Christie gives himself more power to slash millions municipal aid

Posted by | July 10, 2016 07:20 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


TRENTON — By eliminating fewer than two dozen words from the state budget, Gov. Chris Christie has given himself the power to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in funding that New Jersey’s municipalities use to hold down property taxes, local government experts say. A line-item veto in the budget Christie released just before the July…

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9 responses to Christie gives himself more power to slash millions municipal aid

  1. DogsRgoodpeople July 10th, 2016 at 08:14

    ” I’m just trying to make Mr. Trump proud of me” said the Governor.

  2. Candide Gunn July 10th, 2016 at 09:52

    Think that NJ voters learned their lesson about voting for republicans yet?

    • Mike July 10th, 2016 at 18:22

      Jersey has always been a crazy place politically…wild swings in both directions are kind of the norm…
      The cities are poor and the suburbs are some of the richest in the nation…
      My sister and her husband live in one of those rich communities and all they ever do is b!tch about how godawful the country is while they live in a multi-million dollar home with a pool and 2 kids in Ivy League schools.

      They don’t know they live in paradise…

  3. LoisB July 10th, 2016 at 11:57

    Seems as if Christie is determined to wreak as much havoc on New Jersey as possible before he is put out to pasture. I imagine he’ll retire to Florida as he has no political future. I don’t think even Trump wants him, other than as a “gofer”.

    • Mike July 10th, 2016 at 18:16

      Not Florida…please…we have our hands full with Scrooge McScott and Pam Blondie…

    • Larry Schmitt July 10th, 2016 at 18:45

      He seems to be more than happy to be a gofer, as long as he gets in the occasional photo.

  4. Larry Schmitt July 10th, 2016 at 18:44

    It looks like he’s trying to run his own miniature USSR. I’ve never heard of a governor having that much control over individual municipalities. Maybe the feds should treat New Jersey the same way.

  5. amersham1046 July 10th, 2016 at 19:06

    Well he seem to be a good idea at the time , but oh how times have changed

  6. bpollen July 11th, 2016 at 05:13

    Didn’t Jersey just pass a “Blacklist the BDS-supporting companies” bill?

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