{"id":717,"date":"2013-06-05T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=717"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:04:30","slug":"nj-gov-christie-is-smarter-than-most-conservatives-give-him-credit-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/nj-gov-christie-is-smarter-than-most-conservatives-give-him-credit-for\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Gov Christie is smarter than most Conservatives give him credit for."},"content":{"rendered":"

So just before the 2012 election, a devastating hurricane hit the NY\/NJ Shore.\u00a0 Seaside Heights, one of NJ’s biggest tourist locations, was decimated.\u00a0 We all saw the images of the roller coaster floating in the water.\u00a0 Gov. Christie gave President Obama a great photo-op and snuggled up to the BigO just before the election.\u00a0 Many Conservatives lost their minds, and actually blamed Christie for Obama’s 2012 win.\u00a0 The simple truth of the matter is that Chris Christie knew whose rear end he had to kiss to make sure the people of his state were taken care off. The Jersey Shore got it’s federal dollars, and today is back up and running, just in time for the summer tourist season.\u00a0 It’s not all perfect, but it’s much better off than it was in November 2012.\u00a0 Meanwhile, locations in New York, where Gov. Bloomberg did NOT kiss up to BigO, are still decimated.<\/p>\n

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By: Bob Jagendorf<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, a bunch of GOP & conservatives are pissed at NJ Gov. Chris Christie for not just appointing a Republican to fill the slot of recently deceased Sen. Lautenberg.\u00a0 Turns out, there’s good reason why Christie shouldn’t – NJ Special Election Law is all kinds of FUBAR:<\/p>\n

New Jersey law has conflicting provisions on how long a governor\u2019s Senate appointment can last until an election. In this case, it meant either this November or next. (I won\u2019t go into all the details, but this provision suggests he could put it off til the general election in 2014, and this one appears to require that it be done in the 2013 general election.)<\/p>\n

Christie might have helped out the national party (marginally) by sticking to his 2014 guns and appointing someone in the meantime, but he would have faced a messy political court battle which he might have lost. Do you want to be the governor who went to court to prevent an election from happening? And what if you lose on top of it all, in your own reelection year?<\/p>\n

So instead, Christie rendered the legal dispute moot by doing something that both of the conflicting provisions allow him to do as an alternative \u2014 he called a special election. And in doing so, he went with the strict letter of the law in calling it for October 16. Contrary to what some are saying today, he could not have chosen November 5, even if he had wanted to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via NJ-SEN: Christie called the election for October because he had to by law \u2014 sort of | Conservative Intelligence Briefing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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