{"id":10049,"date":"2013-06-06T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10049"},"modified":"2013-06-06T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:28:14","slug":"jon-stewart-takes-his-whack-at-cowardly-chris-christies-special-election-hypocrisy-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10049","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Takes His Whack at Cowardly Chris Christie&#8217;s Special Election Hypocrisy [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), on <b>December 1, 2009<\/b>, when asked what he&#8217;d do if Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) died in office: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think any responsible governor at this point would call for a Special Election that would cost ten million dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) on <b>June 4, 2013<\/b>, <i>after<\/i> Sen. Frank Lautenberg  (D-NJ) died in office: &#8220;I am calling for a special election to be held this year&#8230;I don&#8217;t know what the cost is and I quite frankly don&#8217;t care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already offered a few of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10046\">my own observations<\/a> on the irresponsible Christie&#8217;s cowardly, hilariously transparent, anything-but-fiscally-conservative hypocrisy in declaring a <i>$24 million<\/i> Special Election for the U.S. Senate this October, just three weeks before his own already-scheduled-anyway election in November. Now Jon Stewart offers his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:426862\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), on December 1, 2009, when asked what he&#8217;d do if Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) died in office: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think any responsible governor at this point would call for a Special Election that would cost ten million dollars.&#8221; Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) on June 4, 2013, after Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,471,599,308,50,300,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-chris-christie","category-election-2013","category-jon-stewart","category-new-jersey","category-republicans","category-us-senate","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}