Why don't you just shut the "F" up?

Here are some ideas for Christie to help right the ship. (1) Don't give anyone pension padding patronage jobs like LaRossa got from Whitman; (2) start to scale back the pension giveaways people like LaRossa voted for; (3) start scaling back politically-driven aid for places like Trenton that LaRossa institutionalized; (4) take away the 9% pension boost that was unsustainably given to state retirees who did not bargain for it (hmmmm... who could that be?); (5) take advice from people who are sincere about wanting to help you (not people who still have posts up about your brother's supposed special treatment or lawsuits that are unproven); (6) don't let your political instincts be influenced by people who got 7% of the vote in a US Senate primary; (7) work to get rid of eminent domain laws that LaRossa authored; (8) scale back borrowing (especially nonvoter-approved borrowing by authorites like LaRossa voted for as a legislator); (9) help raise money and work for Republican candidates around the State (like Alex DeCroce has been doing for years while gnats like LaRossa cry in their failures and contribute little); and (10) don't appoint Dick LaRossa to anything, no matter how many times he comes begging for a patronage job like the last one he had.

Defend iberal LaRossa again and tell me I am Rick Wright for the 800th time. Two things that are just... well... wrong. What a great day... real Republicans won all over the State. Hooray!!!!!

Sorry about your vacation down in district one. I’d be pissed too. Don’t take it out on LaRossa. You screwed yourself on this one. Like you screwed Villare. What comes around goes around.

Have you taken a good look at Alex’s record lately? You better brush up on it for those confirmation hearings. Gas tax hikes? Toll increases? HOV lanes? McGreevey!!!

Nice column Dick.

What’s the old adage about all political careers ending in failure? If Christie is anything like Florio, Whitman, McGreevey, and Corzine, you will have a lot to write about. If he’s like Kean, we’ll have a new Mt. Laurel. Write on.

Hey, what’s this I hear about you becoming AFP’s lobbyist? Cool.

Dick...you're 15 minutes are over. Please go back to working at Tino's Tuxedo and leave the thinking for people whose skill set allowed them to do more than be the substitute lottery ball reader.

No, people don't go away. Terms do.

Just keep spitting in the hand you’re offered.

There’s always another election, another legislative battle, another confirmation.

Bad Kharma.

You’ll learn.

He did not even climb on-board the bandwagon in the last few days, when it became pretty clear Christie would win.

Great night for Republicans. We won two freeholder seats in Bergen. That's what happens when the GOP puts up quality team-player candidates.

BTW, the green acres ballot initiative won. I guess AFP has very little influence, since they tried to stop it and didn't lift a finger for CC until the last few days.

You still hate the fact that anyone gives Lonegan credit for helping Christie. What exactly did you guys do in this election other than blowing a million bucks in losing both seats in District 1?

Lonegan’s assistance to Christie stands in stark contrast to what establishment Republicans – including Alex DeCroce – did to Bret Schundler back in 2001.

The Republican gubernatorial nominee was making tolls a major issue, so DeCroce and other establishment Republicans came up with their own toll plan – supported by none other than Jim McGreevey, to embarrass and isolate Schundler.

It worked, Schundler lost. It’s a good thing that Lonegan didn't act like DeCroce.

Can't wait for his confirmation hearing for DOT commissioner!

Besides, the Christie people didn’t ask him like they begged and begged and begged Lonegan and everyone who knew Lonegan. Steve delivered for Christie when it mattered, so Christie-poos like you should be grateful. Of course you’re not, because you don’t have any manners. Was it your parents?

AFP never endorsed Christie. It can’t. They spent $250,000 at the last minute to try to beat question one. ARV spent at least double that in district one. Influence?

Stay tuned. Just wait until Christie strays off the promises he’s made and those leg office phones are shut down with callers. Meantime, keep spitting. It helps.

Do the math in counties with how many in both parties walk in and only vote Governor. And check the comparative stats for the low voting on the bond issue!

Voters are apathetic to less than statewide elections.

The Republican Party in New Jersey did such a great job of getting Christie elected, they ignored the candidates for the State Assembly. Therefore Christie's victory had no coattail effect, leaving the democrats control of the legislature. Christie will be hard pressed to get anything done and at the end of 4 years will be seen as a failure. Once again voters will see no progress in controlling taxes and the bloted size of government and elect another democrat. (Can you say Governor Steve Sweeney) making Christie another hated one term Governor. In the end only the Leaders of New Jersey's Moderate Republican party can be blamed if there is no real control of the States tax and spend habits and continued Democrat control of the State. Thank you Jay Webber.

Well let's see about your AFP influence statement. The last time I looked, Chris Christie also came out against the bond issue.

So, I guess by your logic, Chris Christie has the same amount of influence as AFP.

Can't wait to hear your rationalization on that one.

AFP's bid deal was the Green Acres thing. Lonegan debated it on NJN a couple of weeks ago. LaRossa was shilling against it, IMHO probably for for Lonegan, on this site a week or two ago.

Lonegan's front lawn had it's array of campaign signs changing from day to day. But for at least a few days he had no signs for any local, county or gubernatorial candidates -- just a STOP the Green Acres type sign (it had the same look and feel of the signs that the illegal aliens were putting together in his garage a couple of years ago).

As late as last week, Lonegan was doing a tea party type rally and decrying "liberals" in both parties. He jumped on the Christie bandwagon only in the last three or four days, when his pollster knew Christie had a seven point lead.

Christie opposed Green Acres, but obviously he put 90% of his own efforts into his own campaign and less than 10% into Green Acres oppostion. Lonegan did the reverse, becuase as an AFP employee he may have had to do so. Koch industries, which seems to have some direct or indirct links with AFP, does not seem to see eye to eye with say the Sierra club.

So it's pretty elementary, Christie won, Green Acres lost. It must have been something besides wing-nut Lonegan cultists (who wanted to kill Green Acres) that ended up making Christie the winner.

Any polling in this?

Christie won and Alex picked-up one seat by accident so what does that mean? In June, Alex came out and said he was cutting off funding to district three. The guy he called a racist got more votes than the candidate in district one they spent close to $700,000 on.

AFP decided to take on Question One late, because the state GOP didn’t have the sense or sack to do it. Tommy Kean was off message and opposed to Christie by supporting it. So were lots of other Republicans, legislators and locals who want the money for the vendors who contribute to them. They did ONE WEEK of media. That’s $250,000 statewide. Not much.

Christie begged and begged and begged everyone he could to get Lonegan to do it. Maybe we should start posting the e-mails or linking the phone messages? Would you like that?

He was also out over the weekend hitting liberals in both parties. He'll be doing so this week on Thursday and next week and after Christie is sworn in. The beat goes on!

If Christie takes all of your advice, you'd have to work till you're 90 to retire. And if he takes your pension padding idea, I guess that cushy appointment you were planning on just won't happen will it Rick.

Can't wait to see the photos of the Corzine signs on your lawn from this election

I'm just pointing out LaRossa's gross failures as a legislator and pointing out his liberal voting record that Lonegan would barf on. Digitup, go ask Lonegan if he would support LaRossa's votes for eminent domain, pension boosts, and letting authorities bond without voter approval... or that stupid pension bond deal that LaRossa voted for and that Lonegan had the balls to sue over. Lonegan... would puke on Senator LaRossa when he had power and squandered it. Do you actually deny that? And I am still not Rick. Lonegan's railing on spending is welcome anytime. LaRossa's railingis just... well... self serving and inconsistent with his actions as a senator.

Go ahead and link to the e- and phone-mails. I doubt there was begging and pleading from the CC camp, but even if there was, Lonegan would have ignored it, unless he was reconciled to the strong likelihood that CC would win, and Lonegan would not be able to run another primary four years from now without an incumbent in place.

Are you talking about Dave Rible? Yeah, that's some pension deal he got. I hear he can't... no wait, wasn't that him at the gym?

doubt... even if... would have... unless... likelihood... yeah, you sure do know what you are talking about.

Christie beats a man nobody likes and AFP fails to stop a program everybody likes. The point?

The point is that on the day after the election Team Christie are out attacking Steve Lonegan and the conservative movement. Steve did the right thing and this is how Christie is repaying him – by saying it was nothing.

It was always suspected that Chris Christie wasn’t man enough to forgive and forget.

It is not a Scozzafava moment, but this post is being copied and sent to thousands of conservatives across the state. You have been duped.

Kindling. Kindling for a big fire. Keep posting. Light the fire.

"Steve did the right thing and this is how Christie is repaying him – by saying it was nothing."

What all this implies is that the Loneganistas are such mindless zombies who can't think for themselves or decide who to vote for unless they get their marching orders from their Great Leader.

As to Dick LaRossa he's setting himself up for a comeback by kissing up to the Lonegan/Shaftan whackjob wing of the GOP. He has as much chance of resurrecting his career as a porkchop salesman in a kosher restaurant.

http://christiegonewild.blogspot.com/

Christie beat a man nobody likes...in June.

While your busy passing along politickernj.com posts in your spam e-mails, don't forget to remind the handful of people who read them that your knight in shining armour lost a civil judgment this past July that cost his town a fair amount of money -- seems the jury found that Jim Jones violated the first amendment freedoms of a whistleblowing police officer.

P.S. Speak of self-servers, your pal Illions is celebrating CC's victory by...talking up his hopeless try for Party office in Monmouth.

...although he'd have no worse chance to get it in Monmouth...zero that is, doesn't matter where he lives.

I'm surprised you didn't know that it appeared only on yesterday's ballot -- along with Corzine.

Hey Rabelais, it is always little bit by little bit. And remember too that Florio, Whitman, McGreevey, and Corzine all once were as you are this very moment... sneering.

I guess we will have four years to enjoy the cases in which Christie is named. Governors make such targets for the media. Much better than former Mayors.

These prosecutors who become politicians always forget that they are leaving the more powerful job for one in which they are much more exposed. Spitzer in NY or Preate in PA. Will Christie be man enough to forgive and forget? Not if you are anything to go by.

Hopeless? Against a county chairman who refused to back the REPUBLICAN Party Platform? Not a conservative manifesto – the Republican Party Platform. Did you forget about that?

Fanov, you should be in stand up. Your jokes… they are just so beige! Dance, dance, dance. Meet anyone tonight?

digitup wrote CC beat a man nobody likes. I wrote he beat that man in June. He may have been referring to Corzine, I referred to Lonegan...you reallly have to spell things out with these pinheads.

Then digitup starts babbling about the ballot initiative being in November not June. Who said otherwise?

Lonegan's 15 minutes of infamy are over. Illions' should know supporting the NJ GOP candidate for governor all year long (not waiting to "amplify" it until the last three days) trumps a stupid national party plank that nobody gives a damn about, not even the ones that wrote it. BTW, "amplifiy" is such a Lonegan wuss word.

Political winners support their party's top of the ticket, of if they don't they at least are man enough to admit it, not jumping on the "bus" when it is full and just a few minutes from the winner's circle.

A stupid platform nobody cares about?

That kind of thinking gets you Specters and Scozzafavas. But when you are just looking for a patronage job, I guess you don’t care.

This is an interesting exchange, because it points up that old conflict between those who follow principle and those who follow the “leader”. A set of aspirations vs. worship of “the big man”.

All I can tell you Rabelais is to stay tuned. It’s going to be a very active year. The party isn’t going to get any less conservative with Obama in the White House. The NJ GOP has three cap & tax Congressmen to defend. Christie has a budget $8 billion out of whack and all those man-worshippers may end up telling us that if the “man” says we have to raise taxes then we have to raise taxes.

Maybe you are right, or maybe I’m right, but buddy, we’re sure going to find out. It’s only the beginning.

And thanks for helping to stir it up on a post that started out being a simple congratulations.

As an ex-NJ citizen , I can't see what all the excitment is about Christie winning. It looks like the typical case of an unpopular incumbent and fall off of dispirited Democratic voters. As a Democrat I can tell you I'd have had a hard time voting for Corzine if I still lived in Bergen county. But he came from 20+ points behind to within 5 probably by staying close to Obama. Creigh Deeds in Virginia ran from Obama and lost by 18%.
More telling, I believe only ONE legislative seat switched to GOP as well. Again,to me that says more to me about Corzine's personal failures than GOP vs. DEM.
Bergen GOP freeholder candidates winning is probably a good thing...total one party rule either way is bad.
LaRossa mentions the other "christie" who used to be governor. As I rememeber she barely won re election and many conservatives despised her. SInce the new Christie never laid out a budget and property tax plan during the campaign I wonder what surprises he holds for the state.

F-You You are a scum bag.

Wow, some really intellectual commentary. Must be some kind of penis envy for GOP Mercer and Burlington GOP. Are you two competing to see who is the bigger asshole or are you just GOP office wives? You know you can both still get behind gay marriage and show your true butt sucking colors.

I notice that both of you identify yourselves as members of the GOP. I am sooooo glad I don't belong to the party of the fattest governor in NJ history. And yes, I agree with him when he said he is not slightly overweight, he is fat. That is his own admission. Bravo for telling at least one truth during the campaign of lies.

We know that the fat man will be gone in 4 years or sooner for health reasons and the next governor will be either Corey Booker or Steve Sweeney. The GOP are such jackasses, that they can't see the $8 Billion hole that they're in and will inherit after CHristie's first budget.

Given the fact that he has no way to close it and does not have the guts to go after the NJ Supremes and their Largesse, his victory while very real today will ultimately turn out to be phyrric.

if he brings on board those little toads from his campaign staff.