Gov. Christie arrives at son's high school baseball game in State Police helicopter

[DainBramaged]

Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son's baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter.

Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field, a noise from above distracted the spectators as the 55-foot long helicopter buzzed over trees in left field, circled the outfield and landed in an adjacent football field. Christie disembarked from the helicopter and got into a black car with tinted windows that drove him about a 100 yards to the baseball field.

During the 5th inning, Christie and First Lady Mary Pat Christie got into the car, rode back to the helicopter and left the game. During a pitching change, play was stopped for a couple of minutes while the helicopter took off. Christie's eldest son, Andrew, was the starting catcher for Delbarton High School, in Morris Township. The governor played the same position of catcher when he was in high school.

The game was being held at St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale in Bergen County. Christie watched the game from the stands, flanked by State Police security guards.

"It is a means of transportation that is occasionally used as the schedule demands," said Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak in an email. "This has historically been the case in prior administrations as well, and we continue to be judicious in limiting its use."

The governor had no public events on his schedule, offering no insight to where he might have been traveling from. He had a private meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion, in Princeton. He is meeting with a group of Iowa donors who have publically expressed a desire to persuade him to run for president in 2012.

Christie was ferried to the field in a brand-new AugustaWestland helicopter, purchased at a cost to taxpayers of $12.5 million.

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[tammywammy]

1. What a waste of tax payer money. n/t

[roguevalley]

11. So the King of I Am landed at a footie game on a hellie? What a

waste of space he is. Ego, much?

[A Simple Game]

22. And so was using the helicopter. n/t

[Lint Head]

2. Little Piggies

Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies

Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.

Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.

In their sties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.

Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
The Beatles

[GReedDiamond]

3. There will always be enough taxpayer dollars...

...so that pigs like Christie can be treated as royalty, even if it means laying off teachers, closing schools, and denying health care for impoverished children, just for starters.

Fucking scum.

[DainBramaged]

4. His term cannot end fast enough.......

[AsahinaKimi]

5. He must think its good to be the King...

Surprised he didn't arrive in something like this..


or this..

[obxhead]

6. No money for schools though.

What an asshole.

[Historic NY]

7. Heavy lift version I take.

[Blue Owl]

19. Had to be a Chinook

n/t

[lpbk2713]

8. There's no business like show business.

Especially when it's on the taxpayers' dime.

[jaysunb]

9. +1 n/t

:rofl:

[givemebackmycountry]

10. I'm surprised they found a copter powerful enough....

To get his stupid fat right wing ass off the ground.

[jmowreader]

12. This heli HAD to have been bought in the last administration...

because if they'd have ordered it during Christie's administration they would have bought a surplus Mi-6 from the Russians because those can carry either 65 armed soldiers or one fat-ass New Jersey governor.

[Enthusiast]

13. This is a perfect example of GOP hypocrisy.

The fat fuck obviously doesn't recognize how ridiculous this looks.

[DainBramaged]

14. He just doesn't give a shit.

IMHO he is the GOP hired gun here, and I think after he makes a name for himself, his time will be in 2016. Unless of course, the GOP is throttled so bad in 2012 his re-emergence is impossible. Unless of course, the Democrats yet again throw victory to the wind and fuck thinks up because they will never agree on anything and leave an opening for him in 2016.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Drumthwacket? The governor's mansion? Drumthwacket?

I know Christie probably didn't give it that name, but... Drumthwacket?

[karynnj]

16. While he cuts school funding, his son's school's tuition is over $26,000 a year

http://www.delbarton.org/

Not to mention, Christie has 4 kids.

[DainBramaged]

17. I wonder who is sponsoring his kids, hmmmmmm

[karynnj]

18. His wife is a part time VP of Canter/Fitzgerald

In 2009, they earned over $500,000 between them. http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/08/27/news/doc4c77315a37beb590405334.txt

[DainBramaged]

20. I still don't trust him as far as I can throw him

[karynnj]

21. I don't either - and I doubt I could trown him an inch! nt

[louslobbs]

23. How budget conscious of him, he'll just cut the amount of the chopper flight from the education

budget or from any budget that helps the less fortunate and needy. Maybe he could cut it from his personal food budget? By the looks of things, the cost of a good lunch should cover the cost of his greedy use of government transportation for his own personal needs. What a hypocrite.
Lou