TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie isn't going to give his opinion on the most recent controversy taking the political world by storm. At a news conference in the Statehouse today, a reporter attempted to ask Christie about U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who admitted Tuesday to sending lewd photos of himself to women he met on the Internet, as...
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) arrives on Capitol Hill in this 2010 file photo. Gov. Chris Christie wouldn't discuss Weiner today. On Tuesday, Weiner admitted to sending lewd photographs of himself to women he met on the Internet.TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie isn't going to give his opinion on the most recent controversy taking the political world by storm.
At a news conference in the Statehouse today, a reporter attempted to ask Christie about U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who admitted Tuesday to sending lewd photos of himself to women he met on the Internet, as the press conference was wrapping up.
Warning that they were going to back into a question, the reporter began by asking what Christie thought of "internet usage by public officials."
"There is no chance," Christie interrupted, drawing laughter from the presser corps. "I fear where you are getting to which means there will be absolutely no chance I'm going down that road. No way"
"Listen, New Jersey has often been on the receiving end of those type of stories. I use to hate it when you had politicians from other states who would feel the uncontrollable desire to comment on those type of things. I always felt it was kind of out of bounds to be commenting on those things. So you can count on the fact that you're aren't going to hear anything from me."
When the reporter tried to interject and rephrase the question, Christie added laughed and cut them off.
"Don't even try, no, no no, — about anything surrounding it, anything in the vicinity, in the radius, I'm not answering," Christie laughed. "I'm not doing it."
Christie is frequently asked by members of the press to weigh in on national stories. He rarely takes the opportunity.
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