Politifact Gives Gov. Christie 'Pants On Fire' Rating For Claim About Traffic Scandal

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5. Hope the people of N.J. remember this. Really, it's too late for them, though.

Revealed at a 2009 meeting. Does anyone think he's changed, after seeing him bully a schoolteacher?

With security extraordinary on the seminar's opening night—audio speakers around the periphery of the outdoor dining pavilion blasted out static to thwart eavesdroppers—David Koch introduced Gov. Christie as "my kind of guy." (The two had previously met in private at Koch's New York City office, he revealed.) Before long, seminar attendees were roaring with laughter as Christie regaled them over dessert, telling them how, in his first weeks in office, he'd exercised extraordinary executive powers to impound billions of dollars in planned spending. ("The good news for all of you and for me," he said, "is that the governorship in New Jersey is the most powerful constitutional governorship in America.&quot

Christie went on to explain how he'd convinced the state's Democratic majority leaders, against the wishes of most of their caucus, to help him slash public-sector pensions and benefits. And he drew a bead on his next major target: public-school teachers and their union. "That's where we head next," Christie said. "We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all, and we need to decide who is determining our children's future, who is running this place. Them or us? I say it's us."

He presented his accomplishments in New Jersey as a model for curing the nation's ills: "We know the answers. They're painful answers. We're going to have to reduce Medicare benefits. We're going to have to reduce Medicaid benefits. We're going to have to raise the Social Security age. We're going to have to do these things. We're going to have to cut all types of other government programs that some people in this room might like."

The speech was classic Christie, but the governor expressed his views to the Koch crowd with a candor that politicians—especially those with a reputation for having mainstream appeal—usually reserve for very select audiences: He called New Jersey Democratic legislators "stupid" for pushing for a tax on the wealthy that he'd previously rejected. He mimicked the voice of his predecessor, Gov. Jon Corzine. And he boldly proclaimed that he'd been elected because "their ideas are wrong and our ideas are right."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/audio-chris-christie-koch-brothers-seminar

to hue:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251337870

Some at DU don't want to hear about the influence of the Koches, or maybe they don't want to hear about ALEX, and want us to focus on others. Yes, there are others, many were at that meeting, and the Koches are host to these meetings all year at various private locations around the country about long term plans.

They are stealing our future and that of our children. Christie a major part of that. Mittens and Ann Romney have pledged to back Christie with their money for a 2016 presidential run. Think of the damage he's going to do to the people of NJ before that time. Like FL, WI and TX, there will be no going back. It'll be permanent.