Gov. Chris Christie says public outcry over his decision to lounge with his family on a public beach that was closed during New Jersey’s government shutdown “upset his children more than anything else” since he’s been in office.
The two-term Republican governor made the comments Thursday night during his regular radio call-in show on 101.5 FM.
Christie was photographed over the Fourth of July weekend by NJ.com at Island Beach State Park, where the state provides a summer home to the governor. Christie ordered the shutdown of nonessential state government, including state beaches and parks, amid a budget impasse.
He said during Thursday’s radio show that his family was hurt by the backlash and “they don’t understand people’s unfairness and, quite frankly, their ignorance.”
(AP)
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I don’t understand Christie’s unfairness and ignorance. New Jersey’s public beaches are closed, and he thinks he and his family can lounge on an otherwise unoccupied public beach? And how old are his children? I thought they were young adults, or at least older adolescents. For his children’s benefit, he should have thought about public reaction to his lounging on closed public beaches on a holiday before he got out the beach chairs.
When he was first elected, I thought Christie was anything but stupid. But after Bridgegate, and Beachgate, and his support of Trump, maybe I’m the one that’s stupid.
O please he’s the governor he has a right to that beach. What do you expect from him? He’s not a tzadik he’s a goy. I have no problem with it. The media making a big deal over nothing