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Chris Christie’s $400 Haircut

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Cross-posted locally.

Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field, a noise from above distracted the spectators as the 55-foot long helicopter buzzed over trees in left field, circled the outfield and landed in an adjacent football field. Christie disembarked from the helicopter and got into a black car with tinted windows that drove him about a 100 yards to the baseball field.

What a dedicated Dad. For four innings.

During the 5th inning, Christie and First Lady Mary Pat Christie got into the car, rode back to the helicopter and left the game. During a pitching change, play was stopped for a couple of minutes while the helicopter took off.

The game was being held at St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale in Bergen County. Christie watched the game from the stands, flanked by State Police security guards.

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As a reminder, Jane Swift got in big trouble (political trouble anyway) for using a helicopter to go home and babysit her infant twins.

Say goodbye to your VP slot, Gov. Christie, if the press pays attention to this.

 

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  2. but driving autos/SUVs on ball fields isn’t good for the surface of the fields. Christi isn’t exactly filled with helium either.

  3. Just sayin!

    Throwing caution to the political wind, Gov. Deval Patrick is hopping state police helicopters for beat-the-traffic trips, and aides say he’ll keep using the taxpayer-funded chopper chauffeur despite his predecessor Jane Swift’s public slapdown for similar flights.

    “The state police helicopter is there for his use when he needs it for official business,” said Patrick spokeswoman Cyndi Roy.

    “The governor during the campaign pledged to be governor of the entire state,” she added. “He’s not going to be a governor who sits in his office on Beacon Hill.”

    Patrick used the State Police Air Wing on Jan. 17 after touring the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. The governor, who had been in office only two weeks, had the chopper fly him from North Adams to Boston so he could attend swearing-in ceremonies for Auditor Joseph DeNucci and Treasurer Tim Cahill.

    I wonder how the helicopter got to North Adams.

    http://coupedeval.com/air.htm

  4. Just like you are never not the President, you are never not the Governor. Would not the Obamas use a combination of Air Force One/Marine One even for private vacations? Has the President driven his personal vehicle at all since January 2009? Being chauffered on the ground for 100 yards did seem a bit much.

    • Tha analogy doesn’t work. Governors are understood to have some down time. The president has none.

      • I never saw the taking the T to work thing as that much of a virtue. Did he ever travel beyond west of the Riverside station? What did he do then?

        • NOT a helicopter.

          And riding the T WAS a virtue, politically, because he was practicing what he preached. And if you don’t think it was a big deal, ride the Green Line for a few months.

  6. Spoken as a “big guy” myself, Christie is somebody for whom a 100-yard walk could only do good.

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