New Problem For Christie: Audit Of Sandy-Related Spending - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/13/262078154/new-problem-for-christie-audit-of-sandy-related-spending"]NPR Link[/URL] [quote=NPR]The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is going to examine how the state of New Jersey spent $25 million of the federal aid it received after 2012's Hurricane Sandy, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., has announced. At issue in particular: whether it was appropriate to spend nearly $5 million on "Stronger Than The Storm" tourism ads featuring Republican Gov. Chris Christie and his family. As the Asbury Park Press reported last August, the TV ads were produced by "East Rutherford-based MWW and a subcontractor. ... MWW proposed putting Christie in the ads. The other bidder, a team headed by the Sigma Group, did not. MWW won the contract." MWW also demanded a higher fee — about $2 million more, the Press reported — than Sigma Group would have charged. The ads hit the airwaves in 2013, an election year in New Jersey. Christie easily won a second term. He's now widely seen as a potential contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Pallone is a long-time critic of Christie. Word about the audit comes, of course, on top of a headline-grabbing scandal in Christie's office.[/quote]

[quote] At issue in particular: whether it was appropriate to spend nearly $5 million on "Stronger Than The Storm" tourism ads featuring Republican Gov. Chris Christie and his family.[/quote]I don't think it was, most people I know just laugh it. [video=youtube;QaHQNSGlfTs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaHQNSGlfTs[/video]

Hmmm.... 66% higher than the other bidder, [B]and[/B] it featured assface himself. Yeah, that sounds like... typical NJ politics, to be honest, but sneaking campaign ads in on the taxpayer's state dime anywhere else. [B]For extra.[/B]

[quote]The ads hit the airwaves in 2013, an election year in New Jersey. Christie easily won a second term.[/quote] To be honest, he was going to win without the Stronger Than the Storm crap.

The republicans are looking so fucked in the 2016 election.

[QUOTE=Valnar;43530898]The republicans are looking so fucked in the 2016 election.[/QUOTE] He's a 2016 potential, not the insured to be [I]the[/I] GOP nominee.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43530965]He's a 2016 potential, not the insured to be [I]the[/I] GOP nominee.[/QUOTE] He was probably their best bet before the whole bridge thing, there really isn't a ton of options for the republicans. Especially being so fragmented right now.

[QUOTE=Valnar;43530988]He was probably their best bet, there really isn't a ton of options for the republicans, especially being so fragmented right now.[/QUOTE] We have two years still. Give it time. Obama wasn't expected to go anywhere two years before the election.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43530993]We have two years still. Give it time. Obama wasn't expected to go anywhere two years before the election.[/QUOTE] True, but the democrats didn't have the tea party splitting up the party.

[QUOTE=Valnar;43531002]True, but the democrats didn't have the tea party splitting up the party.[/QUOTE] Honestly, I think that's what will make it more interesting and likely a surprise front-runner will come about. I'm saying this regardless of the GOP's chances as a whole for winning the 2016 election.

The tea party isn't large enough or able to appeal to a general base.

[QUOTE=Killer900;43530738]I don't think it was, most people I know just laugh it. [video=youtube;QaHQNSGlfTs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaHQNSGlfTs[/video][/QUOTE] new jersey; it's part of your dna

Maybe people in this state will finally see him for more of the slimeball he is. I'm really sick of all the praise he gets while he essentially shit on a large part of the state pre sandy