Posted on 01/09/2014 2:59:30 AM PST by bryan999
The mystery of who closed two lanes onto the George Washington Bridge turning the borough of Fort Lee, N.J., into a parking lot for four days in September exploded into a full-bore political scandal for Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday. Emails and texts revealed that a top aide had ordered the closings to punish the towns mayor after he did not endorse the governor for re-election.
Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee, Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, emailed David Wildstein, a high school friend of the governor who worked at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the bridge.
Later text messages mocked concerns that school buses filled with students were stuck in gridlock: They are the children of Buono voters, Mr. Wildstein wrote, referring to Mr. Christies opponent Barbara Buono.
The emails are striking in their political maneuvering, showing Christie aides gleeful about some of the chaos that resulted. Emergency vehicles were delayed in responding to three people with heart problems and a missing toddler, and commuters were left fuming. One of the governors associates refers to the mayor of Fort Lee as this little Serbian, and Ms. Kelly exchanges messages about the plan while she is in line to pay her respects at a wake.
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Not defending Christie, but where was the press when Obama paid workers to close a lane near Mount Rushmore and generally cause as much pain as possible during the partial shutdown?
Hillary’s army - vicious, petty, stupid, cruel and vindictive.
And also treacherous - hey Christie, you know she set you up, right?
Or shot with a "Fast and Furious" gun. (Didn't Obama promote the people responsible for that disaster?) Christie isn't in the same league as Obama when it comes to corruption and viciousness.
Christie's aides should have just shut down the WW2 memorial, put traffic cones around scenic outlooks, or closed the National Cancer Institute....
“Hillarys army - vicious, petty, stupid, cruel and vindictive.”
Yet Hillary’s army was useless against Obama. He out-Clintoned” and defeated Hillary in the primaries.
Yeah, right.. but HOW? It would be good to have some more info...
Democrat “legislators” (who?) issued a court order to search these two individuals’ private emails...?
If it was Hillary's minions, my hat's off to her for once.
Now all we need is a candidate with the charisma of Reagan who's even more Machiavellian than Hillary. Any ideas?
“Yet Hillarys army was useless against Obama. He out-Clintoned and defeated Hillary in the primaries.”
She beat him handily in the primaries (where votes are counted); he won in caucuses (where “enthusiasm” counts). The strangest thing is how many of her supporters ended up voting for him anyway after that fiasco.
Or say, what difference does it make - now?
This is a non-story, to keep insinuations of a misbehaving Republican in the news as a smokescreen for the unfolding disaster that is now this country. It will never touch Christie, who had no need for such petty BS.
Spoiled 5 year olds fighting and now they have a cost one person her life.
Hey Gov, Tell them there was a video out there besmirching folks who cross the GW Bridge and besides, what difference does it make?
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Christie isn’t very conservative and I hope he does not win the GOP nomination. I am sure most on this forum prefer Cruz, Paul, Walker, etc....as do I. That being said, he is the best governor my state has ever had and is not capable of doing something so stupid and petty. I know him and he would not do something like this. First, he is too smart. Second, he was cruising to re- election and wouldn’t pull a Watergate type blunder. Lastly, creating havoc on purpose just isn’t in him.
I don’t like Christie but I’d rather be stuck in a traffic jam than have a dagger shoved up my butt and kill me because my own leadership didn’t care about my safety in a dangerous, foreign country.
To me the greater damage is done to the Republican brand by the fact the heartless emails (”They’re Buona children”) were flying back and forth between Republicans. Karl Rove and all his cronies should be screaming about how that doesn’t represent the Republican party.
But then again,,perhaps it does now. It shouldn’t...but those emails will be used to paint every conservative as a republican and every republican as cold, calculating and heartless. Whether or not it touches Christie now, it WILL if he does not fire the people involved.
The stupid cruelty and arrogance of those punks shutting down traffic for purposes of retaliation should be completely rejected by the party elite. I am not holding my breath on it.
agreed- complain all you want about Christie but this is the criminal liberal media at its best:
4 Americans die in Libya due to obama’s incompetence? nothing to see here....
obama uses a Federal agency (IRS) to purposely target Americans for political purposes??? nothing to see here...
Christie causes traffic jams??? the horror- the horror!!!
I have been carefully watching the series The Wire that is set in Baltimore. Similar petty actions are a theme.
It is not Republican, it is Yankee behavior. It is tit for tat corruption having nothing to do with party. It is North East Europa misbehavior.
One can only wonder if Tony Soprano supports Christe
Criminal charges to follow?
Bingo - spot on.
The use of the federal Govt to cause a “traffic jam” for TEA Party/Conservative groups for political purposes is somehow different and certainly wasn’t the lead story on the NBC national news as this mamby-pamby story was last night.
Normally I’d be screaming about the double standard (bridge lane closed vs Benghazi, IRS, Obamacare, Fast & Furious etc). But I am loving this. The Obama-hugging RINO is done.
“It is not Republican, it is Yankee behavior.”
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Baltimore isn’t the Northeast and the N.E. cities and states’ behavior is hardly worse than Chicago,Detroit,L.A. and New Orleans.
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