Chris Christie 'More Than Happy' to Send Nurse to Maine After Ebola Scare

Chris Christie 'More Than Happy' to Send Nurse to Maine After Ebola Scare

by Charlie Spiering 27 Oct 2014, 9:28 AM PDT

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/27/Chris-Christie-More-Than-Happy-To-Send-Nurse-To-Maine-After-Ebola-Scare

Governor Chris Christie appeared more than willing to export a quarantined nurse from New Jersey to her home in Maine, following a storm of controversy this weekend over how health officials treated her.

"The plan from my perspective is if the medical folks there want to let her go, and we have a safe way to transport her from New Jersey to Maine, then I’d be more than happy to have her go home because that's where she'll be most comfortable," Christie told reporters Monday in Florida.

The nurse, Kaci Hickox, will be transferred to her home via private transportation, where Maine officials will have to determine how to handle her quarantine.

Christie pushed back against the idea that he was backing down from his instated 21-day quarantine policy.

"I was not going to back off for a moment, until we had confirmation on all that, just because she didn’t want to be there," he said. "I know she didn’t want to be there. No one ever wants to be in the hospital, I suspect."

Christie appeared comfortable erring on the side of caution in the weekend fiasco, after the nurse publicly complained about her treatment.

"The fact is I’m not going to step away for a minute from protecting the people of my state and our region. ... My obligation is to all the people of New Jersey, and we’re just going to continue to do that," he said. "The critics are the critics. No matter what you do, there will be critics, and you don’t worry about that. You worry about doing what’s right for the people you represent, and that’s what we’ve done."

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