WASHINGTON — Half of likely Republican primary voters said they didn’t support Gov. Chris Christie for president, a higher negative score than any other potential 2016 candidate, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The April 26-30 survey said 50 percent of likely GOP primary voters said they couldn’t see themselves backing Christie, who has… Read the rest of this entry »
TRENTON — Senate President Stephen Sweeney has a message for Gov. Chris Christie: Log off Twitter, come home and work to fix the state’s economy. “He actually needs to be back here meeting with the legislative leadership. He needs to be back here with a plan on what we’re going to do to fix this place,”… Read the rest of this entry »
By Mark Lagerkvist | New Jersey Watchdog
When a governor takes out-of-state trips to campaign for a new job, who pays for the travel bills of the state police security details?
In New Jersey and Wisconsin, the answers are different for two governors who are jockeying for position in the 2016 GOP presidential sweepstakes.
Chris Christie has unapologetically stuck New Jersey taxpayers with the $1.15 million in Executive Protection Unit travel costs during his first five years in office, according to a New Jersey Watchdog analysis.
But when Wisconsin’s Scott Walker hits the road on political journeys, those bills are being paid by his political action committee, which gets the money from campaign donations.
Posted: April 28th, 2015 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Scott Walker | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Chris Christie, GOP 2016 nomination, Scott Walker, Security expenses | Comments Off on Christie stiffs New Jersey taxpayers for security travel while Walker PAC pays
Mary Pat Christie, Governor Chris Christie’s wife, has left her lucrative job at Wall Street hedge fund, Angelo, Gordon & Co, according to multiple media reports citing a statement from the Governor’s spokesman, Kevin Roberts.
photo via nj.gov
“Mrs. Christie has decided to take a hiatus from her work in the finance world to spend more time with her family and young children. She recently resigned her position as a Managing Director at Angelo Gordon.”
The Christies have four children. Two are in college and two…an 11 year old and 14 year old…at home.
Mrs. Christie has been the breadwinner in the family since Governor Christie started his government career as U.S. Attorney in 2002. In 2013 Mrs. Christie reported earnings of $510, 522. The Governor’s salary is $175,000.
Posted: April 24th, 2015 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Mary Pat Chrisite | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Angelo Gordon and Co, Ben Dworkin, Chris Christie, Mary Pat Christie, Rider Institute | 2 Comments »
Jimmy Fallon wore a New Jersey lapel pin and Chris Christie ate some Ben and Jerry’s Tonight Dough ice cream last night during the Governor’s appearance on the Tonight Show.
Christie joked that his day job as Governor of New Jersey is keeping him too busy to announce that he is running for president.
Christie and Fallon spent much of the segment joking about fat jokes. Fallon urged Christie to be the hulk. “Be mean be green.” Be the guy who tells people to shut up and sit down. Christie corrected Fallon, “You got it wrong, It’s sit down and shut up.”
Posted: April 23rd, 2015 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Ben and Jerry's, BP oil spill, Chris Christie, Jimmy Fallon, Russell Crowe, Tonight Show | 6 Comments »
State Senator Joe Kyrillos is backing former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
According to The Washington Post, Bush spokesman Tim Miller confirmed that Kyrillos is backing the son and brother of 41st and 43rd presidents to become the 45th. Kyrillos contributed $10,000 to Bush’s political action committee last month.
The news that Kyrillos is supporting Bush over his decades long friend and ally, Governor Chris Christie, caps the news cycle for a day in which a Quinnipiac Poll reported that New Jersey voters don’t approve of the Governor’s job performance at home and don’t think he would make a good president. A CNN poll also released Monday places Christie in 7th place among GOP presidential hopefuls with support of only 4% or Republicans and Republican leaning Independents nationally. Just four months ago, a full year after the Bridgegate scandal broke, Christie ranked second for the 2016 GOP nomination in CNN’s poll with support of 13% of the respondents.
Posted: April 21st, 2015 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 13th Legislative District, 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Joe Kyrillos, Monmouth County | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Joe Kyrillos | 9 Comments »
TRENTON, N.J. – In his “tell-it-like-it-is” tour of New Hampshire this week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the country needs a president who isn’t afraid to be honest about the tough fiscal choices needed to overhaul entitlement programs and keep deficits from ravaging the Treasury. He pointed… Read the rest of this entry »
TRENTON — Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded New Jersey’s debt rating, dealing the Garden State its record ninth ratings cut since Gov. Chris Christie took office. The ratings drop by one notch, from A1 to A2, on $32.2 billion worth of bonds underscores the state’s “weak financial position and large structural imbalance, primarily related to continued… Read the rest of this entry »
During a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa where she met with local Democratic leaders, according to KETV 7, an Omaha, Nebraska ABC affilate, Hillary Clinton’s Scooby Doo campaign van was parked in a handicapped parking spot.
The Republican National Committee’s goprapidresponse team caught the report and posted the video to YouTube.
Update: YouTube has removed the video due to a copyright claim by Hearst Televsion. You can see the original at KETV-7’s website until the Clinton campaign gets them to take it down.
Posted: April 16th, 2015 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Hillary Clinton | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Hillary Clinton, Scooby Doo Van | 3 Comments »© Copyright 2025 | MoreMonmouthMusings | All Rights Reserved