May
2012
Monday, June 06, 2011
Amy Walter, ABC News

Governor Christie Skirts Ethics With State Helicopter

[ABC] Blunt-talking New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has made ethics and government reform a centerpiece of his Administration, raised some eyebrows yesterday with his decision to take a state helicopter to his son's baseball game.

[excerpt] Moreover, he left the game in the fifth inning, presumably to make it back to Princeton for his meeting with a group of Iowa activists who had flown to New Jersey to try to convince the governor to run for president.

According to the Newark Star Ledger the Governor  landed in the $12.5 million helicopter right before the game began,  and then "got into a black car with tinted windows that drove him about a 100 yards to the baseball field" His son Andrew is the starting catcher on his high school team.

The excuses Christie's office have proffered to justify his use of taxpayer funded transportation are comical.

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