New Jersey may have Snooki and an unbearable stench, but Gov. Chris Christie is encouraging New Yorkers to move there because of something his state doesn’t have — Bill de Blasio.
The garrulous Garden State governor said during a speech to The Wall Street Journal CEO Council Monday that New York is going in the “wrong direction” — especially since de Blasio’s election as mayor — and that residents should consider a change.
“You see taxes being increased there,” Christie said. “You have a new mayor in New York who is aggressively talking about increasing taxes in New York City.
“While I feel badly for New Yorkers, come to New Jersey.”
The governor, who won a landslide re-election victory in November, also knocked Gov. Cuomo’s financial policies.
“I think, for instance, a state like New York is moving in the wrong direction,” he said at the event in Washington, DC.
The governor, a potential Republican candidate for president in 2016, is not the first politician to encourage New Yorkers to move to his state.
A Connecticut candidate for governor ran TV ads in the city last week encouraging New Yorkers to come to his state instead.
Republican Tom Foley also trashed Mayor-elect de Blasio for his plan to raise taxes among the wealthiest New Yorkers.
“Hey, New York City, with your new mayor, I know many of you are thinking about leaving,” Foley says in the commercial.
“Connecticut next year will probably elect a new governor. When it does, Connecticut once again will be the place people want to be in the Northeast.”
Foley predicted that the incoming super-liberal mayor would be a catastrophe for the city.
“We elected a governor here three years ago that was like-minded to your new mayor,” he told The Post. “It’s been an economic disaster for the state.”
Foley has formed an exploratory committee for a possible run against Democratic incumbent Dannel Malloy.
In the Washington, DC, speech, Christie also slammed both political parties for the ongoing dysfunction.
He said that “absolutist” Republicans have made it more difficult for the GOP to negotiate.
“All the people down here, from the president to the people in Congress who engaged in this stuff, failed by definition,” Christie said.