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April 10, 2012
The Tunnel To Nowhere: Times Report Questions Gov. Christie's Decision To Scrap ARC Plan
When Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey struck down the Access to the Region's Core (ARC) plan two years ago, he gained enormous praise from the Right for standing up to the Obama administration's demands. However, according to a report this morning from the New York Times, the decision ... More >>
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March 25, 2012
Sandra Lee Takes Questions On A Cuomo Presidency, Marriage and Chris Christie
Sandra Lee -- cooker of "Semi-Homemade" food, girlfriend of Andrew Cuomo -- is the subject of the New York Times Magazine's Talk piece this week, and though the piece is ostensibly about Lee, the second half of it becomes almost entirely about her famous companion. Though interviewer Andrew Goldman ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Gay Marriage Just Got Crabs! Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Equality
The Maryland Senate just passed a marriage equality bill, 25-22, putting the Chesapeake Bay State en route to becoming the seventh in the nation (plus the District of Columbia) to allow same-sex couples the right to marry. Maryland is the third state in as many weeks where both houses of its legis ... More >>
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February 18, 2012
SSM Update: NJ Gov Follows Through On Promise To Veto Bill, Maryland On The Road To Equality
On Thursday, we told you about the passage of a bill in New Jersey's Assembly that would make same sex marriage legal in the state. N.J. Governor Chris Christie promised that he would veto the bill when it landed on his desk, and he held true to his word. The New York Daily News says that Christie w ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
SSMpalooza: Jersey Legislature Passes Gay Marriage, Giving Second Governor Named Chris Chance to Sign Equality Law In One Week
Who knew this was possible? As New Jersey's Assembly just passed a marriage equality bill 41-33, this week is turning out even gayer for marriage than last week was. A couple days ago, in the happier half of A Tale Of Two Governor Chrises, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed marriage equality into law for ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Obama to Free New Jersey Schools From No Child Requirements
President Obama is expected to announce today that he will allow ten states to be exempted from the strict test-based measures of the No Child Left Behind Act. The states are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee -- and our beloved neighbor New ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg Slams Results of Port Authority Audit, Says WTC Memorial is Worth the Cost
Mayor Bloomberg has slammed the results of an audit that called the Port Authority "a challenged and dysfunctional organization" with "ineffective cost controls," saying that the cost of the World Trade Center memorial is worth it for the sake of New York's reputation. "Can you imagine? If America ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Everybody Is Mad at Chris Christie
Ah, New Jersey. The land where fake orange tans and affable, clueless Republicans come together to make magic. New Yorkers should consider themselves lucky to live so close to New Jersey, particularly right now. New Jersey governor Chris Christie, one-time potential Republican presidential candidat ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
With Giants' Win, Mike Bloomberg Doesn't Have To Rename 49th Street
With all the excitement around the Giants beating the 49ers last night, what remains to be talked about is, perhaps, the most exciting news of all -- 49th Street will remain 49th Street! That's right, folks. Our news here today is that nothing is happening to 49th Street. You see, our mayor recen ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
Keith Olbermann And I Dish Half-Naked Republicans!
Vanity Fair has posted a hilarious mock calendar of various Repuglicans in various states of undress. (At least I think they're fake photos. The Repugs' real nudie spreads are no doubt buried somewhere deep inside their cell phones.)
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December 22, 2011
Chris Christie: It Would Be 'Presumptuous' to Rule Out Vice-Presidential Bid
Frequently bombastic New Jersey governor Chris Christie said on Fox News today that it would be "presumptuous" of him to say no to running on Mitt Romney's ticket for vice president if the opportunity was offered to him. Christie endorsed Romney last month. Early in the interview, Politico re ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Chris Christie Mic-Checked by Occupy Protesters in Des Moines
New Jersey governor Chris Christie was mic-checked by Occupy protesters yesterday at a Des Moines, Iowa. Christie seems relatively unfazed as the protesters chant "Put people first" (we think that's what they're saying, at least).
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October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney's The Republican Frontrunner
Check out this thoughtful piece which explains why, after his endorsement from Chris Christie and his performance at the last debate, Mitt Romney is the top dog to try to boot Obama from employment. Author John Dickerson says that at the New Hampshire debate, Rick Perry "was too vague and fu ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Chris Christie: 'It Did Not Feel Right to Me in My Gut' to Run for Prez
In a non-shocking un-turn of events today, Chris Christie announced today that he will continue to not be running for president. In the process, he set himself up for some truly unfortunate fat jokes. He told everyone to get the hell off the beach made a wisecrack or two about his non-campaign: "New ... More >>
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September 25, 2011
As Rick Perry Stumbles, Rightbloggers Run To (Non-Candidate) Chris Christie
The economy sucks, and so do President Obama's poll numbers. Yet many smart people think Obama's got a chance at reelection next year. Why? Because he gets to run against the nominee of the Republican Party, which seems hellbent on throwing the election. In the GOP's latest slapstick routine, put ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Chris Christie Squabbles With Mike Bloomberg Over 9/11 Ceremony
The ten-year anniversary of 9/11, which could be the last hurrah for the Tribute in Light, is also presenting itself as a good opportunity for area politicians to bicker with each other. New Jersey governor Chris Christie is trying to stage-manage the ceremony, basically, and Mayor Bloomberg ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
America's Obesity Crisis Finds Its Nutshell
Office of the Governor"I weigh too much because I eat too much...And I eat some bad things too." -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie talks about his health during a press conference Have a tip or restaurant-related news? Send it to fork@villagevoice.com. Twitter: @ForkintheRoadVV
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July 20, 2011
New Jersey's Medical Marijuana Program Could Begin by the End of 2011
After complications, New Jersey will move forward with its medical marijuana program, Governor Chris Christie said on Tuesday. The bill, signed into law by former Governor Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, on his last day in office back in January of 2010, was supposed to make way for operation wit ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
People Still Think New Jersey Is OK, Despite Jersey Shore
A new poll has found that people either don't really care about the negative aspects of the Jersey Shore when evaluating the Garden State. Conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind, the poll revealed that 43% of people who have seen the MTV show have a "favorable opinion" of Je ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Chris Christie and Roger Ailes Have a Secret Relationship; It Sucks to Work For AOL
Fox News boss Roger Ailes loves Chris Christie and has made no secret of his desire for the New Jersey governor to run for president in 2012. Christie maintains that he's 100% not running this time around, though that hasn't stopped a relationship from blooming between the powerful Republican ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Chris Christie Made It to His Son's Baseball Game ... In a Helicopter
Christopher Costa for PatchThe governor of New Jersey is a busy man, but made time to see his son play baseball yesterday; he arrived in a State Police helicopter. Chris Christie had a hectic marathon of important meetings and New Jersey allows the use of the choppers, which cost at least $1, ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Mitch Daniels Out of 2012 Race; Herman Cain is the Next President of the United States
Despite the speculation of Fox News ("he has a proven record of managing the kinds of fiscal problems that beset our nation"), the Washington Post ("a Daniels candidacy probably would be taken as a sign that the games are over for the Republican Party, that it is time to buckle down and organize to ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Steven Lugerner and Matana Roberts Stimulate the Ears and the Economy
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April 6, 2011
Crying New Jersey Governor Kid Gets What He Wanted
Jesse Koczon, the New Jersey kid who cried all over YouTube because he was "too small" to be the governor of New Jersey, is now going to be the governor of New Jersey. Chris Christie, the actual governor, signed a "proclamation" on Wednesday morning that named Small Jesse "honorary governor" ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
No One Likes Cathie Black Yet: Approval Rating at 17%
Since being named New York City schools chancellor 100 days ago, Cathie Black has not had an easy go of it. Her appointment was delayed by naysayers, getting the whole thing off to a bad start, but it was only made worse when she actually took over, making insensitive jokes about birth contro ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Chris Christie: Hot, Sexy, Lying and Popular!
Above is a video clip of a woman at a Sussex County town hall meeting telling New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who the New York Times Magazine called "fat," that he is "hot and sexy" because he's "smart and... has the perseverance to do what's right." A recent national survey named Christie the " ... More >>
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December 4, 2010
New Jersey Inching Toward Medical Marijuana, But It Won't Be the "Good Stuff"
NJ StonersAiling New Jersey residents may be smoking medical marijuana by next summer thanks to a compromise reached between Governor Chris Christie and weed advocates, who thought they had won when previous Governor Jon Corzine signed a law legalizing the treatment on his way out of office. ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Chris Christie, GOP Star, Is a Man for Four Seasons -- Hotels
Chris Christie, a.k.a. "Governor Wrecking Ball," likes to live large we now know thanks to an intrepid inspector general for the Department of Justice, although it's not clear if this helps or hurts the political fortunes of the XXX-sized New Jersey gov.
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August 18, 2010
It's Official: New Jersey No Longer "Retarded"
New Jersey gets a bad rap as the "armpit of America," which goes without mentioning all the wonderful reference-points pop culture's recently yielded to represent The Garden State, like Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Oxygen's Jersey Couture, and of course, MTV's ratings record-bre ... More >>
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June 20, 2010
Everyone Hates New Jersey, Whether It Stinks or Not
Preconceived notions are hard things to break, especially when they originate with those who know how it really is. Then it's just called the truth. Just ask New Jersey, arguably the state most often derided by outsiders, but also a state in which 75% of residents say they're "dissatisfied" w ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
New Jersey Gay Marriage Bill Scheduled to Fail Thursday
The Jersey gay marriage vote, which had been stalled for weeks, is now scheduled to be held in the state senate on Thursday. There was thought to be a bushel of bills ahead of it, and it had previously been pulled from the state senate agenda for fear of failure, but someone must have done a quick ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Gay Marriage in New Jersey: Still on Hold
Will these morons get gay marriage before we do?Marriage equality activists in New Jersey are hoping to get hundreds of protesters to rally in Trenton today, even though it is 20 degrees out and the first work day after the holidays. Regardless, their hopes for getting a marriage equality bil ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Springsteen Won't Play Christie's Inaugural; Supports Gay Marriage Instead
Incoming Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie asked Jersey bard Bruce Springsteen to play at his January 19 inauguration. The Boss declined. Christie's people say "he doesn't want to get involved in state politics" and wished Christie "every success." The Governor-Elect will in ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Gay Marriage Bill Wins in D.C. Council; New York Still Lags
By a vote of 11-2 (with former Mayor Marion Barry among the minority), the Washington, D.C. city council has agreed to recognize gay marriages in the District. This isn't the end of it: procedure requires a second reading within two weeks, and then the Mayor's signature, a Congressional resol ... More >>
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November 29, 2009
Quick hits
The Obama administration is suggesting a voluntary ban on lobbyists serving on 915 Federal Advisory Committees which consult with federal agencies on government policy. The lobbyists, one of whom helped write the legislation which created the Committees when he was a Republican Senate staffer, are n ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Election 2009: Tight in Jersey
The polls closed at 8 p.m. but the Jersey Governor's race between incumbent Jon Corzine (pictured) and former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie is at present too close to call, just as late polls had suggested. Republicans are cautiously optimistic: "POLITICS 24/7 is willing to go out on a limb with Chr ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Christie Wins
The folks at NJN News are taking an exceedingly, exit-poll-informed pro-Christie view, so in the spirit of the evening let's just call -- oops, we're informed by our boss (Gene Evans in Park Row) that they're calling Jersey for Chris Christie. That's odd, NewsMax just told us that ACORN was "gearin ... More >>
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November 1, 2009
Palin says she didn't interfere in NJ-Gov, tells Daggett to drop out
A little more free media for Chris Daggett, who said this about being a spoiler on MSNBC this morning: "And I have had Republicans come in from Rudy Giuliani to Sarah Palin to Christy Mihos, who's running for governor in Massachusetts -- people in the New Jersey Republican Party. And to be ... More >>
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October 31, 2009
Daggett to Giuliani in NJ Gov race: go home.
With a scant few days left before high-profile elections in NY-23 and NYC, both of which are in New York, America's Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is spending his time in Jersey, stumping for Republican Chris Christie and feuding with insurgent Independent Chris Daggett. Giuliani told the NY Pos ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Giuliani Endorses Working Families Party Candidate, Others
Having embarrassed Mayor Bloomberg sufficiently for one election, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is running around endorsing other candidates. Today he backed two Staten Island Republican councilmembers facing reelection challenges: James Oddo, who's up against James Pocchia, and Vincent Ignizio, fac ... More >>
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October 25, 2009
Daggett lost on ballot in NJ Gov race
The Newark Star-Ledger, which shook up the NJ gubernatorial election by endorsing Independent candidate Chris Daggett over incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican Chris Christie, is questioning whether voters who agree with them will be able to find him on the ballot. Candidates who ar ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Corzine Still Leads in Jersey Despite Voter Hatred
A new poll of "likely voters" shows Jon Corzine maintaining his 3-point lead over Chris Christie for the governorship of New Jersey. Whereas the previous poll gave Corzine a 40-37 edge on Christie, in today's Rutgers-Eagleton tally each of them lost a point, presumably to third-party challenger Chri ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Hated Corzine Takes Lead in Jersey Poll
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine seems miraculously to have taken the lead in his reelection effort against former federal prosecutor Chris Christie, 40-37 (with independent candidate Christopher Daggett taking 14 percent) -- despite the fact that 49 percent of voters disapprove of Corzine's ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Twitpic via DanaBoscorelli. Up, Up and Awry! The Balloon Boy and his wacky father helped keep our minds off the real world, which sucked even more than usual. In national news, the Nobel Peace Prize continued its deadly rampage across America. But don't despair, rightbloggers: President O ... More >>
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October 11, 2009
Star-Ledger endorses the Independent in NJ-Gov race
Meanwhile, across the river, New Jersey's largest newspaper endorsed independent candidate Chris Daggett for Governor today over incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican opponent Chris Christie. The Star-Ledger editorial says that their decision is less about the major party candidates, ... More >>
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October 9, 2009
Your Weekend Political Rundown, from Kreepie Kats
Kreepie Kats wrap up the week in politics. "Chris Christie is a fat retard. Only fat retards will vote for Chris Chistie." (How come Gawker doesn't have this? Too local?)
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July 23, 2009
FBI Arrests Jersey Mayors, Rabbis in Corruption Bust
The FBI swooped in this morning and arrested a bunch of New Jersey politicians -- and rabbis! -- in an international money laundering and corruption investigation. Among the former class of detainee: Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano (pictured), Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City Council Presiden ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
Chris Christie Wins GOP Nomination for NJ Governor
Yesterday New Jersey Republicans picked Christopher Christie to run against wealthy incumbent Democratic governor Jon Corzine. Christie presently holds a seven-point poll lead over Corzine, so Republicans, heretofore glum about Jersey in general ("the people of New Jersey have apparently made an ir ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
Local Republicans Threaten to Bring Back Giuliani
Rudolph Giuliani's got some gubernatorial fanboys working for him. Brooklyn Republican Party Chairman Craig Eaton claims his 2010 candidate for governor is "overwhelmingly supported" by the Party and that "compared to New York City, turning Albany around would be a breeze." (George Pataki didn't d ... More >>
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