Residents of New Jersey’s southern shorefront towns on Monday cleaned up homes and businesses flooded by a storm surge during the weekend’s massive blizzard and rued what they described as Governor Chris Christie’s dismissive treatment of the damage.
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And before the afternoon was out, Christie indeed made a decision to return to New Jersey to personally oversee the state’s response to the storm.
His wife, Mary Pat Christie, stayed in New Hampshire to fill in for him at campaign events.
As heavy, relentless snow, coastal flooding and scattered power outages brought the state to an icy standstill Saturday, Governor Christie asked New Jersey residents to keep calm, stay warm and avoid the roadways.
“I think, we’ve gone through this rodeo a bunch of times before”. The back-to-back polls are sure to be a blow to the Christie campaign, which has dedicated much time and resources to the early voting state, which has its primary less than three weeks away.
Sandy was directly responsible for 147 deaths in the United States, destroying more than 650,000 homes around the greater NY area and causing almost $50 billion in damage. “We’re focused on assessing damage, getting people back to their homes”.
In an interview, Wirths declined to say whether transportation or the pension case could be a drag on the state’s economy, but credited Christie’s policies with helping create favorable conditions in the labor market. He’d returned to New Hampshire in time for a 12:30 Sunday appearance.
“The unfortunate thing is that we never got any heads up from the federal government on this and never got a call from Secretary Castro”, Christie said.
“We chose to pull an audible and put me in charge of a couple of the meet-and-greets”, New Jersey’s first lady told ABC News on Friday night in Lebanon, New Hampshire after her first day campaigning in her husband’s place. “What do you say to those critics who say, ‘Why did you go back up to New Hampshire so quickly?'” Huffington Post politics editor Sam Stein asked Christie on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” as footage showing flooding in Stone Harbor on Saturday.
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New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential kitten-hanging-from-a-branch motivational poster Chris Christie took a beating on Sunday morning at the hands of CNN’s Jake Tapper.
