Looks like the establishment are finally ready to 'eat' Christie [View all]

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-28/christie-failing-economy-promise-as-new-jersey-falls-behind-u-dot-s
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While the economic hour is dark, there are brighter days ahead,” the governor said at the Trenton War Memorial across the street from the statehouse. “We have the tools to win the battle for a better future.”

By the end of his first term, economic indicators told a story of a state falling behind. Job growth in Christie’s first term was less than a third that of neighboring New York, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Pennsylvania outstripped the state’s 15 percent expansion in the value of goods and services produced by 4.4 percentage points. Adjusted for inflation, New Jersey’s median household income declined 12.2 percent, compared with a drop of 3.9 percent nationwide.
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Christie, 52, has yet to rewrite that narrative, traveling around the country as chairman of the Republican Governors Association while he says he’s considering a run for the presidency. New Jersey’s lagging growth and swelling pension obligations have contributed to eight credit-rating downgrades, a record for a chief executive of the state.

All I want now is Paul Fishman to weigh in with some charges

Get the popcorn DUers