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Favors, today was also the day that senator rand paul decided to melt down to the new york times. potentially clear out of the way governor cristie s highest profile competitors for that 2016 nomination. after a week of plagerism paul he told them he will change the way he handless speeches in publications. quote, if will make people leave me the hell alone. whoa, easy, tiger. the senator who the times described today as, quote, drawn and clearly shaken by the plagerism charges, said that his office had made mistakes, then there was the senator s explanation for why this whole plagerism thing has happened. and this may in fact be the real explanation, but this is the kind of explanation that the senator is going to have a really, really hard time ever living down, if he ever does ....
Common wealth of virginia. #. all right, joining me now is nbc news correspondent kelley o donnell who s live at the chris christie campaign headquarters in new jersey. i m going to go out on a limb and say it s a fairly buoyant mood at the christie camp at this hour. there s a real chill in the air, the ocean is just off to my left, and off to my right, there s sort of ten areas, like the ball dropping down on new year s eve. we expect governor cristie to address the crowd here probably in the next couple of hours. i was on the campaign trail with him, when he did a barn storming bus tour, 46 stops in one week. he addressed a lot of the issues and one of the things that he was really shooting for tonight was not only to be re-elected, and he had been way ahead of the democrat barbara buono for a ....
Of about with 22% of the vote in, this is the vote right now on new jersey s question two on whether or not the state should rage the minimum wage to $8.25. chris christie had vetoed that measure. this essentially, question two is essentially the state taking the opportunity to overrule the governor on this issue as well. we ll be keeping an eye on those results. despite being out of step with his state on some big policy issues and despite governor cristie saying he might not serve out his second term in office that new jersey just selected him too, the state picked him overwhelmingly anyway. so, yes, new jersey you may think you have just voted for christie for government . and because governor christie apparently has an angel in heaven somewhere who owes him ....
Before today, the big vote in illinois, the last state to okay marriage equality was new jersey just a couple of weeks ago. the state legislature in new jersey had okayed marriage equality but governor chris christie vetoed the law. when the courts overruled governor cristie and said marriages can go ahead in that state, governor christie appealed that ruling. then after the state supreme court weighed in against the governor again, governor christie eventually gave in and let same-sex marriages go ahead. governor crihris christie was re-elected as governor. new jersey voters also did not by and large agree with him on his veto on raising the minute muj wage either. the state right now in terms ....
That of course was a snippet from those fay nice new jersey tourism ads to encourage people to come visit and spend money there. here s something you might not know about the stronger than the storm ad campaign. new york times outlining some jersey storm victims complaints. quote, they accused him of using the storm for his owning a grand diesment. a television ad did not plan to show the governor in its commercials. joining me now to provide some perspective on chris christie s ad you ll only hear in new jersey. which has sued governor cristie over sandy aid. congressman, i ll begin with you, has governor christie done a good job? ....