He can say goodbye to the Republican nomination then:
"Governor Chris Christie hurts ties with N.J. mentor; Maneuvered against his son" by Angela Delli Santi | Associated Press, November 17, 2013
TRENTON, N.J. — Governor Chris Christie seldom makes a political miscalculation, as even his adversaries acknowledged after the incumbent Republican rolled to 60 percent of the vote to win reelection in a heavily Democratic state.
But when the likely 2016 presidential candidate maneuvered to dump Tom Kean Jr. as state Senate Republican leader two days later, he suffered a rare defeat — and alienated the lawmaker’s father, Tom Kean Sr., a GOP elder statesman and popular former governor who gave Christie his political start....
Also a co-chair of the 9/11 Cover-Up Commission.
Christie often refers to Kean as a mentor, and Kean has stayed involved in Christie’s ascending career. He advised Christie in his first political race, put in a good word for him when George W. Bush was looking for a US attorney in New Jersey, raised money for Christie’s gubernatorial campaigns, and spoke at his Nov. 5 reelection celebration....
The question of Christie’s loyalty has been raised before. His Republican National Convention speech was panned as self-serving as the GOP was rallying behind Mitt Romney. His allegiance to Romney was doubted again when he embraced President Obama days before the 2012 election.
The hug, which came while Obama toured the Hurricane Sandy-battered Jersey shore, drew such fury that Christie was forced to do damage-control with calls to News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch and other influential Republicans....
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