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Chris Christie (R-NJ) was hospitalized after experience difficulty breathing, related to asthma, his office says.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) was hospitalized with “difficulty breathing,” his office confirms to WNBC’s Brian Thompson.
Here’s a statement from Christie Press Secretary Michael Drewniak:
"Governor Christie was having difficulty breathing this morning and out of an abundance of caution he went to Somerset Medical Center to be checked out. In line with someone dealing with asthma, he is being given routine tests as a precautionary measure. The Governor is extremely grateful for the quality of care he is receiving this morning and has nothing but praise for the world-class doctors, nurses and staff."
*** UPDATE *** Thompson has more:
While it is not known if this is an asthmatic attack at this point, a source close to the governor confirms Christie has suffered from asthma for years.
"He carries an inhaler with him," this source told NBC New York.
He also noted that the governor's weight doesn't help his health issues.
***UPDATE*** WNBC's Pat Battle has more:
The Christie team is attributing this incident to complications from asthma. He will reportedly be released this evening and will return to the state house tomorrow.
His wife, Mary Pat, is expected to attend their son's baseball game tonight, as planned.
***UPDATE***
Christie has left the hospital. He tells reporters he will be back to work Friday.
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Gov. Christie will suffer the same fate as I Ayn Rand, she preached. Less is more government. She preached personal responsibility, you can trust cigarette manufacturers not kill its customers. You can trust the fat man to eat his way healthy. Fat chance! There is only two choices for Gov. Christie, that is a lap band or brain transplant. Without these two remedies, I am afraid Gov. Christie will die someday of his own hypocrisy, as his hero / mentor Ayn Rand. Her addiction to cigarettes killed her. She had no control over her appetites. You can trust corporations to make profits, it costs money to be considerate of the customers.
I don't care for Christie's politics, AT ALL....... but I wish him a speedy recovery all the same.
God forbid, Cadetduke!!
I don't wish ill well on people. In fact I adore people; but some people get what they deserve...based on who they are and how they treat their fellow human beings.
Hard to feel sorry for a political leader; whom actions shows no mercy for the ones that need their leadership for most.
GOD don't like ugly!!! Maybe when Christie feels better - he can be more compasionate towards his fellow human beings.
Maybe GOD is warning him to be more gentle, more kind and more fair - after all GOD giveth and he taketh.
Take notice GOP/TP political leaders - you can't continue to treat your fellow human beings like CRAP - and think you won't be punished.
No amount of money can pay GOD off!!!!
GOD SAID LOVE THY NEIGHBOR !!! Treat others as you would want to be treated - or you shall have a short life!
TRUTH - not CRAP
Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA
Indeed, Christie could care less about the people he's hurt and vilified since taking office. What about the families of all the public employees he's now hurt financially? On top of that he's created class warfare and vilified public employees for all evils caused by his rich Republican pals on Wall street! Sorry, but I don't shed a tear for this arrogant, lying, bully especially when he should know better. Seriously doubt he'll have an epiphany and change his ways.
Soldier,
That's a very cogent post.
Time for a diet maybe.it's obvious he's lazy.Lets not forget the limo ride from helicopter to baseball field and back to helicopter the walk would have done him some good.I was far from obesity but I was fat I recently went on a salad diet that included 3 miles on the treadmill everyday 3 months later Ive gone from 216 pounds to 186 pounds.while I do not like his politics somebody needs to tell this guy if he wants to see his son play ball in the future wake up an hour earlier get on the treadmil eat some salads if not for you but for your kids.We would rather beat you in your next election then have a special election cuz you ate your self to death.
Hello:
Has anyone like thought about Obstructive Sleep Apnea? Like duh, he's a set up given his obesity and thick neck, plus underlying asthma. I'll bet he goes home with a sleep apnea machine!
Sorry to hear he's STILL breathing. Anyone know where I can send a donation of double whoppers and a carton of cigarettes?
Are you a public school teacher in NJ? LOL!
Stay classy, BrainCandy. Stay classy.
Just curious but how old are you and your children? You're already on SS and you have college age kids? You also imply that the kids are going to college in the future. I take you are female, as you mention a 71 year old husband. You could be gay but then your kids would be adopted?
Are you in fact a paid troll just posting talking points on an item that concerns a man's health?
Get Well Soon Governor..we in NJ need you.
Been rushed to the hospital twice this year for irregular heartbeat and I'm in great shape. Not overweight. I don't wish hospital visits on anyone but Christie surely needs to go on a diet.
Rumor has it that Indiana governor Mitch Daniels proposed to him.
Thank goodness he has health care - wish everyone did !!!!
Seems like the "rising stars of the Repub Party"---Bachmann with the headaches, and now, Christie with the diabetes & asthma are fallin' apart. Bet they got nice, gov't/taxpayer-paid health insurance, unlike the rest of us poor slobs. Christie oughtta be doing some serious exercising & dieting, with NO GOOD EXCUSES for anyone to be that fat!
Christie oughtta listen to 1st Lady Michelle Obama, for sure...!
I know Governor Christie doesn't have a lot a disposable income with a large family and his low salary. But he needs to pay for the entire bill without goverment assistance. Look, times are tough I do not enjoy having to be the messenger on this. But I agreed prior to making this post that we need to make tough decisions. Thats what the people wish for me to post when they elected the governor. People having four kids and taking from the government dole has got to stop at some point. We just can't afford it. I'm sure the Governor and his detail can apply for some assistance down the road, fill out a bunch of forms, and go to his local pharmacy, wait for them to update the information because they never did receive it, receive a much more affordable cost effective inhaler that may or may not work if he is still conscouis by that time. Tough times call for tough choices.
Who's fattest, Chris Christie, Rush Lardbaugh, or Haley Barbour?
It seems that big mouths equal big waistbands. I would guess Lardbaugh because he has the biggest mouth.
Gov, if you seriously want to stay alive to run for office someday after your current role, lose weight and save your life! Read Gary Taubes "Why we get fat" CUT OUT THE CARBS AND EXERCISE! YOU WILL LOSE WT! This has been a warning that you ARE OBESE and need to lose wt for your family. Good luck.
can't breath ??? Dx-he's a big fat F*CKER who needs to drop at least 100 lbs !!! but frankly, I would prefer that he "gain" another 100 lbs !!! perhaps then the bastard will just "drop" dead !!!
Walk that hate @!$%# off and grow a pair kid or you will become that which you hate. Karma's a bitch.
The irony is that, if someone said that about Ted Kennedy, ideologues like smith 1 would be pitching a fit.
Oh, BTW, I hate to be the Newsvine Hall Monitor for this thread, but, death-wishing is, ah, frowned upon, to put it lightly.
dear Indy
this fat f*cker took a state helicopter to his son's ball game. I had no problem with that!!! but he puts his big fat ass into a limousine and is chauffeur driven 100 YARDS TO THE BLEACHERS !!! NOW THAT WAS A DAMN SHAME !!! christie is a fat ass and an ass hole !!!
P.S. the bastard left the game in the 5th inning, got back into his limo, drove 100 YARDS and FLEW OFF !!! he may be your hero but not mine !!!
Not my hero politically or otherwise, I can think of very little I agree with him on; but to wish ill health or death on political adversaries is a low I will thankfully never understand.
dear indy
christie is morbidly obese and he is at high risk for hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus and premature death !!! if he "kicks the bucket" it's his own fault !!! my telling him to "drop dead" will not affect his health in any way !!! however, he most certainly will kill himself if he continues to be A FAT F*CKER !!!
Now how does that read? How exactly is this any different from that pastor in AZ asking his congregation to pray that Obama gets brain cancer and dies?
dear A
christie is a repugnant bastard !!! President Obama is not !!! and once again, wishing death or illness upon someone will not make it so !!! I don't believe in MAGICAL THINKING AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU !!! these are figures of speech designed to express hatred and disgust !!! CHRISTIE IS A DISGUSTING FAT BASTARD !!!
De gustibus non disputandum est.
smith 1, my point was that your wishing death on Christie is the same in spirit as the pastor praying for Obama's death. If you believe that Jared Loughner shot Rep. Giffords because of overheated and violent rhetoric in the media, then it would do you (and your side) well to cool it. You hate Christie, fine, but if you find that can get yourself a visit from the Secret Service just by changing the name in an angry post, you cross a very dangerous line.
And besides, deathwishing violates Newsvine's CoH.
dear A
don't defend christie !!! he's not worth it !!! and as he is a public figure, he is fair game !!!
why you like this fat ass I will never understand !!! but, DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM !!! is the proper sentence and of course it loosely translates as "there is no accounting for taste" !!!
Armando baby
Ted Kennedy was target nr 1 of all conservatives, tons of negative and tasteless stuff was said, written and promoted against him. Christie would have to spend another 40 years in politics to even come within 20% of what Kennedy endured.
In this thread, I'm not posting as a political partisan, but rather as someone who interested in civility. Regardless of your political affiliations, wishing death on your political foes, as you and many others on thread have, frankly only serves to divide us, and, rather more dangerously, to excite the deranged, e.g. Jared Loughner.
Again, I fail to see the difference between the spirit of your post and the spirit of that Arizona pastor's prayers for Obama's death. The only distinction you seem to make is that you like one (Obama) and hate the other (Christie).
Deathwishing, whether online or off, is simply unacceptable in a democracy.
dear A
DE ASINI VMBRA DISCEPTARE !!! however, in the end I have no axe to grind with you so. ERGO BIBAMUS !!! but I don't appreciate threats !!!
Oh look, Govenor Fat Fattie having trouble breathing... no shocker there.
I don't intend for that to be "mean", but when your as fat as Christie... your a walking "Heart Attack Waiting to Happen".
I hope his doctors read the riot act to him and help him get his weight down. I do wish him well, regardless of his politics.
Get well Gov..we still need you!!
Chris Christy is as big a bully as there is -- no pun intended. Hopefully this will remind him that he's just as mortal as all those other folks who need the help that he has been busy taking away. But then again, he's republican and for some reason, republicans never mind seeing others suffer as long as it is the others. When he gets back, he will still be an unapologetic bad azz bully.
What does John Candy, Chris Farley and Christie don't have in common..one is still alive!
Yeah, when Keith Richards looks healthier than you you've got real problems.
Knew he wouldn't be around long looking at him, but had no idea about his asthma.
Get Well Soon Governor I may not agree with all your views but I know that Asthma is a horrible condition, My daughter suffers from this condition and so do I. God Bless.
Some of the comments here are pathetic (you know who you are and why). Granted he has weight issues that only exacerbate his health issues (I know, I've lost 190 lbs in the past 14 months), but I also wonder how much his job contributes to those same issues.
If you look at President Obama it is amazing how he's physically changed and he's probably the most physically fit President we've ever had. Presidents seem to age the same way dogs do.
STOP IT!! Don't you know that 'eat healthier and exercise' B.S. is just a big liberal conspiracy! Somebody get this man his double whoppers and cigarettes please... STAT!