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Chris Christie (R, NJ) zeros out faith-based program!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 13th, 2010 at 08:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Sixty-five million dollars’ worth. The entire budget, in fact:

Gov. Chris Christie is taking $65 million, the entire allocation, from the state’s global warming fund, and $5.9 million, from the toxic waste site cleanup program, to help close the over $10 billion deficit in his $29.3 billion 2010-11 state budget, the state environmental protection commissioner said Monday.

In discussing the Department of Environmental Protection’s proposed $380.6 million budget before the Assembly Budget Committee in Trenton, Commissioner Bob Martin said he hopes the loss of the $65 million, funding for the state’s role in a regional effort to combat global warming, will only be for one year. He told the committee that DEP staff will continue to attempt to work against global warming and so-called greenhouses gasses despite the lack of money.

(Via Cubachi, via @MelissaTweets) I am confident that Bob Martin will be able to continue working against global warming. In fact, I am confident that he will be just as successful at it this year as he was last year: and you may take that statement any way that you like.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Tbone

    to help cover the deficit.

    “Commissioner Bob Martin said he hopes the loss of the $65 million, funding for the state?s role in a regional effort to combat global warming, will only be for one year.”

  • snowshooze

    That’s just great!

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    Love the title. And you’re exactly right.

  • mirs

    I read your title. Read the article. Read the title again. Laughed.

  • http://www.amazon.com/Wade-Arnold/e/B002RHGZAS/ref=ep_sprkl_at_B002RHGZAS?pf_rd_p=479564851&pf_r Wade

    This guy is doing what so many Republicans are afraid to do- cut these bogus programs and not worry about all the flack their going to get from the media. A small minority will be “up in arms”, but do enough of this and the nut jobs won’t be able to bring enough attention to any one thing. Hey, come to think of it, that’s what Obama is doing, except he’s going against the majority. It’s high time someone with an (R) next to their name did the same.

  • EagleWatcher

    This man has guts.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    1. He has to prove himself able to win re-election first.

    2. Moe will eat your soul if you take him from NJ before he serves two full terms.

  • Common_Cents

    Go Gov Christie!

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Never mind. :)

  • qixlqatl

    vastly exceeding my expectations.

    Good luck and Godspeed, Governor.

  • Wing Zero

    You’re getting to be as bad as Louisiana voters.

    By the way… Bob McDonnell can only serve one term. Ya’ll can draft him for whatever then.

  • Locked and Loaded

    when, thanks to this man’s leadership, NJ recovers … and I live in Oklahoma!

  • danasdaddy

    No way Christie would de-fund a faith-based program. Then I read the post and just about had to buy myself a new keyboard. (Luckily I turned my head first.)

    Anyway, it’s nice to see that Christie’s guts extend further than taking on the unions. At this rate, he’ll be gunning for every lefty sacred cow before he’s done. Maybe he can teach a thing or twenty to some of our “leaders” in DC…

  • cringinghere

    Yeah, at first that title threw me. I’m thinking “faith-based… wha?” Then it hit me. Good stuff.

  • m_quick

    Is it wrong to love another man?

  • marie_a

    this new NJ governor continues to talk and walk in the light.
    Now to work for more Chris Christie’s to do right in every other state of the union. It starts at the local precincts folks, where we can begin to
    stop the waste, detangle regulations, free our citizens to care for their families and steward, not worship, natural resources.

  • tankertodd

    It’s absolutely insane that this was in the budget in the first place. What road doesn’t get fixed to pay for this fiction? What school doesn’t get quality teachers because of this? Or better yet, how many employees could businesses hire when this money is returned to them?

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    Help a flagging economy by defunding the agencies standing on the neck of that economy!

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Although I suspect that our current example of ‘promote every two years or so’ in the Oval Office will teach people in both parties to not rush things for a long, long time to come.

  • Next93

    Has he *ever* bowed to a foreign dictator?

  • roscopico

    …just a squish taking advantage of Corzine, the unfortunate timing of the corruption scandals, the bad economy (oh no, no, no…it’s just the economy, not the Leviathan that is NJ state government, unions, schools, etc.)

    The guy said he’d bust heads, and by golly that’s what he’s doing. Here in the land of Cheese and Beer we admire the Messingkugeln of a guy who does what he says.

    I can’t wait for Scott Walker to take the helm!

    And if perchance you read this entry, Moe, funniest post of the week!

    Well done, sir!

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    doing Raymond Burr doing Perry Mason.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Matthews

  • jcincy

    “Commissioner Bob Martin said…”

    What will it take to return Commissioner Bob’s salary back to the people?

  • rfpzzzzz

    This guy is the greatest. Take that you, food nazis!

  • revivefederalism

    unfortunately, obama will overcompensate by bending over backwards for them instead

  • davesinsanantonio

    Some men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. That is what the so-called leaders of the party will do. There are non so blind….

  • davesinsanantonio

    Can we still envision what this country could be like if money wasn’t wasted on such nonsense, and if the self-righteous do-gooders would mind their own business instead of trying to control every aspect of our individual lives? Do these people even understand what liberty means, or how wonderful it can feel? I sure hope we can get back there someday soon. Wouldn’t it be terrible if all we could do was tell our grandkids how it used to be?

  • indyjohn

    to see an accounting of the $65 million expenditure? The list of PC, greenie-weenie, feel-good, do-nothing-but-make-work-for-bureaucrats programs would probably make you laugh out loud, even on tax day.

  • dmartin

    Taking 65 million out of their budget is a good start, 380.6 million would be just about right.

    The same is true at the federal level. a better example of a net negative in terms of benefit than the EPA would be hard to find. (or maybe not, the same could be said for the whole d@*n bowl of government alphabet soup.)

  • renny

    program that was getting tens of millions, and I wonder exactly what it did or was doing?

    I don’t see any temp. changes in NJ here.

  • Achance

    Often things like this Global Warming function get started with a federal grant. During Clinton, aided and abetted by Republican profligacy, the US started all sorts of grant programs to states and polisubs, usually just enough to pay one or a few staffers for some study, investigation, monitoring, training program. Of course, all of them were the sort of things that Democrats gravitate to so these grants gave nice little sinecures to all sorts of Democrat activists, a good thing when your party is out of power at the federal level.

    Where there was Democrat control or where the Republicans were blinded by the federal funds, these little one or two person offices blossomed into $60 MM sections or divisions. $60 M will give you quite an operation in a state government, especially if you can get your infrastructure functions performed by another agency or by a central infrastructure division.

    Republican legislators just can’t seem to get it through their heads that there is almost NO free federal money, almost all of it requires a match from your funds. They also don’t seem to grasp that most federal funding is for things that DO NOT serve Republican constituencies and which are normally staffed by people who will never support a Republican. So, why would you want to employ or serve such people?

  • polaedra28

    Like others, you had me going there. Nice to see some movement in the right direction. We need all we can get, especially now.

  • PoliPundita

    After all, you can hardly blame those who put up with Edwin Edwards for four terms for wanting to keep a decent governor for a couple of terms.

  • agcam

    The school cuts are getting all the press to the point that it is portrayed by the press that is all that is being cut. We need more of the fat man front and center!!

  • indyjohn

    I just read in Popular Mechanics that the Energy Department gave Fisker and Tesla a combined total of about $1 billion in loans to create the new generation of alternative energy autos. Since when have bureaucrats been good judges of where the taxpayer’s money should be ‘invested’? When the Feds have the power to choose winners and losers, we are well on our way to becoming a Banana Republic.

  • tankertodd

    Folks love to make a buck. Let them invest in the electric auto. If they won’t back it, why the heck are we? It must be a money-loser, or it’s run by knuckleheads that experienced capitalists don’t trust to win for them. Why is the government the idiot investor of last resort???

  • Wing Zero

    Christie is like Tony Soprano… only smarter and on the right side of the law…

    and no Russian Girlfriends…. we hope.