Barbara Buono: Christie Runs A Bully State

Barbara Buono, the Democrat who lost to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in November, had some withering comments not only for the governor but his deputy in a brief interview with the New York Daily News:

Buono said Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno is “very heavy-handed” and an enforcer in an administration that fosters “a culture of fear in Trenton.”

“They don’t hesitate to smear and bully people,” Buono told the Daily News. “Kim Guadagno has a history of calling into question the integrity of people who are just trying to do their jobs.”

As an example, Buono cited Guadagno’s public claim in 2011 that a state-funded arts group might have fraudulently doled out $300,000 in grants — a charge that was later refuted after a seven-month investigation.

Asked if this was just griping from a failed gubernatorial candidate who lost to Christie in November by a landslide, Buono chuckled.

“If I were the only person calling them bullies it would be one thing,” she said. “But now we’ve had three mayors speaking out about how the Christie people operate.”

The three — all Democrats — are the mayors of Fort Lee, Jersey City and Hoboken.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.