Chris Christie will never be president.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Non sequitur. The people who will select the Republican nominee for President do not think state or local governments ought to be able to issue debt at all.
Thanks for your comment, but I don’t think your argument holds together:
1 – Virtually every governor who runs for president runs on the claim that s/he balanced X number of budgets in a row. Christie will be able to do the same.
2 – Even before the Iowa caucuses, the “hidden” primary of winning support from key party actors goes on. That’s where Christie’s bad bond ratings (and his various corruption scandals) will hurt him most.
Christie VP would be be like Agnew 2.0.
Indictment/resignation scheduled for October 2021? That means a lot of years left in which the left has to kick this blustering crook around and suffer his bullying as he serves for a GOP POTUS.
I’m hoping that indictment/resignation comes sooner. Like before October 2015.
Speaking of indictments, News from Walkerstan (via uppitywis.com):
In a brief filed today in the Seventh Circiut Court of Appeals, prosecutors directly say that the John Doe investigation is into “a candidate” that illegally coordinated to “circumvent state contribution limits and reporting requirements”:
Specifically, the John Doe Proceedings were commenced to focus on coordinated expenditures–in the form of coordinated issue advocacy–that were secretly coordinated between a candidate, the candidate’s campaign committee and the candidate’s agents and various outside groups, including 501(c)(4) organizations, in order to circumvent state contribution limits and reporting requirements.
Later the brief says “five different district attorneys and the John Doe Judge found a reasonable belief that a crime (i.e., secret coordinated issue advocacy) occurred.”
Here’s the Brief http://www.scribd.com/doc/239101563/Chisolm-s-Brief-in-the-John-Doe-Case
Have to applaud those who continue to stay on top of WalkerCo criminal activities. It’s often like watching paint dry as it’s moved at less than a snail’s pace. Easy to forget that Watergate also unfolded very slowly. Over two years from the break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Although a lot more major stuff did seem to surface and happen during those two years than what’s been happening in WI. Wonder if that reflects a deterioration in the quality journalism and law enforcement or maybe Walker isn’t as nutso and his crimes are so much less numerous and serious than Nixon’s.
No Andrew Cuomo. No Chris Christie. Quite a good week altogether.
May Pence be added to that list soon.
This pattern of deferring payments for pensions is going to damage NJ in years to come, not that anyone here is in favor of it. IL is in terrible trouble, due to the same situation. Amazingly, it very much may get the current gov defeated in favor of a guy who will make things much, much worse. IL property taxes are terribly high – we were paying 7500/year on a property we sold for 240K. My mom had a house in the Chicago suburbs which is a very nice place. She had a senior reduction and was paying 16K/year on a place that she sold for 410K.
Rauner is going to reduce property taxes. This means reduced methods of handling debt. If the school system pension debt is returned to the localities, property taxes will increase. As it is, the system is carrying a huge load. This is the system also which has destroyed public sector unions. The pension system is not sustainable. I sure hope that teachers unions begin to think about it, and negotiate a replacement of 401K contributions. I have had this plan for all my employment, and have done very well with it.
NJ is heading down this road.
I have no clue what a left wing solution would be here.
In the case of Illinois, there are some interesting possibilities. Highly progressive state income taxes on individual and corporate income earned in the state. Investigation of corruption and recovery of ill-gotten gains. Raising the minimum wage to $20 per hour. Restoring provision of services to public employees working in public agencies with public employee union contracts. State royalties on all fossil fuels and minerals mined in the state. Pipeline transport tax. Tax surcharge on all income over $100 million.
And then roll back the deferments. Two generations of tax breaks for businesses and the rich mean that ordinary people take up the slack. Also might check to see if the current Secretary of State has some cash hidden under his bed.
Yeah, me neither. I do know that the property taxes were ridiculous. Plus the TIF mechanism was heavily used. In my old town of Belleville, IL, they gave WalMart a TIF to move from one location to another, and not pay property tax. Why the FUCK did the asshole mayor push that one? In another case, there was a HUGE apple orchard which made tons of money, and they got a TIF. I got news for you, Newsboy – an apple orchard does not pick up and offshore the apple trees. Nope, they are stuck right there, enjoying their 5 years of free no property tax. It fucking sucked. I NEVER went there again after that deal.
End the fucking TIF designations is my main suggestion.
I do not see any value in a $20 min wage. Min wage people do not pay property tax, since often they do not own property. What is the point with that one?
Property taxes for apartments are priced into the rent so it works at a remove.
If Rauner wins, he’s going to have to bow before Madigan just like all of Illinois’ governors have done.
Sadly Christie is only the latest governor in a long line from both parties over decades who have underfunded pension contributions.
They all do it because of the mandate to have a balanced budget (on paper), the unwillingness to pay full freight on taxes and the massive inequities in tax burdens and services between urban and suburban parts of the state
Oh, and some screwy ideas about how schools should be funded and enough statewide dysfunction that nobody wants to give up an inch of home rule
Speaking of pols who will never be President, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Palins of Wasila, Alaska.
My fav line is highlighted. If someone truly said it, I’d like to give them a prize.
Anybody else notice reporters seem to NEVER ask Grandpa McCain for comments on his VP pick? I mean he judged her good enough to be 2nd to power…maybe some enterprising reporter should ask him next time he opines on Obama’s judgement.
Anchorage PD: Palins Were `Present’ At 20-Person Brawl.
I was more interested in Bristol’s pugilism.
Trust that it was unintended, but in leading with a sentence on Bristol Palin having been stalked (and many of us haven’t heard/read about that) to cover the story of the Palins at and participating in a brawl, the writer of the excerpt was making light of the stalking. Don’t care who the victim of a stalker is, it’s nothing to make light of.
wrt the brawl, are we 100% positive that this is real and not a very well done hoax? If a hoax, liberals are going to have to get better at spotting and debunking before sending off to viral-land. If real, these people are going to put The Onion out of business.
“Anchorage police confirm Palin family involved in heated Saturday night brawl”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/11/anchorage-police-confirm-palin-family-involved-in-heated-satur
day-night-brawl/
Christie/Brownback 2016: the downgrade duo.