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Chris Christie’s Biggest Legislative Critic Nearly Struck By Lightning

Doug Mataconis · Friday, July 8, 2011 · 3 comments

In the days after the budget battle ended in New Jersey, Democratic Senate President John Sweeny called Governor Chris Christie a “rotten prick” and said he wanted to “punch him in the head.”

Yesterday, this happened:

Lightning Almost Hits Christie Foe On TV: MyFoxPHILLY.com

Don’t mess with this guy Christie, I’m tellin’ ya.

FILED UNDER: US Politics, Chris Christie, New Jersey, television

About Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis held a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May 2010 and contributed a staggering 16,483 posts before his retirement in January 2020. He passed far too young in July 2021.

Comments

An Interested Party says:

Friday, 8 July 2011 at 19:09

While this is amusing, I wonder what Christie’s chances of reelection are…
Tsar Nicholas II says:

Friday, 8 July 2011 at 22:23

Karma.
matt says:

Sunday, 10 July 2011 at 01:06

Stand outside like that during a storm in my home town and you’ll have several of those occur in a matter of minutes…