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RUSH: Governor Chris Christie. This guy needs a lot more attention. He needs a LOT more attention. People need to listen to this man, the governor of New Jersey, and what he\u2019s doing and how he\u2019s going about it. He was on Cavuto yesterday on the Fox Business Network. We have some sound bites. Cavuto said, ‘Folks are saying that you side with the rich. When you vetoed a ‘millionaires tax\u2019 that actually would have affected those earning always little as 400 grand, you were on the side of ‘fat cats.\u2019 New Jersey Education Association president said, ‘The choice could not be more stark: tax cuts for millionaires or full school funding for New Jersey kids.”<\/line><\/line>GOV. CHRISTIE: Raising taxes on businesses in New Jersey, which that would have done, and individuals in New Jersey is not what\u2019s gonna make our private sector grow. We already have the worst tax burden of any citizens in America, when you combine all of our taxes. So raising taxes on anybody… Because, believe me: Today they\u2019re going to raise taxes on those people? Next year they\u2019ll come back and raise taxes on somebody else, and then it\u2019s going to get into your pocket. Someone has to stand the line and say, ‘No, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government.\u2019 That\u2019s what I was committed to doing. So these other things are just politics and false choices, and I think they thought they had a governor like Jon Corzine who when they pushed I will fall over. They misevaluated this governor. <\/line><\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (wild applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey, defending his choice to cut taxes, to cut spending. Cavuto said, ‘You know, governor, in growing more famous in this job in the few months that you\u2019ve been at it, you strike a lot of people as like a bull in a China shop. And I could tell you — you and I are neighbors in New Jersey so disclosing that for the record here — just down the street, everybody in town, people say, ‘What a nice guy, what an affable guy,\u2019 and then they see you chewing out some union dude or they see you jumping ugly on a reporter and they say, ‘Hey, is it the same guy?”<\/line><\/line>GOV. CHRISTIE: I\u2019m passionate about what I believe in, and I also think that the public needs to start being treated like adults. You know, politicians too much, in my view, they cow.<\/line><\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: They try to figure out, you know —<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: They try to figure out what everybody wants to hear. They try to figure out what he need wants to hear. I want to treat New Jerseyans and I am treating New Jerseyans like adults, and that\u2019s not just my constituents. It\u2019s reporters, it\u2019s union leaders. If I feel something, I\u2019m going to say it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie! Cavuto said, ‘Well, many union leaders have targeted you in attack ads that have gone viral nationally. One of the things that typical union members will say or the ones that they talk to for their ads is, ‘I paid into these benefits. These are benefits I was promised years ago and now along comes Chris Christie to say, ‘Well,\u2019 I\u2019m ‘not going to get them.\u2019 He\u2019s broken a covenant, he\u2019s broken a promise.\u2019 Never mind it was never your covenant or your promise, you\u2019ve inherited a lot of this. What do you think of that argument, governor? The public workers feel that you have a bull\u2019s-eye on them.\u2019<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: The public sector has been shielded from this recession in New Jersey. We\u2019ve continued to give public sector workers four and five percent increases, despite the fact that there\u2019s zero inflation. We\u2019ve continued to say that the teachers union is right, that teachers in the main should have to pay nothing — nothing! — for family health coverage, medical, dental, and vision. I mean, there\u2019s no one in the world who has this deal, and the property tax payers — the ones who have lost their jobs, the ones who have had their hours reduced, the ones that are paying more for their own health benefits if they have them — they\u2019re the ones picking up the tab. Now, listen: ‘Shared sacrifice\u2019 is shared sacrifice, and the public sector unions have been shielded from that, and it\u2019s got to stop.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on, right on! Right on, right on, right on. Here comes the truth! You see? The truth works! Just stand up to these people. He\u2019s winning every fight in New Jersey. He\u2019s winning every one. Just stand up to them and tell the truth. They haven\u2019t shared sacrifice. They haven\u2019t shared in this recession. They haven\u2019t been in pain. They talk about shared sacrifice? Well, here it is! Cavuto said, ‘People compare you to Reagan. What do you think of that?\u2019<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: I have great admiration for President Reagan, and I think he was the first person I voted for for president. My first vote in 1980 when I turned 18 years old was to vote for Ronald Reagan. And it\u2019s still one of the proudest votes I ever made because he understood leadership. He understood how to lead a country, how to lead a people and how to inspire and how to be tough and how to fight for the things he believed in. And so in many ways he\u2019s one of my role models, and so any time my name gets put in the same sentence with Ronald Reagan it\u2019s a bad day for Ronald Reagan, but a good day for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I don\u2019t think Reagan would say that. I don\u2019t think Reagan would say that at all. And, let\u2019s see, we have one more. Here we go. Final one. Cavuto says, ‘Look, there\u2019s talk of Governor Christie maybe being a President Christie. What do you say to that?\u2019<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (wild applause)<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: Don\u2019t let the applause —<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: — prevent an answer.<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: Yeah. No. Listen. Not going to happen.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: What do you mean, ‘Not going to happen\u2019?<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: You know, I want to be governor of New Jersey. I ran for governor of New Jersey. <\/p>\n

CAVUTO: But —<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: You have to be really, in your gut and in your heart, ready to be president of the United States if you decide to run for that — and I simply do not have the desire to do it, nor do I think I\u2019m to be [president].<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: You already now, governor, have more experience than Barack Obama when he announced.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

GOV. CHRISTIE: Well, that doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What an answer! Just because I have more experience than Big Ears doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m ready. There you have it, Governor Chris Christie of in New Jersey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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