Posted on 07/11/2010 9:12:06 PM PDT by Frantzie
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A momentous deal to cap property taxes was all but done, but Gov. Chris Christie was taking no chances, barnstorming the state to commiserate with squeezed homeowners and keep pressure on the Legislature.
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He has it like Reagan. Tough, charm, self-deprecating. he just dazzles and charms his opponents and backs it up with an iron fist.
I wish he was a bit more conservative cause he is great.
Christie-Thune 2012
I agree on the border—was slightly put off by some of his comments the other day. It just didn’t sound like he got it. Didn’t know about the Second. Still, I would definitely take him over you know who. Heard on Limbaugh’s program the other day he’s wanting to privatize a lot of govrnment services in NJ. Wish him much success there and hope it catches on.
Any NJ Freepers out there that can work on educating their Gov?
Christie is a very smart guy. One of the kind where you can tell that almost immediately.
He perfectly understands the old saw that “politics is the art of the possible.” He saw that the immediate context in New Jersey had made new things possible and set to work. We’ll see how he does in the long haul, but it’s certainly a promising start.
I like Christie and also VA AG Ken Cuccinelli cause they are fighters. They do not back down. Ken C is going after ObamaCare - the case is at the Appeals Court already, the EPA, researchers at U of VA who got grants for lying about global warming.
He's better than I ever dreamed. He's better than Lonegan! He made them concede to a 2% PROPERTY TAX CAP and the Demoncrats are in chaos. He's squeezing the life out of the unions - slowly but surely.
“Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is invoking a state anti-fraud law to demand the University of Virginia turn over years worth of documents related to climate scientist Michael Mann, targeting about $500,000 in grants that funded Mann’s studies.”
“Cuccinelli, a Republican who is separately suing the federal government over regulation of carbon emissions, issued the school a civil subpoena late last month probing “possible violations” of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act by the former U.Va. professor. Mann, now a professor at Penn State, is famous for creating the controversial “hockey stick” graph charting a spike in global temperatures.”
U of VA is fighting back but Ken C is not backing down.
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From the start, the governor served notice that he saw the public employees’ unions as a central part of the state’s problems, and that he meant to take them on. His first day in office, he signed an executive order, later struck down in court, to limit their ability to finance campaigns. The first bills he signed limited spending on pensions and benefits. He relished months of verbal sparring with the teachers’ union, and analysts say he got the upper hand.
Mr. Christie said there was no plan to put the unions front and center, though some of his aides say privately that it was quite intentional.
But on controlling local government spending and taxes, he acknowledged that “yes, absolutely,” there was a political strategy to doing things in a particular order. The governor’s budget reduced school aid, leading to predictions that districts would raise property taxes. He blamed the teachers’ union for any increases and proposed capping property tax increases. Now he is using that cap as leverage for a package of bills, which has met union opposition, to help towns and school districts control spending.
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Nice. He is up to the job. I am sure the majority of weary and broke NJ taxpayers are cheering him on.
Glad he’s on a diet; he’d make a great VP candidate in ‘12. Sad to say, some people will not vote for a fat person.
Other potentially good candidates for Prez or VP are:
John Thune of SD (as you mentioned), Bobby Jindal of LA, Paul Ryan of WI, Former UN Ambassador John Bolton, and that Sarah lady from Alaska; can’t remember her last name. And possibly, just to get the Latino vote to off-set the Black vote, maybe Marco Rubio for VP.
Whaddya think?
I like this guy... He has done as much to repair NJ in six months as Dumb’O has done to ruin the nation.
Right now he’d be my pick for president in ‘12.
300 words.
New Jersey’s population is now 20%+ foreign-born.
Unlike border states, New Jersey’s immigrants have a much higher level of education and earnings. Of course that is not a blanket statement, BUT, over half of NJ’s population is 3rd generation American or less. While many states can claim their illegal immigrant populations are a net drag on state finances, the case is harder to make in NJ.
And right up until the baby boomer generation caused a massive home building phase, the state had done well as an immigrant gateway, going all the way back to colonial times.
The public unions that are overwhelmingly controlled and populated by native born workers destroyed the state’s finances,
the native born limp wristed utopian socioeconomic elites in the state pushed through entitlement program after entitlement program.
Current immigrants in NJ are about to get shafted as the state’s budget and pension funds go bankrupt over the next decade, starting with Christie’s budget this year that will cut massive amounts of programs for lower income and indigent folk in the state.
Next year the state has no way to pay for subsidized school lunches, Medicaid for children, and operating expenses for the state parks. And New Jersey was already the most difficult state in the country to raise kids, immigrants families which on average have more children than others here, are going to get severely squeezed.
I’d prefer to leave him alone for the time being, thank you.
We are cheering him on!
I had wanted Lonegan and was annoyed but Christie has exceeded my wildest expectations. It’s har dto believe. NJ is so CORRUPT and run into the ground by Demoncrats and he’s steam rolling them. I love it!
That's bull! Immigrants now or any other time need to WORK for it and stop grabbing tax dollars that are not theirs. The government is not an ATM machine for immigrants and we don't want the bill for it any more.
I hope the UNION pensions do go bankrupt after their function has been privatized.
“Next year the state has no way to pay for subsidized school lunches, Medicaid for children, and operating expenses for the state parks. And New Jersey was already the most difficult state in the country to raise kids, immigrants families which on average have more children than others here, are going to get severely squeezed.”
Wrong. This I don't like. Shundler has hooked up with Obama’s National CORE standards. It's a back door approach to getting federal money an losing control of LOCAL school standards.
Parents should be paying for school lunches. Health care must go beyond state lines like care insurance and the GOVERNEMNT must get out of the health care business. State park maintenance will be PRIVATIZED to get rid of the useless, over priced UNIONS that extort money from tax payers.
Perhaps immigrant families should hold off having MORE kids than others if they can't afford them. The rest of us had our kids when we were married, (heterosexuals) and could afford them. WHY should it be different for immigrants? Why should tax payers have to subsidize immigrant kids? WHY?
My relatives were also immigrants. They came here LEGALLY. They worked their tushes off, learned the language through a local high school - using their OWN money. There was no welfare. They didn't expect the GOVERNMENT to finance their kids. They had kids after they were married and had what they could afford. They nearly planned the births to the day and hour - they were that careful. Are you suggesting today's immigrants are too DUMB to figure that out?
The ILLEGALS in New Jersey is mindbogglingly - along with these ILLEGAL "sanctuary cities". The costs NJ billions. Stop by a post office and see how they do NOT pay taxes - they purchase a money order and send it back to Mexico! No, it won't be "tough" to live in New Jersey once Christie is done with it. It's long over due that the free for all comes to an end. LEGAL NJ citizens that work hard are sick and tired of subsidizing every one else and getting screwed each time.
I don't understand you. It's as though you are nostalgic for a Demoncrat to keep running the state into the ground.
VA AG Ken Cuccinelli copped out of a plan to bring up an Arizona-like immigration enforcement bill in Virginia using the lame excuse that “the democrat Virginia Senate won’t approve it.”
If he had any brains or political sense he would want to put the democrats on the voting record opposing a bill favored by over 70% of Virginians.
Americans don’t realize that even though it is far from the border, Virginia is swamped with illegal aliens, especially in the northern Virginia area. Unlawfully registered illegal alien voters (by La Raza, ACORN, the SEIU, etc.) provided the margin of victory (9000 votes) for Webb over George Allen in 2006 which turned the Senate control over to the democrats.
I like him because he is about the only one in the Republican party with a pair on him besides Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
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