Rand Paul slams Chris Christie on Sandy ads

[jct74]

Rand Paul slams Chris Christie on Sandy ads

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS | 11/6/13 8:11 PM EST

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took an implicit swipe at newly reelected New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Wednesday when he criticized the use of federal funding to air post-Sandy television ads.

At a Senate hearing on Sandy recovery efforts, Paul asked Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan whether it was appropriate for Sandy aid money to be used to air the ads — and while Paul never named Christie, it was a clear reference to ads made by the state of New Jersey in which Christie appeared after the devastating Oct. 2012 hurricane.

“Some of these ads, people running for office put their their mug all over these ads while they’re in the middle of a political campaign,” Paul said at the hearing, per ABC News. “In New Jersey, $25 million was spent on ads that included somebody running for political office. Do ya think there might be a conflict of interest there?”

Christie and his family appeared in a series of ads earlier this year called “Stronger Than the Storm,” which used some of the federal emergency disaster funding from Hurricane Sandy to encourage people to visit the Jersey Shore. At the time, New Jersey Democrats criticized Christie for using federal funding to make ads that they argued were essentially free campaign messaging.

“That’s a real problem. And that’s why when people who are trying to do good and trying to use taxpayers’ money wisely, they’re offended to see our money spent on political ads,” Paul said. “That’s just offensive. In New York, you actually have a rule. They’re not allowed to do it. So New York did the same thing, which I still object, but at least they didn’t put someone’s face on the ads and their family, and it looks like a bio ad.”

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read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/rand-paul-slams-chris-christie-on-sandy-ads-99506.html

 

[jct74]

tube


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMM2namYkQE

 

[jct74]

TV ad


http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=QaHQNSGlfTs



and AllahPundit's take:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/...-sandy-relief-funds-for-campaign-commercials/

 

[satchelmcqueen]

theyre all fat in the ad.

 

[alucard13mm]

Emotions is how you win elections =|...

 

[devil21]

Rand said $25 million in ads were spent in NJ and NY with Sandy money that featured politicians????

Where was that info last week when it mattered?

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Rand said $25 million in ads were spent in NJ and NY with Sandy money that featured politicians????

Where was that info last week when it mattered?

The day or two after is when most of the talking heads have been trashing CC and not before hand when there was no real stake in the NJ gubernatorial race anyways. Clearly, the lefty media is trying to portray CC as the hotshot republican (while he calls himself a conservative lol) that is great and the top seeker in the GOP prez listings since he can win big in a blue state. Establishment republicans too are pushing it and eating it up. Real conservatives have to destroy this narrative out of the gate. Notice how CC kept the NJ Senate election to 3 weeks ago and cost the NJ taxpayers an additional $24 mill to make sure Lonegan wouldn't be on the same ballot as he was since it would draw out more democrat voters cause Booker was way more well known than the back bencher they were running against CC.

 

[JK/SEA]

ahhh...that Christie..he's such a cuddly nice guy.....makes me feel all warm and fuzzy....they should make a teddy bear with his fat head attached....

 

[Romulus]

Rand vs Christie in the primary... it's gonna be good folks.

 

[Keith and stuff]

theyre all fat in the ad.

So they look like a typical American family? Maybe that also helps him with voters.

 

[Henry Rogue]

What a waste of other peoples money. Fire 'em all.

 

[presence]

Man that one's not clear until you take the time to watch both those videos that jct74 posted.

Maybe he can buy a couple of Feinstein's post offices with Sandy funds too.


also at

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/rand-paul-chris-christie_n_4229441.html

 

[specsaregood]

TV ad
and AllahPundit's take:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/...-sandy-relief-funds-for-campaign-commercials/

from that:

Why Paul is more focused on tearing down the guy to his left rather than the guy to his right is unclear to me — pure personal pique, maybe

Only a moron or somebody upset his choice is getting torn down would ask that stupid question. The answer is obvious.

 

[specsaregood]

I though Rand was over playing this but not he is not.

Rand's people must read here, I was just talking about this the other day in another thread.

 

[RickyJ]

I'm sorry, but does anyone else see a good resemblance to Larry and Curly here from the three stooges?

 

[jct74]

split thread was created for posts on Romney endorsement. this is a very divisive topic that has already been beat to death many times already... please try to at least keep it out of Rand's forum in the future so as not to cause unnecessary discord and friction in Rand's forum as per Bryan's wishes about how the various Liberty Defender forums should be utilized.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?432726-Romney-endorsement-split-thread

 

[jjdoyle]

split thread was created for posts on Romney endorsement. this is a very divisive topic that has already been beat to death many times already... please try to at least keep it out of Rand's forum in the future so as not to cause unnecessary discord and friction in Rand's forum as per Bryan's wishes about how the various Liberty Defender forums should be utilized.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?432726-Romney-endorsement-split-thread

That's a very mishmosh thread though, because posts from two different threads are now in it...and it makes many of the comments very much out of context.

 

[jct74]

That's a very mishmosh thread though, because posts from two different threads are now in it...and it makes many of the comments very much out of context.

threads get merged on the forum all the time... it's the same thing here basically. it's not perfect, but on the other hand it would be pretty ridiculous to have two separate split threads for the purposes of rehashing the Romney endorsement, which has already been beat to death a thousand million times already.

 

[FriedChicken]

So I get that the video was inspirational but ... what was its other purpose? Why would relief dollars go to this supposedly? There wasn't any info given in the video that made it worthy of broadcasting.

Yeah, I know it was used to boost Christie. I'm just wondering what the official "what they want you to believe" story is?

 

[FriedChicken]

Also ... the last part of it was almost comical acting.