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[Amerigo Vespucci]

HACKENSACK, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took another tax-cutting budget victory lap on Tuesday, pitching his economic recovery message to an audience outside New Jersey.

Christie delivered his message of economic recovery through tax cuts and spending restraint before former President George W. Bush at an economic forum organized by Bush’s Texas-based presidential center.

Christie barely mentioned Bush during the 2009 gubernatorial election. But during a speech that helped kick off the conference on pro-growth tax policies Tuesday, the governor praised the former president and said Bush’s conference agenda offers “the right policies for an America that’s optimistic.”

“Mr. President, thank you for setting that example, thank you for inspiring a whole new generation of conservative Republican leaders who you helped create,” he said to Bush, who was sitting right in from of him in the front row at the New-York Historical Society.

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