PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
Christie's lies about his gun record are just a click away :: 07/29/2015
It is now clear that the 2016 Chris Christie presidential campaign is the first one predicated entirely on the hope that nobody knows how to use Google.
Because every time the voters assemble to bask in his awesomeness, our governor seems to think he has no political record that anyone can actually consult.
The latest example was Saturday in Iowa, where a gun enthusiast accused Christie of being a faux-Republican who does not really worship at the One True Church.
Christie in turn challenged this fellow, a proud member of "Iowa's only no-compromise gun group" — why compromise when they only kill 32,000 Americans a year? - to "produce just one fact about me being anti-gun."
Then, as usual, he stuck out his chest in triumph after the guy was reduced to a stammering ninny by yet another fatuous bluff.
Truth is, any preschooler could produce that fact, along with 10 more, all serving to refute the governor's claim that he has some serious GOP heat-packin' bona fides.
Because it's true now, it was true yesterday, and it will be true long after this presidential campaign becomes history's yard waste: Gov. Christie has signed more than a dozen pieces of legislation that by any loose definition can be termed "gun-control." They are not hard to find. This newspaper prints them at regular intervals.
For example, one law he signed bans people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns.
Another law requires the state to sync up with the national criminal background check database.
Yet another upgrades the penalty for transferring a firearm to an underage person to a fourth-degree crime, which carries a potential prison sentence.
And in his Nanny State coup de grace, he made certain possession violations a first-degree crime and increased mandatory minimums under New Jersey's "Grave's Act."
All that, courtesy of one administration, which crowed about this governor's commitment to "strengthen New Jersey's already tough gun laws and upgrade penalties for those who ... violate gun trafficking laws" one day in 2013, when he signed (count 'em) 10 pieces of legislation.
You can call some of these measures trivial. You can even dismiss the governor's latest litany of lies as a bout of campaign logorrhea.
But the accepted Wikipedia version of these pen strokes is that they delivered smarter, stronger, tighter gun controls to the state of New Jersey, because the state of New Jersey has yet to be infected by the growing national fear of zombie invasion.
So that Iowan who didn't have Google handy can actually tell all his pals at Hawkeye Zombie Hunters Club that he was right all along:
The governor of New Jersey is so hostile to the Second Amendment, he wants to take guns from people who have mental illness, people with the potential to blow up jetliners, and people who like to take their M4 Carbine into states where they are illegal, period.
And that makes him utterly unelectable.
As should his bewildering habit of lying in front of large crowds, but that's a whole other thing.
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/07/our_governor_wants_one_fact.html
