Governor Christie: A Laugh Before Running!

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Another letter to the Honorable Chris Christie's Chief of Staff below! You have to give me passion points for trying! This is round-the-clock work, but I'm feeling good about it!!

I'll keep you posted!


----- Original Message -----
From: Tish Ferguson
To: rich.bagger@comcast.net
Cc: gearle@nypost.com ; jmargolin@nypost.com ; apeyser@nypost.com ; letters@nypost.com ; jcrudele@nypost.com ; wsj.ltrs@wsj.com ; rich.bagger@comcast.net ; susan.page@usatoday.com ; spage@usatoday.com ; jpodhoretz@gmail.com ; billoreilly@foxnews.com ; hferguson@unicef.org ; katecferg@gmail.com ; Scott Ferguson ; tish509@comcast.com
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 7:15 PM
Subject: Laugh before running! Go, Christie, Go!


Attention: Richard Bagger
Chief of Staff for the Honorable Governor Chris Christie
Cc: Editors, Writers, and Reporters I follow & respect!

Dear Rich,

There are literally thousands of Solyndra-Like Situations that we could end today. I'm offering to join a research team so we can list them all; force rank them; total the spending; report to the nation; and then eliminate the abuse one company/political donor at a time. Let me know if I can help!

Now - In keeping with Governor Chris Christie's terrific sense of humor, I'm asking him to run for the President of the United States of America so he can help us drive President Obama out of the White House and Washington, DC in one of those $40,000.00 Chevy Prius Hybrid Volt electric cars that GM created with $250,000,000.00 of our tax dollars. Yes - that's $250 million in taxpayer-sponsored funds on top of the $51 billion we gave them to reward their 'systemic corporate failures' in the form of Bailout Funds!

OR...

Perhaps the Governor can borrow George Clooney's $109,000.00 Tesla Motors premium electric vehicle which was created with $500,000,000.00 of Uncle Sammy's money. YES - that's a half billion dollars in taxpayer funds. Don't forget to drop by the Energy Department and make sure that George Clooney, Matt Damon and all the other electric car consumers received their $7,500 per purchase taxpayer-funded Alternative Energy Rebates - which are taxpayer rewards we give out when folks do their part to eliminate green gases, etc. in the atmosphere.

Oh and tell Governor Christie to pick up the execs @ that 'special company' who will have to show them where their Electric Car Fueling Stations are which they're 'supposed' to be building with the $130,000,000.00 in taxpayer funds we gave them to participate in the 'contrived' electric biz too.

If the Christie Campaign hyper-focuses on solutions for our economy and shows respect for the citizens who produce the tax dollars that are being funneled through the current 'invisible government' by all those nameless, faceless people, Governor Christie wins in a land-slide! So.... PLEASE Rich - pass this e-mail to Governor Christie and please continue your effort to convince your boss to run for President of the United States of America!

Finally, Brit Hume told Chris Wallace this morning that he wasn't convinced Chris Christie could win over the 'entire' conservative base given Christie's views on civil unions, gun control, etc. My response to Brit is that informed Republicans who can't work, eat or keep their lights on will 'give' on a few issues to 'get' our nation the leadership and help she needs!

Can Chris Christie win?! YES HE CAN because when it comes to the economy, business integrity, ethics, management courage and solutions - Governor Christie's ELECTRIC!

Important Note - October 31, 2007, USA Today reporter Susan Page wrote an article, 'A year before voting, a discontented nation.' I was part of a Gannett voter's panel discussion and Ms. Page wrote the following: Tish Ferguson, 48, a global recruiting manager, (@ Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.) says she "works in a market where we're worried about a recession." I knew during Ms. Page's panel discussion that the 'bubble' called the commercial mortgage-backed securities market was starting to burst; and execs in every financial firm knew that the bad investments banks had been underwriting and passing along to unsuspecting investors had started to spiral out of control. How did I know? I worked @ Citi Capital Markets & Banking and was accountable to Co-CEO's Michael Kline and Tom Maheras and the CMB businesses they co-managed. I had 85 job openings & my two recruiting colleagues had 175 on October 1st, 2007. All 260 jobs (worth approximately $40,600,000.00 in wages) were 'cancelled' on October 15th. The company would spend the next 11 months not hiring in the business/functional areas that caused the financial losses, but rather trying to manage this crisis inside Citi without a government bailout for 11 months.

The public and the media only got to see the end-result of the 'systemic corporate failures' that collapsed Lehman & Bear Stearns & inititated the bailout demands for AIG, Citi, Merrill and all the rest in September 2008. Most of these companies froze growth & hiring plans in an attempt to stop the bleeding & execute damage-control, but they failed and the economy collapsed anyway. Right now, the U.S. can't stimulate growth because the 'root causes' were not solved with TARP, Stimulus Plans, QE Mgmt, Fed policy, or any program the Government tried. Some of the bailout funds are actually being used to hide the slow-bleeding (think toxic mortgage assets not resolved) that never stopped inside these companies because Congress and the Obama Administration allowed many execs who caused their companies to fail decide how they would use the funds. How could the U.S. gov't hand out billions of dollars to hundreds of companies without tying the money to some kind of accountability or a set of standards & goals?

In closing, I've lived inside the job market for 24 years. What happens in the trenches I manage is 'a real-time leading indicator' of what's in store for each company, any economy and our country. I'm pleading with Governor Christie to run for President because right now there are no viable business solutions, no meaningful funding mechanisms, no creative ideas, and absolutely no end in sight for the Government-fueled 'UNCERTAINTY' in the market that is holding our economy and the lives of our citizens hostage. Without jobs, people suffer. Without leadership, the economy is lost and the whole nation suffers. That's it.

Go, Christie, Go!

With upmost respect,
Tish Ferguson
2404 Maria Place
Pt. Pleasant, NJ 08742
732-259-2780 - Cell
732-714-8483 - Phone