Post by Logan on Jan 20, 2016 20:06:56 GMT -6
DERRY, N.H. — It was the sort of exchange with Gov. Chris Christie that more closely mirrored a New Jersey town hall than a usually more polite New Hampshire event.
The brash governor managed to keep his cool Wednesday night when the first questioner at his latest town hall event ended his question by barking into the microphone: "Did you take a dive!"
"I first want to congratulate you on your performance," Christie began. "That was an Academy Award level performance."
Christie added: "Your implication somehow that I took money from someone ... is really disgraceful, in my view."
The questioner's anger was over Christie's recent veto of bill that that sought to expand access to prescription abuse deterrent opioids in New Jersey. The bill, (A4271), won bipartisan support from the Legislature, but Christie announced Tuesday he nixed the proposal, in part, because "the benefits of such drugs are still uncertain in the medical community and are subject of ongoing research."
Continued at www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/fiery_exchange_kicks_off_latest_christie_nh_town_h.html#incart_river_home .
The brash governor managed to keep his cool Wednesday night when the first questioner at his latest town hall event ended his question by barking into the microphone: "Did you take a dive!"
"I first want to congratulate you on your performance," Christie began. "That was an Academy Award level performance."
Christie added: "Your implication somehow that I took money from someone ... is really disgraceful, in my view."
The questioner's anger was over Christie's recent veto of bill that that sought to expand access to prescription abuse deterrent opioids in New Jersey. The bill, (A4271), won bipartisan support from the Legislature, but Christie announced Tuesday he nixed the proposal, in part, because "the benefits of such drugs are still uncertain in the medical community and are subject of ongoing research."
Continued at www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/fiery_exchange_kicks_off_latest_christie_nh_town_h.html#incart_river_home .