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NJ Senate President: Christie’s Veto Of Marriage Equality Is ‘An Embarrassment’ | New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D) ripped into Gov. Chris Christie (R) for vetoing legislation extending marriage right to gays and lesbians in a piece published on Saturday on the Huffington Post and pledged to “override the veto.” Describing Christie’s decision as “[d]riven by national ambition that would rather seem him be president (or vice president) than do what is right,” Sweeney called the governor’s conditional veto — which would appoint an Ombudsman to ensure that the state’s existing civil unions law is being properly enforced — an “embarrassment.” “Governor Christie was actually advocating for a taxpayer-paid position whose main function would be to continue our state’s failed policy of discrimination,” Sweenedy wrote. “The governor would have been better off simply vetoing the bill — his new conditions are frankly an embarrassment.”