Christie lashes out on Twitter on legal notices bill

TRENTON – Gov. Chris Christie rained down a Trump-style Twitter storm Friday evening, criticizing individual lawmakers who were skeptical of his newspaper “revenge bill," which will be voted on Monday.

The bill, which was was fast-tracked for a vote during the holiday season, would drop the requirement to publish legal notices in newspapers. Assemblyman John Wisniewski, D-Middlesex, who is a candidate in next year’s election for governor, has called the legislation Christie's "revenge bill," alleging that the governor is “seeking retribution for the public service New Jersey’s newspapers provided with their fair, in-depth reporting during the Bridgegate scandal."

At the same time, Christie is pushing legislation that would raise the salaries of lawmakers' staff, judges and other officials – while allowing Christie to profit from a book deal – which would cost $7.45 million this year and at least $10.6 million a year beyond that for county and state taxpayers, according to the Office of Legislative Services.

Christie said legal notices cost taxpayers $80 million, but that figure is disputed by statistics from the New Jersey Association of Counties and the League of Municipalities, and a 2011 report by the Office of Legislative Services, which calculated the legal notices bill would have "indeterminate" fiscal impact.

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