WATCH: Christie: 'I Got Tired' Of Town Hall Meetings, 'Had A Lot Of Other Things' To Do

Gov. Chris Christie once promised he would hold weekly town hall meetings before passing a budget.

So, why didn’t he follow through? Was it the traveling? Was it the pending run for the White House?

None of the above, he says in a video supplied by nj.com (see below).

“To be honest, I got tired of them, so I didn’t do it,” he said.

“I just got tired of it during that period of time. I had a lot of other things I was doing,” he said during a press conference held on the budget on Friday.

When a reporter pressed him on the subject, Christie got testy.

“You stand up for two hours and do that, OK? Tell me how you feel, buddy,” he said.

Christie has taken some heat for spending much of his time out-of-state, although the governor insists that’s been spending most of his time on state business.

According to northjersey.com, Christie said:

“I’m here almost every day. And so when I do a lot of that other stuff, developing national ideas, raising money, all that, that’s done on time that’s outside my work­day most of the time. And so the people that really affects are Mary Pat and the kids.”

Christie was out-of-state for all or part of 218 days in the first 518 days of his second term, and almost all of that travel has helped him lay the groundwork to run for president, according to a “Christie Tracker” kept by WNYC.

In 2014 alone, taxpayers reportedly paid $492,420 for his travel costs, according to New Jersey Watchdog.

And those costs could continue to climb as Christie prepares to run for the Republican nomination, and visits early 2016 primary and caucus states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. An announcement his plans is expected to come on Tuesday in Livingston.