Martha Stewart’s Mad at Christie. Why? Pigs.


Earlier this month, actress Kerry Washington spoke out against Chris Christie. Now the governor has another celebrity on his case. Martha Stewart has written a letter to the New Jersey legislature–she’s a Garden State native–slamming Christie’s decision to veto a bipartisan bill that would have blocked the “confinement of gestating pigs from being confined in a box that practically immobilizes them,” as Politicker NJ describes the legislation.

“These animals have committed no crime, yet they’re treated worse than even the most violent criminals would be treated. No prisoner in our state – or country, for that matter – is kept in a cage so small he can’t turn around for months on end,” she said.

The veto, she suspects, was in no way a nod towards New Jersey slaughterhouses–the practice doesn’t seem to be underway there–but to a certain small midwestern state that wields completely disproportionate control over electoral politics. “Gov. Christie decided to veto the bill after hearing from out-of-state (read: Iowa) pork interests,” Stewart writes. Stewart was a donor to Barack Obama and Sen. Chuck Schumer in recent elections. [Politicker NJ]