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Dear New Jersey voters: Maybe this will finally convince you that Chris Christie is not your friend

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I don’t know how many times or ways I can stress this, but here’s what I’ve posted so far:

Added: Christie also brags about accomplishing something that is required by the state. He HAD to balance the budget. Please follow the links above for more on his record.

But he’s headed for a landslide, and I still get tweets from fellow Democrats singing his praises. What part of these posts don’t people understand? What part of his insolence and disrespect for anyone who dares to challenge him don’t they get? What part of his arrogance and conservatism is difficult to process? What part of his record on the issues is it tough to grasp?

Maybe this article from The Newark Star Ledger will help:

Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed a bill that would allow early voting at polling places, prompting Democrats to brand it a politically motivated effort to suppress the vote months after Hurricane Sandy exposed vulnerabilities in the state elections system.

The Republican governor called a proposal to let voters cast ballots at designated polling places during a 15-day period before Election Day “hasty, counterproductive and less reliable” than the current system.

Chris Christie is stifling the vote. Chris Christie is silencing voices. Chris Christie is preventing people from casting ballots.

Chris Christie is all about Chris Christie. Say it with me. Once and for all, understand who this guy is.

Please read the rest here.

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3:14. THREE MINUTES, FOURTEEN SECONDS OF THE TOP RATED NIGHTLY “NEWS” SHOW IN THE DAMN COUNTRY. On a civil servant having weight loss surgery, for Chris and Martha’s sake. No wonder Sanford won.

Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band weight loss surgery

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Chris Christie’s family and friends wanted him to start improving his health. So he decided to go with having lap-band surgery, saying that knows this is just the beginning of a longer weight loss process. He insists that this isn’t about a run for president, but strictly for his family.

Honest.

I’ve known a few people that have gone through this, and it helped… to an extent. They never got “thin,” but there was noticeable weight loss, which can reduce the risk of heart problems, diabetes, and more.

Washington (CNN) – A few months after turning 50 years old, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band surgery in February for the sake of his wife and kids, a source close to the governor confirmed to CNN. [...]

“I’ve struggled with this issue for 20 years,” he said. “For me, this is about turning 50 and looking at my children and wanting to be there for them.”

Christie had the 40 minute long surgery on Saturday, February 16, a source close to Christie tells CNN Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper, and was back to work by the following Tuesday. [...]

Lap-band surgery entails a doctor fitting a band around the stomach in order to make the organ smaller. It helps people lose weight because as someone eats, the smaller stomach feels fuller faster, thereby cutting down on the amount of food someone consumes. As the lap-band recipient loses weight, doctors can add saline to the band to shrink the stomach even more.

The surgery is considered a less dangerous alternative to gastric bypass, where a doctor shrinks the size of a stomach by dividing the stomach into two using staples.

Back in the summer of 2012, Christie said gastric bypass surgery was “too risky” for him.

What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health.

See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

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What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health.

  • 15 States Have Loosened Gun Restrictions– Because providing gun manufacturers with more cash, coveting phallic symbols, pretending you can outgun murderers under stress, and endangering more lives is a priority. USA! USA!

See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

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What I will not write about today

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Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health:

See what I mean? So who’s up for a couple of Margs or a trough of wine?

Dear Dems, you can stop praising Chris Christie now. Seriously.

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Please take another look at why Chris Christie really is, and never has been, the “moderate” people say he is: Enough about what a great Democrat Chris Christie would make, okay? and VIDEO: Chris Christie not conservative? Bull pucky. Check out his record and Think for yourself. Ask questions. Do your homework.

His approvals are through the roof, and Democrats inexplicably continue to praise him because he occasionally does or says the right thing. Key word: Occasionally. Make that rarely. This baffles me.

Here’s one of the wrong things he’s doing:

(CNN) – A ban on so-called “gay conversion therapy” that’s being considered by New Jersey lawmakers doesn’t yet have the approval of the state’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who said he hasn’t made up his mind whether he would sign the ban into law.

Seriously? He has to think about this one?

Wait, it gets worse:

The paper reported Christie saying he never reads bills before they hit his desk for approval.

Seriously? He doesn’t bother to read bills before approving or vetoing? He’s already vetoed a marriage equality bill that he apparently didn’t read.

On Wednesday, Christie reaffirmed his personal opposition to same-sex marriage.

Has he been talking to Marcus Bachmann? What next, approving a bloodletting bill?

The bill – which was approved by a state Senate committee on Monday – would make it illegal for a professional counselor to “engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a person under 18.” Therapy methods vary, but are often times associated with fundamentalist Christian groups who oppose homosexuality. Shock therapy is used in some instances.

Major medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, oppose therapies that aim to treat homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Seriously? He has to think about a bill that can destroy lives, electrically shock kids into submission, and drive them to suicide? What century is he living in?

Read my lips, Chris: Being gay is not a choice.

Oh, and it doesn’t work:

“These practices have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.”

Seriously? He’s pandering to people who reside in a previous century?

Seriously? Democrats actually admire this guy?

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