Can We Also Get Traffic Reports?

On Tuesday night, May 31st 2011, NJ witnessed a spectacle to rival anything--Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son's baseball game in a helicopter. This is wrong on so many levels and finally exposes the man for who he is, the Emporer of New Jersey.

Sure the governors past and present have had access and use of the copter (Kean, Florio, Whitman, McGreevey, Corzine). Each one of those governors used a copter. When it was found that any use of the copter was not for immediate State business they paid back the State for the use. Whitman made a grand entrance to an NJ Devils game. I remember that and I remember she caught a lot of shit for it. So she did what any respectable (if such a word can preceed the next) politican would do--not pass the expense off to the taxpayer.

The NJ State Police, who own and operate the copter claim it was at no expense to the taxpayer because the copter would have been used for training purposes anyhow. Oh yeah, prove to us that you had scheduled at the precise time that Christie got on board that there were plans to run a training exercise. It's all the deflection and grand standing we have gotten used to from this blow hard governor.

Today the press reports he has no plans to reimburse for the copter use and even the conservative talk show hosts on FOX News are turning against their poster boy. Ah, the line has finally been crossed. Supporters are yelling on message boards at nj.com that prior administrations used the copter so he has every right. Yeah well if you use that logic you get into the age old debate, well if your friends jumped off the bridge do you?

Christie has made it clear, we need to cut, cut, cut. No money for after school programs, no money for teaching aides, no money for special education, no money for police departments, no money for fire, no money to women's health clinics. No money for anyone. We need to be fiscally responssible, trim the fat of government. Make people pay more for benefits further pushing them from middle class to poor. Continue to boost the wealthy by allowing them all the benefits of their wealth by not taxing them what they deserve to pay.

So many people out there are disgusted by these things, but no one ever really does anything. Enough already, we need to band together and get a government that actually works for our people.

You know supporters of Christie also jump on the "Obama uses Military 1 for personal use." He may, and that is perhaps wrong as well. Yet Obama isn't telling use that we need to cut back on things and going so far as to demand it publicly. He says we need to be responssible, but all your little GOPers out there are well aware that Mr. Obama is all about spending. You keep throwing out the deficit numbers like it's your phone number at a singles bar.

Christie is different, he's not spending on things that he should, but instead fueling his copter for his next town hall meeting (which will be held at noon on a weekday so none of the working class can go).

Everything that has ever been wrong with NJ politics exists in Chris Christie. He is a product of this State, it's no surprise he has mastered the art of deceit and become a true politican. Guess that's why the GOP wants him to run for President so badly. Well luckily when the GOP sees the flak he's getting for coptergate they'll realize just how wrong they were to back the big mouth.

Next time Christie takes to the air (not the airwaves) he should do something useful like give us traffic updates. Or maybe he can save a seat for Sarah Palin and she can go Jersey bear hunting from the sky.