Carl Lewis: Christie Wanted Me Out of Senate Race

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

CARL LEWIS: CHRISTIE WANTED ME OUT OF SENATE RACE

By ANGELA DELLI SANTI
— Jan. 20, 2014 5:01 PM EST

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis says Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropped a plan to appoint him the state's first physical fitness ambassador when he launched a political campaign against a Christie friend.

Lewis said Monday the governor called to dissuade him from running as a Democrat for state Senate in 2011 against Republican Sen. Dawn Addiego (ah-dee-AY'-goh). Lewis says he was told the fitness program they'd been developing wouldn't materialize if he ran. Lewis says the governor felt the post "was a carrot he could pull away."

Lewis withdrew from the Senate race after a court ruled he didn't meet a residency requirement. He now lives in Houston.

Democrats have said recent scandals involving traffic jams and Superstorm Sandy aid are more evidence Christie is a bully.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/carl-lewis-christie-wanted-me-out-senate-race

[Doctor_J]

1. I wish they would stop calling him a bully

Stop acting like he's thwacking the back of other kids' heads in 8th grade English class. He is a racketeer, extortionist, and influence peddler. A criminal.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. In other words, a republican. nt

[progressoid]

4. Sounds like GOP presidential material to me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Correct. Corpus Christie is a CRIMINAL, using public funds to help friends & influence politics. nt

[elehhhhna]

6. RICO baby, it's coming. It's coming for Chris.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. What will New Jersey do?

How could it function without iron-fisted control?

[Doctor_J]

7. FEDERAL funds...millions...Well within Holder's jurisdiction

here's hoping

[Mira]

14. You said so well what I've been thinking n/t

[Babel_17]

3. Drip, drip, drip

There's a pattern here.

[Sand Wind]

8. Oh my God! A nowhere that nobody know will lost his chance to be a looser in face of

Hillary or other candidates, and we are so surprise, and take that for a News, poor people.

But the Syrian people will remember how your pacifists betray them.

[mimi85]

9. What?? nt

[Sand Wind]

10. Don't Be so astonish...it' not like that candidate is a value anyway...

I mean, I like the auto-destruction of that man, but it's not like if he is a real competitor for Hillary.

[mimi85]

12. Sorry, I still have no

idea what you're talking about.

[Sand Wind]

13. Stuff happen... Nt

I don't care, if you don't understand, that's mean that you will not appreciate my comment. So it's better if you stay ignorant as you are and call for the Waaabulane.

[pangaia]

26. I don't know what you are talking about either.

Why do you insult people because they don't understand you?

[Cha]

29. there's no reason for you to be insulting. you need to take a

a chill pill.

[FreeState]

15. Im not sure either

what does Clinton have to do with Carl Lewis? (Maybe it's a language thing, I'm not sure the poster's native language is English, just a guess.)

[malthaussen]

17. I think Sand Wind is referring to Christie, not Carl Lewis.

I'm getting that he thinks Christie was no threat even before this scandal, and that we're paying too much attention to it.

-- Mal

[Warren Stupidity]

24. Mr Sand haz a sad because we didn't bomb the fuck out of Syria.

[Cha]

30. Which is too damn bad because anyone

who wants to pay rapt attention to it will and there's nothing they do about it.

[Cha]

28. This has nothing to do with Hillary, Sand Wind.

This is about the people of New Jersey deserving better than Chris Christie and his henchmen/women.

And a big bully getting busted for overreaching. It's about power corrupting.. it needs to be addressed and played out and it is.

[another_liberal]

16. Just hate it we didn't go to war with Assad for you . . .

Don't you?

(surprised me too)

[tiny elvis]

21. dirty, scheming, extremist, single issue, manipulative, mercenary pacifists nt

[another_liberal]

31. Lets hear it for the "Mercenary Pacifists!"

Hip, hip hooray! Hip, hip hooray! Hip, hip hooray!

[tofuandbeer]

18. I'm sooooo glad all of this is coming to light now, instead of after ...

God forbid, he were to become President. Wow. This is a bad, bad person.

[MrScorpio]

19. When it rains, it pours. nt

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

20. It's weird Lewis was running for offive in Jersey.

He's always lived in Houston. Or so I thought.

[Beacool]

22. Well, well, now everybody who Christie and his goons pushed around will speak up.

Good!!

[Warren Stupidity]

23. It's raining shit on Chrispy Chris. Nt.

[hrmjustin]

25. Christie proves he is a bully.

[Cha]

27. Good on all these people coming out and showing

what Christie really is. Enough! Big Bully's Getting Busted.