Originally Posted by Rochard

I just don't get this. At all.

Politicians have a job, and "upper management" cannot just take a vacation when all hell has broken lose at work. In this case, the NJ state government is shut down which means all of the beaches and government services are shut down - over a holiday weekend. Instead of demanding everyone stay at their offices until this is resolved, the governor decided to go on vacation - to the very same beach that no one else can go to.

Didn't anyone in his office say "Gee, this might look bad".