TRENTON -- Gov. Chris Christie had a blunt message Friday for New Jersey residents who may have looked forward to his town hall meetings across the state: I don't have the energy right now.

Christie, whose been upping his town hall game in other areas across the country, had a pretty simple message for why he stopped hosting the events for the time being in New Jersey.

"I got tired of it, I'm just being honest with you. I got tired of it, so I didn't do it," Christie said during a Statehouse news conference.

The statement comes after Christie told New Jersey residents in February he planned to answer their questions during weekly town hall events until the end of June. However, the sessions dropped off and it's been six weeks since Christie hosted a Garden State town hall.

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"I just got tired of it during that period of time and I had a lot of other things I was doing, I was getting tired," said Christie. He added that it prompted a conversation with his staff.

"I said, 'Listen guys, I'm tired and when I'm tired I make mistakes.' You don't want to make mistakes, so that's what I did," he said. "I could you a million different reasons ... , I'm giving you an honest answer. I got tired and I said to the staff, like, 'I don't want to do it.' Well, they said, 'You promised to do one a week,' I said, 'Well, I did. I'm tired. I'm sorry.'"

Christie went on, jokingly, with the reporter who asked the question, David Cruz of NJTV: "No seriously, listen Dave, you stand up for two hours and do that, okay, and you tell me how you feel, buddy."

But Christie's town halls haven't completely stopped.

The governor has hosted more than a half dozen of the question-and-answer sessions in the early-voting states of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina in the last six weeks.

His next town how meeting is scheduled for June 30 in New Hampshire. He'll host the event hours after kicking off his presidential campaign in New Jersey at Livingston High School.

But, Christie said, it's still possible he could hold a New Jersey town hall over the summer as he campaigns for president.

"Now, I might do more over the summer," he said. "I often like to do those on the boardwalk in the summer ... it's a much more kind of upbeat atmosphere for me."

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