Christie: Beachgate blowback upset his children

Gov. Christie says the outcry over his decision to take his family to a beach closed during the state government shutdown, which launched a thousand Christie-in-a-beach-chair memes on the internet, upset his children “more than anything else” in his 7½ years in office.

The two-term Republican governor made the comments Thursday night during his regular radio call-in show on New Jersey 101.5 FM.

Christie took his family and a group of his children’s friends to the governor’s beach house at Island Beach State Park over the Fourth of July weekend, even though the park had been closed as part of the government shutdown that resulted from the Legislature’s failure to adopt a budget by July 1.

NJ.com sent a plane and photographer to the Shore and caught the governor and his family on the beach. Photos of Christie lounging in a beach chair sparked an outcry and inspired memes in which the governor was inserted into images of everything from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade to Georges Seurat’s painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte.


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/nj/chris-christie-beachgate-internet-memes-outcry-family-20170728.html


Some nice memes at the link. Reading the comment section is also highly entertaining. Gotta love Mid-Atlantic snarkyism