Tag Archives: Chris Christie

Christie continues to lead New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono by about 30 points in the polls.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has rejected a peace offering by Sen. Rand Paul after their tit-for-tat feud stretched into a full week of returned insults. “We’re going to have to patch things up if we can sit down,” Paul said in an interview on Fox News. “I am inviting him for a beer, anytime he would like to come …

The latest from master prognosticator Rush Limbaugh: The next presidential election is still three years away, but top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh is already making a bold prediction about who will be the likely nominee for the Democratic Party. “I think it’s going to be Chris Christie,” Limbaugh said on his national program Tuesday. “I think the contest in 2016, …

And the snipe fest continues: In an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” Paul defended himself against Christie’s most recent allegations that the senator was bringing home too much money for his state.  “This is the king of bacon talking about bacon,” Paul said about Christie. Both are considered potential 2016 contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. …

Just posted to Christie’s YouTube channel. Also: Suh-NAP.

Over the weekend Christie took on the libertarians: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is ripping libertarians — including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — for challenging government surveillance programs and failing to understand the dangers of terrorism. “This strain of libertarianism that’s going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought,” the New Jersey …

If Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie were to be their party’s 2016 presidential nominees, a new poll shows Iowa voters evenly split. Clinton and Christie are each favored by 41 percent of the Hawkeye State’s voters. But if Vice President Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee he would get clobbered by Christie, 49 percent to 32 percent, the Quinnipiac University …

New Jersey’s Star-Ledger reports: The state’s top Democratic lawmakers today urged their Republican counterparts to “vote their conscience” to legalize same-sex marriage, but said some GOP lawmakers won’t do this because they don’t want to cross Gov. Chris Christie. Senate President Stephen Sweeney said he will hold a vote to override Christie’s veto of a same-sex marriage bill that passed …

Speaking on New Jersey radio yesterday. “I don’t think it was appropriate. I think it was wrong. [snip] I’ve made it very clear since 2009 that I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. I’ve said that, I ran on that, I’ve said it consistently. That doesn’t mean, in any way shape or form, that I …

Unsurprisingly, Christie is at the bottom of the list when only Republicans are asked.

The Newark Star-Ledger has the story but neglected to update their place-holding headline: Gov. Chris Christie today named state attorney general Jeffrey Chiesa to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Christie’s announcement at a hastily arranged news conference ended days of intense speculation over whom the Republican governor would appoint to serve …

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has acted swiftly in response to yesterday’s passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg. The special election will be October 16th and Democrats are unhappy. New Jersey state law conflicted on the timing of a special election to fill a vacancy. One section of New Jersey law on vacancies said the special election should be held at …

The passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg presents New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with quite the dilemma. The option that is being pushed by many in Mr. Christie’s own party would be to name a Republican to hold the seat and then delay an election on a replacement until 2014. This would give his national party an unexpected gift: a reliable …

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) died of pneumonia today at the age of 89. The oldest member of the Senate, Lautenberg had struggled with health problems since late last year, when he missed several weeks of votes because of what he said was flu and bronchitis.  The death of Lautenberg, a Democrat who was the longest-serving senator in New Jersey history, …

New Jersey state Sen. Barbara Buono faces very long odds against the nation’s most popular governor. Recent polls show Christie beating her by more than 2-1.

The Washington Post provides a recap of the below video: In a seven-minute long YouTube video guest-starring Jon Bon Jovi, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Moynihan and James Carville, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pokes fun at his own reputation and potential presidential ambitions. The governor soon learns that he’s lost his beloved fleece jacket and with it all of his political …

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie today told the New York Post that he underwent secret weight loss surgery in February. The Garden State governor agreed to the operation at the urging of family and friends after turning 50 last September. He told The Post he was thinking of his four kids and how it was time to start improving his …

Speaking a town hall meeting yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie waffled on whether he’d sign a bill to ban “ex-gay” therapy, saying that he never thinks about pending legislation until the final bill reaches his desk.  After complaints from Democrats, Christie’s spokesman rushed out a clarification. “Governor Christie does not believe in conversion therapy,” spokesman Kevin Roberts said in …