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| March 7, 2015--Gov. Chris
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| Two New Jersey residents, Joe
Mangino of Beach Haven West and Lisa Stevens, of Little Egg Harbor,
briefly disrupted Christie's remarks, calling on him to expedite
recovery
efforts from Superstorm Sandy (+).
They
were
escorted
out,
and
Christie
drew
laughs
from
the
audience
stating,
"My
people follow me everywhere, Bruce, it's fabulous... I'm
magnetic, Bruce, they can't stay away from me." |
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| Responses
on
RFS and wind: Rastetter: What's your perspective on the RFS? Christie: Well I mean it is indicative of how the president doesn't understand that the Executive branch has to execute. You look at what's happened with the delays in RFS over the course of time--and Gov. Branstad, I was listening back stage, was just talking about it, mentioning it as well. The fact is that the law requires the president to establish RFS, and he should, and certainly anybody who's a competent president would get that done in their adminstration. It should get done, and I support it getting done. Rastetter: Okay so if you were president, you would support that? Christie: Absolutely, that's what the law requires, Bruce, so let's make sure we comply with the law. That should be the minimum. Rastetter: So what do you think of wind? Christie: Well I like wind, Bruce, but here's the thing. The problem is that this president has done energy as a one-off. Everything's a one-off. We do not have a national energy policy in this country, and it's wrong. We have extraordinary resources at our disposal and wind should be part of that portfolio, but we shouldn't do it one at a time. Let's talk about what we're going to do with greater oil exploration, greater exploration for natural gas, what are we going to do on coal, what are we going to do on solar and wind and other alternative energies. Let's do it all as one package. Right now the president's energy policy is a bumper sticker. He says "all of the above" and then he one-offs on things. So let's make it part of overall strategy, let's make it part of an overall strategy, and have a national energy policy that will do two things: help to increase economic growth--which we need in this country, above this anemic 2-percent growth--and it will strengthen us geopolitically to have more reliable sources of energy here at home to be able to export and to play a larger role geopolitically in this. |
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| Christie senior advisor Mike DuHaime arrives (followed by Rick Wiley who is leading Scott Walker's efforts). Phil Valenziano, the Iowa representative for Christie's Leadership Matters for America PAC, was also spotted at the Summit. Christie, making his eighth visit of this presidential cycle to Iowa, had no other announced events. |
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