Gov.Christie Town Hall Thursday @ RVCC

[ogfarmer 138]

If anyone is in the area and wants to go ask questions, Chris Christie is having townhall meeting Thursday @ Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg

http://hillsborough....wn-hall-at-rvcc

Gov. Chris Christie will be holding a town hall meeting Thursday at the Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg.

The town hall meeting is open to the public and will be held in the physical education building of the college on Lamington Road.

Doors will open at 2:30 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 3:15 p.m.

Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis, though the meeting is open to the public.

Parking is available in lots 1, 2 and 3 at the college.

Click here to RSVP to attend the town hall meeting.

[SgtToadette 59]

I would definitely go if I wasn't working.

[CMJeepster 2,778]

The irony that it will be held in the phys ed building...

[ogfarmer 138]

OK folks now that the report is out, go tomorrow and ask questions let him know!

[SgtToadette 59]

OK folks now that the report is out, go tomorrow and ask questions let him know!

 

Is the report public?

[Vlad G 345]

 

Is the report public?

 

 

http://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases13/NJSAFE-REPORT-04.10.13-WEB.pdf

[JOdoubleE953 0]

Well this is rather convenient. I have an Ex-LEO criminal justice professor who is going to let me duck out of class early to attend.

 

Being that this is rather short notice and admittedly I only briefly glossed over the report, anyone have some good suggestions for questions to ask?

 

Should be interesting to see how he fields the questions in any event. He can be a pretty bold dude but I am not convinced he is ready to show us his cards yet.

[DngrZne 0]

Ask how since based on the rulings on voter IDs being unconstitutional they could try to make FID cards, which are already unconstitutional, up for renewal every 5 years.

[JrzyGuy30 0]

Is or did anyone go??

[Purple Patrick 638]

Well this is rather convenient. I have an Ex-LEO criminal justice professor who is going to let me duck out of class early to attend.

 

Being that this is rather short notice and admittedly I only briefly glossed over the report, anyone have some good suggestions for questions to ask?

 

Should be interesting to see how he fields the questions in any event. He can be a pretty bold dude but I am not convinced he is ready to show us his cards yet.

 

Ask him if he thinks 25 burgers is better then 5 guys(we all know it is)

 

 

Sent from my hidden under ground bunker between Taco Bell and the dry cleaner

[JOdoubleE953 0]

Ask him if he thinks 25 burgers is better then 5 guys(we all know it is)

 

 

Sent from my hidden under ground bunker between Taco Bell and the dry cleaner

 

Always love a good Christie fat joke

[Mike48 0]

Ask him if he thinks 25 burgers is better then 5 guys(we all know it is)

 

 

Sent from my hidden under ground bunker between Taco Bell and the dry cleaner

there is nothing better than 25 burger.....its in the grease

[JOdoubleE953 0]

Well that was an hour thirty of my life I will never get back. Useless

[SgtToadette 59]

Well that was an hour thirty of my life I will never get back. Useless

 

Care to elaborate?

[JOdoubleE953 0]

Care to elaborate?

 

Well first off, he shows up roughly 50 minutes late. Which is w.e but I was a little annoyed by this because I did skip a class to attend. Then he walks out and talks for about 20min before opening the floor up to questions. During his talk or speech or whatever you want to call it I was dumbfounded by the fact that he has nothing substantive to say. He spoke briefly about Sandy (which was nauseating btw; how much he was talking himself up for the way he handled it. Like he thinks hes some sort of hero) He then did his normal routine about how he's after the unions and how hes some cowboy who goes into the state legislator guns drawn making a positive impact. It blew my mind how well the crowd received everything he said.

 

The whole thing just felt like he was campaigning and it was all just so empty.

 

Oh and quick side note, not a single mention of firearms legislation or the NJ SAFE committee. I left after the first few questions. I raised my hand but lets be real in a crowd of 500 people and a limited time span, that wasn't happening

[Sht 3]

25 burgers is a better value hands down, but better quality?

[Bob2222 317]

http://warren.patch....blem-unions-are

 

Governor discusses middle-class reform agenda in town hall meeting at Raritan Valley Community College.

• By Linda Sadlouskos
  
• Email the author
  
• April 11, 2013
  

Gov. Chris Christie said there is an "extraordinary divide" between teachers and the unions that represent them during a stop Thursday at Raritan Valley Community College.

The governor, on the campaign trail seeking re-election, conducted his 105th town hall meeting to discuss what his staff billed as his middle-class reform agenda, including pension and benefits reform, private sector job growth and his take on teachers' unions.

 

Alexa Offenhauer, a part-time English professor at RVCC, said she had entered teaching with the understanding that her pay would be lower, but that the trade-off would be job security and good benefits.

 

Offenhauer asked the governor when rhetoric had changed to make "teachers part of the problem."

 

'Unions are the problem'

 

"I don't think teachers are the problem. I think unions are the problem," Christie said in a response that drew applause from the audience in one of the state's Republican strongholds.

 

He said he believes there can be an "extraordinary divide" between the attitude of teachers and their unions. He said he was told by one teacher that her local educators' union insisted she remove a photograph she had placed in her classroom of herself taken with the governor.

 

Offenhauer responded that the unions represent the teachers.

 

As attendees were walking into the Town Hall meeting, staff from the college handed out leaflets detailing that community and county colleges had initially been set up with a formula of two-thirds public funding with students to pick up the last third of funding through tuition.

 

In 2013, student tuition and fees at RVCC account for 60.8 percent of the operating budget while county support made up 26.7 percent and state funding provides 11.9 percent, according to figures provided by the Raritan Valley Community College Federation.

 

Although he didn't address RVCC's funding specifically, Christie said the state will spend $9 billion on education this year, and he doesn't feel there has been a "lack of generosity" on the part of taxpayers toward the public sector and schools.

 

He also spoke about the "unfinished business" he would like to complete during a second term in office. He discussed plans for spending about $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion on revitalizing higher education facilities at the state's universities, colleges and community colleges, with $750,000 of that coming from an approved referendum.

 

Listening to Branchburg resident Harriett Davis talk about how she had lost her grandson to drug abuse, Christie also spoke about his desire for treatment rather than incarceration for first-time drug offenders. He said he would like a "second chance" for drug abusers to rebuild their lives, and added that putting such a person in jail would be less likely to end their substance abuse, and would also cost more.

 

"My heart goes out to you," the governor told Davis. "We really are going to try to make sure your grandchild's tragedy is not going to be repeated hundreds and hundreds of times through the state through the programs we are trying to set up."

 

-->In response to another question, Christie said he would like to focus on employment programs and group homes that would place autistic adults in society, rather than in institutions. <-- (Ummmm --- autistic adults, like Adam Lanza? Say, WHAT?????)

 

Shore will be open in 2013

 

Christie wrapped up the meeting describing his sense of "mission" for restoring the Jersey Shore. He said he had promised last November that the Jersey Shore would be open for visitors by this summer.

"In summer 2013, the Jersey Shore will be open for business, but it won't be the same as in summer 2012."

 

However, the governor said his goal is that by 2014 the Jersey Shore will be rebuilt and better than before.

 

Afterwards, Offenhauer spoke about RVCC as "such a great school" and said the governor had shown awareness that he was in a public building, and at a community college.

But she and another RVCC part-time educator, Kathy Manz, who also teaches at Voorhees Regional High School in Hunterdon County, said the governor's rhetoric through the years had a negative effect on teacher morale throughout the state.

 

Manz said the governor may have toned down his approach because he already had achieved many of his objectives in dealing with teachers and unions during his first term in office.

[SgtToadette 59]

Well first off, he shows up roughly 50 minutes late. Which is w.e but I was a little annoyed by this because I did skip a class to attend. Then he walks out and talks for about 20min before opening the floor up to questions. During his talk or speech or whatever you want to call it I was dumbfounded by the fact that he has nothing substantive to say. He spoke briefly about Sandy (which was nauseating btw; how much he was talking himself up for the way he handled it. Like he thinks hes some sort of hero) He then did his normal routine about how he's after the unions and how hes some cowboy who goes into the state legislator guns drawn making a positive impact. It blew my mind how well the crowd received everything he said.

 

The whole thing just felt like he was campaigning and it was all just so empty.

 

Oh and quick side note, not a single mention of firearms legislation or the NJ SAFE committee. I left after the first few questions. I raised my hand but lets be real in a crowd of 500 people and a limited time span, that wasn't happening

 

Somehow none of this is surprising to me. Thanks for sharing.

[mipafox 438]

Well first off, he shows up roughly 50 minutes late...  

 

...Then he walks out and talks for about 20min before opening the floor up to questions...

 

...During his talk or speech or whatever you want to call it I was dumbfounded by the fact that he has nothing substantive to say...

 

...He spoke briefly about Sandy (which was nauseating btw; how much he was talking himself up for the way he handled it.  Like he thinks hes some sort of hero)...

 

...The whole thing just felt like he was campaigning and it was all just so empty.

 

 

Has anybody ever actually seen him and Barack at the same place at the same time?

 

I know we have a picture of him and Barack the same place at the same time, but it looked chopped to me.

[SgtToadette 59]

Has anybody ever actually seen him and Barack at the same place at the same time?

 

I know we have a picture of him and Barack the same place at the same time, but it looked chopped to me.

 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christie+obama&oq=christie+obama&gs_l=youtube.3..0l3j0i5l7.233.5057.0.5964.12.10.0.2.2.0.166.1241.3j7.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.tha5iqsxbgc