Moonlighting as head of the Republican Governor's Association has required Christie to go on cross-country fundraising tours. He brags of raising record amounts, but that's hard to tell as regulations allow the donors and their amounts to be kept private. But not anymore:
I'm not buying the coding error story: I think this happened deliberately. Either the RGA has a mole, anonymous hackers have struck -- or orders have been issued from higher up to start pushing Christie away from the 2014 midterm elections if not out of the 2016 presidential race.

It certainly didn't help that his latest self-exoneration gambit backfired, or that the taxpayer bill he's run up for it has hit nine million dollars. And it's probably just another one of those crazy Christie coincidences that stories about several other Republican presidential hopefuls have appeared within the past seven days:

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Romney 2016 is for real

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The last thing Christie needs is something ELSE going embarrassingly wrong on his watch, especially something that involves corporate donor money!

Christie just completed a three-state fundraising/Republican governor endorsement tour -- one that suggests that he has indeed been put on the back burner as far as the midterm elections is confirmed.

In Pennsylvania, he endorsed the incumbent Republican governor who is so far behind in the polls, HE made a speech introducing Christie when it's supposed the other way around. And speaking of polls, a recent one places Christie's negative ratings above his positive ratings in New Jersey for the very first time!

Just before he left, though, Christie engaged in a little money laundering on the official state Web site:
Also, that Open Public Records Act court ruling Christie lost has already come back to haunt him -- the Bergen Record newspaper got the state government emails they requested:
This week, Christie spoke before the New Jersey NAACP, an African-American civil rights organization, where he announced:

"...I'm never running for public office in New Jersey again. The only job left for me to run for is United States Senate, and...I would rather die than be in the United States Senate...I would be bored to death."

That's sounds very final -- and not a word about running for president? May that decision already been made for him already...

A closer look at the New Jersey State Investment Council:
Whatta guy! Generous, considerate, innovative, AND a multi-tasker -- no wonder Christie fell for him. But look at the thanks he gets!
Investigated? Between functioning as a public official in charge of the state pension fund, having a financial interest in TWO different private firms, manipulating New Jersey taxpayer money through them, and collecting compensation from all of them, when is Mr. Grady supposed to find the time to be investigated? Surely he has quite ENOUGH on his plate!

In honor of the premiere of Dave's musical in London, here's a two-act tragedy staged by the Christie troupe:
But what's a good tragedy without an epilouge?
Dave was rumored to be working on a musical version of A Bronx Tale. But I guess he figured, "Why bother -- it would NEVER sell!"

This guy is scum. How did the people of New jersey manage to miss that when they elected him TWICE?

The Ebola crisis has come to the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area in the form of a doctor who traveled from West Africa and was diagnosed ten days later. But you'll be happy to know that New York and New Jersey governors Cuomo and Christie have joined forces with the federal Centers For Disease Control to build a strong first line of defense:
Now, if only Christie could get those lazy, overpaid, pension-grubbing healthcare unions to toe the line. Three years ago, they torpedoed a deal that would have allowed a national hospital network to take over a hospital in Jersey City that soon went bankrupt. Which Christie had every right to be unhappy about: the hospital network's charity "wasted" a $25,000 donation to the New Jersey governor's mansion restoration fund!

But since the network got to buy another New Jersey hospital back in August, that's water under the bridge(t), right? Apparently not: those uppity nurses have once again interfered with Christie by trying to contribute some expertise into how New Jersey hospitals should deal with Ebola. Of all the nerve -- I mean, what the heck do a bunch of nurses know?
His response? During his monthly radio show, Christie was dismissive of their concerns, saying flatly,

“I’ve generally found the nurses union to be unhelpful."

Well, here's a newsflash, guv -- nurses and other hospital personnel are not in the business of being helpful to you, but to all of us. Our own Richie Sambora worked in a hospital for six weeks, and describes his main job duties as "cleaning up blood, pee and puke." It just so happens that Ebola is SPREAD through infected blood, pee, and puke -- so along with the nurses, you damned well better have some janitors sitting at your protocol table, too!
One hundred and eighty degrees isn't my idea of a "slight" change of course, but it's nice that Christie has finally found the nurses union to be helpful after all!

A big chunk of Christie's Ebola plan has crashed shortly after takeoff.
The flaw in the plan is as big as Christie himself: If it's true that Ebola isn't contagious unless you're displaying its symptoms, surely it would be easier to prevent potentially contagious people from taking Ebola overseas if they had to wait 21 days BEFORE being allowed to fly. Or is the Port Authority in such bad financial shape it can't afford to wait for the plane ticket income?

As for the "government-regulated facilities," the first subject of the policy didn't care for the accommodations:
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Here's a photo of her -- note the pale skin and reddish hair!

As for going "above and beyond the guidelines already set up by federal officials":
And that isn't the only thing that's due to be released soon!
Way to command respect on the international stage, Governor Soprano!

Nurse Kaci Hickcox is now at her home in Maine and following the newest CDC protocols for health personnel, which for her level of risk for allows for visitors and going out as long as she's not showing symptoms.

Meanwhile, Christie is in full wound-licking but blame-deflecting mop-up mode:
But some good did come of all this -- Nurse Hickcox has taught us that forehead temperature scanners are not reliable. All Ebola protocols should immediately be amended to require that above-normal forehead scanner readings be confirmed with an oral thermometer reading.

Of course, Hickox has only won the battle, not the war. If she should happen to go contagious within the next 15 days, Christie could literally ride her into White House. So we'll adjourn this case for now -- but first, a parting gift:


2017 UPDATE: War winning accomplished!

Since it has been long since established that Christie is a serial intimidator, I haven't felt a need to chronicle every one of his verbal attacks on those who dare to challenge him publicly. But the time has come to make an exception.
Those remarks were directed toward Spring Lake resident, Waretown restaurant owner, and former Asbury Park city council member Jim Keady, who would just like to know why nearly a nearly a billion dollars in Sandy recovery money is still "sitting in Trenton" while thousands have been waiting for it for nearly two years.

Like I said, Christie has blown off hecklers on camera before. But this is the first time that a heckler has had the cameras pointed at him afterwards.
Even more significant, Mr. Keady was then interviewed on national television by Al Jazeera and those meanies at MSNBC (who have been picking on him all along, of course). And most significant, a Democratic political action committee has decided to see if Christie's bluffing by filing -- WAIT FOR IT!!! -- an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request:

At an event commemorating the two-year anniversary of superstorm Sandy on October 29, 2014, Governor Christie claimed “I've been here when the cameras weren’t here and did the work (on Sandy recovery).”

We respectfully request a list of all trips to which Christie was referring - specifically trips to the Jersey Shore to work on Sandy recovery, where no “cameras” – from the media or the Governor’s office – were in attendance to record the event.

Sixty years ago, the reign of one of America's most morally corrupt political leaders began to end when one person dared to ask him in public: Perhaps we're going to end up owing Nurse Hickox an even bigger debt than we thought.

P.S. Mr. Keady might be able to find the answer to his question by calculating two years' worth of interest on 800 million dollars -- interest that no one will notice isn't there.

Intimidating scum at that...... I just had a friend of the family call me from California and tell me that she saw that "putdown" live on TV. She wanted to know, once again, why the fcuk New Jersey elected this guy?