Posted on 05/31/2009 6:06:35 AM PDT by adc
Wow, that's all I can say about this one. This is probably not the way that Chris Christie wanted to go in to GOTV weekend before the primary, getting ripped on NJ 101.5. First brother Todd tried to call in to answer their questions off air, but the Jersey guys wanted none of that. Then Chris called in toward the end of the show to talk about campaign advisor John Inglesino and allegations whether he was hired by Republican Sen. Joe Pennacchio in order to earn state pension credits.
From the second Christie got on the line, the Jersey Guys went after him and hard. Christie tried to make some jokes and work in some talking points, but the host wanted to have none of it and said Christie needs to hold himself to his own word:
We want to hold you to the standards that you told us you would hold other people to. Instead of being part of the solution, you're starting to sound more like the problem. When the hosts weren't buying Christie's dancing, he tried to say that Inglesino has nothing to do with the campaign, just a volunteer who does phone banking. He even called him a bottom feeder, which I'm sure excites all volunteers to go out and work for Chris Christie. But seems to be a wee bit more than a volunteer: Inglesino co-hosted a $500-a-plate fundraiser for Christie a week after the candidate said he'd reject all future campaign donations from lawyers to whom he awarded no-bid contracts as U.S. attorney. Inglesino's law firm earned $3 million after Christie appointed it to monitor an out-of-court corporate fraud settlement. He, his law partners and their wives gave Christie's campaign the maximum allowable donations.
Well hell, I'd volunteer if I had that kind of set up too. If that's how the bottom feeders around Christie make out, imagine what the people at the top are getting away with. You won't regret the 9 minutes it takes to listen to this one.
www.lonegan.com
We have a chance this time, to elect a truly conservative man as the opponent to Corzine. The grassroots support for Steve is awesome, BUT, we need to reach as many voters as possible before Tuesday. It’s not enough anymore just to vote, or to post. We have to talk to our friends and neighbors, get ourselves to Lonegan Hdqtrs and pick up yard signs, bumper stickers, etc. Steve has a trifold flier which is available at Hdqtrs. I’m putting them out on cars in a major shopping center all weekend. If you can make calls for Lonegan, just go to mylonegan.com, sign in, and you can reach voters in your spare time. The online phone bank is so easy to do. Even just an hour will help. If every Lonegan supporter can change the mind of an undecided, we we help Steve soar past Christie on June 2nd.
I am completely clueless....Maybe you could provide a bit of backstory? A context maybe? Gee whizz.....
Prove all of us skeptics wrong, please.
Yeah, me too. What’s exactly going on here again?
I made up my mind months ago, Lonegan.
Christie is worse than a zero. Thanks so much for posting this.
ML/NJ
The first electoral battle on the conservative comeback trail won’t be in 2010, or even in November of 2009; it’s days away on June 2, and it will be waged inside the Republican Party in the seemingly deep blue state of NJ.
Former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan is running on a platform that touches on all the best pro-growth, supply-side ideas of the past 30 tears. His opponent, Chris Christie, a former US attorney, is using tired, liberal talking points to attack Lonegan’s agenda. He is a moderate candidate who will continue to take NJ down the wrong road.
Steve Lonegan is the only conservative candidate in this race, and is poised to defeat Jon Corzine in November.
Check out www.lonegan.com
Hack politicians like Mitt Romney's guy Chris Christie are so typical of the disease that afflicts both parties these days. Sad.
How important is New Jersey’s race? Consider this: When Newt Gingrich spoke at CPAC a few weeks ago, he called this year’s New Jersey race “one of the most consequential in American history.”
It’s that’s important.
While Republicans from all over America are enamored with Lonegan, his biggest challenge comes from Republicans in the Garden State. Monmouth County, a Republican stronghold, awarded the party line on the ballot to another candidate by fiat, without allowing Republican Committee members to be heard.
I’m voting for Lonegan on Tuesday.
I’ve had enough of the RINO’s and corrupt Democrats in this godforsaken state.
Gee, and the modern Whig party wonders why they keep beocming more and more irrelevant every day?
Is the man off the ballot?
No, but he’s real close to being off the ticket.
LOL! The “progressives” over at Bluejersey.com sound like a bunch of Trotskyites! The terms they use are right out of the Communist Manifesto. Quite amusing.
There is also talk if Christie loses the primary, the NJ Repubs will not back Lonegan and Christie may run third party. That’s only water cooler scuttlebutt, I wouldn’t put it past the party establishment.
“I can’t really comment except to say that I believe that NJ has a slightly higher chance of electing a conservative governor than the voters of Massachusetts have of voting out Kennedy.”
The same people who said Ronald Reagan couldn’t win say the same thing about Steve Lonegan. But Steve Lonegan is a stong campaigner with a compelling message who will pull no punches against Corzine. Right now in NJ, Steve has held his own against the backing of the NJ GOP and Rudy Guliani. The grassroots support for Lonegan is on fire here.
Maybe you could add a little background info: who are the republican candidates, which is the RINO, who are the democrats, what’s the big deal with the radio show?
I haven’t watched this yet, and don’t know if it’s touched on at all, and do support Lonegan, but one of the reasons
Christie is doing so well in polls (or so they never tire of telling us) is that he’s had high-profile support from the likes of Rudy, Steve Forbes, and Mitt Romney. Rudy even appeared on HANNITY with him a month ago . If we think of Christie as a RINO, what does that make his ardent supporters? One of the time-honored strategies of course of this kind of support, is that IT DOESN’T EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE that Christie has a serious contender in the Primary—they want to believe it’s between Christie and Corzine already, and that’s the only contest.
I admire the NJ grassroots, but they are so few in such a largely populated state. Can they make a difference? The problem is that NJ people have believed in liberalism for more than a half century, and it shows in their voting patterns.
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