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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None...absolutely zero. Yet some conservatives are supporting this kind of propaganda.
Remember "macaca"? If the media can get away with destroying a politician because of that they can destroy anyone.
The irony is that the left is doing this to Christie because they view HIM is the GOP’s best hope to regain the presidency, when the reality is that our best hope is if we can keep RINO’s like him from getting the nomination - so thanks for the help, Dumbocrats!
This Leftwing take down of liberal Christie is amusing.
Being bipartisan doesn’t protect Republicans.
That money could have been used for another Obama vacation. How dare he make PSA’s with it!
... and lapdog marxist media.
Yep. We don’t have news anymore. We have left-wing propaganda.
Have they started calling him “frontunner” yet?
Luckily we now have conservative media as somewhat of a foil. Probably is...too many grassroots conservatives still fall for the liberal MSM tactics....like participating in a trashfest over a local lane closing.
Pallone said he asked for the probe in August, you betcha he's a tool for Hillary!
Christie was significantly ahead of Hillary in two recent polls. This is the 'rats playing Whac-A-Mole. Those here who are cheering Christie's troubles should enjoy the schadenfreude, 'case they're coming for your guy/gal next.
Actually, Clinton/Booker 2016 A three-fer!
And the media are all over this. Too bad they won’t give attention to REAL scandals like Benghazi and the gun runner debacle.
Time for the dancing at this luau, because this hog is roasted! Put on your grass skirts!
That didn’t take long.
I figured the MSM would destroy Christie at some point as soon as the polls revealed him to to be a favorite over Hillary....but WOW, they didn’t waste their time!!
Is their an institution any more corrupt then the American MSM?
FUBARaq: “Thanks for the photo op that helped re-elect me, Fatso. To show my appreciation, here’s a subpoena.”
Does he still think Obama is his friend and that the media really like him?
Two birds, one stone.
We’ve always had propaganda to one degree or another, but it balanced out; there were Republican and Democrat papers.
Now there are no conservative MSM outlets (no, Fox is not conservative). We have radio outlets, but that is about it. Nothing we hear or read is trustworthy.
“...Does he still think Obama is his friend and that the media really like him?...”
Say goodbye Crispy Creme.
You’ve just been swallowed by the Obama Regime
Crispy, Crispy. Tastes great! Wish we had some and we just couldn’t wait.
As Crispy slides to down the gullet of the communist RAT...never to be seen or heard from again.
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