New Jersey governor Chris Christie vetoes controversial pig cage bill
Source: Guardian
New Jersey governor Chris Christie vetoes controversial pig cage bill
Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that called for restrictive pig cages to be banned in the state, a move seen by many as a gauge of his presidential ambitions
Christie sets up 2016 bid with big victory
Friday 28 November 2014 16.18 EST
New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie has vetoed a politically-charged bill that would have banned the use of certain pig cages in the state.
The potential 2016 presidential contender called the bill a solution in search of a problem on Friday.
The bill would have banned pig farmers from using gestation crates, which are so small that they prevent pregnant pigs from turning around.
While the contraptions are rarely used on New Jerseys 300 pig farms, they are widespread in states like Iowa.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/28/new-jersey-chris-christie-pig-bill
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)with apologies to jackasses.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)nt
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)PukeBaggers...heartless, evil, non-compassionate, Just-Die-Quickly fuckers.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)and egotistical ambitions. He'll do whatever it takes to further his political career.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Wrong is wrong, Christie.
And you are WRONG!!!
kimbutgar
(21,210 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)...just seems to...well, you know...
JudyM
(29,280 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,741 posts)The cages and Gov Christie are BOTH evil!
otohara
(24,135 posts)this practice of using gestation crates is fucked up - really fucked up
dhill926
(16,364 posts)pigs are intelligent, social animals. Christie, well.....
nevergiveup
(4,764 posts)Euphoria
(448 posts)Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)Shame on him, I want to put him in a cage so small that he cannot turn around! Sick Bastard!
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)I will never call bus-eater a pig again as pigs are better than he is.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)I'm so old I can remember when foreign policy, guns and butter programs and whether or not you supported social security were the gauges. Now it's pig cage sizes.
- I believe we've reached our evolutionary apex. No, I'm certain of it......
K&R
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jmowreader
(50,565 posts)Of course he vetoed it: banning gestation crates flies in the face of the Republican First Commandment - Never Cross A Businessman!
Quantess
(27,630 posts)What an asshole.
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)Catering to foks in square states that are never going to vote for them.
From NJ - no one is shocked or surprised except the people that bought his stronger than the storm 'campaign' ads.