Chris Christie's Campaign-er-State Of The State Address....

[Laxman]

should have begun with the opening line "A long time ago in a galaxy far away"! Anybody surprised he took some-how should I put it- liberties with the truth to make himself look better? Not about little things either-property taxes, unemployment, the budget...pretty much just made up. Hey if lying gets you ahead-go for it! He could have ended the speech with they lived happily ever after too but that would be too much of a lie for NJ-fact is we're screwed.

The speech was geared more towards the national audience than the State of NJ-where we all know just how much of a crock he's trying to sell. He even excluded local media from the pre-speech briefing-only allowing national media in. The text of the speech was released along with a promotional video. Designed to be a slick promotional piece-it was more like an infomercial for a cheap piece of crap. Oh yeah, there was even an 82-year old woman in Florida desperately grasping his hand asking "Mr. Christie, what's wrong with our country?" His story telling knows no bounds!

What Christie Said: Fact Checking the Governor’s State of the State

The governor’s claims about his successes sound very impressive, but are they accurate?

Gov. Chris Christie’s State of the State address was full of numbers and percentages, claims and assertions about how much better life in the Garden State has grown in the past year -- under the governor’s guidance.

We have no problem with that. Where it gets dicey is when Christie gets it wrong -- sometimes slightly, sometimes seriously.

In order to set the record straight, here’s a look at a few of Christie’s claims -- and the real numbers.

Read the rest here: http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/15/01/14/what-christie-said-fact-checking-the-governor-s-state-of-the-state/

Edit to add this excerpt from the NY Times that I SHOULD have included originally:

But his speech was more striking for its omissions. He did not mention the recovery from Hurricane Sandy, which was once his calling card, but more than two years later has produced lingering resentment from homeowners struggling to rebuild. He declared that he would veto any income tax increase, but was silent on the idea of a gas tax increase, which even some Republicans believe is necessary to fill the state’s transportation trust fund and to fix bridges and roads.

Nor did Mr. Christie mention Atlantic City, where one-third of the casinos closed in 2014, the fourth year in what had been a five-year plan by the governor to turn that struggling city around.

Mr. Christie has been governor five years and has the scars to show for it. As he used his speech to pitch himself to a national audience, he had to explain some of those blemishes.

So he argued that state employee pensions are underfunded “because of poor decisions by governors and legislatures of both parties, over decades, not just years.” He did not add that he failed to make the pension payments he himself had promised. And he emphatically declared — saying it twice — that his administration had contributed more money toward the state’s outstanding pension obligations than any other. (His critics note that his Democratic predecessor, Jon S. Corzine, contributed more, on a percentage basis.)

Mr. Christie blamed high taxes for the recent news that Mercedes would leave New Jersey for Georgia, but offered no hint at how to reduce taxes. And he made a swipe at “some overly partisan corners of this chamber” who have continued to press questions about the scandal that started with the disclosure of his administration’s role in closing lanes to the George Washington Bridge, apparently in an act of political retribution.

Mr. Christie has traveled the country as chairman of the Republican Governors Association over the last year, and on those travels, he said, “anxiety was the most palpable emotion I saw and felt.” He described an 82-year-old woman in Vero Beach, Fla., who grabbed his hand in a rope line and asked: “What’s happening to our country? We used to control events. Now events control us.”

read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/nyregion/chris-christie-state-of-the-state-speech-new-jersey.html?ref=nyregion&target=comments&_r=0#commentsContainer

[Beach Rat]

1. He can't sell his bill of goods to NJ anymore!

He's got no choice but to try different audience. I worried that he seems a little too confident that he's going to escape the grasp of the U.S. Attorney's office, cause he's definitely running for president. I hope he's just whistling past the graveyard instead of having some inside scoop from his old buddies there. Meanwhile back home he's as popular as pork chops at a Bar-Mitzvah. (I stole that line from somebody else)