{"id":2252,"date":"2016-05-27T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T22:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2016-05-27T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T22:36:33","slug":"christie-gets-warm-welcome-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/05\/christie-gets-warm-welcome-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Gets Warm Welcome on Seaside Heights Boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"ose-vimeo ose-uid-956df72bf2d55e6d821c1b993846b729 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Gov. Chris Christie Plays Boardwalk Games in Seaside Heights, NJ\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/168410172?dnt=0&amp;app_id=122963&title=0&color=00ADEF&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0&loop=0&autopause=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Chris Christie returned to Seaside Heights Friday to kick off Memorial Day Weekend and got a celebrity&#8217;s welcome, walking nearly the entire length of the borough&#8217;s boardwalk and posing nonstop for photos and handshakes.<\/p>\n<p>The appearance was all positive for the governor \u2013 no hecklers, no\u00a0protesters interrupted the party, which ended at the Beachcomber Bar and Grill following the boardwalk jaunt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2255\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Chris Christie tours the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2255\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2255\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_3-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Christie tours the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_3-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_3-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_3-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Christie tours the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2256\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Chris Christie tours the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2256\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2256\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_4-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Christie tours the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_4-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_4-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_4-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Christie tours the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;You and Trump, baby, you&#8217;re gonna take over the world!&#8221; shouted a supporter, as Christie greeted those strolling the boards and playing games.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of chants of &#8220;VP!&#8221; rang out, alluding to Christie&#8217;s chances of being selected as the vice presidential candidate to run alongside Donald Trump in this year&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2254\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Gov. Chris Christie takes a selfie with two young supporters on the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2254\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2254\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Chris Christie takes a selfie with two young supporters on the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Chris Christie takes a selfie with two young supporters on the Seaside Heights boardwalk, May 27, 2016. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Christie greeted mayors Anthony Vaz, of Seaside Heights, and\u00a0Robert W. Matthies, of Seaside Park, who walked the boards alongside him. Also in attendance was Ocean County Republican Chairman George R. Gilmore.<\/p>\n<p>While Christie was a hit with the crowd, his boardwalk game record was mixed \u2013 he was barely edged out in the water balloon game, scored an instant &#8220;touchdown&#8221; in the football toss, but missed out on his chance to win a prize by throwing a ball into a basket three times in a row.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was great,&#8221; said Robert Stecher, operator of the water balloon game, of meeting the governor. &#8220;I respect him, his policies, and I think he\u2019s going to be a great\u00a0part of Trump\u2019s team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2257\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_5.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Gov. Chris Christie and Seaside Heights Mayor Anthony Vaz. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2257\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2257\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_5-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Chris Christie and Seaside Heights Mayor Anthony Vaz. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_5-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_5-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_5-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk_5-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Chris Christie and Seaside Heights Mayor Anthony Vaz. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seaside Heights was the second stop of Christie&#8217;s day, which began on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk. Officials told Shorebeat that beach and boardwalk attendance was excellent on the first day of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Beach badge sales in both Seaside Heights and Seaside Park were handily beating last year&#8217;s figures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/05\/christie-gets-warm-welcome-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His luck at boardwalk games, however, was mixed Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[548,36,20],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-heights","tag-chris-christie","tag-seaside-heights-boardwalk","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/christie_boardwalk.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-Ak","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}