Michael Steele

Steele Not Ready To Say 'This Portends Great Things For The GOP Next Year'

Evan McMorris-Santoro | November 4, 2009, 8:43AM

RNC chair Michale Steele is excited about last night's victories in New Jersey and Virginia, but he said on CNN this morning that he's not ready to say they mean the GOP is back on track for big wins in 2010.

"I don't know yet," he said. "There's going to be more analysis to come."

"I'm not so quick to say 'Oh yes this portends great things for the GOP next year,'" Steele added. "We still have a lot to do."

NJ-GOV

New Christie Ad: Corzine's Attacks On Mammogram Coverage "Deceitful" And "Awful"

Eric Kleefeld | September 23, 2009, 5:29PM

Republican former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie has a new ad in the New Jersey gubernatorial race, firing back at an ad by Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine that accused Christie of wanting to allow insurance companies to drop mammogram coverage for women. The ad was based on Christie's support of cheaper, mandate-free health insurance policies.

In the new ad, Christie talks about his own family experience, how his mother battled breast cancer that was detected early through a mammogram. "So the idea that somebody who was able to keep their mother for an extra twenty years would ever deny another woman in this state the opportunity to get a mammogram is just so deceitful," Christie says. "It is awful for the Governor to desperately hold onto power by scaring people."

NJ-GOV

Corzine Ad: Christie "Threw His Weight Around" To Get Out Of Trouble In Traffic Incidents

Eric Kleefeld | September 23, 2009, 12:44PM

The latest ad from Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) openly accuses his Republican opponent, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, of pulling rank in order to get out of serious trouble in his multiple traffic violations -- and quite possibly takes a jab at Christie's weight.

"If you drove the wrong way down a one-way street, causing an accident and putting the victim in a trauma center, would you get away without a ticket? Chris Christie did," the announcer says. "If you were caught speeding in an unregistered car- would you get away without points? Chris Christie did."

"In both cases, Christie threw his weight around as US Attorney and got off easy," the announcer adds, later adding a slogan that's popped up lately in Corzine's ads: "Chris Christie. One set of rules for himself. Another for everyone else."

The folks at Real Clear Politics think the line about how Christie "threw his weight around" is an obvious reference to Christie's personal bulk. Requests for comment to the Corzine and Christie camps were not immediately returned.

Late Update: Corzine campaign communications director Sean Darcy has just told us that this is not a reference to Christie's weight. "No," said Darcy in an e-mail.