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"He's a very good model for a lot of Republicans," said Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the party's presidential nominee in 2008. "We're going to have to carry states like New Jersey if we ever want to win the presidency."
Then Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walked into a Senate hearing on Superstorm Sandy relief and, in a question to the Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, offered a reminder of Christie's Achilles' heel. "Do you think that Sandy relief funds ought to be spent on TV ads?" Paul asked. Donovan started to answer, but Paul, also a potential presidential candidate, interrupted.
"Some of these ads, people who are running for office put their mug all over the ads while they're in the middle of a political campaign," Paul said. He specifically cited New Jersey, but never mentioned Christie by name. "There might be a conflict of interest here," he said. "That's why, when people are trying to use taxpayers' money wisely, they're offended to see money spent on political ads." Paul's statement was no bombshell, and coming in the middle of an oversight hearing on a Wednesday afternoon, it is doubtful a very large audience witnessed it on C-Span.
But it highlighted how things Christie handled with ease in New Jersey could be problems if he does make a run for the presidency, especially in the primaries where he will have to woo conservative Republicans. -
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Then Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walked into a Senate hearing on Superstorm Sandy relief and, in a question to the Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, offered a reminder of Christie's Achilles' heel. "Do you think that Sandy relief funds ought to be spent on TV ads?" Paul asked. Donovan started to answer, but Paul, also a potential presidential candidate, interrupted.
"Some of these ads, people who are running for office put their mug all over the ads while they're in the middle of a political campaign," Paul said. He specifically cited New Jersey, but never mentioned Christie by name. "There might be a conflict of interest here," he said. "That's why, when people are trying to use taxpayers' money wisely, they're offended to see money spent on political ads." Paul's statement was no bombshell, and coming in the middle of an oversight hearing on a Wednesday afternoon, it is doubtful a very large audience witnessed it on C-Span.
But it highlighted how things Christie handled with ease in New Jersey could be problems if he does make a run for the presidency, especially in the primaries where he will have to woo conservative Republicans. -
See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/2309....onMdwOfw.dpuf