Two Democratic state senators are working on a bill that would require the state’s governor to resign in order to run for president, which would force Christie to give up the remaining two and a half years he has left in his term if he wants to keep his presidential bid going.
State Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D), who is expected to be one of the bill’s sponsors said: “He's not doing the state any good by spending the bulk of his time out of state, and even when he's in-state, he's focusing on what he has to do to get elected president, which often runs contrary to what he ought to do for the state."
If the bill passes through the legislature, it faces the major hurdle of having to be signed by Christie in order to become law. The state legislature has never been able to get enough votes to override a veto since Christie took office in 2010.
Lesniak jokingly suggested the state’s lieutenant governor, Republican Kim Guadango, could sign the bill on a day Christie is out of the state.
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