of a once a week column for a penny saver newspaper, in which you are the most junior member, or one of the most junior members, that is a hard admission to kick off your did for if you can t handle being a senator without screwing up like this, why should you get the really big job? and so the day goes to governor chris christie of new jersey, re-elected by a state that clearly does not agree with him on some major policy issues. rival for the 2016 job that he wants way more than the job he just got tonight.
conservative, mild mannered republican. as an adult grad student. bob mcdonald wrote a thesis at pat robertson s university, it should be used to punish homosexuals, co-hab dhabitcohab fornicators. part of his legacy is he leaves the governorship. the raft of anti-abortion trap regulations that started shutting down clinics across that state. even before that though, virginia republicans under bob mcdonald moved to force unwanted and medically unnecessary ultrasound exams on any woman who fried tried to get an abort the state. remember the bob mcdonald commemorative vaginal probes. if you can read this your government is too close. small government. this violation courtesy of the
is. but fundamentally, i m not going to be changing who i am. you know, i think the verdict from last night is that at least in new jersey people like who i am and like the way i govern. so i m going to just continue to be that way. i have no responsibilities other than the responsibilities i have in this state. to the extent that anybody, as i implied last night, can draw from. i m willing to talk about it. as to the fundamental part of your question, no, i don t see myself changing any time soon. that s why i used that line to end the speech last night about what my mother used to tell me as a kid. you know, be yourself and you don t have to worry tomorrow to try and remember who you pretended to be yesterday. that s what my mom used to tell me and my younger brother and younger sister. she drilled it into us for years. this is me. some people s cup of tea, maybe not. that ll be for other people to decide. right now the only people i have to worry about pleasing are the
this is a very close race, the governor s race, there s a lot of republicans who sat on their hands and didn t give the muffin they normally would have given, ken cuccinelli would have had more money, would he have been more competitive? a lot of republicans believe, it doesn t matter because northern virginia is the blue part of the state. it s blue only by default these days, it s more this is where swing voters are, they ve just been swinging in the same direction for the last few cycles. whenever the race gets nationalized, bob mcdonald, the republican governor that s outgoing, he didn t do that. he made it best to not nationalize the race, so he did better than most republicans do in northern virginia and that s essentially when you look at what happened in virginia this year and what may happen, what we re seeing in northern virginia, you can chalk it up to that, i think, the nationalizing
he has been amazing since the moment he became governor. he ordered the taking down of a mural off the state department of labor saying he disagreed with the political implications of the artwork. that led some people in maine to put the mural back up by projecting it on the outside of the state house. last month during the federal government shutdown he declared a state of emergency in maine that gave him new and unspecified powers that he had never had before. the governor kept the state of emergency going for two days after the shutdown ended, until democrats pointed out, that, hey, you know what, big guy, maybe the jig is up. he made headlines for saying nearly half the able-bodied people in maine do not work. he said 47%.