NJ GOV: Corzine, Christie Take It To The Tweets
The increasingly ugly fight between Gov. Jon Corzine (D) and ex-US Atty Chris Christie (R) found a new home today: Twitter.
In a string of tweets from each camp's official feed, Christie slammed Corzine over unemployment and even his staff's proficiency with the now-ubiquitous microblogging service. Corzine hit back, finding a way to connect a typo with the corrupt political practices he's tried to associate with Christie since the start of the camp.
The battle began with this Corzine camp retweet:
@JonCorzine: "RT @PolticalCouncil Jon Corzine's financial experience helped PREVENT this economic downturn. He is working to keep NJ working."
Then came this snarky response from Chrstie's camp, which called the tweet an "epic fail":
@ChristieForNJ: "http://twitpic.com/dj320 - @JonCorzine Be careful what u tweet! NJ's unemployment rate has gone from 4.8% when you started to 9.2% today"
Corzine's camp did what most do in response to a gaffe like that -- throw a staff member under the bus. In this case, under the wheels went Corzine's new media director, Juan Melli. Corzine also used the "apology" to throw a little dirt:
@JonCorzine: "@christiefornj Oops! New media dir cut phrase to fit 140 chars. Almost as bad as awarding no-bid contracts to political cronies! -@juanmelli"
Christie then responded in kind:
@ChristieForNJ: "@joncorzine is 'Oops!' your response to NJ having highest property taxes in the nation? The ppl of our state are ready to #takebackNJ"
Christie may be right, but I'm guessing the people of NJ are equally as excited at the prospect of taking back Twitter once election season is over.
(EVAN McMORRIS-SANTORO)
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