New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may be coming to a state near you. As the Governor continues his tour around the country, laying the groundwork for his next career move in states like Iowa, Michigan and more, we in New Jersey will be living with the Consequences of Christie.

Here on this page, we will keep track of the legacy of Chris Christie as he panders to the right wing of his party for future personal political gain.

Christie's budget settles scores, doesn't share sacrifice

• NJ 101.5: Mayors angry and worried over Christie's budget cuts.
• The Record: UEZs face future without state funds.
• Star Ledger: Spending wasn’t the only thing Gov. Chris Christie slashed last week. With a handful of vetoes he stripped the Legislature of its formal oversight powers regarding a number of programs while easing restrictions on his own office and the agencies run by his cabinet.
• Philadelphia Inquirer: New Jersey's struggling municipalities are out $139 million in state aid that was promised — and in some cases awarded — before Gov. Chris Christie vetoed the appropriation in this year's budget.
• Express Times Opinion: Christie’s line-item scalpel will have consequences. He excised large sums from programs for the impoverished, people with disabilities, abused children, and college students seeking financial aid. One cut, axing $240 million for municipalities, will make it tough for many towns to maintain services without raising property taxes.
• NJ Spotlight: Seven words that pack a punch: "This item is deleted in its entirety." It was among the most-used lines in the governor's handiwork, and the results ranged from cutting a $537,000 grant to the Wynona M. Lipman Child Advocacy Center to the $50 million that had been proposed for public-safety grants to high-crime cities.
• Atlantic City Examiner: Governor Christie targets the working poor while protecting millionaires in NJ - "Notice how many cuts are made against women, children, and the elderly"
• Asbury Park Press: Christie’s series of line-item vetoes hit social programs and aid for low- and middle-income communities the hardest. They even included orphans-and-widow items, such as a treatment center for abused kids.
• New jersey Future: After being restored to the budget that was passed by the Legislature last week, funding for the Department of Transportation’s Transit Village program was removed from the FY 2012 spending plan signed by Governor Chris Christie on June 30.
• New Jersey Newsroom: What it comes down to is that the governor acted in angry adolescent and not as a rational leader making measured reductions to the budget.
• Asbury Park Press Editorial: So Much For Shared Sacrifice - Christie's budget "will inflict more needless pain on many of those who can least afford it"
• Star Ledger Editorial: "At least this time, the governor spared us the blather about shared sacrifice. He will no doubt consider it class warfare to point out the obvious, that he favors the rich at every turn and seems to go out of his way to pound on the working poor."
• Forbes: Christie cut three-quarters of the budget for an Essex County center for abused children whose chairwoman is an attorney for the Public Defender who scrapped with the governor before leaving office.
• Star Ledger Editorial: Gov. Chris Christie's budgets cuts to legal aid will hurt the poor - "Our democracy promises access to equal justice. But without the funding to back that up, it’s justice based on your bank account."
• The Hall Institute: Christie's war on the poor.
  

Christie the Bully

Christie called Speaker Oliver a liar

• Gov. Chris Christie to Speaker Sheila Oliver: You lie!
  

Christie called Fomer Education Commissioner Bret Schundler a liar and Schundler said Christie defamed him

• Fired Education Commissioner Bret Schundler said he is not a liar and took a shot at Gov. Chris Christie, who he said "defamed" him "for something he knows I did not do."

Chrisite said take the bat out on Senator Weinberg

• “I mean, can you guys please take the bat out on her for once?” Christie said to a crowd of reporters at a State House news conference.

Christie called Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle a jerk

• “She should really be embarrassed for what a jerk she is to say something like that,” Christie told reporters in Denville.

Christie called Watson Coleman a murderer

• “Assemblywoman Watson Coleman reneged on the program,” he said. “She didn’t do what she said she would do and now Eric Thomas is dead.”

Christie went after columnist Tom Moran “thinnest skinned reporter”

• Christie called Moran thin skinned for asking about Christie’s confrontational tone

Christie went after a questioner at event in California for Meg Whitman

• "You want to yell? Yell at me, but don't give her a hard time," Christie said into his microphone. But Christie didn't stop there: "It's people who raise their voices and yell and scream like you that are dividing this country," he said. "We're here to bring this country together, not divide it."

Christie told a female questioner “None of your business”

• Gov. Chris Christie, responding to a voter question about cuts in school funding, retorted with a blunt "none of your business."

Christie pulled questioner on stage, then had state police escort off

• Keith Chaudruc, of Madison, asked the governor how he could sign off on a tax cut for the rich while lunch-pail stiffs were hit with painful increases like transit fare hikes. After some give and take, Christie invited Chaudruc to the stage for “a conversation.” When Christie finished, Chaudruc motioned for the microphone. This was, after all, a “conversation.” Christie shooed him away and a trooper herded Chaudruc off stage.
  
  

Hey Gov. Christie, What is it with Women?

• The following programs have been cut or reduced in funding under Christie:

Adult Education Domestic Violence Prevention Funding Family Planning Services Hispanic Women's Resource Centers Job Training Center for Urban Women Act Maternal & Child Health Services Postpartum Screening School Breakfast Program

Early Childhood Intervention Homeless Prevention Initiative Legal Services of New Jersey New Jersey After 3 Office on the Prevention of Violence Against Women Postpartum Education Screening Work First New Jersey – “Breaking the Cycle” Work First New Jersey – “Child Care Funding”

• Check out this video that asks the question, Hey Gov. Christie, what is it with women?

 

What is Christie Hiding?

• Despite the fact that as a candidate he said he would release emails if in this type of situation, Christie has said that he counts the Chairman of Fox News as a “confidential advisor” and that the administration would not release email communications between them. Following the filing of a lawsuit by the ACLU, the Christie administration produced a calendar listing showing a dinner between Christie and Ailes.
  
  
• The Asbury Park Press filed a request under OPRA to both the governor's office and the state Department of Education for copies of all correspondence regarding the firing of former Education Commissioner Bret Schundler. They were told summer vacation made the administration unable to produce the records and no date was given for completion of that review.
  
  
• After a two week extension from the standard OPRA waiting period, Senator Loretta Weinberg was given a Xerox of a newspaper article in response to her request regarding funding for women’s health.
  
  
• Senator Buono filed a request for all documents related to New Jersey's 2010 application to the Race to the Top funding. She granted one request for an extension and denied a second request made just two days after granting the first one.
  
  
• Christie said his Hanson Gaming Commission was not subject to the scope and scrutiny of the Public Record (OPRA) and they have no records of what went on, though published reports show people were contacting the Governor’s office to arrange communications and meetings.
  
  
• Even after he just took office, Christie’s transition team issued a report questioning the extent to which the Open Public Records Act applies to the Governor's Office in light of the exceptions found in the statute as well as judicially-recognized privileges, including executive privilege, the deliberative-process privilege and the attorney-client privilege.
  
  
• Christie quietly issued an executive order that said N.J. officials are not forced to disclose more info on assets.