NJ Governor Christie On Being "Confrontational"

The Post swoons over this video of NJ Governor answering a question from Star-Ledger columnist Tom Moran, "Here's something you don't see this side of the Hudson -- a politician who talks straight." (The Post also calls him "burly".) Moran asked Christie if his confrontational tone was keeping him getting things passed in the Legislature, and the new governor said, "You must be the thinnest-skinned guy in America. If you think that's a confrontational tone than you should really see me when I'm pissed. That's not confrontational."

Christie also said of state Democrats, "They want bigger government, higher taxes and more spending. This is just ridiculous." Moran does say that Christie's honesty is "refreshing," but points out that the Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney "is a conservative Democrat who has a lot of common ground with Christie" and has been fighting against public unions over benefits and pensions for years.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 14, 2010 4:55 PM

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wingedearth

I'm glad at least one governor knows what his job is. And to think, it's New Joisey that's got it right!

openheads

"And to think, it's New Joisey that's got it right!"

How typically tedious & New York of you.

changcheung

"Ledgislature"

Are you serious????

ProudLiberal1947

Blow-heart Terrorist steps up to let the media know that as a White Supremacist Racist he is taking no shit, now he may have shit for brains and his antagonistic volatile Anti American attitude has nothing to do with it.

You see as a member of the Anti American we HATE America and support our fallen brothers of 9/11, always remembering AMERICA MUST FAIL, and the chant this will happen as we make the President Fail. So Jersey you have elected yourself a White Supremacist Anti American piece of SHIT that will enslave you while advancing the PROFITS of his Slave Owners the Socialist Corporations.

xgeyiph772

Boy, that WAS refreshing! Gives me second thoughts that maybe all you Staten Island haters are right--we should go over to the Garden State! He's 1000% better than the blind 'tard we have as governor on this side of the Hudson. And BTW Gothamist, you can whine about how much The NY Post loves this guy, but at least The Post knows how to spell "legislature." Unless you're spelling it like it's pronounced at your Brooklyn offices just down the block from Gorilla Coffee, ie: "da Nu Joisey Ledgislatcha." Think I'll go back to reading The Post instead of wasting my time on Gothamist.

dr zippy

Most of New York is on the same side of the Hudson as New Jersey.

xgeyiph772

True, but this is Gothamist, no Buffaloist or Rochesterist. Gotham = NYC, which is mostly on the right bank of the Hudson (Staten Island excluded, of course).

rasputinsghost

do you really think anybody who works at gothamist/is under 80 has the old brooklyn accent anymore

also enjoy being surrounded by racists, bigots, and xenophobes at the post

wait.

nik13

In NJ & I'm absolutely certain NY is no different, some districts spend 16K per student, but schools lack supplies, quarter of the kids drop out & the remainder graduate despite being functionally illiterate. 83% of funds disappear in pockets of administrators & teachers, who have jobs for life, guaranteed significant raises, free healthcare, fantastic pensions coupled with ability to retire early. Rest of us live in real world.

So called "millionaire tax" was a on-time deal instituted by Corzine as a quick financial fix. Democrats, not Christie let it expire. It covered everyone making 400K, NOT a million. Taxation drove most productive out of NJ - in McGreevey-Corzine years people worth 70B ( yes, that's billions) left NJ for friendlier places.

glen glenn

He lost all credibility when he lowered taxes on the rich in the middle of a fiscal crisis. So much for sharing the burden.

kissel

This guy is doing what he was elected to due -- get the bloated NJ government under control. As for the last comment, on education, when teachers on average are making 100K plus (in addition to pensions, early retirement, free medical for life, etc) and superintendents are making 200K plus as they are in NJ, it is the kids that suffer and the parents who's taxes are astronomical. He trying to get things under control and should be commended for it.

DerekAnderson

This man is destroying (not revamping and streamlining) the NJ education system. Hands down, without argument, this man got elected on the back of promising his constituents that he would repeal the millionaires tax. Once he got into office, even after seeing that there was no safe and feasible way to repeal said tax over-night, he did it anyways, and he has Firemen, Police and Teachers taking the hit for it.

The man is overweight and unhealthy (both physically and mentally) and his decisions for NJ reflect the same lack of health and long term planning that we need from our elected leaders. Christie is a sick man, who is going to leave NJ a sick State when all is said and done.

I don't care if your a millionaire or a blue collar worker, ten years from now, after our education system (which itself was not broken) has had a full generation of struggling students to fail, your simply not going to want to live here. Rich people are not going to want to live around a bunch of struggling, uneducated, wise ass drop outs. One generation of failed students is all it will take to destroy the State, and if it isn't Christies intention, it sure as rain is going to be the end result, like it or not.

The man's destruction of the education system, with other offices (police, rescue, fire and public libraries) next on the list, needs to be put into check and stopped immediately, but apparently NJ is too bamboozled and shortsighted to act.