<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif">Christie is a Republican from New Jersey, which translates as too liberal to run as a Democrat in Idaho. New Jersey has very strict gun laws including a beebee gun permit. Would the NRA stay quiet about this? Sure he is acting like a fiscal conservative or should I say cutting the education budget.</font><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif">Christie has a past, however and it has been barely be talked about. </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif">My latest favourite a Madoff connection! <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2011/09/the-chris-christie-madoff-attack-ad-that-writes-itself">http://www.theawl.com/2011/09/the-chris-christie-madoff-attack-ad-that-writes-itself</a><br>
</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif">As AG of New Jersey, he grabbed headlines by going after corruption. Now this is not that difficult in NJ. Oddly they mostly were Democrats, but I am sure that that is simply a coincidence. Perhaps you remember the arrests and persecution of former Newark <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Newark Mayor and state Sen. Sharpe James, or Essex County Executive James Treffinger, or past state Senate President John Lynch and Hudson County Executive Robert Janiszewski - just to name a few. I think that the fact that lived in New Jersey might be showing through. Lots of people were arrested, dragged out of there offices and the moneys that passed hands was the joke of the day. "Really, you could buy a mayor for that little?"</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The real issue that surrounds Christie is ethics. That strange smell in NJ does not just come from Elizabeth and the Meadowlands. Trenton and the local governments emit a smell that I think locals answer with "What can do?"....</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Here is a taste of what has been charged.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div><a href="http://njelection.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/christie-corruption-chris-christie-investigated-for-blackmail/">http://njelection.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/christie-corruption-chris-christie-investigated-for-blackmail/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Just imagine if people really looked into his past, case by case, client by client. If he was to run, it would be great for investigative journalists and the Newark Star Ledger and the Jersey Journal. Unfortunately for Christie, many of these journalists are out of work and have a lot of time on there hands.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So when he says he in not going to run, I think he is telling the truth. But he will still show up and collect the fee for speaking.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>----Viva</div><div><br></div>
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