limo rides.

Quote :

"Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, flew in a brand-new $12.5 million state police helicopter Tuesday afternoon from Trenton to North Jersey to see their son play in a high school baseball playoff game. They took off after the fifth inning and flew on to the governor's mansion in Princeton, where Christie dined with presidential campaign fund-raisers from Iowa. The images of the Christies landing on a field adjacent to the baseball diamond - and reportedly riding in a black car with tinted windows the final 300 feet to the bleachers - fit the caricature that political opponents have drawn of a budget-cutter with no sense of shared sacrifice in tough economic times. Christie has built a national profile from an overarching message of fiscal conservatism by slashing funding for education, eliminating money for family-planning clinics, and, just last month, vetoing spending on two $800 dinners by officials of the quasi-public South Jersey Port Corp. in Camden. "

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/122992263.html

6/1/2011 11:48:34 PM

nobody cares

6/1/2011 11:54:53 PM

pryderi
Fair and Balanced

6/1/2011 11:55:08 PM

He drives his SUV from his garage to the end of his driveway to get the mail

Allegedly

6/1/2011 11:55:40 PM

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 12:02 AM. Reason : ....]

6/2/2011 12:02:34 AM

Is this thread not about Mike Easley?

6/2/2011 12:04:05 AM

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 12:34 AM. Reason : chris Christie exposed?]

6/2/2011 12:34:07 AM

Christie's the belle of the ball, man.

I'm a right drifting democrat and I like everything I've heard from him and about him.

He's the hottest thing the Republican's have right now, and if he wants to one day become president his only calculation is how strong his competition will be in 2016 (basically will Peterus run, I think)

6/2/2011 12:47:14 AM

I always knew he was fat, but damn he looks super fat in those pictures. Like, Taft fat.

6/2/2011 2:55:01 AM

lame

6/2/2011 2:56:00 AM

^^SO HE'S PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL? OMG.

6/2/2011 3:02:23 AM

the american people would vote for a woman before they would vote for a fat man.

6/2/2011 3:04:53 AM

I hope to see him run in 2016. 2012 would be a mistake.

6/2/2011 8:54:40 AM

Quote :

"basically will Peterus run, I think"

Petraeus?

6/2/2011 8:57:02 AM

I think it'd be great to see him run...on a track

6/2/2011 8:57:23 AM

^^haha I was thinking the same thing, but I didn't want to sound dumb if I was wrong

6/2/2011 9:03:02 AM

Quote :

"basically will Peterus run, I think"

Pederass?

6/2/2011 9:36:28 AM

Quote :

"the american people would vote for a woman before they would vote for a fat man."

thats what i'm thinking. i can't see a dude of that size getting elected these days...

6/2/2011 9:43:26 AM

Dude looks like Taft. Gonna need to get him a specially built bathtub if he gets elected.

6/2/2011 9:44:49 AM

he looks a lot like Jeff Garlin.

6/2/2011 9:52:24 AM

Depending on the time of day, you'd be hard pressed to fault the guy for the helicopter ride.

6/2/2011 9:59:27 AM

^lol


btw "right drifting democrat".... i like that term.
a lot.
(i dont consider myself )

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 10:14 AM. Reason : dfgdfgd]

6/2/2011 10:13:30 AM

Is that Steve Schirripa?

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM. Reason : no hotlinking fail]

6/2/2011 10:30:29 AM

I'd only allow it if he hung from the landing gear like James Bond at the end of Goldeneye

6/2/2011 10:55:27 AM

If Chris Christie is running on a treadmill, will the helicopter take off?

6/2/2011 12:21:49 PM

How could you not title this thread "Typical Conservative"

I'm astraladvent and I approved this message

6/2/2011 12:23:17 PM

Look, the last thing we need is a promising leader dying because of a heart attack.

6/2/2011 12:24:47 PM

Yeah we want our leaders to die of lung cancer!

6/2/2011 12:28:03 PM

His wife must be pretty tough to withstand him on top of her.

6/2/2011 12:28:06 PM

Damn, I should've gone with heat exhaustion or something. Fuck it

6/2/2011 12:29:54 PM

hahaha

6/2/2011 12:31:02 PM

M glad it pissed you off enough for you to post this.

Governor 1
Pryderi 0

6/2/2011 12:58:56 PM

Quote :

"State helicopters cost $2,500 an hour to operate. Col. Rick Fuentes, superintendent of New Jersey's State Police, said in a statement there was "no additional cost to taxpayers or the State Police budget" for the ride to Montvale in Bergen County. Christie's son, Andrew, attends a Catholic prep school in Montvale and plays catcher for the baseball team -- the same position that the governor played. Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, flew by helicopter with an aide to Tuesday night's game. A car driven by a state trooper drove them to the bleachers -- a distance reportedly about 100 yards -- and they watched the game for a few innings. Fuentes said Christie has used state helicopters 35 times since taking office, but did not detail which trips were personal and which were for state business. "

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/chris-christie-helicopter-reaction-/1

6/2/2011 1:01:05 PM

Fat ass-governor

6/2/2011 1:01:23 PM

Quote :

"M glad it pissed you off enough for you to post this. Governor 1 Pryderi 0"

I'm glad the governor is an arrogant dumbass and look forward to his demise.

6/2/2011 1:02:22 PM

Keep your faggot ass in saop box...........oh wait

6/2/2011 1:03:38 PM

He's a heavy-set fella, but he's no 6'2 340lb TAFT.

6/2/2011 1:08:44 PM

yeah, Petraeus, will he run in 2016?

it's basically the deciding factor on whether Christie should seriously think about running in 2012

he could think about 2020... but he'll need to lose some weight if he wants to live that long...

...

I still overall think that the Republicans should fucking suck it up and back Romney, he's a good candidate and will show an accepting side of the Republican party (by allowing the whitest dude on earth to run?... oh, I mean because he's Morman which is like bleached white but doesn't represent "their" Jesus).

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM. Reason : .]

6/2/2011 1:10:22 PM

Romney is a smart guy, but he's a party-line republican and a typical political panderer.

6/2/2011 2:36:10 PM

I don't see anything really changing if Romney is elected over Obama.

6/2/2011 2:43:58 PM

Funny how pryderi forgot to bold this part: "no additional cost to taxpayers or the State Police budget"

6/2/2011 2:50:17 PM

Amazing how something that costs $2,500 an hour to operate gets used for something other than state business, yet it has "no additional cost to taxpayers or the State Police budget".

Must be some of that magical money that comes from nowhere.

6/2/2011 3:41:49 PM

6/2/2011 3:44:00 PM

I don't really understand people who call themselves Democrats and obviously agree with the Republicans on most things.

My family was mostly Republican voting because they're from a part of the country where they were the moderate, traditional party. Then the GOP went insane and refused to engage in critical examination of its stupid self.

So now I'm a Democrat, pretty much.

It's not a family label. This isn't the Old South. You can let it go.

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 4:12 PM. Reason : x]

6/2/2011 4:10:45 PM

^^^ Or the fact that the money has already been appropriated/spent, and riding the helicopter up to a certain amount of times doesn't cost the taxpayer anything that hasn't already been taken.

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM. Reason : ^'s]

6/2/2011 4:11:33 PM

He is on CNN right now babbling about some baby exams that he is making mandatory

6/2/2011 4:11:50 PM

Is there a reason why people like this guy other than the fact that he bullies around petulant people?

That's really not a very hard or brave thing to do. It's not like he won't end up with some plum wealthy position even if he gets voted out.

6/2/2011 4:13:29 PM

Who needs a Hudson Tunnel when you got a helicopter..

[Edited on June 2, 2011 at 9:09 PM. Reason : ...]

6/2/2011 9:08:50 PM

OMG NO WAI GUYZZZ

HUFFPO just released these previously unseen photos of Christie when he called for the helicopter AGAIN!

6/2/2011 9:16:48 PM

6/2/2011 9:19:25 PM