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Opinion: GOP Legislators May Finally Be Ready to Buck Christie, Override Veto

repost-us-image-13906378By Carl Golden

Rarely has a possible legislative override of a gubernatorial veto been as fraught with political implications as that involving Gov. Christie’s rejection of legislation to revise and reform the operations of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Entering his sixth year in office, Christie has run the table in having his…

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Posted: January 20th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, New Jersey, NJ GOP, NJ Senate Republicans, NJ State Legislature, Opinion | Tags: , , , , | 5 Comments »

5 Comments on “Opinion: GOP Legislators May Finally Be Ready to Buck Christie, Override Veto”

  1. Will Christie's Good Friend Kyrillos Vote to Override?? said at 11:46 am on January 20th, 2015:

    The rats are abandoning the ship. Will Christie stalwart Joe Kyrillos vote to override?? If he doesn’t–and that includes all Repulicans and Democrats–its inviting political suicide.

    Even Jennifer Beck better vote for this. Afterall, her former husband Robert Cressen and Beck’s Legislative Assistant, Nick Raspanti, were given Port Authority PATRONAGE jobs–all without posting the jobs for the public to compete in. What an outrage!!

    http://patch.com/new-jersey/marlboro-coltsneck/will-kyrillos-handlin-oscanlon-vote-override-governor-0

  2. Didn't Christie say he would be "transparent?" said at 11:50 am on January 20th, 2015:

    I remember when he first ran, he said he would be different than any other governor–one of accountability and transparency. Boy, was I duped! Never again!

    http://watchdog.org/194025/christie-travel-records-4/

  3. This is bad said at 1:35 pm on January 20th, 2015:

    Notice to all potential campaign donors: Buyers BEWARE!

    Where other Republican Governors are successfully leading their state forward, Gov. Christie is driving New Jersey backwards.

    Here’s the truth under Gov. Christie’s leadership.

    Unemployment: New Jersey has the highest percentage of working-age adults in the country still grappling with long-term unemployment. New Jersey’s unemployment rate is 6.6 percent, considerably higher than the national rate of 5.8 percent, making the state 32nd in the nation.

    Job creation: New Jersey ranks dead last among the 50 States in job growth during Christie’s governorship. New Jersey has recovered fewer than half of the 257,900 jobs it lost.

    Credit rating: Three major credit agencies have cut the state’s credit rating since Christie became governor, making it costlier to borrow money. Furthermore, New Jersey’s credit rating moved downward for an eighth time, which is projected to cause another downgrade of the credit rating within two years. The reason for the downgrade is because of Gov. Christie’s intentional failure to fund the pension – a blatant disregard of HIS signature pension reform law.

    Economic growth: New Jersey was just one of seven U.S. states whose economy shrank. The state ranked 36th in terms of GDP growth.

    Taxes: New Jersey is 50th in the Tax Foundation’s annual report, which ranks which states have the most business-friendly (translation: lowest) taxes. Tax burden grew by 18.6 percent for the average family under Christie.

    Home prices and foreclosures: Mortgage delinquencies have increased 2.8 percent since Christie took over, the highest of any state in the nation. Plus, home prices are down 6.7 percent in that time, putting New Jersey in the bottom quarter of all states.

    Poverty: New Jersey has reached a 52-year high, with 24.7 percent of the state below the poverty level. New Jersey is one of just three states that saw more people falling into poverty than rising above it. Nearly 1 million New Jerseyans lived below the poverty line in 2013, up from nearly 935,000 in 2012, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In fact, New Jersey is only one of three states where poverty has gone up according to the latest U.S. Census data. (New Mexico and Washington are the two others.) Back in 2007, 8.6 percent of the state lived below the poverty line. That went up to 9.4 percent in 2009 and in 2013 hit 11.4 percent.

    Courts: Gov. Christie had the opportunity to change New Jersey’s Liberal Supreme Court to Conservative but choose to make it even more liberal.

    Pension: Gov. Christie has exacerbated the pension problem because he has reneged on his signature pension reform law. Gov. Christie has now caused a greater burden on the tax payers by costing twice as much over five years. By cutting the $2.4 billion payment it is estimated, according to the Governor’s own financial team, to cost tax payers $4.2 billion. If his landmark pension reform legislation (just three years ago) was to save the pension and NJ tax-payers why does he demand more? He either lied to all New Jerseyans, then and/or now, or is wholly incompetent.

    Gov. Christie has only one solution for all of the multitude of problems affecting our State, and that is to pit the struggling private sector against the public sector because he has failed to govern. Is this leadership?

    It’s far easier to run for a position of leadership than it is to be an actual leader. #GovChristieFailedLeader

  4. MoreMonmouthMusings » Blog Archive » Don’t Count On GOP Legislators Voting To Override Christie’s Port Authority Reform Veto said at 4:06 pm on January 20th, 2015:

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  5. Don’t Count On GOP Legislators Voting To Override Christie’s Port Authority Reform Veto – The Save Jersey Blog said at 7:56 pm on January 20th, 2015:

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