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Chris Christie Fires Back At Rudy Giuliani's Snow Criticism
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 12, 2011
Modified Jan 12, 2011
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NJ Governor Chris Christie has gotten some flak for going to Disney World while his lieutenant governor was also on vacation in Mexico during the blizzard. See, the whole point of having a lieutenant governor is basically so the control of the state reminds in the hand of the governor's office, but Christie pointed out that A) he promised his kids they'd go see Mickey Mouse, B) his LG's cancer-stricken dad planned this trip, and C) the state did fine. Still, that wasn't good enough for former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said that Christie should have come back from Orlando. Uh-oh, trouble in GOP paradise!
Last week, Giuliani said on Morning Joe, where he also slammed Mayor Bloomberg's snow responsive-ness, "Chris should've come back. I mean, if he asked me my advice, I would've said 'They elected you governor, they've got an emergency, they expect you to be there.' You know, you've got to be there if you're a governor, a mayor, or even a president, if it's important enough." Well, Rudy, Christie's not asking your advice—and the big man went off on the Mayor of 9/11-ville on Fox and Friends:
“He’s wrong. I mean, he’s wrong. It’s easy when you are out of office to be shooting from the peanut gallery when you no longer have any responsibility, but I have a responsibility to my family. I would have never gone on the trip if we didn’t have a plan in place to be able to clear the snow. And unlike what you saw in New York City, you didn’t hear about those complaints in New Jersey. Substance is what matters. I’m just going to chock it up to a bad morning for the mayor. Maybe he didn’t have a good breakfast or something like that. My point is what matters are results. And what the people of New Jersey voted for me for was not to be on the back of a snow plow. They voted for me to get the job done. And, we got the job done.”
“I have great respect for Mayor Giuliani and maybe no bran that morning - I don’t know what the situation was, so we’ll just let it go. We worked extraordinarily hard. It was a big storm but we had a plan. And that’s what people hire an executive for, not to showboat, but to have a plan.”
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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