Christie: I ‘Plead Guilty’ to Strong Support of Bush

by Seth Michaels, Oct 19, 2009

In the race for New Jersey governor, Chris Christie is casting himself as a fresh face and a reformer—but the fact is that he’s a longtime crony of former President George W. Bush.

Here’s how Christie, in a 2007 appearance, described his actions on behalf of Bush and his subsequent appointment to a Bush administration political office:

Listen, I plead guilty to having raised money for Governor George W. Bush because I thought he was the best person to be President of the United States. And I did it in a completely appropriate fashion and enthusiastically for the President.

There’s no mystery to the fact that I was appointed to this job because, in part, I had a relationship with the President of the United States. Anybody who receives a political appointment—I am a political appointee—there’s going to be some measure of politics involved with that appointment.

(A hat tip to Daily Kos, where the video was posted this morning.)

Looking back over the past decade, it’s quite clear that the Bush administration had a devastating impact on the country and on millions of working families. Christie was part of the effort to elect and re-elect Bush and seems to not have learned from Bush’s mistakes, promoting anti-worker, corporate-friendly, Bush-style policies on health care, jobs, education and workers’ rights.

Learn more about Chris Christie and the New Jersey governor’s race here.

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