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Trjx Bush Backer Pens Pro-Obama Book
This post originally appeared on Slate.President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie toured the rebuilt New Jersey Shore Tuesday and stopped by an arcade booth called Touchdown Fever. The game offered a stuffed bear to anyone who could toss a football through a tire. President Obama tried five times and missed. Gov. Christie threw the football through the tire on his first try. Obama gave him a high five. Christie then gave Obama the bear he won. This would make a very awkward Bruce Springsteen song, but the Obama and Christie relationship faces the same question at the heart of every one of the Boss songs about boardwalk relationships buffet stanley cup ed by circumstance: Can it last Christie is a Republican governor running in a heavily Democratic state Obama won it by double digits so for the moment, the answer is yes. Obama is on Team Christie. America, bring your family and friends. Spend a little money on the Jersey Shore, the president said, boosting the state during his visit as much as he did the governor s re-election chances. But if Christie wants to one day court Republican primary voters who dislike the president, won t he have to put a little distance between himself and Obama Remember how Florida Republicans punished their governor, Charlie Crist Isn t the breakup inevitable If Christie decides to run for president, how stanley cup he handles the Obama question will tell us something about the trajectory of his campaign: Will he try to smooth over the an stanley cup ger conser Ocip Obama: China s Human Rights Record Source of Tension
Gov. George W. Bush has been named a defendant in a lawsuit brought by the fired head of the Texas Funeral Service Commission. She accuses him of impeding an investigation of a company that had given him campaign contributions.Eliza May alleges she lost her job over an investigation of Houston-based Service Corporation International SCI . She filed her wrongful termination lawsuit last year and amended it on Monday to include Bush. The lawsuit accuses the Republican presidential candidate of conspiring to interfere with the agency s 1998 investigation of the company. stanley mug Defendant Bush directed, approved of, ratified, condoned and/or knowingly permitted his staff to intervene improperly in the investigation, the lawsuit alleges. SCI, one of the world s largest funeral home and cemetery operators, is headed by Bush family friend Robert Waltrip, who contributed $45,000 to Bush s gubernatorial campaigns, according to the lawsuit. Waltrip also served as a trustee for the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station and donated more than $100,000 through his company toward construction. Their claims pertaining to the governor are feeble and of no merit, said Bush spokesman Mike Jones. It s our understanding this lawsuit invo stanley thermobecher lves the same old tired, worn out claims that have stanley thermoskannen already been rejected by the courts when an unjustified deposition was sought of the governor. May is a former Texas Democratic Party |
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