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Tom Kean, Ex-Governor And Ex-9/11 Commission Chairman, Stars In New Christie Ad
Eric Kleefeld | October 22, 2009, 12:53PM
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Chris Christie has a new TV ad featuring Tom Kean, a former governor and former chairman of the 9/11 Commission -- easily the most popular Republican in Democratic-leaning New Jersey.
"I hope you're as sick and tired of all these negative commercials as I am," Kean says. "Let me tell you the truth. I've known Chris Christie since he was a leader in Livingston High School. He's a good and a decent man. Chris Christie is the only candidate with a plan to cut taxes and wasteful spending and to bring jobs back to New Jersey. I trust Chris Christie and will vote for him. Chris Christie and New Jersey would be perfect together."
Kean was a very popular governor back in the 1980's, winning re-election in 1985 with a whopping 71% of the vote, the biggest landslide in New Jersey gubernatorial history. The question is whether he can still move votes for another candidate, 20 years after he left office -- for example, his son Tom Kean Jr. lost the 2006 Senate race.
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Dorn76
October 22, 2009 1:34 PM
Say it ain't so!!! The "New Jersey and you....perfect together" guy??
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Ann Arbor
October 22, 2009 5:11 PM
Yeah, this is the supposedly responsible Republican who doubled the size of the NJ state government during the economic expansion of the 1980s and made no allowance for a rainy day. (Which, come to think of it, actually is a model of responsibility compared with most Republicans these days.)
For him to say Christie is the man with a plan on taxes and spending burns up a lot of the credibility he has built up over the years.
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