New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a likely 2016 Republican presidential contender, arrived in London today.
The Governor will reportedly be promoting his state’s life sciences industry, and is also scheduled to meet the Prime Minister.
The UK is the third largest trading partner for New Jersey after Canada and Mexico, and the trip will focus on pursuing new opportunities for growth between UK and New Jersey in the field of life sciences, Christie told reporters on Friday in embargoed remarks.
“One of the main objectives for the trip is to focus on the opportunities that exist between the UK and New Jersey and our country as a whole,” said Christie.
Christie will attend a life sciences round table in Cambridge with participation from New Jersey-based biopharmaceutical company Celgene.
He will meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the trip and watch football team Arsenal play Aston Villa on Sunday – but also hopes on Sunday to catch the Super Bowl, the biggest annual showdown of the U.S.’s National Football League.
“I’m looking forward to going to the Arsenal game and hopefully watch a bit of the Super Bowl as well and do the work we need to do to bring more jobs back to New Jersey by creating a stronger relationship between our state and our third largest trading partner,” Christie said.
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Must be nice to get paid a full time salary for a part time job. Did he forget that he works for the people of New Jersey?. He needs to stay here and fix the New Jersey that he destroyed. And how much is this trip costing the taxpayers?.
so now we have to pay for his trip to England??? this is a joke , isn’t it? What is wrong with this picture????? I give you one guess…..
My 2016 pick
John Kasich/Scott walker
Bring it on dems/liberals, Hillary!