{"id":180172,"date":"2017-07-02T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/02\/the-republican-politician-in-a-nut-shell\/"},"modified":"2017-07-02T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T00:45:00","slug":"the-republican-politician-in-a-nut-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/02\/the-republican-politician-in-a-nut-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Politician in a Nut Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"
For those of you not living in the Garden State, you may be unaware that New Jersey is in the middle of a government shutdown.<\/div>\n

Hizzoner wants to get money earmarked for handling the opioid crisis to avoid breaking his no new tax pledge.<\/p>\n

As a result of the shutdown, all but emergency government services are shut down.<\/p>\n

This includes things like government offices and state parks, unless you are Governor Chris Christie, in which case you have the beach to yourself<\/a>:<\/p>\n

People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend were not allowed in because of the state government shutdown<\/a> Gov. Chris Christie<\/a> ordered amid the state budget standoff in Trenton. <\/p>\n

But there was one family there: Christie’s. They are using the summer beach house provided by the state for a weekend down the Shore. <\/p>\n

And here are exclusive aerial photos by NJ Advance Media showing Christie surrounded by wife, Mary Pat Christie, and others. <\/p>\n

It was taken early Sunday afternoon before the governor headed to Trenton to hold another news conference about the shutdown. <\/p>\n

At that news conference, Christie was asked if he got any sun Sunday. <\/p>\n

“I didn’t,” he said. “I didn’t get any sun today.” <\/p>\n

When later told of the photo, Brian Murray, the governor’s spokesman, said: “Yes, the governor was on the beach briefly today talking to his wife and family before heading into the office.” <\/p>\n

“He did not get any sun<\/span><\/b>,” Murray added. “He had a baseball hat on.<\/span><\/b>“<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Bad move Governor.  I’ve seen your poll numbers, and they are so low that about the only way for you to salvage your political career would be to get cancer.<\/p>\n

It make some voters feel sympathy for you.  (Not me, but some voters \u2026\u2026\u2026 maybe) <\/p>\n

Take off the hat, and no sunscreen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you not living in the Garden State, you may be unaware that New Jersey is in the middle of a government shutdown. Hizzoner wants to get money earmarked for handling the opioid crisis to avoid breaking his no new tax pledge. As a result of the shutdown, all but emergency government services …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-180172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}