And CC wonders why more and more folks, no longer like his brand of "governing"?
Maybe pulling heartless stunts like this, might have something to do with it ...
Chris Christie's NJ budget proposal slashes funding for cancer research
by Susan K. Livio, The Star-Ledger, nj.com -- April 19, 2014
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Doctors and lawmakers alike say the reduction in funds for the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey continues the Christie administration’s history of shortchanging state financing for homegrown research.
The line item in the budget for the institute, the state’s only nationally recognized comprehensive cancer center, is scheduled to drop from $28 million to $18 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1. [...]
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In a state with the seventh-highest cancer rate in the nation, members of the Assembly Budget Committee pressed state Health Commissioner Mary O’Dowd in a hearing this week to explain why the administration was skimping on funds for research.
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Really!? WHO can be
against funding Cancer Research? ... a former GOP-standard bearer, that's who.
Doesn't Chris Christie know anyone who has fallen victim to this debilitating and withering disease?
How low will he go ... before the good folks of New Jersey send CC packing?
If this new line-item veto of his, is any indication -- it's pretty damn low.