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tabbycat31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:24 PM
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Chris Christie uses state helicopter to attend son's baseball gamee
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:27 PM
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1. Naturally, and Palin gets $ from 'supporters' to take daughter on tour of Eastern U.S!!!
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nonperson Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:30 PM
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2. Can't be
Christie told us we're broke. He can't afford to ride the helicopter for other than official business. Right?
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:31 PM
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3. PIGS DO FLY
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:35 PM
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6. !!!
:rofl:
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:00 PM
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13. LMAO!
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:46 PM
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19. DUzy, for sure!
:thumbsup:
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blueclown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:32 PM
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4. It's all about Chris Christie.
I've never seen a more egotistical, selfish, full-of-himself politician. He arrives by helicopter, interrupts the game, then can't even stay for the whole game and then interrupts the game once more. All for a photo op.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:34 PM
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5. There's one teacher's salary gone
Thankfully, it wasn't the salary of the teacher teaching HIS kid.
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tabbycat31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:02 PM
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14. His kids attend private school
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:05 PM
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16. Not surprised. n/t
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nonperson Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:37 PM
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7. "Christie disembarked from the helicopter and got into a black car with tinted windows
that drove him about a 100 yards to the baseball field."

He couldn't walk 100 yards?

For god's sake how arrogant can you get. The fucking state is broke according to Christie, as he hands out tax breaks to millionaires, $261 million to finish the Revel Casino, $200 million in tax breaks to the new owners of that other colossal New Jersey mistake, Xanadu, plus the literally billions Christie has lost the state of New Jersey out of his own sheer and breathtaking incompetence, and this guy is flying a 55 foot state police helicopter to his son's baseball game BUT THAT AIN'T ALL FOLKS he has to have a fucking limo drive him 100 yards from the chopper to the fucking field. Complete arrogant disgusting gluttonous entitlement while our property taxes skyrocket our once top ranked public education system is in shambles and our essential services disappear. A fucking state police chopper to a limo for his son's baseball game.

Unfuckingbelievable.
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:47 PM
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8. That's the part I liked best too!
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nonperson Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:50 PM
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9. And get THIS:
Edited on Tue May-31-11 09:51 PM by nonperson
Christie was ferried to the field in a brand-new Augusta Westland helicopter, purchased at a cost to taxpayers of $12.5 million.

The State Police has received two of the five helicopters purchased so far, according to testimony from Attorney General Paula Dow during a May budget hearing. They were purchased to replace aging Sikorsky helicopters that the State Police have flown for about two decades.

The helicopters, which can reach nearly 200 miles per hour with its twin turbo-shaft engines, are designed for homeland security duties and transporting critically injured patients.


Joy-riding in a brand new $12.5 million helicopter purchased for emergencies doesn't sound like "BROKE" to me? Does it sound like "BROKE" to anyone else?

Fucking arrogant incompetent corrupt gluttonous fraud.

Christie for PRESIDENT!
Give America exactly what it deserves.

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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:05 PM
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15. C'mon now; it's like driving your car...
You know how, if you don't drive it enough the battery dies?

I'm sure he was doing this to keep the coptor in peak condition...

...and the car, too.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:52 PM
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10. wow!
:rofl:

:wow:

:puke:
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:52 PM
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11. Chris Christie in a helicopter? That's going to be some fuel bill (nt)
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nonperson Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:58 PM
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12. Notice in the photo he needs help getting his bulk out the helicopter door
And they're now saying he took the helicopter for personal use so he could be at his son's baseball game AND MAKE IT BACK TO DRUMTHWACKET (governor's mansion) IN TIME TO MEET WITH THE CONTRIBUTORS FROM IOWA WHO CHRISTIE IS MEETING ON STATE TIME AND ON STATE PROPERTY FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL POLITICAL REASONS!

If we had a true government in this state Christie would have been impeached by now. Does everyone remember how Christie's to aides and advisers started a PAC that solicited unlimited contributions from NJ high rollers, Christie was the main draw at these fundraisers and they were illegal as hell? When the investigation was about to start they disbanded the PAC THEN STARTED A NEW ONE THE VERY NEXT DAY!

Recall is too good for this criminal. IMPEACHMENT.
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:05 PM
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17. His Majesty isn't faring so well in the comments section of that article
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 10:46 PM
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18. Great pictures here in comments....
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nonperson Donating Member (901 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 06:59 AM
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20. Gov. James E. McGreevey was forced to reimburse the state for dozens of non-official trips he took
"Gov. James E. McGreevey was forced to reimburse the state for dozens of non-official trips he took in state helicopters, including one to a wedding."

Will Christie, the big cost cutting anti-spending hypocrite, be forced to reimburse the taxpayers of New Jersey for his non-official trips? Baseball games. Political rallies. Pseudo-campaign trips all over the country? God only knows what else.

This is the fucking disgusting arrogance that is the hallmark of Republicans and Chris Christie. They enjoy the best of everything while telling taxpayers we're BROKE. NO FUCKING WONDER WE'RE BROKE WITH YOU GLUTTONOUS ASSHOLES BEHAVING LIKE FUCKING ROYALTY.

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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 08:35 AM
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21. Unbelievable.
:mad:
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