John Montgomery Presents This Week's	July 15, 2000	Creep Logo by Alan Fraser
	Christine Todd Whitman
	Hey Big Boy, That's Not A Gun!

If I hadn't seen the picture, I wouldn't have believed it. The "moderate" Republican Governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, goes riding around with some cops who pick up a black guy off the street, whom they then hand over to the Gov to frisk? She not only frisks him but has a hell of a good time doing it, grinning like the Cheshire Cat on Ecstasy? The Governor who acknowledged her state cops were engaging in racial profiling and vowed to put an end to it? Say "No Way" Gov!

Way. She did it. The photo, which was made public in a lawsuit this week, is from 1996 when Christine went on one of those "Big Time Politician Demonstrates She's One Of The Boys" publicity stunts by riding with the New Jersey State Police in Camden, one of the poorest cities in the state. The cops pulled over Sherron Rolax, then 17, for "suspicious activity", which in New Jersey apparently means Driving While Black. They frisked Sherron, and after finding him clean, turned him over to Christine. The Gov then got her once-in-a-lifetime chance to touch a black guy, providing herself years worth of future fantasies. Sherron was not arrested and is now enjoying a reputation as the "Black Stud Who Got Felt Up By The White Governor".

Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union says the search was illegal and a violation of Sherron's civil rights. Christine says she doesn't know if it was illegal and didn't even think to ask.

The legality of Christine's frisking may be in question, but the intelligence of it is not. It was stupid. Grossly inappropriate, insensitive and unintelligent. Let's call it spatial profiling. She's always been regarded as The Enemy by the lunatic fringe right-wing extremists in her own party, like Pat Robertson, who disagree with her positions on abortion and gay rights. Now she's managed to piss off the lunatic fringe left-wing extremists, too. Al Sharpton, Professional Black Racist, is meeting with something called the Black Ministers Council of New Jersey to plot demonstrations, boycotts and other forms of white profiling. This creates a very sorry state of affairs: Christine has enraged politicians of every conceivable persuasion and I have to write about Al Sharpton two weeks in a row.

Christine has been mentioned as a possible running mate for George W Bush. She was always a long shot, due to Dubya's earlier selling out of his soul to Robertson and Company. Now, Christine has as much future on the political stage as Diana Ross and the Supremes have on the concert stage.

What does the future hold for Frisky Christie? She could follow Bill Clinton into retirement where they put their joint frisking talents to use on each other. Perhaps she could make amends to the black community by offering her hands as a special "outreach" program, frisking lonely black guys for a donation. And maybe we could put her police experience to work by frisking all three Supremes to root out those phony substitute ones.