I’m no fan of Christie but it’s not like he dug this hole all by himself and he has drawn attention to many of the problems. But yes, he is a RINO.
No. He inherited a mess but hasn’t done anything to improve the business climate. When he took over, he said he was empowering a committee to review the MOUNTAINS of state regualtions and come back with recommendations to ELIMINATE the unnecessary ones. These regulations STRANGLE free enterprize. Yet - NOTHING five years later - NADA.
Christie talked a big game in his initial Gov campaign, and after elected spent 10 months trying to wrangle the NJ State Gov’s finances. He surrendered, in total, to Sweeney and Cody, and hasn’t done ANYTHING to attempt to prevent what is now an inevitable collapse. Worse, he is actively pursuing populist policies of stripping the state’s revenues and emergency funds, in an attempt to prop the state up as he preps for his presidential run, the future of the state be damned, cause he’s moving on up!