Christie to Town Hall Hecklers: ‘Sit Down and Keep Quiet or Get Out!’

Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) contended with several hecklers during a Thursday town hall at the Mount Laurel YMCA. Throughout the question-and-answer session Christie critics stood up and shouted at the governor over issues including the Bridgegate scandal and Hurricane Sandy relief funding. At one point, Christie stopped to shout back, “Either sit down and keep quiet or get out, one or the other. We are done with you.”

Ultimately police removed six protesters from the event, four of whom are students at Rowan University. “I’m here to say people still care about the Bridgegate scandal,” one of the students, 19-year-old Michael Brein told The Star-Ledger after he was forcibly removed from the building. “They still care about the misappropriation of Sandy money.”

“I really youthful enthusiasm, I really do,” Christie told the crowd as the protesters were being removed. “And these folks who come in here today, ginned up for their own partisan purposes, they’re get exactly what they want, because they get taken out, they get attention and then press follows them out and interviews them.”

“They don’t want an answer from me,” Christie continued. “If they wanted an answer from me, they would wait to be called on and I’d give them answer.”

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