Cutting the fat in government, New Jersey style
Fitness for Office
By GAIL COLLINS, NYT
Our topic for today is: How much do we care about physical fitness in an elected official?
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey recently had a cross-continental shouting match with Connie Mariano, a former White House physician who said that the governor’s weight is “almost like a time bomb waiting to happen,” adding, “I worry about this man dying in office.”
Dr. Mariano’s concern is probably not at the nail-biting, walking-the-floor-at-night level. After all, she lives in Arizona, and there must be tens of thousands of overweight executives in need of attention, scattered all over the landscape between there and New Jersey. The governor’s size also does not appear to be a pressing concern for the majority of his constituents, who currently seem so enamored that they’d vote him back into office if he was too large to get out of the upstairs bedroom without assistance from emergency responders.
The governor says he’s very healthy and that “there is a plan” for losing weight. But there is also a plan for totally funding the state employee pension system. I wouldn’t hold your breath.
(More here.)
Our topic for today is: How much do we care about physical fitness in an elected official?
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey recently had a cross-continental shouting match with Connie Mariano, a former White House physician who said that the governor’s weight is “almost like a time bomb waiting to happen,” adding, “I worry about this man dying in office.”
Dr. Mariano’s concern is probably not at the nail-biting, walking-the-floor-at-night level. After all, she lives in Arizona, and there must be tens of thousands of overweight executives in need of attention, scattered all over the landscape between there and New Jersey. The governor’s size also does not appear to be a pressing concern for the majority of his constituents, who currently seem so enamored that they’d vote him back into office if he was too large to get out of the upstairs bedroom without assistance from emergency responders.
The governor says he’s very healthy and that “there is a plan” for losing weight. But there is also a plan for totally funding the state employee pension system. I wouldn’t hold your breath.
(More here.)
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