New Jersey Is Fed Up With Chris Christie and Is Introducing A Bill To Make Him Resign

New Jersey is fed up with Chris Christie, and Democrats are introducing legislation that will force him to resign if he wants to run for president.

According to NJ Advance Media via NJ.com:

State Sens. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) and Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), who are expected to co-sponsor the bill, said they are fed up with Christie’s frequent absences from New Jersey this year in the run-up to last week’s announcement that he’s running for the White House. The bill would require Christie and any future governor to resign in order to run for president.

“He’s not doing the state any good by spending the bulk of his time out of state,” Lesniak said. “And even when he’s in-state, he’s focusing on what he has to do to get elected president — which often runs contrary to what he ought to do for the state.”

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Christie has been out of state for more than a third of his second term and more than half of this year.

Chris Christie won reelection then promptly bolted from the state to start laying the groundwork for his presidential run. Christie has attempted to use his position as chairman of the Republican Governors Association as a platform for his 2016 bid.

Judging from his standing in the polls, the strategy has completely backfired. The latest Monmouth University poll revealed that 57% of New Jersey residents want Christie to resign.

Gov. Christie claims that the reason for this is that New Jersey voters don’t want him to abandon them, but as Sarah Jones correctly pointed out, “It’s not that they don’t want to lose Christie, either, contrary to what Christie believes. Only 5% said that’s why they don’t want Christie to run. It’s more that they really, really, really do not think he will be a good President. In fact, a majority would like the Republican governor to resign.”

The people of New Jersey want a governor who is going to do his job and govern. They have also been burned by Chris Christie and know that he would make a lousy president.

The Democrats who are proposing this legislation are carrying out the will of the majority. If Chris Christie wants to be president, he should have to give up his job as governor. In the real world, when people want to move to a new job, they give up their old one.

Running for president is a full-time job. Successful presidential candidates don’t campaign on a part-time basis. New Jersey is tired of Chris Christie getting paid for not doing his job. It isn’t too much to ask for the elected governor to actually be in the state that he is supposed to be governing.

The message is clear. If Chris Christie wants to run for president, he must step down as governor.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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