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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts) Wed Nov 6, 2013, 01:58 PM Nov 2013

It's going to be fun watching Chris Christie twist himself into a pretzel

over the next couple of years. Governing New Jersey while trying to impress Republican primary voters in Texas and Louisiana and attempting to remain electable in the Northeast states in November 2016 is like trying to fry eggs while naked and blindfolded.

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It's going to be fun watching Chris Christie twist himself into a pretzel (Original Post) Nye Bevan Nov 2013 OP

I need bleach for my brain - two doses- after your post! PCIntern Nov 2013 #1

just until 2015 JustAnotherGen Nov 2013 #2

Interesting. Thanks (nt) Nye Bevan Nov 2013 #3

He has more skeletons in his financial closet than Bernie Madoff Atman Nov 2013 #5

That too. Dawson Leery Nov 2013 #6

I don't think that will be possible. Atman Nov 2013 #4

I thought he had weight loss surgery..looks the same to me......big mouth will put his Gin Nov 2013 #7

It's only been 6 months B2G Nov 2013 #8

PCIntern

(25,592 posts)

1. I need bleach for my brain - two doses- after your post!

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Wed Nov 6, 2013, 02:00 PM

Nov 2013

Bad visuals, man...

JustAnotherGen

(31,907 posts)

2. just until 2015

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Wed Nov 6, 2013, 02:05 PM

Nov 2013

Hopefully we will only have him for 2014 - though . . . the Lt. he ran with is just as bad as him.

http://www.trentonian.com/opinion/20131105/jeff-edelstein-gov-chris-christie-will-run-for-president-in-2016-and-quit-new-jersey-in-2015

“Can he be like Bill Clinton, who ran for president in 1992 while still governor of Arkansas? Sure, he can,” said Ben Dworkin, the director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University. “But what’s changed since then are new rules overseeing the financial services industry, and Wall Street people are the biggest supporters of Christie. He’s looking at tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.”

And so the problem? The “new rules” Dworkin mentioned are simple: Wall Street can’t donate to any candidate who oversees an investment fund, and Christie technically oversees New Jersey’s investment fund. Christie could argue it’s really overseen by an independent board, but a move like that would certainly land his campaign in court.

He can't do both and get the big money that he will really have behind him on Wall Street.