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Shameless: Christie Ad Features Obama—Even Though Obama Supports Corzine |
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The New Jersey governor’s race is just two weeks away, and President Barack Obama is in the state today to support Gov. Jon Corzine for re-election.
So why is his challenger, Chris Christie, releasing a Web video that’s basically a minute and a half of Obama speaking, accompanied by pictures of people with Christie signs?
Christie must be desperate to make voters think Obama is supporting him to distract from voters’ real concerns: New Jersey working families increasingly are questioning his stands on key issues like women’s health care, his ethics and his support of George W. Bush.
As blogger Josh Marshall puts it, “the facts are now campaigning against him.”
Monday’s New York Times broke a story suggesting one of Christie’s top aides during his time as a Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney improperly aided his campaign, including adjusting the timing of indictments to give Christie the credit and taking over Freedom of Information Act requests about Christie’s job record. Michele Brown, a top aide, previously received a $46,000 loan from Christie while he was still her employer. Brown now works at a Christie-tied law firm that helped a company under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office avoid criminal charges.
Over the next two weeks, union volunteers in New Jersey will go door to door, hitting the phones and visiting worksites for union member-to-member outreach—just as they did on Obama’s behalf in 2008. And they’ll let thousands of union members know that Christie’s agenda—the anti-working family agenda that New Jersey and the nation rejected last year—isn’t what they need.
To learn more about Christie and the race for New Jersey governor, click here.
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In the last few days there have been four articles about Chris Christie and the New Jersey govenors race on this blog.There has been no mention that besides a Democratic opponent there is also an Indepentant.That has garnered much support and may perhaps be a better choice than either of the other two.I find it deplorable that the AFL-CIO blindly backs a democrat with no mention at all of any other choice.We desperately need a thrid party and Union leadership could do much more to help it along.
If the citizens of NJ have any sense at all they’ll vote for the Independent candidate. Neither the Reps nor the Dems any longer have the best interests of this country and her citizens at heart! They’ve all sold out to the lobbyists and special interest groups. And ‘We the People’ deserve better!
As a life long union member, strong supporter of President Obama and a proud supporter of the AFL-CIO (especially with Richard Trumka and his team) they should not be coopted by the Democrats. Think idependent. Review those Democrats supported by organized labor and their votes on the “option” in the health care debate. Think independed. We should not be in the pocket on one party.
Allan B Darr