Governor Chris Christie At The Roebling Town Hall Meeting-NJ Editorial Photographer

Gov. Christie also referred to what he is doing in Trenton as “turning Trenton upside down.”

”I’m going to Trenton now to turn Trenton upside down,” he said. “We have turned Trenton upside down.”

Gov. Christie added that although his job can be trying he doesn’t complain, especially because it was part of the deal he made with his wife before he became governor.

”I don’t complain about this job, not only because I’m afraid of my wife, and I am, but also because I love this job,” Gov. Christie said. “People say to me all the time, ‘your job must be tough,’ and I say, ‘no tougher than your job.’ The only difference between my job and your job, my job I’m reviewed every day on the front of the paper. Every one of you works hard.”

Gov. Christie repeatedly told the crowd that he is proud to be governor of New Jersey where he was born and raised.

The governor’s Jersey roots showed up when he got into a heated argument with a Mount Laurel resident during the question-and-answer period.

William Brown, a former Navy SEAL and second-year law student at Rutgers-Camden, politely at first, asked Gov. Christie to explain his support of the proposed merger between the Rutgers Camden Campus and Rowan University.

Mr. Brown asked the governor to consider nontraditional students like himself that are proud to call Rutgers home before deciding the merge the two schools.

Before the argument got heated Gov. Christie tried to explain that current Rutgers students would graduate with a Rutgers degree no matter what, however Mr. Brown was not satisfied with that answer and began interrupting the governor.

”You’re taking opportunities away,” Mr. Brown said. “Nobody at Rutgers wants it.” Gov. Christie said he wants to do this to provide a bigger and better university for people and added that Mr. Brown does not speak for everyone at Rutgers University.

After Mr. Brown continued to interrupt the governor’s answers, Gov. Christie moved on to the next questioner, but not before calling Mr. Brown an “idiot.”

”And let me tell you, after you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in a courtroom, your rear end’s going to end up thrown in jail, idiot,” he said. Mr. Brown was soon removed from the meeting by Florence Township police officers.