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Greenpeace's whale rescue unit unsuccessfully tried to get his ass back into the water
The Republican governor defended his stay in the park amid the closures, saying his post gives him the perks of a residence at Island Beach.
“That’s because the governor has a residence at Island Beach. Others don’t,” Christie reportedly said at a news conference Saturday that came during the first day of the state's park shutdown.
“It’s just the way it goes. Run for governor and then you can have the residence,” he added, referring to a residence the Garden State has kept for their governors to visit since the 1950s.
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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