Christie should quit GOP governors organization: Editorial

[Laxman]

I believe its time for him to just quit being governor, but, one step at a time.

Christie is now fending off two major investigations. Several members of his senior staff have received subpoenas and will have to testify before legislative committees in the George Washington Bridge scandal. That is time consuming and distracting.

Federal prosecutors are also investigating the lieutenant governor over charges that she illegally threatened to starve Hoboken of Sandy funds. And she is the one who is supposed to run the state in Christie’s absence.

The state faces pressing challenges over the next few months. The Hurricane Sandy relief effort is a mess, so bad that the firm hired to handle aid for homeowners and renters was recently fired. Christie will have to present a budget next month as well — no easy task in a state that was recently ranked No. 50 in fiscal health in a study done at George Mason University.

Read it here folks: http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2014/01/christie_should_quit_gop_gover.html#incart_river_default

[Cha]

1. K&R for now! thanks Lax

[ProSense]

2. Just read that.

Thanks for posting.

[Little Star]

3. k&r

[GP6971]

4. It wasn't a very subtle editorial was it?

Bluntly called for him to honor his State of the State vow to work for NJ.

[Bjorn Against]

5. I want him to resign as Governor, but I have no problem with him being head of the RGA

He exposes the party's corruption for all to see, let them have him.

[CTyankee]

9. doncha love it? He'll run that organization into the ground...more power to him!

[malaise]

6. K & R

Christie is history

[AAO]

7. Couldn't happen to a nicer thug

[allinthegame]

8. Let him stay

Makes it better for Dems

[factsarenotfair]

10. NJ ranks 50th in fiscal health and he was re-elected??!!??

Unbelievable.

[pacalo]

11. They've got Christie's character pegged.

During those (fundraising) trips, the business of running the state of New Jersey will take a back seat. And no doubt there will be many more trips when these are done.

This is great for Christie’s career, but terrible for New Jersey. Given that, he should step down.

He won’t take this advice, because running the RGA allows him to raise tons of money that he can use to win new friends. Stepping down would deal another blow to his battered hopes for a presidential run in 2016.

But didn’t he just say in his inaugural address that he felt a "solemn obligation" to "work every day, night and day — to make New Jersey all it can be"?

[leanforward]

12. Whether he stays or goes

The next four years will be challenging for the man. These revelations sound like a book.

[weissmam]

13. Christie house of cards built on his big mouth is

FALLING APART

maybe he can go hang with his looser friend the GOV of Florida

[Laxman]

14. An Interesting Related Article....

Compounding Christie’s difficulty as he tries to juggle his national duties as chairman of the Republican Governors Association with upcoming fundraising trips to Texas, Utah, Illinois, Georgia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts is the allegation against Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, who fills in as governor when Christie is out of state.

Guadagno may soon be facing subpoenas of her own based on Zimmer’s allegation -- which Guadagno has denied -- that she passed on a direct message from Christie threatening to withhold Sandy aid from Hoboken unless Zimmer pushed through a high-rise development proposed by the Rockefeller Group and represented by the law firm of David Samson, Christie’s appointee as Port Authority chairman.

Ironically, Christie’s first trip as Republican Governors Association chairman took him out of state to Florida the weekend that Zimmer’s charge hit the national airwaves on MSNBC and CNN. Republican Gov. Rick Scott had already cancelled a planned public appearance with Christie because of the Bridgegate scandal, and the governor spent the weekend avoiding the national media at a series of closed fundraisers.

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/01/27/scandals-put-christie-governor-s-office-under-unprecedented-pressure/?p=1

A little long but well worth a few minutes of your time.

[ProSense]

15. Thanks for posting. n/t