On Monday, Al Sharpton was back on MSNBC to deliver stinging criticism for a national leader who was partying as Ferguson, Missouri burned. Oddly, it wasn’t the vacationing President Obama who Sharpton targeted for criticism, but rather New Jersey Governor
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pushed back against the idea that police officers had a problem with race when executing their duties as law enforcement officials. During a visit to Asbury Park, Christie was asked about the uproar in Ferguson, Missouri,
A new report released by New Jersey authorities shows that taxpayers are being socked with a $6.5 million legal bill in part for Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) defense over allegations of political corruption in what came to be known as
It seems the more people see of Hillary Clinton the less they like her. A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds Clinton has slipped below 50 percent support in hypothetical match-ups with Republican challengers. Asked who they would vote for if the
A tech savvy accomplished entrepreneur with one foot in the Tea Party and the other in the so called GOP establishment, having run Newt Gingrich’s New Hampshire campaign in 2012, Andrew Hemingway is making noise in NH’s Republican gubernatorial primary –
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently joined the Ice Bucket Challenge, allowing his children Patrick and Bridget to dump a bucket of ice water on his head to bring attention to ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). The puzzling but popular challenge
Monday at Politico’s “Playbook Lunch,” former White House senior adviser David Plouffe told host Mike Allen that Gov. Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) biggest obstacle to winning the Republican nomination for president in 2016 was not the scandal surrounding the lane closures
A new CNN-ORC International poll has Obama’s favorability rating stuck at a dismal 42% with Romney besting him 53 percent to 44 percent, but falling to Clinton 55 percent to 44 percent in a hypothetical election were it to take place
“Do I look like I’m taking any questions?” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie snapped at Breitbart News when asked for his response to his colleagues’ plan to campaign with Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s
A consulting firm on retainer with the Republican Governors Association under chairman and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is implicated in a Andrew Cuomo scandal, according to the New York Times. The firm, Mercury Public Affairs, of which Christie adviser
ASPEN, Colorado–Chris Christie’s snub of the Republican challenger to New York Governor and Christie pal Andrew Cuomo is causing a surprising amount of bad blood here, the site of an Republican Governors Association conference, including behind-the-scenes gamesmanship between Christie and
Thursday in Iowa while campaigning for incumbent Gov. Terry Branstad, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blasted the Obama administration for the their “awful” response to the humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied children flooding across the U.S. Mexico border. The republican governor
While Gov. Chris Christie attended a Iowa restaurant on Thursday, one woman had a question for him. “Why can’t you be tough right now?” she asked, according to WNYC’s Matt Katz. That explains why Christie, who gained widespread popularity among Republicans
Grassroots parent groups that oppose the Common Core standards are blasting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) for issuing an executive order Monday that creates a handpicked study commission to make recommendations by 2015 on the effectiveness of the assessments
You would think that after numerous embarrassments over the years, members of the Republican Party could grab hold of the reality that unauthorized use of anything involving popular culture will result in an embarrassing cease and desist request. This is
Last week, Fox reported Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) was courting support from people who usually back Democrats, and this week, a conservative group began pummeling him for his liberal judicial appointments. Together, these highlight his fatal flaw: neither the Republican
A conservative group is launching a major hit against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to dampen his expected visit to Iowa, criticizing the brash, scandal-worn pol for nominating liberal judges. The Judicial Crisis Center is launching a website seizing on
Tongues have been waging that Mitt Romney just might throw his hat in the ring for a third run at the GOP nomination for president, and a new poll in New Hampshire shows he is still well thought of by
President Obama dismissed the idea of visiting the border on Wednesday, explaining that he wasn’t interested in photo ops while trying to solve a problem. “This is not theater. This is a problem,” he said. “I’m not interested in photo
On July 2, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) vetoed A2006, a gun control bill which would have limited magazines in NJ to 10 rounds. Christie said he vetoed the bill because “it would do nothing to reduce gun violence.
On Tuesday, moments after Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said politicians should not dodge questions, especially on social issues, he promptly refused to give his opinion on the Supreme Court’s momentous 5-4 ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. The
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — Governor Chris Christie’s kind words for Paterson Mayor José “Joey” Torres were almost drowned out by a crowd of an estimated 60 teachers, who booed the Governor and demanded fairer salaries and state contracts. The Star-Ledger
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a New Jersey appeal of lower court decisions upholding a prohibition on sports gambling in the state. There is a federal ban on a sports book in the state, but
On Friday, the $2.2 billion Revel Casino in Atlantic City was back in bankruptcy court for the second time in 2 years. Lawyers for the mega-casino argued it was a “melting ice-cube” that would have to close this summer unless
On Friday, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) addressed the Faith and Freedom Coalition held in Washington, D.C. and with a theme of declaring it is time for America to face some “big and solemn truths.” The governor said, “It strikes me
