Pic Of The Moment: Report: Chris Christie Spent $300,000 On Food And Drinks

[EarlG]

Report: Christie spent $300,000 in taxpayer money on food and drinks

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[Buzz Clik]

1. I wonder what his BFF had for lunch that day...

[Rozlee]

5. I want a yocola with myo yafulkee.

Give me props. I had to google the Huttese language guide to come up with that one to say, "I want a drink with my meal."

[gordianot]

2. Living large.

[longship]

3. And Christie's getting larger.

[Cyrano]

4. Over five years that comes to about $165/day

That's a lot if he was just doing pizza and beer. But if he was dining daily at gourmet restaurants, I guess it doesn't seem all that bad. (Who the hell dines daily at gourmet restaurants?)

Nonetheless, I really don't want to hear him and the rest of the GOP bitch about people who have to live on food stamps while they have their snouts in the public trough.

[George II]

8. He spent $100,000 ($20,000 per year) at local supermarkets and liquor stores!

[MADem]

23. That's obscene. Obscene if he did indeed "dine daily at gourmet restaurants," but even more obscene

that he would charge his indulgence to the taxpayers of New Jersey.

What does he think that hefty salary is for? Most people have to feed, house, and clothe their entire families on far, far less.

[central scrutinizer]

6. $83,000 on concessions at NFL games???!!!

There's only 16 regular season games per year and he has been in office since January 2010. Even if you assume he went to every game possible and a few post season games that is about $1000 per game. I know the food is over priced at the stadiums but that's a lot of money.

[George II]

7. That $83,000 was just for the last two years, and he doesn't go to Jets games...

...which means he spent $41,500 during 10 games each year (including two pre-season games).

$4,150 per game!

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. Given stadium food prices, that could be a slice of pizza and a couple pints of beer.

It's like sports stadiums and movie theaters are in competition to see who can bend you over worse at the concession stands.

[NewJeffCT]

16. I was lucky enough once to get invited

to skybox seats at Madison Square Garden just over 20 years ago (March 1995 Big East Championship game). I was even told I could order off the menu there, but I felt sick just looking at the prices - it was over $100 for a small pizza. I think I ordered a pretzel that was like $14, and even then it didn't feel right eating a $14 pretzel.

And, that was 20 years ago - I can only imagine how expensive those prices are now. (To top it off, my school, UConn, got hammered by Villanova) It really must take a lot of chutzpah to spend $83,000 in two years.

[Botany]

40. That is a lot of nachos

$83,000 =

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. There it is: "$6,500 in seven visits to ShopRite’s liquor counter."

Toast.

[NewJeffCT]

17. If Christie were a Democrat

the media (national and local) would be 24/7 nonstop demanding he resign.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. They would have had him staked out....

There would be a 'FOX "News" Alert' if he took a dump.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

10. Fat Albert and crew weigh in !

[HassleCat]

12. Little Known Detail

He ate most of the food himself.

[NewJeffCT]

13. Fiscal responsibility only applies

if you are poor and/or a minority.

If you're a wealthy white male, you can spend taxpayer money like a drunken sailor.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

19. That is exactly how friends of the cause- A Christi fellowship

made up mostly of New Jersey's own many of which are transplants- think about it. They call the expenditures a drop in the bucket .

A good number of Christi's friends of the cause-which is a circle of professionals that have greater long term aspirations ,hidden agendas in other words along the lines of catching a lift on Christi's train ,appointments and such.

Some of them are old time party reformers dating back to the young republican reform party.
Those are the worst of them and those that are the most like Christi himself.
They are all deceivers ,bigoted and self serving.

They are also organizers for his campaign wherever they are in the country should Christi's lame train somehow get rolling along.

7 0f 9 comes to mind.

[chapdrum]

14. Sure wish I'd invested

in that Reagan-brand Teflon.

[psychmommy]

15. Pensions

He is trying to gut our pension system by not making the payments. There is a case in the nj supreme court over this. Add in the helicoptering in to his kids games. All of the security from the state police as he travels all over.

[left-of-center2012]

18. Now we know why he wants to be President

It's the White House chef, right?

[japple]

21. I thought he was on a diet!

[turbinetree]

22. When..............

I saw this, I thought of Mr. Creosote in the Monty Python movie:
The Meaning of Life and I thought about posting the video.
But when you are bilking the taxpayer's of a state and telling people to "shut up and sit down", you are bound to get what you deserve, because a jerk like him has no compassion ------none---except for his own selfish reason of yourself, and like a true republican he is very Narcissistic.
So for all of you that don't know this movie check out the clips of Mr. Creosote-------Meaning of Life

[wordpix]

24. let's see if our new AG will charge him with this ILLEGAL use of taxpayer funds

I hope so. I like Eric Holder but he should have been tougher on things like the Kochroaches illegally dumping toxics into the Crossett AR stream and pet coke on the banks of the Detroit R., just to name 2 recent events.

[kirby]

25. The intolerance here is disgusting

For such a supposedly progressive site, it amazes me how many people don't find anything wrong with all the fat shaming, weight jokes, and downright nastiness focused at a persons size.

Christie is a hypocrite for unnecessarily spending taxpayer money, but because it was food/drink related, it is okay to display such intolerance on this site? I say shame on you all.

[F4lconF16]

30. Yeah, I normally avoid these threads.

Regret clicking on this one.

[allan01]

26. put this so and so on minimum training wage and watch him whine

and hes cutting things left and right in order to feed his bellykin BAH HUMBUG .

[randys1]

27. Makes no difference, Rick Scott stole 1.7 billion from the people who elected him twice

$300K is nothing

[notadmblnd]

28. Well no wonder he's so big. 300k in 5 years, who the hell is he feeding and what are they eating?

I thought he had that lap band surgery. doesn't that limit how much one can pack away?

[Initech]

32. That's 13 bottles of Remy Martin or 1600 of Jack Daniels.

Just to put things in perspective.

[rocktivity]

33. 300k? Are you talking kilo-dollars

or kilos?


rocktivity

[Initech]

31. How the fuck does one rack up an $83,000 tab at a stadium?

[stevenleser]

39. Every time you go, you pay for all the food and drink for all 8+ people in the box. nt

[47of74]

34. I'd call him a pig.

But that would be insulting.




To pigs, that is.

[zebonaut]

36. How its done

[redruddyred]

37. fatshaming ftw

I thought you were better than this DU

[themonster]

38. ???

I don't understand. Why are taxpayers responsible for the amount he spends at NFL games?

[d_legendary1]

42. He runs the state and everyone there is in bed with him

This is why he's campaigning and not rotting in a prison cell somewhere. Had this been some local yolkel it would be a different story.

[progressoid]

41. Yep, that's GOP presidential material for sure.