The following is via WABC:

A Hudson County attorney has filed a complaint against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie following his day at the beach over the Fourth of July weekend.

The West New York attorney says that under state ethics standards, no person of the executive branch can obtain a “special benefit” as a result of their position.

The complaint was filed with the State Ethics Commission, asking for the governor to face fines.

It comes after Gov. Christie and his family took a trip to one of the state’s beaches that was shut down to the public because of the state government shutdown.

Christie was lambasted as selfish and arrogant, and jokesters online inserted the picture of him in sandals, shorts and a T-shirt into various photos and movie and TV scenes.

“Tell Gov. Christie: Get the hell off Island Beach State Park,” read a banner carried by a plane flying up and down the New Jersey coast Monday.

The banner plane was paid for by Joshua Henne, a progressive New Jersey-based political consultant, and mocked the time the tough-talking governor told people to “get the hell off the beach” during a hurricane in 2011.

New Jersey state beaches and parks were shut down over the weekend along with motor vehicle offices and other services deemed nonessential after Christie and the Democratic-controlled Legislature failed to agree on a budget for the new fiscal year that began Saturday.

Christie defended his visit to the shore, saying that he had previously announced his plans to vacation at the state-owned governor’s beach house and that the media had simply “caught a politician keeping his word.”

“That’s the way it goes,” Christie said Saturday about his family’s use of the beach house. “Run for governor, and you can have the residence.”

Later, after he was photographed on the beach, he sarcastically called it a “great bit of journalism.”

Christie’s picture was snapped from a plane Sunday by NJ.com at Island Beach State Park, where he and his family had the sun and sand to themselves.

(Source: WABC)