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Press Release & Video: WEINBERG SLAMS CHRISTIE ON HIS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
October 6, 2009


For Immediate Release                                                                                                  
October 6, 2009
 
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Elisabeth Smith, 609-695-7190
Patrick McKenna, 609-695-7190
   
TRENTON- State Senator and Lieutenant Governor candidate Loretta Weinberg today slammed Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie on his proposed environmental policies.
 
“Over the last several years under the Governor’s leadership, working with members of the Legislature, New Jersey has become a national leader in environmental policy,” said Weinberg.  “Christie continues to be wrong when it matters most and would turn back the clock on the common sense environmental initiatives that we have fought for over the last four years.  We are committed to making sure our kids will have clean water and fresh air for generations to come, while Christie is committed to the same failed environmental policies of the Bush Republicans.”
 
Last week, Vice President Al Gore, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner for his work on climate change, was in New Jersey to lend his support for Governor Corzine and Senator Weinberg and said, “There are a lot of people that you meet in our democracy, in government, and in politics. There are very few that have the humanity and decency and combination of talents and skills and deep, deep compassion for the people he serves than Jon Corzine. He is the real deal.”
 
The Corzine Administration also recently had the honor of having former Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection Lisa Jackson selected to be the head of President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency.  Christie has bragged about anticipating “battles” with the Obama Administration over the environment if elected governor.
 
“Chris Christie has boasted that he would fight the Obama administration’s efforts to protect our air,” said Weinberg.  “He has said that his first target for budget cuts would be environmental protection and that he’d roll back regulations that protect our air and water. Christie has vowed to follow Sarah Palin and Mark Sanford’s lead and reject more than $70 million in federal funds to invest in our state’s energy programs and he is opposed to the open space bond issue which would protect our remaining green space.  I don’t know about you, but I will take the recommendation of the President and the former Vice President when it comes to matters of the environment.”
 
Below, please find the video of Chris Christie discussing his anticipated “battles” with the Obama Administration over the environment if elected.