In Newark kickoff, Christie promises bold leadership
GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie enters to prolonged applause.

In Newark kickoff, Christie promises bold leadership

By Max Pizarro | February 4th, 2009 - 10:45am
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NEWARK – In the city of his birth, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie launched his campaign for governor this morning, vowing if elected to wage an aggressive battle against wasteful and parochial politicians, special interests and bloated state spending. 

“I have the experience and the determination and the will to make the tough decisions that are necessary to make the right decisions,” Christie told a room packed with enthusiastic Republican supporters here at the New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts. 

Christie said he would restore trust in government, make use of the line item veto, relentlessly market New Jersey to forge a new jobs base, and budget “like you do at home.” 

“Our government taxes too much, borrows too much and spends too much,” said Christie. “We have a government that refuses to be held accountable for how they spend our money. 

The man who spent the first years of his life in a walk-up apartment at the corner of 14th Street and South Orange Avenue before his parents moved Christie’s family to Livingston,  said he wants to be governor because he loves New Jersey. 

"I was born here and I was raised here," said Christie. "I love New Jersey and I am not ready to give up on New Jersey yet.  

 “The Wall Street philosophy has ruined our state’s finances,” he added, in a dig at Gov. Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs. “There is no wizard with a magic wand who’s going to fix our problems.”

Projection of strength in the face of what Christie alluded to as finger-in-the-wind leadership provided the fulcrum of his remarks and first-look slogan presence today as he repeatedly promised that as governor he would say “no” to the entrenched special interests that have sapped the state of much of its vigor. 

His campaign poster promised "Strong leadership now," words writ large on a big black "Chris Christie" campaign bus parked in front of NJPAC. 

The candidate gave a nod to what he anticipates will be a hardnosed campaign and big dollar effort from the other party.  

“They will spend unlimited money. They will try to tag me with insults. They will try to scare you, and they will try to scare me, and they will try to divide us by scaring each other,” Chrisite said.

Among those party diehards in attendance today were state Sen. Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr., (R-Union), Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce (R-Parsippany), state Sen. Anthony Bucco (R-Morris), Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, and Cape May Republican Party Chairman David Von Savage.

Speech

I like this guy a lot, but he is taking some of his lines directly from Lonegan.

I guess since no one listens to Lonegan anyway, people will think Christie said them first.

Amazing

Has Christie articulated his position on any issue? His web-site does not even list what he would do as Governor. How can people support a guy that they know so little about?

Double Chin/Double Talk

Rhetoric won't win elections. The media will start asking him questions that he will have to answer and given the fact that he has no answers, his campaign will sink from the sheer weight of his arrogance. People are sick of slogans and want answers and right now, Chris Christie isn't giving any. Watch the poll numbers change rapidly as people start to pay attention.

A big nothing.

He said nothing.

Anyone could have given that speech. Barack Obama could have given that speech.

Platitudes on the Passaic....

Vote Column "A"- All the way!

Why should he?

Most voters don't make up their minds until shortly before the election. Christie should be the anti-Corzine for the time being, raise lots of money, then a couple weeks befor the primary announce a comprehensive tax cut program and other initiatives along with a multi-million dollar advertising blitz leaving Looneygan with little time, and little money, to respond.

Right now is the time to build name recognition without specifics. Later on he can specify issues close enough to the primary so that the Looneygans have little money and time to trash his ideas effectively.

The handful of junkies who patronize this site do not decide elections. That will be up to the vast majority of voters who have little time and even less interest to think about issues.

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Wake-Up Call

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