Chris Christie places a desperate bet on Atlantic City:
The scheme put forth by the Christie administration to save Atlantic City, and the state revenue it produces, is not particularly conservative.
Bio: Mitchell Blumenthal was an editor at The New York Times for more than 20 years. He served as assistant to the national editor and as New Jersey editor. Before the Times worked at newspapers in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Washington, Chicago and on Long Island.
Chris Christie’s plan to save Atlantic City, unlike much he has proposed in the course of becoming a national political force, is not particularly conservative. It is also not gratuitously provocative, and does not lend itself to YouTube virality.
What it is—like every other Atlantic City scheme to have come out of the New Jersey Statehouse in the last few years—is a plan born of desperation and necessity. More
Posted on March 1st, 2011 7:57am
John Mitchell told reporters at the start of the Nixon administration to watch what they did, not what they said. Considering what came next, that was pretty good advice. The same advice ought to apply to Chris Christie—the New Jersey governor who is running around the country saying he’s not running. More
Posted on February 17th, 2011 10:38am
The story goes like this: When Chris Christie, the United States attorney for New Jersey, charged the Essex County executive with corruption in 2002, he made sure the Republican official, who was seized by armed federal agents, spent more than six hours in leg shackles and handcuffs while awaiting arraignment—to the amazement of the state’s legal community. More
Posted on January 21st, 2011 7:28pm
As Chris Christie ricochets from one confrontation to the next—usually at town meetings weighted with admirers —the anticipation is mounting: when will the beefy, brawling Republican governor have his Carl Paladino moment? More
Posted on December 23rd, 2010 8:09am
Governor Chris Christie no sooner returned from a two-month, 20,000-mile, 15-state tour on behalf of a extensive lineup of Republican candidates than he said he definitely is not seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. More
Posted on November 11th, 2010 8:36am
"You should have seen the Atlantic Ocean in those days," Lou, an aging small-time gangster played by Burt Lancaster, says wistfully in Louis Malle's 1981 masterpiece “Atlantic City.” He is recalling the pulsating days of Prohibition, when a local political boss named Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, whose reach extended to the State House and beyond, strolled on the Boardwalk in the company of Al Capone. "Now it's all so goddamn legal." More
Posted on September 13th, 2010 9:17am
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