I don’t understand why so many NJ voters think Chris Christie is some kind of moderate. He isn’t. He just plays one on TV:
In 2010, Christie eliminated $7.4 million in his very first budget for basic reproductive healthcare services. This money included life-saving cancer screenings, pap tests and breast health services. In 2009, these funds helped over 136,000 patients. Last year, New Jersey’s family planning providers saw at least 33,000 fewer people – a 24% drop. On Christie’s watch, six such centers have closed due to state cuts. Some patients immediately lost services and didn’t have access to other providers. Others experienced longer wait times or were forced to pay more out-of-pocket. The number of clinical breast exams alone performed at these providers fell from 70,506 in 2009 to 48,441 in 2012 – a 31% plunge.
Christie has since vetoed attempts to restore women’s health funding…four times. He claimed the state was broke. But just don’t look too close into the palm of Christie’s hand – as he protects a tax break for multi-millionaires, doles out over $2 billion in corporate subsidies and proposed $540 million in business tax cuts. It’s clear where his priorities lie, and it’s not with the women and families of New Jersey.
Rather than reflect Jersey values, Christie is firmly in line with the most severe fringe on women’s rights. He’s the state’s first governor to oppose abortion rights since Roe v. Wade, and was the first to ever speak at Trenton’s annual pro-life rally. It’s no surprise Christie defunded Planned Parenthood and hopscotched the country supporting extremist Republican candidates who would outlaw abortion in the cases of rape and incest. In fact, he endorsed a North Dakota Senate candidate who voted to make it a felony to perform an abortion.
It isn’t only health where Christie fails to have women’s best interests at heart. He’s also trying to buttress the glass ceiling with cement. Christie vetoed legislation making it illegal for companies to pay women less for the same work as their male counterparts. He even supported allowing this discrimination at companies hired by the state with New Jerseyans’ hard-earned tax dollars. Apparently, Christie simply doesn’t believe in equal pay for equal work.
And yet FLOTUS just recently said Christie is “terrific”. She is a piece of work; feminist my *ss.
Christie represents the interests of the 1%. So does FLOTUS. So of course they have each others backs. The 1% runs the show. They will give and take when they think that it’s best. Take Victoria Nuland for example. She was Dick Cheney’s principle deputy of foreign policy. Hillary’s spokesperson at the State Department. Now Kerry and Obama have nominated her to be the Assistant Secretary of State for Europe. Anyone who believes that the neo-con (Zionists) warmongers are not still in charge of our foreign policy should think again. Hillary, Cheney, Kerry, Bush, Rice, Kerry and Obama are all neo-cons and warmongers.
No matter how many hundreds of pounds he loses through surgery, Chris Christie will still be a pig.