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<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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