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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis one paragraph is why we need to tell Chris Christie to Fuck Off.
During the summer of 2011, as speculation intensified that he would be a candidate for president, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was summoned to a private club in Manhattan by the founder of Home Depot, Kenneth G. Langone.
The governor expected that Mr. Langone and a few other friends would urge him to run.
He was startled by what he found instead, he recalled to the author of a book due out next month.
Sixty people, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and prominent business executives, sat facing a small table with a phone on it. The phone allowed David Koch, the industrialist and conservative billionaire, and John J. Mack, the former chairman of Morgan Stanley, to call in and encourage his candidacy.
After Mr. Langone announced that the group would raise as much money as Mr. Christie would need, Mr. Kissinger picked up his cane and made his way to the front of the room. (In a previous conversation, Mr. Christie recounts, Mr. Kissinger had told him that he hadnt seen a politician connect with someone in a long time the way Mr. Christie did with people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/nyregion/new-book-quotes-not-so-humble-christie-on-presidential-thoughts.html?hp&_r=0
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(31,869 posts)I'm helping Buono put up a good fight as much as I can - but this election is just not sexy to the Democratic Party leadership - and since they are defeatists well . . .
And I bring up November - because is NOT running for Gov. He's running for President.