Barbara Buono Has Chris Christie "Running Scared"

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono appeared on MSNBC's the Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell last night and according to O'Donnell, Senator Buono has Governor Christie "running scared". How else do you explain Christie's spending $1.2 billion running a campaign ad this early in his reelection bid?

If you missed it, you should really take a look at it below.

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The Democratic gubernatorial candidate challenging Chris Christie in his re-election bid, Barbara Buono, appeared on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to clarify Chris Christie’s record on taxes, spending cuts, massacre control and education–topics the New Jersey governor all touched on in his first TV ad of his re-election campaign.

With a substantial buy of $1.2 billion, the Republican governor’s campaign began running the ad Wednesday in New York City and Philadelphia TV markets. Christie’s ad touts bipartisanship, saying his ability to reach out to both sides of the aisle got “New Jersey back on track.”

“Working with Democrats and Republicans, believing that as long as you stick to your principles, compromise isn’t a dirty word,” the narrator says.

“It is a little surprising,” Buono told O’Donnell, questioning the early ad buy. “It shows his numbers are artificially inflated because of Hurricane Sandy.”

The New Jersey State Senator, who has been backed by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, bashed the title of Christie’s ad, “Jersey Proud,” pointing out that New Jerseyans “are not proud of the governor’s record on unemployment” with over 400,000 still jobless.

“He’s living in some alternative universe where, you know, we are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to economic growth, and yet he’s calling it a New Jersey comeback. I beg to differ and I’m going to change that,” Buono promised...

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Buono Gets The Last Word W/ Lawrence O'Donnell

NJ State Senator and Democratic candidate for NJ Governor, Barabra Buono appeared last night for an exclusive interview on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC last tonight. The interview was Buono's first appearance on a national news program where she gave a passionate introduction to herself not only NJ voters that may have tuned into the program, but also to viewers from around the nation.

If you haven't heard Senator Buono tell her story about why she is running for governor, watch the video. Her story of overcoming adversity in life, the loss of her father at the age of 19, going to college and being unable to find a job then having to rely on food stamps for a short while to help make ends meet, is an inspirational and a classic American success story.

Voters will have a clear choice come November, Senator Buono is the anti-Christie. There are stark differences between herself and our current governor that residents of this state will be hearing over the next 8 months, starting with this video.

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"...there's certainly a stark contrast between myself and governor christie. Governor Christie supports, his idea of jump-starting the economy is to propose a trickle-down income tax cut last area. and me and his budget addressed this year, he stated his support for it again. I support property tax cuts for everyone else. you know, he coddles millionaires while the rest of new jerseyans are struggling under the highest property taxes in the nation. And our state is unfortunately, and I hate to say this, but we are at the bottom of the barrel in economic growth. we're number 47. So I would have is an economic plan to pull New Jersey out of the dire straits we're in. This governor's economic message was a campaign speech. He's in denial about our economy. Either he doesn't realize or he doesn't care about the middle class and the working poor in NewJersey, who are struggling to make ends meet. I mean, he's out of touch. He actually vetoed a minimum wage increase..." - Barbara Buono

The origins of Obama’s ‘horses and bayonets’ line

In his latest Rewrite segment, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell suggested Senator Al Franken could have planted the seed “for the best line of the night” in the 2004 book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. O’Donnell pointed to a key section in Franken’s piece, a graph comparing the Defense budgets of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan:
Horses.

In 1864 President Lincoln requested 188,718 new horses.
And 120 years later, President Reagan – to his eternal shame – requested only 3

“What Mitt Romney is doing now is straight out of the George W. Bush campaign and the Ronald Reagan campaign,” said O’Donnell. “The Franken book reminds us that Republicans running against a Democratic White House always attack the military.”
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Gov. Christie’s Chopper Ride

Lawrence O'Donnell, on last nights episode of The Last Word blasted Governor Christie for using a New Jersey State Police helicopter to take him to his son's high school baseball game then back down to the governor's mansion to meet with GOP recruiter's from Iowa that tried to persuade he to enter the 2012 Presidential sweepstakes.

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Socialism is all around us

Lawrence O'Donnell on last night's The Last Word points out how Bill O'Reilly is a "Socialist" like the rest of us.

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