Chris Christie is the governor of the state of New Jersey. He has held the position since 2010. He is a well-known politician, and was one of several candidates who ran for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency in 2016. He dropped out of the race in early 2016, however. Right now, New Jersey is having trouble passing its budget for the next year. When state lawmakers could not agree on the budget by midnight on Friday, Christie closed the government. Lawmakers must vote on a budget and send it to Christie for his approval. Many people who work for the state cannot go to work until a budget is passed, because the government cannot pay them. Police stations, public transportation services and hospitals remain open. But many state services are closed, including state-operated beaches. Many New Jersey residents planned to spend the weekend before the American Independence Day enjoying the water and sand. They were upset they could not go to state beaches with their family and friends. On Friday and Saturday, newspapers across the state published photos of people who had been locked out of state beaches and parks. Some people who were already camping in state parks on Friday were told to leave. One newspaper photographer decided to take photos from a different angle. He got in an airplane and flew over the closed beaches. He flew close to the governor’s summer house. The house is owned by the state and paid for by taxes collected from residents. It sits along a state-owned beach that, because of the shutdown, was closed to the public. Andrew Mills is the photographer. He wrote about how he got the photos for the website NJ.com. He said that he and an airplane pilot predicted that Christie and his friends and family might be out enjoying the closed beach. They were right. As Mills wrote: “There Christie was, with family and friends, on a long and empty stretch of beach.”
Title: New Jersey Governor Enjoying Beach Closed to Public
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1959/NJ_govt_shutdown.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='New Jersey Governor Enjoying Beach Closed to Public' data-article-id='2477'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5229'>Chris Christie is the governor of the state of New Jersey.</span> <span data-start-time='5229' data-end-time='9458'>He has held the position since 2010.</span> <span data-start-time='9458' data-end-time='23167'>He is a well-known politician, and was one of several candidates who ran for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency in 2016.</span> <span data-start-time='23167' data-end-time='28354'>He dropped out of the race in early 2016, however.</span> <span data-start-time='28354' data-end-time='34938'>Right now, New Jersey is having trouble passing its budget for the next year.</span> <span data-start-time='34938' data-end-time='44167'>When state lawmakers could not agree on the budget by midnight on Friday, Christie closed the government.</span> <span data-start-time='44167' data-end-time='51042'>Lawmakers must vote on a budget and send it to Christie for his approval.</span> <span data-start-time='51042' data-end-time='60792'>Many people who work for the state cannot go to work until a budget is passed, because the government cannot pay them.</span> <span data-start-time='60792' data-end-time='69271'>Police stations, public transportation services and hospitals remain open.</span> <span data-start-time='69271' data-end-time='76167'>But many state services are closed, including state-operated beaches.</span> <span data-start-time='76167' data-end-time='87708'>Many New Jersey residents planned to spend the weekend before the American Independence Day enjoying the water and sand.</span> <span data-start-time='87708' data-end-time='95271'>They were upset they could not go to state beaches with their family and friends.</span> <span data-start-time='95271' data-end-time='106813'>On Friday and Saturday, newspapers across the state published photos of people who had been locked out of state beaches and parks.</span> <span data-start-time='106813' data-end-time='114667'>Some people who were already camping in state parks on Friday were told to leave.</span> <span data-start-time='114667' data-end-time='122188'>One newspaper photographer decided to take photos from a different angle.</span> <span data-start-time='122188' data-end-time='127417'>He got in an airplane and flew over the closed beaches.</span> <span data-start-time='127417' data-end-time='132292'>He flew close to the governor’s summer house.</span> <span data-start-time='132292' data-end-time='139958'>The house is owned by the state and paid for by taxes collected from residents.</span> <span data-start-time='139958' data-end-time='148125'>It sits along a state-owned beach that, because of the shutdown, was closed to the public.</span> <span data-start-time='148125' data-end-time='151813'>Andrew Mills is the photographer.</span> <span data-start-time='151813' data-end-time='157896'>He wrote about how he got the photos for the website NJ.com.</span> <span data-start-time='157896' data-end-time='168875'>He said that he and an airplane pilot predicted that Christie and his friends and family might be out enjoying the closed beach.</span> <span data-start-time='168875' data-end-time='171021'>They were right.</span> <span data-start-time='171021' data-end-time='181125'>As Mills wrote: “There Christie was, with family and friends, on a long and empty stretch of beach.”</span> </p></div><div 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