Corzine Policy as Governor: No helicopters on the public's dime for private or political events

[DainBramaged]

big part of the Chris Christie zeitgeist is that there is one set of rules for everybody else, and then all the stuff he gets to do, because the rules for him are ... just for him. It feels like we've been covering that part of Christie forever. Some NJ reporters recognize Christie's pattern, most national reporters do not. The Iowa GOP bigwigs Christie flew back in our chopper to see might know, but they don't care. They're just bored with the dullest GOP presidential field in a generation.
So, today when the law and order, fiscal conservative, better-with-your-tax-money-than-the-other-guy governor got called out for commandeering a 55-foot, $12.5 million helicopter meant for fighting terrorism and transporting critically-injured accident victims to ride to a kids ballgame and a political meeting, the very first thing his spokesman did was try to equalize Christie's bad actions.

How? Pretty much by saying all the other guys did it. The fact that that isn't actually true, at least for the governor Christie campaigned against and beat, doesn't seem to scratch Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak's story too much.

Informed that Drewniak told reporters, "This has historically been the case in prior administrations as well, and we continue to be judicious in limiting its use," Joshua Zeitz, senior policy adviser to former governor Jon Corzine and current Chief of Staff at the Corzine-helmed brokerage firm MF Global, clarified for Blue Jersey Corzine's policy during his time as Governor:


He always paid for a private helicopter when traveling on private or political business. We understood it to be illegal to use state resources for private or political purposes. Always.

http://bluejersey.net/diary/18598/corzine-policy-as-governor-no-helicopters-on-the-publics-dime-for-private-or-political-events

[nonperson]

1. Christie needs to be held to the letter of the law the way he held others to it

If Christie ever was held responsible for his myriad past current and continuing ethical and legal lapses the degenerate blowbag would be behind bars for life.

[rustydog]

2. This guy used to be a hard-nutted prosecutor and his spokesman

Just offered the little sibling-defense: My brother did it first!!!!

And if one effing reporter had the balls to hypothetically ask: If prior Governors jumped off a cliff, would Chrissy-boy?