Gov. Chris Christie Claims Fox News Chief as Confidential Adviser

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Gov. Chris Christie Claims Fox News Chief as Confidential Adviser

The office of Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is claiming that Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is a confidential adviser whose interactions with the governor should remain secret under New Jers... Read Full Blog Post »

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Did we miss this story - ?

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1. he should be tight with the head of the ministry of propaganda for the gop

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2. We didn't miss it

I posted it yesterday but for some reason Chris Christie threads don't get that much attention because for some reason it seems the threat he represents isn't fully recognized here yet.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4888345

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3. Thank you -- and your article is a much better one --- I did catch it the other day...

but then I didn't get to posting it which often happens --

In as much as Ailes is one of the building blocks of the new Fourth Reich

I don't understand anyone ignoring this -- especially since we know the mayhem

the GOP governors are able to cause -- and the often voiced displeasure of DU'ers

with Fox news -- ???


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4. Here's the latest on the story from the Star-Ledger

Christie is claiming executive privilege!

And he met with Ailes AND RUSH LIMBAUGH!!!

This is totally unacceptable and ridiculous.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/christie_claims_executive_priv.html

Chris Christie claims executive privilege on alleged emails with Fox News chairman, Gawker reports

Published: Friday, June 17, 2011, 4:00 PM Updated: Friday, June 17, 2011, 4:04 PM
By Ginger Gibson/Statehouse Bureau

TRENTON — Emails between Gov. Chris Christie and Fox News chairman Roger Ailes may or may not exist. But even if they did, Christie's office won't fork them over, http://nymag.com/news/media/roger-ailes-fox-news-2011-5/">according to a report today on gossip website Gawker.com.

Last month, New York magazine http://gawker.com/5812713/gov-chris-christie-claims-fox-news-chief-as-confidential-adviser">reported that Christie had met with Ailes at his upstate New York home, along with talk radio star Rush Limbaugh. Ailes has since acknowledged that dinner took place.

So Gawker, famous for its over-the-top gossip coverage (they frequently refer to Christie as "Governor Sandwiches"), filed a request for the state to provide any email correspondences between Christie and Ailes, according to their report.

The site got a response from the governor's office, refusing to acknowledge if any emails exist, and claiming that if they did, they would be protected under executive privilege.

As if Chris Christie isn't bad enough on his own. ARE NEW JERSEYANS AWARE THEIR GOVERNOR IS TAKING HIS MARCHING ORDERS FROM THE LIKES OF AILES AND LIMBAUGH?

So THIS is where Chris Christie is getting his ideas to totally fuck up New Jersey. What a disgrace. I hope all the dumb fuckers who voted for this incompetent, corrupt, arrogant POS are happy with what they've wrought on themselves and the rest of us.

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5. Thanks again -- I'm also in NJ -- !!

The idea that anyone in government has any "privilege" to keep negotations re

government a secret from citizens is vile!!

We need to end this national security state -- and all of this secrecy!!



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6. We sold our home in the town we lived in for 35 years in 2006

AND WE STAYED IN NEW JERSEY!

We sold just before the housing crash and made a decent profit then sunk our money back into New Jersey because we wanted to be near our kids and we never thought New Jerseyans would be brain-dead stupid enough to elect anyone like Chris Christie governor.

I'm glad we stayed to be near our family but I'm wishing we got the hell out of here when we could have. Property taxes are absolutely killing us. They've eclipsed our very modest mortgage and with the cost of everything else going up (while magically the Social Security COLA remains flat) we are literally being taxed out of our home here in what has morphed from the Garden State to the Glutton State since Christie became governor.

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7. Are they really "stupid" enough to elect Christie .... ??

I'm not sure about that, really?

Is it the computer voting?

I'm a former New Yorker and it doesn't look to me as tho we have a rw state -- ???

Even though we have a lot of Dems in place -- there is huge Repug power in my town --

never understood it because when we have Dems in charge we prosper --

And a RW Repug as Governor makes even less sense to me --

And look at what they've done to any liberal Dem Governor who was able to get elected --

i.e., Florio who was turning things around.

Don't know you're understanding of the property tax thing -- but it's a win/win situation

for right wingers -- towns are trying to hold onto the schools which are the anchors for

buyers and prestige of the town. The pressure from home owners for relief could sacrifice

the schools -- which would please the Repugs no end.

Always I understood it that ALL schools had to be supported equally and that's where we

should be, but the power shifting constantly to the right keeps any sane and equitable

decisions from being made. And think that's the forseeable future unless we begin to

fight back against the right and any more rightwing "reforms" or "solutions" ---

This is just my opinion on this mess -- but I'm not locked into it --


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