and negotiate. "Get me out of the cage and let me go."

At a Statehouse news conference Thursday, Christie called the offer to unions a "good faith effort" but reiterated his desire to have the Legislature pass a bill and force the unions to accept his plan to make them pay 30 percent of the cost of health benefits.

Big loud mouth tough guy Chris Christie, star of the national Republican stage, fraud, incompetent, corrupt punk who talks a load of bullshit then folds like a two dollar suit case at the first sign of pressure.

[ClarkUSA]

1. Great news. Love your way with words, too! I only wish you wrote for nj.com

:D

[nonperson]

2. HA! That would be funny! I don't think they'd have me

I'm too far left for that left wing rag all the conservatives complain about.
;)

[ClarkUSA]

4. Yeah but just imagine having your own column!

Really, if Ann Coulter can have one, why can't you? You should send this OP into the editor and see what he/she says. The newsrrom will probably have a good hoot.

It's great to see the powers-that-be in NJ act as a check-and-balance. Voters can be so stupid, can't they?

[nonperson]

7. I do send letters to the editor and some have been printed

But not lately.

I sent one a few weeks ago when Christie's supposed surrogate, Guadagno, criticized the New Jersey Council on the Arts for handing out $300,000 in no-bid contracts that turned out to have been approved by Guadagno's office! I pointed out that Guadagno's own boss, Christie, had given out well over $100,000,000 in no-bid contracts while US Attorney for New Jersey!

The Arts Council contracts Guadagno's office approved that she was now trying to make political hay out of were a mere fraction of the no-bid contracts her own boss handed out in a settlement with a medical device manufacturer to his former boss, John Aschroft (reported $54 million no-bid contract) and another so far unreported but estimated to be of similar size no-bid contract to David Kelley -- the former US Attorney for Manhattan who let Christie's brother Todd off with civil charges only in a case of massive stock fraud at the firm Todd Christie headed at the time as CEO, Spears, Leeds, and Kellogg. More than twenty traders at Spears, Leeds, and Kellogg were investigated for stock fraud that cost traders millions of dollars. Todd Christie was the fourth worst offender overall. Then US Attorney for Manhattan David Kelley indicted the top four offenders, skipped over Todd Christie, then indicted several below him on the list.

Todd Christie was given a slap on the wrist, civil charges only, along with the bottom few offenders. If this doesn't sound like a quid pro quo of felony proportions I don't know what does. BTW, Todd Christie made out to the tune of $60 MILLION when Goldman Sachs bought out Spears, Leeds, Kellogg. That was the seed money used for the donations to the national Republican Party (reportedly $400,000) that got Chris Christie a wholly undeserved spot as US Attorney appointed by Bush with NO criminal trial experience and near the bottom of his class grades at Seton Hall Law. The same seed money that was later used for donations to the NJ Republican Party that garnered Chris Christie his slot on the ticket as governor.

The deeper you look the more corruption you find. There is so much more, from Hatch Act violations with Karl Rove while US Attorney to non-reporting loans to subordinates and failing to claim income from the loan on his tax returns for years, to a fake politically inspired investigation against Sen. Menendez DURING A CAMPAIGN TO ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF THE CAMPAIGN, to owning stock in a company he was investigation as US Attorney, to having Michele Brown, recipient of the aforementioned loan, influence the prosecution in the Solomon Dwek "sting" to be timed just as the gubernatorial election season went into high gear and while Christie could still take credit for it.

And that's not even mentioning the cavalcade of disasters Christie has been responsible for since becoming governor.

So much corruption and manipulation and malfeasance you wonder how anyone could have voted for Chris Christie no less enough people for this incompetent, corrupt fraud to actually win.

[Walk away]

3. Let's hope NJ comes to it's senses and never votes for a republican again.

He is causing so much pain and fear and he seems to enjoy it.

[PCIntern]

5. Unfortunately, they always do...

I have a house in Ventnor, NJ which my mother of blessed memory used to live in, and the politics down there is a fight not between Dems and Rethugs, but between George Wallace-types and George Lincoln Rockwell-types. Scary stuff....

The funniest part, if there is one, is that some ridiculous percentage of Atlantic City mayors have done time in Federal Prison. It's as though they're elected, sworn in, and a grand jury convenes and indicts them within minutes...on edit: those are the only DEMS, BTW...

[AmBlue]

6. Can we do this in Florida for godssake?

The lizard in our Governor's office has painfully cut funding for schools, somewhere in the vicinity of $80 million last I heard. I hope some smart lawyer in Florida in looking into this.

[southernyankeebelle]

8. The sad thing is there are people who will vote for these kind of republicans at their own parrell.

[tblue37]

9. This line sounds familiar:

Finally she was asked: Does the Supreme Court have the power to enforce its decision?

"Last I heard they don’t have a police force," she shot back. "I have one."

Remember how Hitler responded to reports of the Pope's disapproval?

"How many divisions does the Pope have?"

[nonperson]

10. Yeah, that line really bothered me too

The arrogance is disturbing. Reminiscent of a recent president who was about as unqualified as Christie and recognized a kindred spirit when he handed Christie the keys to the Office of the US Attorney for New Jersey while Christie had what amounted to a learner permit to practice law.