Did Chris Christie just October Surprise himself? (NJ-Gov)

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Monday October 19, 2009 · 3:00 PM PDT

2009/10/19 · 15:00

Oh, man. Chris Christie must just be screaming his head off in some expensive hotel room somewhere. What a boneheaded public relations move by a candidate this close to Election Day.

Here in New Jersey, former US Attorney Chris Christie's watched his comfortable lead shrink down to nothing in his contest against the Democratic incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine, and surprising upstart independent Chris Daggett, endorsed by NJ's largest paper, and nipping at Christie's votes.

AP has Christie saying if elected, he'd loosen up on the austerity measures placed on state employee travel expenses by Corzine, but just for his closest advisers. That's big talk given that Christie campaigned on cutting government waste, touts his personal integrity and gripes that Corzine mismanaged state spending. But Christie's baffling remarks play right into a key Corzine campaign theme: one set of rules for Christie, and another for everybody else, a theme that reverbs in both Christie's professional conduct and personal conduct.

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Thursday December 14, 2006 · 2:01 PM PST

2006/12/14 · 14:01

Cross posted at MyDD & Huffington Post. Note: John R. Bohrer & I both write for Blue Jersey, and this is printed here under my name with his permission.

As New Jersey joins a handful of other states by enacting civil unions today (by a vote of 56 votes in favor, 19 against and 5 abstentions in the NJ State Assembly and 23 to 12 with 5 abstentions in the Senate), it isn't something to be proud of. Sure, something is better than nothing, but it's hard to celebrate something when everything was possible. Now, equality won't come for some time, while families and the state of New Jersey will have to pay -- literally.

First, civil unions don't work in the real world for many reasons. They are discriminatory and hurt families. Marriage is the only currency of commitment the real world universally understands and accepts.

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Did Chris Christie just October Surprise himself? (NJ-Gov)

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