Move on. Fat man will not be president so why continue to about it?
He's still the Repug choice for front runner. Kock Bros and the puppet Rove and his orgs are for Christie. and Bishop Gecko was praising Christie at the Repug mucky muck meeting.
but Fat Bas 's candidacy is not the point now. The point is pursuing his gang, his sycophants, and very probably him for the GWB fiasco.
More Damning Signs of Chris Christie's Corruption
A Bergen Record report uncovered a series of potentially questionable real estate deals conducted by Chris Christie’s brother, Todd Christie (whom you may recall from his defensive Facebook posts). The deals in question concerned a handful of properties that are within walking distance of the Harrison, New Jersey PATH station, which just so happens to be in line for a $256 million renovation funded by the Port Authority.
A Tuesday Star-Ledger report raised some serious questions about how Christie has been using the $1.8 billion in federal government funds he was given by Congress to repair damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy. While these funds are explicitly to be used only for storm repair, the Star-Ledger found that as much as $6 million from the fund was doled out for a development project in the town of Belleville that was in the works long before Sandy hit. Incidentally, the Democratic mayor of Belleville, who strongly supported said development project, went on to endorse Christie’s reelection less than two weeks after the Sandy funds were given.
A Wednesday New York Times report took a harder look at Christie’s political operation and found more than a couple people who were deeply skeptical of Christie’s claims of complete ignorance over the closure of lanes at the George Washington Bridge. According to the Times, Christie’s team used a sophisticated and thorough system to track and categorize New Jersey mayors whom they wanted to endorse the Republican in bent. More importantly, the Times discovered that Christie’s political operation was hardly walled-off from his governing, and painted a picture of Christie as a details-oriented and hands-on executive.
Passing somewhat under the radar, another New York Times report from earlier this weekshared the story of Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno’s “smear” campaign against artist and government contractor Daniel Aubrey. Guadagno, you’ll recall, is the woman Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer has accused of transmitting Christie’s message that Hoboken would not receive the level of Superstorm Sandy recovery funds it required until Zimmer agreed to approve a private development deal the governor favored.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney appeared on Fox News on Tuesday and defended Christie from charges of being a bully. He argued Christie wasn’t a bully so much as a strong leader. As a historical comparison, Romney likened Christie’s governing style to that of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. For those who don’t know (which apparently includes Romney) LBJ is famous for, among other things, being a world-historical bully.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...tter952778&t=3
Chris Christie’s former lawyer will lead ethics agency investigating his staff
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/chris-christies-former-lawyer-will-lead-ethics-agency-investigating-his-staff/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Holder Obama stuff there eh?Chris Christie’s former lawyer will lead ethics agency investigating his staff
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/chris-christies-former-lawyer-will-lead-ethics-agency-investigating-his-staff/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
that's the NJ STATE ethics agency, not NY/NJ US Attorneys
How Pressure Mounted for Development in Hoboken
The Christie administration has denied ever linking the Rockefeller project to hurricane relief, an accusation that is now under federal investigation.
But whatever the outcome of the inquiries, the emails and interviews make clear that the development-wary mayor was coming under increasing and repeated pressure from politically connected lawyers working for Rockefeller Group and from the Christie administration.
The company had laid out about $100 million to buy up property in a forsaken section of town littered with bus lots and long-dormant factories, property that was zoned for low-slung industrial buildings but blessed with a stunning view of Manhattan. Though the plans have never been made public, in discussions with local officials they described a project that would dwarf anything that Hoboken had ever seen.
Following a well-worn playbook, they hired lawyers and lobbyists with connections to the leadership of both parties. State officials, beginning with the administration of Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, have come through for the company with money and support. Just last June, the state’s mass transit agency reached a nonbinding agreement with the company for the construction of a light rail station near its property.
Rockefeller Group had every reason to expect that local officials would come through, too. For years, Hoboken was known as development-friendly, a financially stressed city happy to move beyond the old image of a dockworkers’ ghetto immortalized by Elia Kazan in “On the Waterfront.”
But Hoboken took a sharp turn when it elected Ms. Zimmer mayor in 2009. She had entered local politics primarily because she thought Hoboken needed more parks. She joined the City Council during the second term of David Roberts, who as mayor welcomed development and encouraged the construction of the 25-story W Hotel that is still Hoboken’s tallest building.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/30..._r=0&referrer=
Christie Office Strikes Pay Deal With Defense Attorney In Bridge Scandal Probes
Hands up! Now lie down! I am lying down! I said lie down! I am lying down. oh, ok, you're still 4 feet high.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office has agreed to pay a high-powered attorney $650 per hour to represent it in a series of investigations into the George Washington Bridge lane closures.
That’s more than a 40 percent discount off attorney Randy Mastro’s normal rate, he wrote in a letter to state officials, and 20 percent less than the average amount charged by attorneys at the New York office of his firm, Gibson Dunn.
The terms of Mastro’s agreement were laid out in do ents released by the governor’s office late Thursday in response to a public records request. A retention letter states that Mastro will help Christie’s office in several ways — including producing do ents in connection with an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The reference to producing do ents for the U.S. Attorney’s Office is the clearest indication that Christie’s office either has received, or anticipates receiving, a subpoena from federal prosecutors looking into whether a crime was committed.
The biggest political crisis of Christie’s political career has also provided work for some of the biggest names in the region’s legal circles. Much of the cost is likely to be borne by taxpayers,
http://www.nationalmemo.com/christie...candal-probes/
Governor Christie 'Bridgegate' scandal flares up with new letter
A former New Jersey official on Friday claimed Governor Chris Christie knew about politically motivated traffic jams as they happened, re-igniting a political scandal that has taken a toll on the prominent Republican.
The letter from a former official at the agency that oversees the busiest U.S. bridge sparked a quick response from Christie, who again denied wrongdoing, and prompted a top New Jersey newspaper to suggest the governor could face impeachment.
David Wildstein, who resigned his Port Authority post late last year, said in a letter that he had proof of the "inaccuracy" of some of Christie's statements about the so-called "Bridgegate" scandal, which polls show has already started to weigh on Christie's potential 2016 White House bid.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...e=politicsNews
Wildstein fishing for immunity from prosecution in return for spilling his abundant guts.
CHRISTIE ASKS FOR PUBLIC’S PATIENCE WHILE HE COMES UP WITH NEW STORY
TRENTON — Responding to fresh charges that he knew about the controversial lane closures on the George Washington Bridge last fall, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today asked for the public’s patience while he makes up a new story.
“Today you have heard some allegations that are shocking and explosive,” he told reporters at a hastily called press conference. “All I ask is that the people of the great state of New Jersey give me sufficient time to invent a new story that explains my way out of this.”
Governor Christie said that he had spent the past few hours in closed-door meetings trying to come up with a new narrative that absolves him of any guilt in the bridge scandal, but while he was definitely denying the allegations, “so far, we don’t have a winner.”
“We’ve been tossing around everything from my not remembering events correctly to my having a bad reaction to medication,” he said. “We even floated the idea of my being under too much pressure and having to ‘blow off steam.’ As I said, we don’t have a winner yet. But I want to reassure the people of New Jersey that I am working very hard on this.”
The Governor said he understood that “things don’t look very good for me right now,” but he urged the public against rushing to judgment, adding, “I will get back to you with a well-crafted and plausible story as soon as possible.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...tml#entry-more
Bill Kristol says GOP has solved Christie’s scandal with two words: ‘Jeb Bush’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/bill-kristol-says-gop-has-solved-christies-scandal-with-two-words-jeb-bush/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
bubba Jeb's Ma said he cain't run no more.
but
do it! Americans are waiting impatiently for yet another Shrub Presidency.
He is married to a Hispanic and he is fat, so he could pick up some Hispanic votes
Billy Kristol is ALWAYS wrong.
Obama keeping Holder on is worse.
Giuliani, Ryan and Jindal all defend Chris Christie on Sunday morning talk shows
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/giuliani-ryan-and-jindal-all-defend-chris-christie-on-sunday-morning-talk-shows/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
It is hard for me to believe that the governor of an American state could author such a piece of risible juvenilia, except it is even harder for me to believe a paid communications professional could have been behind this. The “argument” Christie (or possibly one very very close longtime advisor) is making here is that David Wildstein is a bad guy.
Why?
Because as a “a 16-year-old kid” he filed a lawsuit over a school board election
and
was “publicly accused by his high school social studies teacher of deceptive behavior.”
Because he was, according to Christie, a “tumultuous” person (not the correct usage of that word, Governor, but whatever).
Because he was “a political animal” who had “a controversial tenure” as the mayor of Livingston.
Because he “made moves that were not productive.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/we...alated-quickly
Fat Bas really trashed Wildstein's credibility!
Wildstein sounds exactly the kind of lifelong bag that Fat Bas adores to have as sycophant.
Jon Stewart mocks media’s kid gloves on Chris Christie: ‘Where’s your rush to judgment?’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/0...e+Raw+Story%29
Chris Christie Blew Up His Ambitions Based on the Faulty Notion That the GOP Cares About Bipartisanship
The most confounding piece of the Chris Christie debacle is the dubious political strategy at the root of all it all. Christie and his goon squads, and their mafia-style tactics, were employed for the purpose of trying to get Democrats to endorse him on the premise that it would strengthen his brand in the 2016 GOP primary. He wanted to showcase his broad appeal on the political spectrum — his electability, in other words.
Apparently the Christie political team has not been following the arc of the modern Republican Party, at least in the America that lies outside of the New York metro area. The conservative wing of the GOP, aka primary voters, have little interest in candidates who trumpet their moderateness or bipartisan appeal. These are voters who are likely to believe that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim; that climate change is a hoax; that John Boehner is a liberal sellout; and that if John McCain and Mitt Romney had only acted like true right-wingers, they would have become president. And they don’t like anyone who thinks otherwise.
To prepare himself for a 2016 primary, Christie should have instead been trying to mask his Northeast-moderate body odor that repulses right-wingers in the interior states. One poll had already shown clearly that a sizable chunk of national GOP voters would not vote for him, and saw him as a noxious Republican in name only, to be mistrusted.
As for the polling that had him leading the 2016 field, recall that Rudy Giuliani had the same lead two years before the 2008 primary. He and his political team (from which Christie later hired his own advisers) were certain that the early data heralded a coronation. Giuliani later discovered that as someone from Manhattan with a moderate smell, he had no chance at all of winning a single battleground primary in states such as Nevada, Iowa, South Carolina or even New Hampshire. The early polling, that he and his team had swallowed like bait, had been merely a reflection of name recognition. He ended up spending all of his resources in Florida, hoping to get support from Northeast transplants. When even they rejected him, he was quickly finished off.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...ter954406&t=11
the furore over the putative scandal may tend to burnish Chris Christie's cred as a conservative scapegoat of the gotcha, liberal media. might make him even more attractive to voters who prefer overbearing macho assholes.
the Repug extreme right-wing base was never excited about Fat Bas (except negatively when Fat BAstarrd hugged the Great Muslim Satan Socialist N!gg@), and now so-called independents must be scurrying away.
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Rachel Maddow: Why is Chris Christie changing his story on GWB closures?
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow blasted New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday for his recent claim that he sent members of his administration to look into the infamous lane closures at the George Washington Bridge, a statement he made just over a month after repeatedly saying he did no such thing.
“Why the new story?” Maddow demanded. “Why didn’t he ever mention this before?
And did his chief counsel and chief of staff go to the Port Authority right after the bridge closures happened on the governor’s direct orders to get to the bottom of what happened? And if so, what did they do when they got there? And why did the governor never bring this up before, when he was asked what he was doing to get to the bottom of the situation?”
On Monday, Christie said during a radio interview that, upon hearing about the lane closures in October 2013, he dispatched Chief of Staff Kevin O’Dowd and chief counsel Charles McKenna to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to look into the matter.
However, Maddow showed clips from a December 2013 press conference during which he dismissed reporters’ inquiries as attempts to undermine him, and repeatedly denied looking into the matter.
“You guys all wanna keep chasing it around, chase it around,” Christie told reporters last year. “It’s your business. But, I’m not running around doing [an] independent investigation.”
Christie also said at that time that he did not ask for more details about the bridge closures, stating, “I’m not a prosecutor anymore,” and took the since-debunked testimony to state lawmakers by Port Authority appointee Bill Baroni at face value because he didn’t “assume people are lying.”
Maddow also mentioned that the increasing amount of questions surrounding Christie’s administration — over both the lane closures and the possibility that Hurricane Sandy relief funds were mis-managed — have begun to take their toll on his tenure as chair of the Republican Governors’ Association. During his fundraising trip to Texas today, not only did Christie seclude himself from both the press and the public, but both current Gov. Rick Perry (R) and GOP hopeful Greg Abbott declined to join him.
“If Governor Christie is looking for the way this scandal ends, this one is not going to end until it makes sense,” Maddow said. “Until the governor’s explanations for what happened and why and who did it make sense.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/0...e+Raw+Story%29
RM doesn't sleep with men, but she sure is ing Fat Bas in every orifice.
Fat Bas is on a multi-state fund-raising tour as head of RGA, but state Repug mucky mucks REFUSE to appear with him.
"And yet, Politico reports, "Christie's aides did not run the do ent ... by the governor before they sent it out, according to two people familiar with the matter. Instead, someone tucked the high school lines into a daily briefing email to the governor's supporters, and blasted it out earlier than planned. Another round of unflattering news coverage ensued." Why are Christie's people so intent on continuing to make him look bad? If only the governor could get his rogue staff under control enough to ask."
"But the anti-Wildstein memo reads as a hasty oppo-research dump against a man who just recently had been a Christie loyalist and ally. In an effort to find damning material on Wildstein, the Christie memo collated a few nasty quotes from political opponents over the years (Wildstein, in the words of these opponents, had been a "political animal" who "frightened people") and some testimony about his "tumultuous" persona and self-promoting tendencies, and then, strangely, threw in the note that "[Wildstein] was publicly accused by his high-school social-studies teacher of deceptive behavior." All of this seemed like pretty tame stuff. More importantly, every incident on the Christie team's list fell into one of two categories: Either Christie himself knew about it before he appointed Wildstein to be his man at the Port Authority, or Wildstein had done it on Christie's behalf.
The memo mentioned that Wildstein had been an pseudonymous gadfly blogger named Wally Edge, as if this were a damning revelation — but it turned out that Christie himself, as U.S. Attorney, had been one of Wally Edge's most frequent sources.
The whole memo was "goofy," in the judgment of Slate.It was goofy. But it also revealed a paradox. In its efforts to make David Wildstein the plausible source of the whole Bridgegate episode (the Christie memo at one point, almost in passing, suggested the entire plot had been "David Wildstein's scheme"), Christie's advisors had to present evidence that Wildstein was an ambitious and aggressive political infighter.
But nearly all the evidence of Wildstein's deviousness that Christie's aides could supply had either been implicitly endorsed by the governor's office (in its nomination of Wildstein) or explicitly approved by its senior figures.
The more Christie's camp tried to prove that Wildstein was a nefarious actor and a lone ranger, the more it sounded like he had done his job in exactly the way the governor wanted, and the more he came to seem like a Christie mini-me."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...n?detail=email
Christie bridge scandal: Recipients of 18 new subpoenas revealed
The state legislative committee investigating the George Washington Bridge scandal will issue 18 new subpoenas, including to Gov. Chris Christie's office, his inner circle and officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, The Star-Ledger has learned.
Recipients include the State Police aviation unit, which oversees Christie's helicopter travel, four new members of Christie's office, and his failed state Supreme Court nominee, Phillip Kwon, who now works as deputy general counsel at the Port Authority.
Some of the recipients were also subpoenaed in past rounds, including the governor's office, his re-election campaign and Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority who resigned last year as the scandal unfolded.
The names were included on a do ent led, "Recommended additional subpoena recipients," which was circulated to committee members. The do ent was obtained by The Star-Ledger, and a source close to the investigation confirmed the list matched those who will be issued subpoenas.
The source was not authorized to discuss the investigation and declined comment.
A co-chairman of the committee, John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), confirmed after the committee's meeting today that more than a dozen additional subpoenas would be issued, but he declined to say exactly how many or to name the recipients.
He said they would begin being issued tonight or Tuesday morning.
The full list of those to be subpoenaed is:
- Chris Christie for Governor, the governor's re-election campaign
- Christie's office
- Regina Egea, director of the authorities unit, governor's office
- Nicole Crifo, senior counsel to the authorities unit, governor's office
- Jeanne Ashmore, director of cons uent relations, governor's office
- Rosemary Iannacone, director of operations, governor's office
- Barbara Panebianco, executive assistant to Bridget Anne Kelly, governor's office
- Custodian of records, State Police aviation unit
- William "Pat" Schuber, commissioner at the Port Authority
- Bill Baroni, former deputy executive director at the Port Authority
- Custodian of records, Port Authority
- Steve Coleman, deputy director of media relations, Port Authority
- Phillip Kwon, deputy general counsel, Port Authority
- John Ma, chief of staff to Executive Director Patrick Foye, Port Authority
- Matthew Bell, special assistant to former Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni, Port Authority
- Gretchen DiMarco, assistant to Baroni, Port Authority
- Arielle Schwarz, special assistant to former Director of Interstate Capital Projects David Wildstein, Port Authority
- Mark Muriello, assistant director of Tunnels, Bridges & Terminals, Port Authority
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf...subpoenas.html
long form political bio here: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...-rise-and-fall
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