Post by Logan on Jan 31, 2016 20:54:08 GMT -6
Atlantic City's hardships and perhaps its tenuous hopes revolve around tourism. So it's fitting that Trenton's perplexing response to the resort's crisis can be credited to none other than New Jersey's tourist in chief, Chris Christie.
Christie is not only the Garden State's governor but also, since he began running for president, a sometime visitor. You may have caught the recent whistle-stop during which he declared Atlantic City subject to a state . . . something. "You can call it what you want to call it," Christie said. And you might as well, because unlike the raft of rescue bills he had just finished vetoing, the takeover proposal remains fundamentally nebulous.
Christie's haphazard, ineffectual, and ultimately nonsensical approach to Atlantic City is increasingly typical. The state's problems have accumulated and deepened as surely as his presidential ambitions have reduced him to the occasional cameo in the state he nominally runs. In lieu of governance, New Jersey gets guest appearances.
Consider Christie's recent and largely unexplained veto of 65 bills. Even the means of the mass rejection were essentially passive - so-called pocket vetoes that allowed the bills to expire with the legislative session.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160131_Chris_Christie__New_Jersey_s_tourist_in_chief.html
Christie is not only the Garden State's governor but also, since he began running for president, a sometime visitor. You may have caught the recent whistle-stop during which he declared Atlantic City subject to a state . . . something. "You can call it what you want to call it," Christie said. And you might as well, because unlike the raft of rescue bills he had just finished vetoing, the takeover proposal remains fundamentally nebulous.
Christie's haphazard, ineffectual, and ultimately nonsensical approach to Atlantic City is increasingly typical. The state's problems have accumulated and deepened as surely as his presidential ambitions have reduced him to the occasional cameo in the state he nominally runs. In lieu of governance, New Jersey gets guest appearances.
Consider Christie's recent and largely unexplained veto of 65 bills. Even the means of the mass rejection were essentially passive - so-called pocket vetoes that allowed the bills to expire with the legislative session.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160131_Chris_Christie__New_Jersey_s_tourist_in_chief.html