Christie once bragged that shutting down traffic was his "favorite thing about being Governor"

[Bjorn Against]

This article is from last February, Christie's words may have seemed selfish then but they were easy to brush aside as just being a joke. In light of the current scandal surrounding him however, the comments reported in this article take on a whole new meaning...

Christie: Best Part About Being Guv Is 'Going To New York City' (VIDEO)

PEMA LEVY – FEBRUARY 27, 2013, 2:42 PM EST
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) joked Wednesday that his favorite thing about being governor was "going to New York City" because he now gets to avoid all the traffic.

Asked by an eight-year-old girl at a town hall in Montville what his favorite thing about being governor was, Christie said he had a fun answer and a serious answer.

"When you're governor, they close the Lincoln Tunnel for you," Christie said. "And you get to drive right through. No traffic. It's the best. I love going to New York now. I used to hate it…. that's the most fun thing on the fun side about being governor."

Christie added that this might be why his wife wants him to win re-election.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/christie-best-part-about-being-guv-is-going-to-new-york-city-video

[Blue Owl]

1. Gridlocks on bridges and fake traffic studies

These are a few of his favorite things...

[Cha]

2. Christie's a bully-idiot.

[babylonsister]

3. You have to admit, that IS a nice perk. ;) nt

[Bjorn Against]

4. It is a nice perk for the Governor, not so much for the rest of the public who gets stuck in traffic

[Chemisse]

17. Yeah, can't altogether blame him on this. Traffic sucks.

[George II]

5. He created monstrous traffic jams on the main state road leading to Monmouth Park...

...a couple of years ago - a 10 minute drive from the Garden State Parkway to the race track became more than an hour.

"Coincidentally" soon after he decided he wanted to close Monmouth Park (a state-owned track) because it was losing money!

[roguevalley]

6. so his fuckedness has a long history. I wonder how many people have been harmed, fired, lost

income or died from his shit. It would be worth investigating and prosecuting.

[SunSeeker]

7. Don't forget his worst traffic sabotage: He lied to kill the ARC tunnel.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/04/10/independent-federal-report-confirms-christie-lied-to-kill-arc-tunnel/

That doomed NJ to traffic gridlock for decades to come. All so he can make a name for himself with the national GOP.

[flamingdem]

20. That was enough to know about Christie the self serving repuke

though I did slightly forgive him for inadvertently helping Obama with the Sandy cooperation.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. ,

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[tomm2thumbs]

9. a self-serving entitled mindset... hmmm, now where could that lead?

oh yea, right to the Republican Party nomination -- Romney had it down pat

[marble falls]

10. "Oh yeah", the Govorner added "that and the time I shouted down the emementry school teacher,....

that's just how cherry it is being governor. That's how I roll. Look out China and Putin."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Remember the OUTRAGE of Clinton tying up LAX for a haircut?

The story was false but that didn't stop it from becoming "common knowledge" in their bubble.

[DeSwiss]

12. And......

...the second best thing is flying in the state helicopter to my son's baseball games.

- I'm sorry, but they knew he was a bully from the start.

K&R

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Why the fuck do they shut down anything for any governor?

It's not like they have a nuclear football.

[Coyotl]

14. Why can't he drive himself like any normal person does?

[treestar]

16. This ^^^^^^^

shutting down Lincoln Tunnel because he is going through sounds excessive.

[Chemisse]

18. If someone is at high risk for assassination, this makes sense.

It would be easy to trap someone in a tunnel, then kill him in a variety of ways.

But are governors at such high risk? Well, maybe Christie is.

[Beacool]

15. What a difference in personalities.

I remember Hillary saying to a reporter in one of her exit interviews that one of the things that she was looking forward to was not having to travel with over 100 people and having the streets emptied for her motorcade to pass by. She wanted to be normal, he wanted to be treated like a king.

[LukeFL]

19. Love hillary. Huge difference between

Us and them

[Beacool]

21. Back at you.

There aren't that many Hillary supporters around here. We got to stick together.