Posted on 01/08/2014 9:03:29 AM PST by jimbo123
A top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is linked through emails and text messages to a seemingly deliberate plan to create traffic gridlock in a town at the base of a major bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election.
"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote to David Wildstein, a top political appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey and New York City, one of the world's busiest spans.
Kelly wrote the email on Aug. 13, about a month before two of three local access lanes to the bridge were diverted, causing hour-long backups in Fort Lee during the first week of school. The message was among a series of emails and texts obtained by The Associated Press and other news outlets Wednesday that are the clearest sign yet that Christie aides were involved in the lane closures.
Christie, a star in the Republican Party who's considered a possible candidate for president in 2016, has denied that the lane closings were punitive and has said his staff was not involved. After the emails were made public Wednesday, he abruptly postponed a scheduled morning event.
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Fat Tony is done for in National GOP politics.
” - - - Karl Rove and Reince Priebus have chosen this guy as the GOP-e’s designated loser - - - “
Well said!
BTW, mind if I borrow this?
Oh my, YES, we must focus on this. Afterall, ANYTHING to keep conservatives fighting with each other instead of focusing on the disaster we have in the White House.
Let’s trash Christie! Ryan! Palin! Bush! Bush! Bush! Cruz! Bush! Bush!
Let’s all make sure that we keep this up for the next two years!!!!
So you're OK with the Democrat/media complex appointing Christie to be the Republican presidential nominee?
Christie claims to be a Pubbie but in reality he is just another RAT.
AHAH, Obviously Christie is a major threat to the left otherwise they wouldn’t be attacking him in this way.
They are obviously terrified of him.
He should resign and write a few books, get a job with FNC and start traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire and make sure the news always knows where he is.
...conservatives fighting with each other...
I know a bit about New Jersey politics and this is entirely possible. Chicago is the capitol of corruption in this country but NO single state beats New Jersey for thug corrupt politics.
They will need to check in with Rove before they respond.
Christie is no Conservative.
I don't know of too many conservatives who are fighting over Chris Christie. Most conservatives I know despise him.
Let's multitask.
That's why Cristie decided to get his headlines beating up on teachers.
Conservatism would be better of, because Fat Bastard sure as hell isn’t helping it.
Say what you wish but the Prestitutes are pulling a John McCain, Mitt Romney on Crispy Creme. They will eviserate him if he wins the nomination. They want a easy target so Hitlary has a cake walk to the White House.
So you’re OK with corrupt politicians, as long as they’re conservatives (or, in Christie’s case, pretend to be conservative once in a while)? That’s nonsense. We should call ANY politician out on their corruption, even (especially) if they’re on “our side.”
“Nice little bridge ya got there - be a shame if sumthin was ta happen to it.”
Don’t burn your bridges behind you.
Christie is not a conservative.
The reaction to this article is pretty humorous. If Christie was a conservative, I venture the vast majority on this board would be standing up and applauding the fact that Christie plays hardball, take no prisoner politics. Sort of like LBJ but on the other side of the aisle.
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