New Jersey's LT Governor

When New Jersey elected the first Lt Governor, was it a mistake or was it a campaign pledge broken. In New Jersey the Lt Governor's race before and after was more challenging and inspiring than the Governor's race. Where lots of candidates were taken into effect, looked at and campaigned for those primary candidate winners.

New Jersey’s 55th Governor Chris Christie has abandon New Jersey when we the people need his leadership the most. His rants on spending have placed this state into a financial state of an emergency. With the budget cut, and this attack on unions or labor unions—teachers unions, and other work force agencies and made it harder for public services. Yet, his demeanor on giving executives high priced jobs, and their family members has shown—Chris Christie’s administration has spent more in administrative cost than – Jon S. Corzine. In Corzine’s first year – his administration on administrative cost has spent $8.24 million. While Chris Christie in his first year, has spent $8.8 million in sending. The major difference in Jon S. Corzine and Chris Christie, is Corzine expanded government, while sounding a good budget. And Chris Christie cut middle wage state income while expanding executive government, and paying more—for less service.

Chris Christie broke an agreement with the State of New Jersey, when we the people of New Jersey elected for the first time an Lieutenant Governor. LT. Governor Kim Guadagno, was in a completive race for the position – her qualifications beat out so of the best candidates, and this Lt Governor’s race was just as completive on picking one, as it was during the race. If Governor Chris Christie was going to make LT Governor Kim Guadagno, his Secretary of State, then there was no need to place her as his Lt. Governor.The job of the Lt. Governor is to help in the demands of the state when the Governor is not in town, and not be on vacation or have a vacation when the governor has a vacation. When a governor goes on vacation, the LT Governor is supposed to control the state. That’s what the Lt Governor position is meant to do, it was a competitive race – the governor did a dis-service to how Kim Guadagno won the chance to be New Jersey’s first Lieutenant Governor: and the people that challenged her before and after the selection. And to combine them into a service of Secretary of State and business, only shows that he’s not interested in keeping the commitment he made to the people on Election Day.

During the worst blizzard in New Jersey’s history, your governor in Chris Christie – and his Lieutenant Governor in Kim Guadagno; was on vacation. When the state needed real leadership, these leaders who love to cut services, raise fees on the public sector—get into a war with unions, and has been a bully to many of the challenges: our leadership was on vacation. When we asked for strong leadership with good choices, and when they were making speeches about change they can believe in and not paying the writer of the speech: did we think that this is the leadership we though New Jersey was getting.

Chris Christie did what?

Who does these polls? And how come the true and real people don't ever get a call when they ask for information on these polls. Like are they just calling core backers and followers of Chris Christie--since he's not doing a real good job in the eyes of the public? As I work and campaign around the state, you see a limited amount of people liking what Chris Christie is doing beside the party he holds. With the recent polling data showing that Governor Chris Christie has a 58% likely approval rating, and a 38% dislike – yet, 24% says they wouldn’t want him as president or in any leadership position. So my we are going to educate those on the Chris Christie blunders in our session of: whose Watch ‘In Chris Christie?

Here's a few things about the Governor that people didn't know:

January 2010: Public Fight over Budget

Governor Chris Christie had a public duel with legislators about the budget. Chris Christie stated that the budget was $11 billion in debt, and he used 2008 budget number to prove his point. Yet, when Jon S. Corzine's transistion team used the correct budget numbers, where it showed a $500,000 budget surplus: Chris Christie changed his numbers to $10.5 billion. Chris Christie your numbers just don't add up.




February 2010: Teachers Union fight!

Chris Christie signs and executive order stopping campaign contributions from union based companies, and limiting the contracts for unions and labor companies! Which mounted a massive protest by the low –wage companies and unions in New Jersey?


March 1 2010: Unemployment Insurance fight

Chris Christie passes state law through executive order – taxing companies $1000 for unemployment insurance. Then forces the Federal Government to supplement companies with a $1000 tax credit to offset the tax liability of the state. High taxes by the state – neutral liabilities with a tax credit from the Washington.

April 2010: Capping Tool Kit

Chris Christie reveals his 2.5 Capping Tool Kit on New Jersey, and has municipalities in up roar about the proceedings. In his first town hall meeting in Hoboken New Jersey: The Governor explained his reasons for the tool kit.


May 2010:

Chris Christie proposal of a 25% transit hike—where NJ Transit makes 1.6 billion a month on the transit hike! While he cut services for surrounding municipalities—leaving the students and disabled broken? Students and Disabled protested and won

June 2010:

Chris Christie’s public fight with the unions and forcing teachers to retire early resulted in a defeat, as Chris Christie saw the numbers. Where 7,000 fire fighters, police officers, and teachers faced a pension bubble—while unemployment grew to 6,000 new applicants!


July 2010: Race to the Top

Chris Christie in a public fight with the Teachers Union, cut cost and funding to New Jersey Classrooms—citing it’s the fault of the Teachers Unions. His battle with the unions is political at the expense of the students. Chris Christie throws out the executives of the NJEA—and stated his administration will take care of the applications for Race To The Top.

August 2010: Race To The Top:

After blowing $400 million in funding for Race To The Top: Chris Christie places his administrator Bret Schundler under the bus – then a couple of days later fired him as Education Director. This is after he had a public and private meeting with Bret, about how the application or the deal Bret made with the Unions. After that he throws out the unions, and then took care of the application himself, and failed to provide the right documents.

September 2010: Battle with the State Senate and Assembly

Chris Christie uses executive order to mandate legislative ethics reform: and went into a battle with the Democratic Legislative Assembly. Plus he’s fight with a Health Care bill that requires insurance companies to cover mammograms. Chris Christie has refused to meet with the Democratic Assemblywomen, and State Senator.

October 2010: Chris Christie v Senator Frank Lautenberg

In a battle to bring a relief tunnel to New Jersey to reduce over crowding, and break up the liability of a potential switch jam. Governor Chris Christie ranted and squealed nothing but jargons on the $4 billion in funding from the ARC Tunnel. Which resulted New Jersey in losing: $300 million in federal funding, and $300 million in pay backs for a tunnel that leads to no-where?

Christie v Lautenberg:

Omar Dyer's on Lautenberg's side

Gov. Chris Christie and his administration are quick to point and blame President Barack Obama and leaders in Washington on New Jersey's fiscal mess. And is more than willing to say one thing to an official, come back to do something else. In front of U.S. Transit Advisory Board: the Gov. Said they will come to an agreement on the Transit Project for NY and NJ.
Which will create 6,000 jobs? It cost $10 billion to build, and the long term future of the project is projected to bring in $200 billion to both economic structures of NY and NJ in the next 20 years.

Well the Gov. has gone back on that pledge to satisfy key Tea-Party contributors: making the NJ Transit Project, a Bridge to Nowhere. Call the Gov. Chris Christie and demand him to bring jobs to New Jersey, and kick Sara Palin / Steve Lonegan out of the negotiation table and listen to elected leaders like Senator Frank. (609)292-6000

Senator Frank Lautenberg made statements that Bergen County’s living will increases to $60,000 once this project goes into action. And Gov. Chris Christie isn’t looking at the quality of life, and improvements for New Jersey, he’s looking at the numbers on cost: $10 billion and throwing out the projections of $200 billion for the next 20 years.
It’s time to tell Chris Christie, the election is over—so now lead instead of campaign for higher office. New Jerseyans need a leader now not tomorrow—where our leaders fight for job creation Senator Frank Lautenberg's plan : it's our job to help our citizens, not weaken our state.

Chris Christie's approval ratings!

Who’s watching Chris Christie: Chris Christie’s approval ratings! After Chris Christie, vetoed women’s health care amendment, which broke his campaign pledge—his approval rating has dropped.

In an Independent Think Tank, part of the Coaches! 101's program: where we monitor, and calculate information through social networking and direct emailing. Coaches! 101’s opinion poll reads: 12% of the Democrats in New Jersey agree with how Chris Christie is doing his job. While 85% of the Republican Party agrees with him, and want more cut, and harm to the public sector.

Since New Jersey is a very liberal state where 25% of registered Democrats stay home during Gubernatorial election, or any elections other than president—Chris Christie’s overall approval ratings amount likely voters is 30% which large factors play, Republicans are only 25% of the likely voters, where 3% is independent so that leaves 75% of the likely voters affiliate themselves as democratic voters. And 12% of those voters agree with Chris on one issue: exploding salaries. That leaves a walking room of 33% of the Democratic base want to recall Chris Christie—which is 500,000 voters. Since the Republicans support Chris, where they only have a 25% voter rating in New Jersey, it’s those that stay home, and are independents that are foaming at the mouth about Chris Christie’s attack on public services. Coaches! 101 say: Chris Christie among dems have dis-approval ratings of 63% a like approval rating of 12% with Democrats, and 20% approval rating with Rebulicans, which varies because Dems are the Majority, and a 5% independent who want respect. So if an election was held today, Chris Christie wouldn't stand a chance against a strong Democrat.

If the Democrats who have the majority were to stand up for public services, they would have the support to recall the governor. But that’s the problem, State Democrats are about their own egos rather than helping to heal the party. The Party is divided within and they are only appointing friends of friends. A republican party can’t function in a liberal state without a dysfunctional State Democratic party.

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Omar Dyer's rebutal on Chris Christie's facts:

Chris Christie explained his side of the story on his budget cap--yet, Omar Dyer continues to pull out the facts. In this series of who's watchin Governor Chris Christie. To Newark Star ledger on July 21, 2010 asked him and he explained proposals that were out-dated and practically old. In order to prove a point about his budget. Well, Omar Dyer is now pointing out Chris Christie's numbers, and correcting his facts, today July 21, 2010--right after Chris Christie's morning address.

We are now in the process of keeping government honest, and is on full pledge to pull out the facts and lies in Chris Christie’s camp on Corzine’s budget.

Fact:

The Budget in Brief publication has been amended to reflect Governor Corzine’s restoration of the Property Tax Deduction in the FY 2010 budget proposal as described in the press release below:

GOVERNOR CORZINE AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERS TO RESTORE
PROPERTY TAX DEDUCTION FOR FY2010 BUDGET PROPOSAL

TRENTON – Governor Jon S. Corzine today adjusted his $29.8 billion budget proposal to include the restoration of the property tax deduction for all New Jersey taxpayers earning up to $150,000. The original proposal retained the deduction for all senior taxpayers, and this adjustment will restore the deduction for all other taxpayers earning up to $150,000.

“I've been listening to New Jerseyans and think we need to preserve this deduction to continue our fight to ease the burden of property taxes,” Governor Corzine said. “To that end, I will adjust the budget proposal I made to the Legislature by restoring the property tax deduction to nearly 1.5 million working families.”

Under the Governor’s adjusted budget proposal, 84 percent of New Jersey taxpayers will get a full deduction. For this near-complete restoration, a one-year only increase in the “millionaire’s tax” will be implemented. That tax was enacted in 2004and applies to the wealthiest one percent of New Jerseyans, those who make more than$500,000 a year.

“Given the circumstances, allowing people to maintain their property tax deduction is the right thing to do and will help ease the pain for those being squeezed the most,” Senate President Richard J. Codey said.

Revised budget: Click on the link to see it
Revised 2009 budget


Projected Budget: Click on the link to see it

Projected 2009 budget

False:

Governor Chris Christie states in the Star ledger: “We passed a budget that cuts $11 billion from our state’s budget.”

Here are the facts: This year’s budget is $29.4 billion, and last year’s was $32.2 billon. That’s a cut of less than $3 billion.”
Samples from NJ.COM : and click on the link to read the full article.

Chris Christie is not only using old budget numbers to prove a point but his numbers don’t add up either. When Corzine left office, he gave Chris Christie a sweet deal, and didn’t leave him a mess—plus Chris Christie will need to stop using President Barack Obama’s lines, on fiscal responsibility. Jon S. Corzine gave Chris a $500 million dollar surplus, from the state services increase. Which was a freeze on property taxes for seniors over 65, with an increase on paid services? Those are facts as you see above!

Chris Christie’s budget is $29.4 billion in spending, and $11 billion in deficit, with no decreases in property taxes, no freeze on property taxes, and a 25% increase on public services, which will generate a capping total of $35 billion in obligated spending plus generated revenue. Even if Chris Christie included the $11 billion deficit in his general budget, he would still be short of the $4 billion in Federal funding that new Jersey may lose out on because of unforced cuts to public services.

So his total debt is not $11 billion but $15 billion which are calculated from the moneys generated from the public fares increase, and the decrease in public employment. Plus the at state pay of property taxes which are now $7,000 per home, compared to Corzine’s $6,000 per home—with the no freeze, or federal subsidies, or extra funding in Chris Christie's budget.

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Omar Dyer opposes: The 2.5 Budget Cap!

In an online blitz, Candidate for Governor in 2013 has made his pledge.

Governor Chris Christie just passed his 2.5 cap: and his view of less government spending is very radical—on this blog we incorporated some of the responses from around the state of New Jersey first is Omar Dyer: Political Candidate for Governor of 2013, and Assembly in 2011. Omar Dyer was also one of the gubernatorial candidates that lost in 2009—plus lost in his assembly run in 2009. He's the author of the book: The Next Generation of Leaders: Omar Dyer for public office.

Omar Dyer via (facebook)

This is a joke, and the leadership in this state is a walking disaster, I am sorry but I have lost complete faith in the elected leaders in NJ. They just past small parts of this bill, knowing close to 8,000 people filed for unemployment this week, and 7,000 teachers filed for retirement: TODAY. That's 15,000 New Jerseyans—not generating a reasonable source of income to DECREASE Taxes. All this bill will do is become a smoking mirror for a municipal property tax which will include a state property tax. Meaning it's a double dip on property taxes—nothing more or less, and then the pension system will be on a bubble, since those teachers—will have to repackage their mortgages, or move out. Let's hope they more out, and if they do move out, New Jersey will still lose on revenue because they will have to pay for the pension plans. Also, that will expand government more than what Jon S. Corzine has done, because now you have to create departments to monitor and facilitate these taxing decreasing burdens, or municipality burden—where taxes at the municipal level will be expanding causing the general budget to expand more: while giving the Governor a walking pass on not balancing a state CHECK BOOK.

Omar Dyer on the Pension system via (Facebook)


Pension Bubble warning: Despite the raven rants on cuts, over spending in a law-makers made great recession—massive amount of teachers are now filing for retirement. Meaning they will create a bubble on the public pension system. This now bends the scale and cracks the curve on public pensions. Yet, leaders want to force these teachers to another place: Like Florida. So now not only will taxes go up because of the bubble—they are moving out because the Governor is at war with unions—since they spent $40 million on a campaign to beat him. Totaling 6,840 applications: WOW! 7,952 unemployed, 6,840 retiring—Chris Christie hasn't started his budget cuts.
Below are some of the site, and comments from people sounding off on Chris Christie, and his 2.5 budget tool kit.

You can view news and the articles on NJ Politicker where it gives you details of the move by Matt F. State House reporter.

nokidding July 12, 2010 at 1:18PM
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This is a phony soft cap bill with no teeth in it!!!

The comment abouve was from the NJ website hosted by The Star Ledger

Here's a letter to the Editor: On Chris Christie's 2.5 budget Tool kit.

Dear Editor:

We would like to introduce you to the Chris Christie opposition—in one of the candidates that lost to Governor Chris Christie in Omar Dyer. History, Omar Dyer ran for governor in 2009, had petition problems with the election board which resulted in a law suit with the election, board—as it was declared fit, and Omar Dyer ran in the General Assembly. He was also on the short list for LT. Governor for both Jon S. Corzine and Chris Christie, after being turned down by both of them, Dyer has been opposing both candidates. He was the first to publicly point out the faults in Governor Chris Christie’s 2.5 Budget cap—in a public meeting in Hoboken where he was advised not to mention or oppose at the apparent time. He has leashed his calling and cry about Chris Christie on his facebook page—which Governor Chris Christie is a friend in his network. Omar Dyer which is hosted by this public advocacy group is now voicing his concerns—and we would like this media company to make his voice public record.

You can learn more and donate to Omar Dyer's website Coaches! 101 and help the movement--plus learn about The Next Generation of Leaders.

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