. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM : DISASTERS: HURRICANES : UNITED STATES: STATES: NEW JERSEY : POLITICAL: PARTISANSHIP : POLITICAL SCANDALS: For Christie, Awkward Return to a Setting He Once Ruled . . For Christie, Awkward Return to a Setting He Once Ruled By MICHAEL BARBARO FEBRUARY 20, 2014 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/nyregion/hurricane-sandy- aid-not-bridge-scandal-is-focus-as-christie-meets-voters.html . A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/pr3hyq9 . .For the embattled Mr. Christie, bogged down by scandal and dogged by investigations, Thursday was supposed to represent a defiant, maybe even triumphant, return to the town-hall-style meeting, an intimate and comfortable setting in which he could bathe in the adulation of his fans and unleash harsh denunciations of anyone foolhardy enough to challenge him.
.Over the course of four years, and 110 of the cozy sessions all recorded by aides and quickly uploaded for consumption by his fast-expanding audience Mr. Christie transformed himself from a little-known former prosecutor into the public face of New Jersey, a national emblem of straight-talking government, and the most forceful presence in the national Republican Party.
.But the two-hour forum here near the Jersey Shore on Thursday, his first since controversy enveloped his administration, demonstrated just how difficult it will be for Mr. Christie to quickly recreate the political magic that once seemed certain to put him in contention for the White House.
.The man who once commanded these rooms just by walking into them seemed unmistakably mortal.
.The event, which was delayed several times by snowstorms, took place in Monmouth County, a location carefully selected to highlight Mr. Christies leadership in recovering from Hurricane Sandy. The county was hard-hit by the hurricane, but the governor carried it overwhelmingly in his re-election last fall.
.Yet Mr. Christie arrived amid a flurry of protesters, who waved placards mocking his administrations role in lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, demanding his resignation over the imbroglio and reminding him that even his musical idol was angry about the issue.
. Hey Gov, read one, Bruce Springsteen hates you. .Once inside, amid the brown folding chairs and white linoleum floors of a local V.F.W. hall, Mr. Christie encountered fury on an entirely different, but no less intense front: from homeowners inflamed by the pace of recovery from the hurricane.
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