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OT: State offices closing at 230pm
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I don’t recall Christie ever shutting down the government for 1-2 inches of snow forecasted across 3/4 of the state.
NJ state plows are out in full force:
dude you are winning this thread...I like how you think, I'll be watchin you
Lots to criticize PM about, I don’t think this is one given what happened back in mid- Nov. my ankles are still sore from walking in dress shoes in the snow from Edison TS to the Shoprite in Pway where I got picked up. What a fiasco that night was
Gotta fess up I started this thread and I'm a state worker, just seemed silly
this was never going to be like that storm in November so just like he has with every single event since such as brining for rain events and convoys of plows ready for flurries, Murphy once again comes out looking like a fool and an idiot
Or, you know, tax payers who are are threatened at the point of a gun to pay the salaries of the folks taking the afternoon off and getting paid for it.
It's like State employees work hard anyway so let them go home early. There will be no loss in production.
That whole 90 minutes huh? That'll break the bank. Oh wait they didnt get any more than they would have gotten anyway.
So ... The usual whiners.
Only here could this be a multi-page thread. And not a single person chiming in about needing a government office that was closed.
what do you expect from a group that considers fact check an enemy of all they hold dear.[roll][roll]
One person in this thread was almost shut out from getting his car inspected. Most of this thread is a goof.
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Our controversially elected Governor down here declared a state of emergency for today. Yesterday morning. Shutting down everything. The mindset of the CE club would be to call it proactive, risk-free thinking on his part because of what famously happened in the Atlanta area around 6 years ago. Of course they would deny that. But their history tells the story. By the way with the exception of a brief, light rain this morning, there was no precipitation of any kind. The sun was shining brightly by midday.
I know. That was the closest thing to someone actually being affected, and it was but a close call.
Not sure what that last sentence means, but much of the thread is a bitch-fest.
Not sure how many people get this since his house is at the end of Blossom Cove Rd.
That’s one heck of a long walk. Hoped you stopped in my go to spot after RU football games.....Dunkin Donuts on Stelton Road.
That last word was meant to be "goof" not "good." Darn autocorrect. Don't see most of it as bitching, just goofing.
And during the November storm, he dined at Restaurant Nicholas while people were trapped on the roads.
Funny, passed possibly the same long line of plows sitting on 287 North on the way home last night around 7:30 in the pouring rain.
Hey, don't snowflakes melt in the rain?
Exactly. The stupid R primary voters nominated Kim G, who was essentially Buono 2.0. Why nominate the LG of an extremely unpopular Gov, right? They messed up and dropped the ball. 2021 should be very different.
Right. Kim. Lol.
Buono was a sacrificial lamb because no one was beating Christie after his first term. His 2nd term didn’t go as well.
Christie is a fascinating case study of politics! He had a historically good first term and then a historically bad second term. Literally the two polar opposites.
The best brief analysis of Christie's reelection margin and later downfall basically went: "Christie would likely have been reelected, but the margin turned into a blowout when Sandy hit and he didn't react as the Republican Governor of New Jersey he reacted as the Governor of New Jersey. And then he saw the White House."
I was pretty close to the situation for a few years and I saw the following. And this is just my opinion. During the first term, he had an open door, worked with a lot of folks very well (except union), and even before Sandy, was doing a very good job. Obviously, his handling of Sandy juiced his numbers and he also made a deal with Norcross/Sweeney/Joe D to only put up token opposition in 2013 (i.e., Buono) in exchange for not going all out to flip the legislature to the Rs (which never would have happened anyway). His sights were set on the WH.
The Bridgegate silliness caught him totally by surprise and he thought it would quickly pass. Let's be honest, it was a glorified prank by a few stupid employees definitely without his knowledge. Absolutely no doubt about this to me. But since he looked like the frontrunner for 2016, this got hyper-politicized and severely damaged him. I believe, when he realized this was not going away and that the public didn't believe him, him essentially said screw you to NJ. His attitude was.....after all the good things I've done, you are going to pin this silly "scandal" on me when I had no part in it? Well, then screw you NJ, I'm just going to look after myself. All of those open doors were shut and he just focused on the WH and then helping Trump.
And having done the GWB commute many times what I found was the disingenuous claims of people at risk of dying in ambulances etc. was never looked at closely. Nobody ever stated the truth, that once you are on the bridge a traffic jam has nothing to do with Ft. Lee. Some tractor trailer probably jackknifed on the Cross Bronx. And as far as ambulances, on any road in Ft. Lee heading towards the GWB it's possible for an emergency vehicle to turn around and end up at the ER at Englewood Hospital in less than 10 minutes or a full blown trauma center at Hackensack in less that 25. The press was out to get Christie and hyperbole was the order of the day.
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The prank closed 2 out of 12 toll booths for a few days, something like that. There is tons of traffic at that location practically everyday. Those dumbass employees got caught, then lied, then got fired.
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