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 town’s 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. Christie’s 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 governor’s 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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Hundreds if not a few thousand politically connected people in the NJ region knew McGreevey has a fag who cruised Manhattan for partyboys, yet no one in politics, the media, his social and professional circles, said anything for at least a decade after he first ran for office above that of mayor of his hometown.
As for this current mental problem displayed by the fatarse, Almost immediately, hundreds of politically connected people in the GOP and MTA knew that Gov Fatarse personally ordered this vindictive act. That’s why the NYC newspapers spent so many lines of ink with hard rumors about this. They had hard proof within 4 days of the second closing.
Christie just f’ed with the wrong people, the several hundred thousand people who commute from NJ to NYC each day who are in the top 3% income brackets, are the most powerful financial block in the country. Christie used their lives, measured in minutes times hundreds of thousands of lives, millions and millions of man hours of the wealthiest and most powerful men and women in the country, as collateral damage in a petty sociopathic act of sabotage against New Jersey’s breadwinners.
The governor is truly f’ed.
So we are supposed to replace a Chicago democrat thug with a New Jersey rino thug ....NOT.....seems as though fat a$$ has a thing about punishing his enemies.....now who have I heard of doing that....hummmm!
I still say if this pushes Christie out of the nomination, his backers will be pushing for Jebbie once more. And Land Commissioner George P. can be the campaign manager.
Wish I could agree that he was “done” - but this will only be the first charge. No hard evidence will get all the way back to him, anyone stupid enough to have documented any vindictive action that eventually took place will be fired (and ultimately rewarded with a nice job by a private sector friend of Christie), and he will claim he’s cleaned house, how much he won’t tolerate ... blah blah blah.
As much as the media focused on this while ignoring “Benghazi, IRS...” they will have to come up with more, show a pattern of actions by his minions that can support the charge of corruption at the top. Too bad they don’t apply that standard to Zero, but then there’s just too many actions to keep up on that front.
What in the hell were these guys doing sending emails for pete’s sake. You just know someone’s going to get their hands on them. A phone call or better yet a personal conversation would have been the way to do it.
NEVER put that kind of stuff in writing.
IMO, Bridget Anne Kelly needs to be indicted & put into prison.
Christie is a tad bent.
Indeed. It was GWB's fault.
Always is!
NSA? or Edward Snowden?
I believe they are all pharmocologically impaired.
“I am not a bully” reminds me of Nixon’s “I am not a crook.”
And we all know how that turned out.
You nailed it. Christie was steamed because “a little Serbian” would not back him.
This was an act of pure vengeance, ordered by the top banana.
Palin.
No, I'm not kidding. Why do you think the Left is REALLY so afraid of her?
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