Is Chris Christie’s definition of“conservative” accurate in 2023?

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By Rubashov

Earlier this year, Mark Levin dissected this comment by Chris Christie:
 
“I don’t think Ron DeSantis is a conservative, based on his actions towards Disney. I mean, you know, where are we headed here now, that if you express disagreement in this country the government is allowed to punish you?
 
To me that’s what I always thought liberals did.”
 
Christie was criticizing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over his opposition to state government continuing to subsidize the Woke Disney Corporation and its advocacy for ESG in business and the Trans agenda in school curriculums. Levin, who has been asking Christie to discuss this on his show for quite some time, addressed Christie’s attack on DeSantis:
 
“Well Chris, you didn’t lay the case out properly.
 
It’s not if somebody expresses disagreement that you’re punished. This is a corporation that has a responsibility to the shareholders, not to changing the state of education and policy in the state of Florida. And it is a corporation that hasn’t been punished, it’s been subsidized for half a century. So, if putting it on an equal footing with all the other corporations in Florida – which is what capitalism is all about – and not subsidizing it – which is what conservatism is all about – how is that punishing them?”
 
To one degree or another, the current GOP establishment in New Jersey are all acolytes of Chris Christie. All followers of Christie during his eight years as Governor and – for a great many – up to and including today. If Chris Christie, their leader, is so confused about the meaning of the word “conservative” in 2023, how confused must they be.
 
Along with an enormous host of thinkers – Right and Left -- scholars at the Federalist Society have written about the threat to freedom posed by the modern Woke corporation. Disney is the embodiment of the excesses of the modern Woke corporation. The fact that Disney acts as an ideological wingman to Woke government policy, while being subsidized by government makes it a prime example of the corruption rotting out our political system.
 
Apparently, Chris Christie doesn't see this. Christie sees a corporation, believes corporations are good, and that money should have its way. If your perspective is that of an ideological conservative, Chris Christie places himself on the wrong side of the so-called culture wars, the wrong side of the battle for parental rights, and the wrong side in the effort to defend freedom from the modern corporate state.  
 
Christie’s slander against Ron DeSantis – arguably the most dynamic conservative Governor in America – is reminiscent of the attacks made by GOP establishment “language pimps” against grassroots conservatives in New Jersey during the recent primary. The use of money from Biden-backing unions and Trans advocacy PACs to question the conservatism of grassroots conservatives is now standard operating procedure in New Jersey. Apparently, Christie seeks to take it national.
 
During a recent segment of The Mark Levin Show, Levin asked what Christie did for a living: “What does Chris Christie do for a living? I don’t know. Does anybody know? Anybody have any idea what Chris Christie does for a living?”
 
Chris Christie is a lobbyist. His lobbying business is called Christie 55 Solutions. He is listed as the Managing Partner. His wife, Mary Pat Christie, is listed as a Partner.
 
Rich Bagger – the former Mayor of Westfield, Assemblyman, Senator, and Christie’s gubernatorial Chief of Staff – is a Partner and Executive Director. Bagger is an alumnus of Big Pharma, where he “led state, federal and international government relations and public policy for both Pfizer and Celgene.”
 
Rounding out the Christie 55 Solutions stable is Bob Martin, the Managing Director. Martin served in Governor Christie’s cabinet as Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection. From 2010 to 2018, Martin ran that regulatory octopus. Today, his work at Christie 55 Solutions includes servicing clients involved in “renewable energy”, specifically “offshore & onshore wind, solar, battery storage and hydrogen”.
 
According to its website, Christie 55 Solutions “represents corporate, government and association clients on a wide range of issues across numerous sectors of the economy. We develop and execute customized strategies and action plans based on each client’s business objectives and public policy priorities. The firm’s current practice areas focus on Business Strategy & Transformation, Crisis Management & Communications, Disaster Response & Recovery, Environmental & Land Use Strategy & Regulations, Financial Services, Government Relations & Public Policy Strategy, Health Care, Life Sciences, Utilities & Energy, and Transportation & Infrastructure.”
 
The former Governor commands rather large sums from his clients – such as pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk. The quarterly report below indicates a payment of $120,000 for lobbying the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services with regards to “regulation with respect to coverage of drug categories in Medicare Part D.”   

Novo Nordisk is one of the corporations we wrote about earlier in the year with regards to ESG, which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. ESG is like the social credit score they use in places like Red China. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, calls ESG “a direct threat to our American way of life.”
 
President Donald Trump called ESG a “woke financial scams” and “radical left garbage”, adding: “The entire ESG scheme is designed to funnel your retirement money to the maniacs on the radical left.”
 
We wrote about Novo Nordisk because it is an ESG client of Assembly candidate Mike Inganamort. He is a partner in a company whose business is ESG. The company is called ASG Advisors and it advertises itself on its website as a means for its corporate clients to “drive social change.”
 
Inganamort’s company calls itself a “specialized ESG practice” advising companies “on Environmental, Social & Governance strategy, reporting and disclosures, and thought leadership.” Its specialized areas include: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Inclusive Prosperity; Gender & Women; Education, STEM & Up-Skilling; Circular Economy; Conservation & Natural Resources; Youth; Civics & Public Service; Democracy & Freedom.
 
Small world. 

“It was a thoughtless, mindless action… It’s really disturbing to think that the kids were targeted.”
 
Dr. Paul Saxton, Fort Lee School District

 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell

 

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