@ALL NOT STUCK ON PLANET STUPID, HAS HURRICANE SANDY SHOWN THINGS/ ANYTHING THAT HAS AUTOMATICALLY INSULTER YO (527 hits)
INTELLAGANCE AT A-L-L...example, THE REORT THAT THOSE 2 NUCLEAR PLANTS IN N.J. A'RE SAFE' HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN SO NOT TO WORRY...THE VERY PLANTS THAT WERE REPORTING A SHAVE BEEN LEAKING NUCLEAR WASTE DURING THE JAPAN MELT DOWN, STILL LEAKING AND...THE IT IS SAFE IS STILL BEING ACCEPTED!!!!!
ONLY IN AMERICA AND AGAIN ONLY DUE TO THAT O-N-E EVERYONE GETS EVERY 2-4 YEARS FOR THESE THINGS TO CONTINUE! (N....U...P)
25 DEAD AND 20 BILLION IN DAMAGE did you hear t Gov. Chris Christie of N.J. say he dont care about votes HE PRAISED Obama FOR PUTTING FEMA IN PLACE
while BUSH old ass people tryed to criticize Obama for bringing out fema to soon !
Wednesday, October 31st 2012 at 12:54AM
DAVID JOHNSON
The mayor of Atlantic City, N.J. said Tuesday he’d like to go “mano-a-mano” with Gov. Chris Christie after Christie publicly criticized him over the city’s preparations for Hurricane Sandy.
Mayor Lorenzo Langford said on NBC’s “Today” that Christie was “either misinformed and ill-advised or simply decided to prevaricate” when he accused him the day before of sending mixed messages to residents by opening shelters in the city despite Christie’s orders to fully evacuate. Atlantic City was hammered by the storm.
“That is not what happened,” said Langford. “Here we are in the throes of a major catastrophe and the governor has chosen such a time as this to play politics. I think it’s reprehensible that he would stoop to the level to try to make a political situation out of something that is so serious as this situation.”
Repeating that Christie’s statement was “absolutely false,” Langford said most residents fortunately did heed the repeated warnings to flee, but “it’s better to have options” for the people who didn’t.
“We had a contingency plan in place,” he said.
NBC’s Matt Lauer said they would try to arrange a time to get both Langford and Christie on the air together at the same time.
“I would love nothing better than that, than to confront the governor mano-a-mano,” Langford said.
Wednesday, October 31st 2012 at 2:27AM
DAVID JOHNSON
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s extraordinary public shaming of Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford over superstorm Sandy preparations this week shoved into the national spotlight a longstanding feud that has potential implications for Christie’s 2013 reelection and beyond. To outsiders, Christie’s Sandy slam of Langford on Monday during his nationally televised news conference looked like spur-of-the-moment storm politics, an emotional and blunt outburst from a politician known for them.
Yet Garden State newspapers have been filled with remarkably toxic remarks between Republican Christie and Democrat Langford for years, and some critics charge Christie’s attack was yet another example of his disdain for the state’s minority leaders and their localities. “This is a signal that Chris Christie has given up on the urban African-American constituency in the state,” said political science professor Brigid Harrison of Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, N.J. “The only real political fallout electorally will be in 2013. Last time around, Gov. Christie seemed to be making serious inroads in the state’s urban areas. They are not going to vote for Christie this time.” Nobody in Christie’s office returned calls or emails seeking comment on Tuesday. He told reporters who asked him at disaster-site appearances he would not discuss the feud. Christie didn’t hold back on Monday, though. Although he never used the mayor’s name, the governor attacked Langford for having opened shelters in precarious locations and giving residents “comfort for some reason to stay” in the city as Sandy approached. “So for those of you who are on the barrier islands who decided it was better idea to wait this out than to evacuate, and for those elected officials who decided to ignore my admonition, this is now your responsibility,” the governor said. “We will not be able to come and help you until daylight tomorrow.” The National Guard later evacuated those in the imperiled shelters, and there were no casualties associated with Langford’s management of the storm. By Tuesday, Langford was barreling back at Christie, challenging him on NBC’s “Today” show to a televised faceoff and insisting the governor was either lying or misinformed. In an interview with POLITICO, Langford said he held two news conferences over the weekend attended by Christie’s liaison in which he urged residents to evacuate.
The broader issue, Langford and others say, is that Christie’s outburst was typical of how he treats and views minority mayors of distressed urban areas and their decisions. Governors in New Jersey have extraordinary power over municipal governments; they can override budgets and reallocate funds, authority that Langford and others say has been misused — particularly as it pertains to Atlantic City. “It’s a continuation of disrespect,” NAACP of New Jersey president James Harris said. “This governor is perceived by most people in the minority communities as a vindictive, arrogant person. Most mayors dare not criticize the governor because he’s likely to be more harsh. Lorenzo Langford is not the type of person who will bite his tongue.” Langford’s resort mecca has had a rough decade or so, with little new casino development and deteriorating visitation and profits as legal gaming expands across New England. Christie called the town a “dying city” in 2010 and, by early 2011, had pushed through legislation that created a special tourism corridor. State funding was shunted to that area — including increased police patrols and development incentives — and away from the mostly black neighborhoods. New Jersey black leaders noted that the borders of the tourism district mirrored the boundaries of Atlantic City prior to desegregation in 1957. Christie defended the decision as necessary to help renew blighted casino areas that are city’s economic engine. “The city has been bifurcated,” Langford said. “I liken what happened in here to the South African system of apartheid. It is one where the people are subjugated.” New Jersey Republican Party spokesman Douglass Mayer declined to offer a defense of the state party’s de facto leader, insisting the feud is “not a political issue” and referring calls to Christie’s office. But Sherine El-Abd, an Egyptian-born Muslim who is president of the New Jersey Federation of Republican Women, came to Christie’s defense. One of the state’s 50 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa this year, she disputed the notion of Christie as a brute or as rude to leaders of minority groups. Christie, she noted, was gracious and complimentary of President Barack Obama’s handling of Sandy.
“What I know is so different than that,” she said. “Nobody has been kinder to me personally, and I am not any special interest. I don’t write big checks, I very rarely write even small checks. He is just very interested in engaging people in the various communities.” Yet, Harrison said Christie’s relationship with urban minorities is different than his relationship with minorities in well-to-do areas like Clifton, where El-Abd lives. Continue Reading Text Size -+reset Christie’s attack over Sandy “is really indicative of his leadership style, and there are enormous racial overtones to this,” she said. “Even if he disagreed with the mayor, wouldn’t the thing to do be to pick up the phone and say, ‘Look, Lorenzo, this isn’t how we go about doing this’?” Asbury Park Press columnist Bob Ingle, who has written a biography of Christie, disagreed. He pointed to the governor’s solid working relationships with Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Camden Mayor Dana Redd, both of whom are black, and the fact that some black mayors endorsed Christie’s 2 percent property tax cap. His stridency over Langford’s decisions on Sandy, Ingle said, wasn’t about race but about his alarm over people being in harm’s way. “When people go against what seems to be logical, Christie usually notices and he is outspoken,” Ingle said, author of “Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise To Power,” published in June. Still, he acknowledged, “It did surprise me that he came out as strongly as he did considering all the other things happening.” Black leaders say it’s difficult to ignore the longstanding racial elements because the governor has not tried to foster much of a relationship with most of the state’s urban mayors. Harris said Christie hasn’t even responded to several invitations to address the NAACP and hasn’t held any of his many town hall forums in inner-city locations. Patterson Mayor Jeff Jones, who is black, said he’s never met the governor aside from one time when “he was on his way to the john and I was coming out.” He has, however, felt Christie’s wrath: The governor’s office has accused Jones of being reckless with city money for using $12,000 to buy candy for a Halloween event aimed at promoting recycling. “There’s the sense that defiance of this governor’s words will not be tolerated,” Jones said. “Does Mayor Langford need to be lambasted publicly or ridiculed? He wasn’t given a chance, and now it seems the situation was different than the governor said. But there will be no apology, I can tell you that.” Any which way, the Sandy moment seems destined to go down as an opening salvo in the next year’s gubernatorial race. Attacking a black mayor while his city is drowning could be seen by the public as a particularly callous act of bullying, Harrison said. That, Langford vowed, will be the long-term impact of this episode. The 56-year-old mayor, an Atlantic City native who has been a city council member or mayor for all but three years since 1992, expects to win reelection easily. “After next year, we won’t have to worry about the governor,” Langford said. “I do not expect the governor to be victorious should he seek to be reelected. But I will be.”
mE, "i" AM just dying to hear the big bully governor's reply to the comment about his spreading lies about Alantic City, N.J...
by Alanic City's Black mayor according to the mayor there...
BALL IS IN YOUR COURT GOVERNOR CHRISTY LETS SEE YOU RUN WITH IT (OTFL)(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
Thanks so much for these vital links Lov...
And, fo rme it is just too much to see governor Christy using all of his speaking powers to get Romney to loose in 1012 so he can run himsefl in 2016 is now out there .KISSING OUR PRESI. F##T AND A** SO HE CAN HAVE HIS DEMANDS FOR SMALLER GOVERNMENT COME INTO HIS STATE AND SAVE HIS STATES' AZZ...
THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME AND SINCE WE DON'T EITHER WE JUST MAY END OF WITH A GOVERNOR ROMNEY...
AND, WHY I CAN SAY THIS AS A FULL CRUEL JOKE ON AMERICA IS BECAUSE CHINA IS IN SUCH BIG TROUBLE UNTIL THEY MAY DECLARE WAR ON US IF WE SEND THEM ONE MORE JOB...
I WAS READING THE OTHER DAY THE TROUBLE CHINA IS IN BECAUSE TOSE ROMENY USED TAX LOOP HOLES HAVE BEEN USED BY THE CHINESE AND IS LEAVING THEM AMONGE OTHER THINGS $ZILLIONS IN TH EECONOMIC HOLD...REMIND YOU OF ANY THING...
i WILL FIND TIS NEWS ARTICLE FOR YOU FROM A FEW DAYS AGO. (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
