Republican Governor of New Jersey
What will it take to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in the upcoming mid-term election? In short, female voter turnout. Because, you see, there's a gender divide on the two running candidates when it comes to the polling, and its significant. "Governor Scott... I'm not sure I got an answer to the question.." That was a remark from one of the moderators at the gubernatorial debate between incumbent Florida Governor Rick Scott and his Democratic opponent, Charlie Crist. Rick Scott was asked a very straight forward question on discrimination with gay marriage: "Governor Scott, you say you are against discrimination. If you ever want to see a 'real life experiment' on how to turn Ayn Rand's philosophy into a state wide policy, then look no further than Kansas. Governor Brownback coasted to election four years ago on his promise to make Kansas a bastion of conservative orthodoxy. Texas Governor Rick Perry plans to run for president in 2016. He even just started his very own super PAC to gather campaign financing, named RickPAC. And the long time governor plans to hit the campaign trail hard later this month, visiting all the key Republican states, including Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, to name a few. Republican Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed the "Safe Carry Protection Act" into state law on 4/23/2014. This law is being dubbed the "guns everywhere" bill by its critics. Here are the in's and out's of this incredibly controversial law, that goes into effect on July 1st. Governor Jan Brewer vetoed Arizona's "religious liberty" bill last evening, putting the brakes on what could have been one of the most discriminatory laws in the country had she given it her approval.
Chris Christie News & Opinion Articles |  | Sat Nov 07, 2015 | bigstory.ap.org
For months, Republican presidential candidates with dwindling bank accounts and negligible support in polls have been f... |
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Chris Christie could be bumped from the main stage at next week's GOP presidential debate, and Bobby Jindal and George... |
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Chris Christie has officially been banished to where no successful candidate has gone before: the undercard debate.... |
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When Chris Christie got into the quiet car of an Amtrak train from Washington on Sunday morning and allegedly (although... |
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The New Jersey Senate will vote on Thursday whether to override Governor Chris Christie's veto of a bill that requires... |
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A former top aide and a former ally to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges relat... |
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In a speech delivered April 14 in New Hampshire, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proposed a large across-the-board c... |
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Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ), asked Monday to comment on the ongoing measles outbreak, at first opted not to affirmat... |
Donald Trump replaced New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with Vice President elect Mike Pence, to head his transition team efforts, just days after the election. Chris Christie was demoted to vice chair of the transition efforts. Federal investigators are looking into whether Governor Chris Christie's administration committed securities law violations by spending nearly $2 billion of Port Authority funds on a state owned bridge. It is illegal to spend Port Authority funds on state owned infrastructure, but the Christie administration lobbied heavily to classify the bridge as an access road to the Lincoln Tunnel even though they are not connected. Investigators are attempting to determine if Governor Christie violated the Martin Act, which enables the state of New York to file suit if they feel Christie intentionally misled bond holders. Shortly after his election, Governor Christie appointed two of his friends and political donors, John and Mary Kay Strangfeld, to the typically ceremonial positions of chairman and vice chairman at the Drumthwacket Foundation, a nonprofit that has restored and maintains the New Jersey Governors mansion. John Strangfeld is also the chairman of the insurance agency Prudential, a company that received a record-setting $250 million dollar tax incentive to move its Newark headquarters only a few blocks down the street. The number averages out to the taxpayers spending $527,000 per job that was created in the handout. The state Ethics Commission has approved Governor Chris Christie's recommendation of Susana Espasa Guerrero, a longtime loyalist and former employee of the Governor, to head the ethics panel that will investigate the bridge closure scandal the Governor finds himself in. Ms. Guerrero has also worked with every single individual who has been subpoenaed in the case. A former prosecutor in New Jersey has come forward to claim that he was fired after refusing to drop a criminal case against a friend of Governor Chris Christie. Ben Barlyn, the former prosecutor in question, claimed that he was fired shortly after filing multiple charges against Republican Sheriff Deborah Trout. He was replaced with a Christie ally that quickly dropped the charges. Mr. Barlyn has petitioned the state Attorney General's office to release grand jury testimony that he says will back up his accusations. Former track star Carl Lewis claims that Governor Christie personally intervened and dissuaded him from launching a bid to run for an open state Senate seat that the Governor's friend was running for. Lewis claims that Governor Christie told him that "I'm going to come after you" and threatened to drop plans to appoint him as the states fitness ambassador if he ran against his friend. Governor Christie has denied the accusation by Lewis. The Administration of Chris Christie has been accused of withholding millions of Sandy emergency relief funds for a New Jersey town that refused to approve a massive redevelopment plan that the governor favored. The mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, claimed that Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno and Richard Constable, who is Governor Christie’s community affairs commissioner spoke on behalf of the Governor in making the demand. While the two officials in question have denied the allegations, recently released documents seem to say otherwise. Dawn Zimmer, who is the mayor, also said that she will be happy to speak under oath and take a lie detector in order to prove her claims. Governor Chris Christie is under a Federal investigation regarding possible misuse of federal funds given to New Jersey after the state was ravaged by super storm Sandy back in 2012. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has concluded after an initial audit that a full investigation is warranted into whether Christie used his position to choose a politically friendly public relations company to air television advertisements encouraging people to visit New Jersey over another company that bid over two million less.
We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in. And then when your time is up...then we go get you. Tap you on the shoulder and say excuse me, thanks for coming, time to go.
"That’s [firing public employees] the right direction."
Videos on Chris Christie |  | Wed Jun 25, 2014
Already embroiled in a criminal probe over lane closures at the George Washington Bridge,... |
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Actio... |
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New Jersey governor Chris Christie booed at NFL's Hand Off ceremony in Times Square Satur... |
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Former Olympian Carl Lewis details a 2009 run-in with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. |
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Fmr. VA Atty Gen. Ken Cuccinelli says it "makes sense" for Christie to step aside as head... |
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican Party star enmeshed in scandal after re-... |
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NJTV will broadcast live coverage of Gov. Chris Christie's swearing in and inaugural addr... |
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Ex-NJ Gov. blasts Chris Christie |
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"Hours after Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer accused the Christie administration of withholding... |
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New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone says that Gov. Christie could face impeachment or resignati... |
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Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno denies charges Chris Christie tied Sandy relief funds to the suppor... |
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Kate Zernike and Erik Wemple discuss MSNBC's coverage of the controversies surrounding th... |
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