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Showing Original Post only (View all)Christie Tries to Work the Room and Fails [View all]
In his latest townhall, Chris Christie tried to resort to his old style of working the room. This time his ability to charm, deflect, intimidate and obfuscate didn't have that same old Christie magic. Here's why: people are no longer afraid and they are pissed.
For Christie, Awkward Return to a Setting He Once Ruled
When Chris Christie started to talk over a complaining questioner, a signature tactic of the bellicose, pre-scandal governor, the audience here briefly turned on him. Answer the question, some shouted.
When he took a microphone from a long-winded speaker, the man startled Mr. Christie by snatching it right back.
And when he singled out a young woman as his inspiration for repairing the Hurricane Sandy-battered coastline, he failed to grasp that the girls mother sitting just a few feet from Mr. Christie was angry with him for not doing enough.
Hes full of it, she said.
When he took a microphone from a long-winded speaker, the man startled Mr. Christie by snatching it right back.
And when he singled out a young woman as his inspiration for repairing the Hurricane Sandy-battered coastline, he failed to grasp that the girls mother sitting just a few feet from Mr. Christie was angry with him for not doing enough.
Hes full of it, she said.
It worked at least for a while. Christie entered his 110th town-hall-style event in Port Monmouth, a blue-collar Shore town battered by the storm, without his self-promotional video. The Springsteen soundtrack was dialed down. So was the Christie swagger and sarcasm.
But then Tom Largey, a Sea Bright resident whose home was badly damaged by the storm and who is living with relatives, confronted Christie.
Why was so much money, Largey asked, being spent on private contractors to handle the storm recovery, particularly Hammerman & Gainer, the Louisiana-based company that was quietly let go by the administration in December? After all, New York did just fine without hiring outsiders.
The crowd lustily applauded Largey, not Christie. The calm empathizer was now seething, defensive.
"What's your suggestion on how I should have done it?" Christie shot back. "Should I have hired thousands of new government employees to be able to administer these programs?"
"Answer the question!" barked one woman. Heads turned in irritation. Two men loudly cleared their throats
But then Tom Largey, a Sea Bright resident whose home was badly damaged by the storm and who is living with relatives, confronted Christie.
Why was so much money, Largey asked, being spent on private contractors to handle the storm recovery, particularly Hammerman & Gainer, the Louisiana-based company that was quietly let go by the administration in December? After all, New York did just fine without hiring outsiders.
The crowd lustily applauded Largey, not Christie. The calm empathizer was now seething, defensive.
"What's your suggestion on how I should have done it?" Christie shot back. "Should I have hired thousands of new government employees to be able to administer these programs?"
"Answer the question!" barked one woman. Heads turned in irritation. Two men loudly cleared their throats
More..
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/21/1279320/-Christie-tries-to-work-the-room?detail=email#
I apologize if this has been posted.. I hadn't seen it before.
It's really good to see that more people in New Jersey are finally catching on to the sociopathic schmoozer!
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I always wondered why she was smiling like a cheshire cat when her husband was screaming at her?
SummerSnow
Feb 2014
#40
She bugs me, too, with her scary, phony Stepford smile. (Maybe I'd be smiling like that, too, if I
Stardust
Feb 2014
#86
No, I was just making a general observation about similarities in christie's tactics v. some DUers.
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#36
I appreciate that you continued the discussion to uncover the misinterpretation. Many don't, thanks.
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#38
Any pounding you might endure by a bully, unprotected by onlookers, is NOTHING compared to
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#50
Having a vivid imagination, that suggestion to picture the emperor with no clothes made an instant
1monster
Feb 2014
#24
"But all kinds of cats are leaping from their bags." <---- I love that! Indeed, it's so true. nt
Stardust
Feb 2014
#85
Hey, they're birds of a feather. When Rudy tried to move his girlfriend into the mansion with his
IrishAyes
Feb 2014
#51