Gov. Christie's new ad looks like a national ad: The Christie Reform Agenda

Looks to me like this is a national political ad, albeit it's a New Jersey centered ad, it accentuates Governor Christie's record and future agenda in reforming the budget, education, pensions, and salaries, as well as pushing forth a tax-cutting agenda.

Is Christie going national?

Comments

[Kate]

I saw Christie on Fox & Friends this morning and was unimpressed. Likewise his endorsement of Castle-yuck

[memomachine]

Hmmmm.

As a resident of NJ I'd say that I applaud Christie's efforts but if he is trying to go national now then it is far far too soon. While he has done some work towards cleaning up NJ the simple fact is that he hasn't succeeded in putting NJ back on it's feet.

Less gloss, more substance. Then we'll talk about national.

[Calypso Jones]

I'm smelling Rino in the morning.

[Steve]

It's a brilliant strategy.

He's using the high awareness of politics generated by federal elections to keep up pressure on state legislators, whose next election isn't until 2011. It's similar to an incumbent that runs an expensive campaign to define their opponent as soon as the candidate gains name recognition from their primary win.

[syn]

In order for Christie to run a national campaign he would have to QUIT his governorship one year into the job despite that fact that he escapes the on-onslaught of The Party of Marxist Lawyers crawling inside every orifice to find 'ethic violations'.

Besides; it is common knowledge how RINOs and Ruling Class feel about QUITTERS not Obama.

[Sandy]

Not that long ago, Christie told Cavuto that he had no desire to run for the Presidency. I believe he said - "ain't gonna happen." He said he wasn't ready. So, less than 6 months later he's all of a sudden ready?

[Sandy]

There is something that I have noticed about Gov. Christie. To my knowledge, I don't think he has joined with other Republican Governors with state lawsuits, or legislation to fight Obamacare, the EPA endangerment finding, and he has made no move to join other Republican states with their support of the AZ immigration law.

[FenelonSpoke]

I don't think he's planning on running for National office right now. I agree with Steve above. I just think he's being saavy about promoting his ideas proactively before the unions, etc, jump all over him.

[Steve]

Sandy,

NJ is not like most states where the Attorney General is an elective position, which makes many to take on political legal issues. Instead, the position is appointed by the governor; leading to an attorney general that stays within the Governor's and states agenda.

His appointee, Paula Dow, is a non-Republican former county prosecutor. This background puts her at the heart of Christie's reforms.
1. Overlapping and ineffective bureaucracy -- She now controls the state office, which essentially creates mandates for the counties to fund and staff.
2. Corruption -- With attorneys working for counties, there seems to be little enforcement of political corruption.

To make reforms to political bureaucracy, Christie will be taking on political machines that will fight tooth and nail protect their kingdoms and possibility to prevent uncovering of corruption. Therefore, he needs his attorney general to be apolitical.

[Sandy]

Steve- That is surprising to me, yet again, I moved out of NJ more than 15 years ago. I moved there when I was 20, young, dumb, and paid no attention to politics, at all, whatsoever, I could give two craps about Politics back then. My husband, a NJ born and raised, grew weary, as I, with the taxes, and the major traffic congestion on Route 1, which we traveled each day to work.

What surprises me about Christie, is that he was supposedly a hard nosed Prosecutor, and, went after corruption with a vehemence. So, what I understand that you are saying, is that, it just depends on what party is doing the corruption, based on who is in the Governors office at the time.

It appears to me that the anomaly of Christie is in what battles he has chosen to fight, while allowing other long term NJ problems, such as rampant corruption, is once again allowed to flourish.

I love the fact that he is willing to fight the Teachers Unions, and, he seems willing to adjust the state government worker unions contributions, yet, he is willing to put those savings into his environmental, Global Warming pet projects. It is also disturbing that NJ has so many mosques, and a high Muslim population, yet he seems to be completely unaffected by that, even though NJ has had a high incidence with terrorist activities. Didn't Ghadafi pitch his tent in NJ, when he visited the US?

It appears that Christie has drawn his line in the sand, and, those that immediately started calling for him as President, hopefully will see that he has chosen winners and losers, and, favors his pet projects. I remember reading that when he came out against the Teachers Unions, he was considered to be the next real leader of the country, because he was tough. He just hasn't carried that toughness across the conservative/Republican board on all issues.