Posted on 07/03/2017 3:35:23 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Whether he did it or not is irrelevant here. Either he did, and they took the fall, or he didn’t. But, we never knew for sure.
What’s important going forward is he looks like a smug, selfish ass because of his special beach day, and it makes people like me think it more likely that he did pull the bridge caper, despite protestations to the contrary.
To be fair, the NJ Assembly never presented the budget. But, it was in very poor taste for the Governor and his family to be on the beach.
He should have invited the dems there to negotiate. That would have been the real picture.
This more complicated than one beach. Many other things are closed.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_likely_to_approve_deal_to_end_shutdown_so.html
According to this account, Christie insisted Horizon “donate” $300M to his pet opioid project. “Donate” being a euphemism, of course. That was part of the reason the budget was held up.
“Christie has made the insurance company’s restructuring a bargaining chip before he signs off on the state budget presented to him by the Democratically controlled Legislature.
Christie has ridiculed the $12 billion company for keeping $2.4 billion in reserve and for rebuffing his call for Horizon to donate $300 million to aid the state’s efforts to combat the heroin and opioid drug addiction epidemic.”
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