democratic state legislature to pay toward state pension obligations limiting the size of arbitration awards. come to think of it these are the things that dawn zimmer, the mayor of hoboken worked with him on. i was, i think, the first democrat to stand behind him on the 2% tax cut. i think it s done a lot for hoboken and for the state. health care refom, arbitration reform. definitely helped hoboken in our negotiations with the unions. it s made a difference. but the overall picture of the christie budgeting process has not been a pretty one. in late 2012 the bipartisan state budget task force labelled the way new jersey handles its books as structurally unbalanced. saying that it does so in a way that pushes difficult budget choices off to future years and is ultimately unsustainable. the port authority is a bigger part of that problem than anyone realizes, one of the many reasons governor christie can t afford to lose david samson as its chairman.