Snows Over: Its Time to Let it Go

The snow has come and gone. Last week we asked Save
Jerseyans like yourselves to send us pictures of the huge snowfall
we received in the Garden State
and it was pretty
impressive. Some places got well over 20 inches. We were all
terribly inconvenienced for about 24 hours and then went back to
our lives. Everyone except the media that is. It seems they have
finally found a way to criticize Chris Christie, and its by
grasping at straws and blaming him for the weather. Not just any
weather, but a storm that wasn’t even all that bad! I understand
that Paul Mulshine couldn’t get litter for his otherwise well
trained cat, but for the most part, the roads were not that bad.
This is especially true when one considers the mess that was New
York City for days after the storm had come and gone. While the
snow has melted away, the media continues to stick, and they have
taken it to a point that I would never have seen coming. NJ.com
is actually posting analysis comparing this slightly
above average snowfall to Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil Spill.
That has to be the asinine thing I have ever read. In fact, I would
go so far as to say that the mere suggestion that the events are
even remotely similar is borderline offensive to those who were
affected in 2005 and 2010 by those disasters. We are talking about
life altering floods and economically destructive contaminations of
an entire region. Not 20 inches of snow that gave many people an
extra day off from work only to return to total normalcy soon
after. I do not know if it is simply a slow news week, or the media
truly enjoys making a mountain out of this mole hill. Instead of asking why New
Jersey continues to operate under an antiquated system of
succession for when a Governor leaves the state
, they
continue to pound away to once again hear Governor Christie stay
with his consistent response:

  1. The world did
    not end when the snow fell
  2. There is nothing he
    could have done in Trenton that he could not have done in
    Orlando
  3. He would make the same decision
    again

A few people are jumping on the
Governor for #3. But honestly? What would you do? You have a
vacation planned and paid for, there’s some snow coming your way
that doesn’t even come near the line of “natural disaster.” Would
you cancel your family vacation to Disney World? I think the honest
answer to that is “No” for any sane individual. The Governor should
simply leave this issue behind him and drag the media behind him
(kicking and screaming of course). There’s officially nothing more
to be said. The snow is gone. The storm was so 2010. It’s time to
move on to bigger issues in 2011, you know, like our huge budget
deficit, a tense redistricting process, a slow moving economy, and
school reform.

Brian McGovern
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Brian McGovern wears many hats these days including Voorhees Township GOP Municipal Chairman, South Jersey attorney, and co-owner of the Republican campaign consulting firm Exit 3 Strategies, Inc.