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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerNew Jersey Gov.-elect Chris Christie with Kim Guadagno, the Monmouth County sheriff, and the lieutenant governor-elect in this July photo.Private lobbying groups should forfeit the taxpayer-funded pensions and health benefits they collect, Gov.-elect Chris Christie said today. "The...
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The Philadelphia Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
John P. Sheridan Jr., president and CEO of Cooper University Hospital, was named to the health-care transition team for New Jersey Governor-Elect Chris Christie.
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
In 2005, incumbent Jon Corzine, said of Christie, "I have supported Chris Christie as being our U.S. attorney. . . . There have been as many Republicans as Democrats who have been brought to justice because of Chris Christie. I think he's doing a great job."
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Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Anyone who thought Chris Christie wouldn't hold grudges from the campaign should check and see what the policy is toward the Chamber of Commerce and Chamber train trip to Washington: Christie is telling advisers and those considering joining his administration that his appointees are not to go on the annual chamber train ride to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28-29. They're...
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Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
If you had Chris Christie's first hiccup as Governor occurring before he even takes office in the pool, you win: A subpoena has been issued for Gov.-elect Chris Christie to appear next month at the federal trial of North Bergen Internet radio host and blogger Hal Turner. Michael Orozco, Turner's lawyer, said in an affadavit supporting the subpoena, that Christie,...
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
North Bergen blogger Hal Turner has subpoenaed Gov.-elect Chris Christie to testify at his trial.A subpoena has been issued for Gov.-elect Chris Christie to appear next month at the federal trial of North Bergen Internet radio host and blogger Hal...
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Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Oh, this might get interesting. (h/t Main Justice) A subpoena has been issued for Gov.-elect Chris Christie to appear next month at the federal trial of North Bergen Internet radio host and blogger Hal Turner. Michael Orozco, Turner’s lawyer, said in an affadavit supporting the subpoena, that Christie, as the U.S. Attorney, knew that Turner was working [...]
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MoreMonmouthMusings (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
TRENTON, NJ – Governor-Elect Chris Christie announced today additional members of the Transition New Jersey sub-committees, including Corrections and Homeland Security, Energy and Utilities, Environmental Protection, Healthcare, Human Services and Children and Families, Law and Public Safety and Transportation. These sub-committees will conduct a top to bottom review of their respective...
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Poll finds less state government, including public employee layoffs, is preferred vs. tax increases to close budget gap -- What would you d?
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerGovernor-elect Chris Christie at a Star-Ledger editorial board meeting in Newark on Oct. 5.TRENTON -- Gov.-elect Chris Christie harshly criticized a Democratic proposal that would require New Jersey governors to fill vacant U.S. Senate seats with members of...
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Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Jersey legislators look ready to throw marriage equality under the bus after Chris Christie’s election, but they are poised to legalize medicinal marijuana.
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 46 minutes ago
TRENTON -- Returning from a Thanksgiving vacation, Gov.-elect Chris Christie today quickly ended any illusion of harmony in the gubernatorial transition. With rhetorical flourish, the Republican tore into Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine’s "wildly off" budget projections, his nomination of "unqualified"...
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WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | yesterday
... ends in January. The movement to legalize same-sex marriages has lost momentum since Republican Chris Christie was elected governor.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... well-connected gay rights group, is getting a boost from heterosexual liberals. When Republican Chris Christie unseated Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in the gubernatorial election last month, it gave gay-rights activists more urgency to try to achieve their long-held goal of getting a same-sex marriage bill through the Legislature before Christie takes office Jan. 19. The reason...
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En Tequila Es Verdad (Free subscription) | yesterday
... political columnist Tim Moran reports today, all that changed with the election of Gov.-elect Chris Christie (R). Christie promised on the campaign trail to veto the same-sex marriage law that Moran reports many expected the state legislature to pass this year. Christie's defeat of Gov. Jon Corzine (D), coupled with a stepped up opposition campaign by the Catholic Church,...