Comments on: Christie to Republicans: put marriage on the ballot, the people will vote for it

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:52:15 +0000

If he truly “didn’t care”, he could just ignore it. He clearly cares. He characterizes a win for marriage equality as a loss for him personally. Although gay marriage is up nationally and in New Jersey, it’s still far from certain if it goes to the polls, and Christie knows this. We here in California we up, way up in the polls in the Summer of 2008 and then NOM and the rest of them came in with their lies and we got hammered. Same thing happened in Maine. The fact is, we could be looking at losing in Maine again in 2012, plus Washington and Maryland, *and* the Oval Office and the Senate. If that happens, much of the gay rights progress of the last three years will backslide.
Or, lots and lots of good things can happen. Time will tell. The only think I know for certain is Christie doesn’t know what “magnanimous” means.

By: Lindoro Almaviva

Lindoro Almaviva — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:50:54 +0000

magnanimous my purtorican ass.

\Yes, you have my permission to delete this comment. Someone had to say it.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:44:22 +0000

He’s ducking. If it was so assured of passage, he could just make bowing-to-the-inevitable noises, sign it and be done with it. At this point, he obviously doesn’t want to touch it.

Keep in mind that there’s a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that the state must grant equal status to same-sex couples, which could in all likelihood be used to challenge his veto and/or a referendum.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:50:02 +0000

Just don’t sign the bill and it will become law regardless. That way he can be free to ignore it

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:34:42 +0000

yes, I think it’s 45 days.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:31:45 +0000

He is being less magnaminous as long as he insists on treating this law differently from every other law the New Jersey legislature deals with each and ever year.

If he wants to be just as “magnaminous” with this law as with every other law, all he has to do is treat it like every other law: sign it, veto it, or let it become law without his signature (which, I may be mistaken, but I think he has that option as well).