Posted on 01/13/2014 12:01:18 PM PST by centurion316
Beleaguered New Jersey Governor Chris Christie faces a federal probe into the misuse of Superstorm Sandy relief money after his government supervised the funding of a 'Stronger Than The Storm' ad campaign featuring the governor and his family just weeks before his re-election, it was revealed on Monday.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials are probing the use of $4.7m of hurricane rebuilding funds on the self-congratulatory tourism ads.
Christie is already under fire in his home state following revelations that at least four of his aides and political appointees were involved in a scheme to manipulate traffic patterns leading to the massive George Washington Bridge in order to bring gridlock to a New Jersey town as punishment to its mayor, who refused to back Christie's re-election.
Christie himself apologized on Thursday for his administration's role in the scandal and fired two long-time confidantes, while insisting that he had no involvement in the plot and no knowledge of it ahead of time. Two other officials linked to the saga resigned in December.
Nearly $5m in Superstorm Sandy rebuilding funds paid for the 'Stronger Than The Storm' media campaign, which included brief cameos by Christie and members of his family.
At least another $25 million was spent on buying air time for the campaign.
Federal investigators are trying to determine if laws were broken when a politically connected advertising firm won the contract to produce the ads, despite proposing a budget more than $2 million more than the next highest bidder – whose scripts did not include the Christie family.
East Rutherford, N.J.-based MWW and a subcontractor billed the state $4.7 million to run this year’s campaign. Another firm offered to do it for $2.5 million.
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I sure as Hell hope that Ted Cruz runs in 2016, and that he is squeaky, squeaky, squeaky clean. (Seems like he would be, but then again, ya never know).
Uni-party. This is what they have been crowing about on lib sites, that soon there will be a one party rule in this country. Look how close we are.
We have talk radio, doesn’t do a damn thing. Fox News - doesn’t help. Our side just works our butts off to pay for vacations for Michelle Obama and welfare recipients but we can’t afford any.
Feeling hopeless. Where are any Americans speaking LOUDLY about our constitution and getting government out of EVERYTHING not enumerated therein? I’d rather see kids starving than this lack of freedom. For real.
That was my thought. Now they are going to have to race another preferred candidate for us to run against Hildabeast. Then they'll have to quickly turn that around and destroy that person before primaries. There's still time. If nothing else, Arizona is about done with McCain. I'm sure he'd run again.
Perhaps the "Beleaguered" one would like us Conservatives to come to his defense?
Fat chance.
When he (apparently) did what he could to help Mister Obama's election to (again, apparently) to corner (hog?) the 2016 nomination for himself, he severed critical ties.
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My big question is who released the smoking email?
The ads were approved by the Obama Administration.
Timing is very suspect considering the lane closure fiasco, very well timed by the Dems to maximize impact on the early frontrunner IMHO.
I love unintended consequences. Think the left got scared and figured he would beat Hillary. They did our job for us. We just saved millions in commercials and ads against another RINO who couldn’t win.
Hey libs. Rubio is taking money from La Raza..pass it on.
I don’t give a darn, wouldn’t give a darn, if politicians on the left didn’t do the exact same things and worse with nary a peep. Politicians like Christie are the reason for “a pox on both their houses”, only it’s only politicians on the right which are held to standards of propriety and integrity. Making it impossible to support anyone, which seems to be the agenda, helped by useful idiots like Christie, to make real conservatives just give up and disengage altogether.
Welcome “The Dream Team.”
Hillary and Michelle...
It's a pity that the Marxists/libs/Dems haven't figured out that when they silence opposition, they also silence THEMSELVES, just slightly farther down the road.
(Similarly, they do not understand that when the vote is totally gamed, THEY will have no meaningful vote, either.)
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The question is, how are any ‘Pubbie candidates going survive this sort of savagery? Even if they are “squeaky clean,” the bastards will make things up.
And yet the Democrat/media complex is completely disinterested in Benghazi.
Nor any of the other misuse of funds that Dims always seem to get away with....
Correct, and in the meantime, real scandals like Gast and Furious, Benghazi, CommieCare (have ro pass it to see what’s in it), etc, are deliberately ignored. Real conservatives are left being crushed between Charybdis and Scylla.
Doesn’t matter, the left has never scrupled at outright lying to trump up the most innocuous statements/actions into “scandal”. Macaca, anyone?
Yep, just ask Trotsky. (Oops, you can’t, his Bolshevik comrades murdered him).
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, an Obama appointee, presides over the agency investigating the Sandy recovery grant — but he praised Christie’s ads at the time they weer first broadcast
Pretty freaky looking, no?
Conservatives in New Jersey TRIED to warn American Republicans!
Fallujah's the story that deserves wall to wall coverage right now, not a few lanes closing in NJ.
I think this is more about getting Obamacare and Fallujah out of the news.
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