Poll: NJ voters feel state headed in wrong direction
JANUARY 13, 2015, 6:47 AM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015, 6:48 AM
BY HERB JACKSON
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT |
THE RECORD
As Governor Christie goes before the Legislature to deliver his annual State of the State speech today, residents are skeptical about his motives and increasingly pessimistic about New Jersey’s direction, a new poll says.
Just 36 percent of the state’s voters believe New Jersey is headed in the right direction, while 49 percent say it’s on the wrong track, according to the new PublicMind poll released today by Fairleigh Dickinson University. That’s a decline from last March, when 41 percent said right direction and 45 percent said wrong track.
The poll also found those who disapprove of the job Christie is doing exceed those who approve by 47 percent to 39 percent. In January 2014, those numbers were almost reversed, with 48 percent approving and 39 percent disapproving.
Entering his sixth year as governor, Christie will deliver the annual address required by the state constitution at 2 p.m. in the state Assembly chamber.
“This is the first time Governor Christie faces a public with numbers like these in regard to his leadership,” said the poll’s director, FDU political science professor Krista Jenkins.
Many New Jerseyans believe Christie has his sights set beyond Trenton.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/poll-nj-voters-feel-state-headed-in-wrong-direction-1.1191666
What does one expect when you have a mediocre governor that is rarely in state!
If you were Christie, you’d want the get the hell out, too. The ship’s going down, fast.
He is up against the state legislature which is controlled by the “tax and spend dumbocrats”
It’s Bush’s fault.
So in his “State of the State”, Christie said, “I believe in a NJ renewal which can help lead to an American renewal,” but there were no specifics on how to make up for what he called the “sins of the past”, including $78 billion in state debt and $130 billion in unfunded future pension & healthcare costs. Instead, he noted that job growth is below the national average, and the unemployment rate remains above average, and that it is only the state Legislature who can lower taxes further and make New Jersey more prosperous for our middle-class families and their children. These “sins” are structural and thus beyond his control… good luck cutting spending or lowering taxes with our union lackey legislature
https://watchdog.org/192832/christie-nj-pension-crisis/