New Jerseyans, it seems, positively hate the job he’s doing for the state.
On Sunday, our @issue section featured our own annual gubernatorial report card on Christie, as well as the results of a reader survey conducted by the Asbury Park Press, our sister paper, as well as this newspaper. He received little more than Cs and Ds from us on a variety of issues, and he flunked in a few areas for 2015, when he has essentially checked out to run for President.
But from the readers’ perspective, we were generous. More than 1,300 people responded and they found Christie to be a failure across the board, the majority giving him Fs in every policy area. It is a remarkably negative assessment that also reflects recent polling that shows Christie’s approval rates in the state at all-time lows. [snip]
He’s been a disaster on the environment. He took the easy way selling out to ExxonMobil on a pollution settlement, and bowing to corporate powers on pipeline proposals. He’s done nothing about transportation funding and has been embarrassingly weak on gun control. On education he has been far too focused on criticizing public schools that consistently rank as among the best in the nation. [snip]
Christie is trying to convince a national audience that he’s the right man to lead the country and become one of the most powerful people in the world. Yet his own home state mostly hates his performance as governor. There’s no way to turn that reality into a point in his favor. (our emphasis)Another of the Serious- Pundit- deemed "deep bench" of "qualified and talented" Republican
(Photo: "'Wide Load' -- haha, I get it! Hey, that's a nice bridge you got there; shame if anything happened to it.")
