The Tale of Two Governors   Bill Miller  I owe a friend of mine, a police captain (I will only use his first name), Mike, an apology, he strongly supported Chris Christie during the primary while I was a Lonegan supporter. I was apprehensive of Christie because I felt he was using progressive tactics against Lonegan. I said to Mike, close your eyes, listen to the rhetoric, it sounds progressive. I said look he’s getting support from all the wishy-washy Rhinos and even quite a few members of the lame stream press, always a warning sign. I did support Christie in the general election, and was happy he won, however prior to his assuming office I was still nervous about what he stood for. Standing in front of the capital in Washington, D.C. back on November 5th of last year with Steve Lonegan, I asked Steve could we really trust Christie? Steve allayed my fears and told me yes, Steve said Christie was going to shock Trenton. And so far he seems to be exactly what New Jersey needs, a statesman, a leader, not a progressive republican we so often get in the north east. So Mike, my amends, you were right I was wrong about Governor Christie. Christie is taking the bull by the horns. In his speech made to a couple hundred New Jersey mayors at a meeting of the New Jersey League of Municipalities he outlined his plans, expectations and those of the voters as well. I despise progressive language they left, to try to create artificial barriers, with their class rhetoric.  If there is a class system in this country, there is what is often called a political class. Christie recognizes this fact, he used terms like the real world and the political world, and the lack of parity thereof: How state employees expect raises while those of us in the real world are being foreclosed upon.  He said, "At some point, there has to be parity between what’s happening in the real world, and what’s happening in the public sector world."He feels that his constituents are ready to make public sector sacrifices, he knows that we real people, are already making many sacrifices in our own lives, and are willing to make more in what we expect from local government in order to back away from the abyss. He was also issuing a clarion call to the public sector employees, that we the people support him, not them. He has already exempted the state monitors for the cassino’s if a strike happens, something the radical progressive WallStreet crony ( D ) Jon Corizine never did. This would spare 20,000 or more Casino workers from being out of work if the state workers strike, and the state can keep raking in their share from the casinos as well. They can go out on strike indefinitely, as far as I’m concerned, their income and pensions and medical care should be no better then the state wide averages, period. Christie continued, "What we're doing is showing people that government can work again for them, not for us. It has worked for the political class for much too long. "http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/we_have_no_choice_wxIpNUvmwoXQJWtIWrDxJJ Christie finished off with, "There's no time left. We have no room left to borrow. We have no room left to tax. Forget about the next election, the next newspaper editorial, the next angry letter or phone call from someone who wants something for nothing. It's time for us to show courage and resolve. We can do it -- because we are from New Jersey. And I have never, in all my travels around the country, met a group of tougher people." Well, if I owe Mike the cop, an apology I certainly owe one to Governor Christie, in my book (out in April) the Tea Party Papers at least 15% of the book or more is hyper critical of republicans, often I much harder on them the democrats, who are expected to be all big government. So since I was publically critical of Chris Christie I should be equally publically apologetic. Sir, I owe you an apology. If there is anything that I can do, to help with your efforts a heartily volunteer myself. Now to the other governor, if Christie is showing conservative republicanism at its best, then Governor Paterson is showing democratic corruption at it’s worse. Not a day goes by without a scandal. When he took the reins of government in New York following the fall of client number nine, Paterson paid lip service to fixing New York’s budget, but nothing happened. I will not accept the fact that the New York legislature is full of Silver’s cronies, of radical progressives, because so is New Jersey’s legislature, and that isn’t stopping Christie. Almost from his first days in office Paterson has been plagued with one scandal after another. And the only reason I have a little compassion for him, is because I know team Obama is out for him so even among his own equally corrupt party its open season on Paterson. New York needs a new governor, pronto. New York will continue lolling about the cliff face, and will eventually fall in like California if something doesn’t radically change in Albany. If the state of California with the seventh biggest economy in the world can fail, so can New York. In New Jersey my Tea Party friends and I are meeting with and vetting candidates for our legislature to help Governor Christie, because he can’t do it alone. New York must see that even with the best of Governors (which Paterson is not) by continually electing socialists, progressives and democrats to their legislature they will not clean up Albany. So New Jersey it turns out got themselves a bit of a hero. And New York got itself someone who soon may be soon facing criminal charges. The Tale of Two Governors.