Chris Christie’s Foreign Trips Cost Taxpayers $120,000
Huff Post
AP | By By JILL COLVIN
Posted: 06/12/2015 6:55 pm EDT Updated: 06/12/2015 9:59 pm EDT
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s recent foreign trips to the United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada cost New Jersey taxpayers nearly $124,000, his office says.
For Christie, New Jersey Press Conferences Now a Rarity
4 New York
4/10/15
As he prepares for a potential presidential run, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been spending a lot of time in New Jersey, taking questions from residents at weekly town halls events.
Chris Christie’s weeklong train wreck
By ALEX ISENSTADT
2/6/15 7:10 PM EST
Chris Christie intended to use this week to present himself as a serious figure ready to lead the country at home and abroad.
Christie’s overseas travel funded by firms that do business with N.J.
January 31, 2015, 10:49 PM Last updated: Sunday, February 1, 2015, 9:38 AM
BY SHAWN BOBURG AND HUGH R. MORLEY
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
A non-profit organization created to promote business and job growth in New Jersey is funding Governor Christie’s trip to England this week with backing from some of the state’s largest public utilities, labor unions, law firms and contractors — some that have received multimillion-dollar contracts and tax breaks from the state.
Chris Christie’s London trip was a disaster
Business Insider
COLIN CAMPBELL, PAMELA ENGEL AND HUNTER WALKER
FEB. 3, 2015, 12:36 PM
LONDON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) wrapped up a three-day trade mission to London on Tuesday that was widely seen as an effort to build his stature as a national figure and potential 2016 presidential candidate. But the trip was marred by confused locals, canceled press availabilities, and bad headlines that left the governor’s brand battered and bruised.
Chris Christie’s Chances Are Overrated
FiveThirtyEight
6:15 AMJan 7 By Nate Silver
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as the second most likely Republican presidential nominee after Rand Paul. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato lists Christie as one of the top four candidates, along with Paul, Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. And the betting market BetFair had Christie as the fourth most likely as of midmorning Tuesday.
Chris Christie Dodges Press In UK, Raising Questions About Handling 2016 Media Spotlight
Michael Calderone
Huffington Post
Posted: 02/04/2015 12:51 pm EST Updated: 02/04/2015 12:59 pm EST
NEW YORK — One of the easiest ways to get bad press is to ignore the press. That’s especially true on a foreign trip where news organizations have spent thousands of dollars to send reporters thousands of miles away in search of something newsworthy.
Christie Roams, and Popularity Suffers at
Home
By KATE ZERNIKE DEC. 27, 2014
When the Chris Christie-for-president chatter first started, in 2011, voters in his home state of New Jersey
took pride in having a celebrity governor. As Nancy Reagan escorted Mr. Christie to his speech at her
husband’s presidential library, and hedge fund billionaires, The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street
Journal’s editorial pages urged him to run, his approval ratings jumped. Voters told pollsters the national
attention made him more effective, and improved their state’s long-maligned image.