[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM : DISASTERS: HURRICANES : UNITED STATES: STATES: NEW JERSEY : POLITICAL: PARTISANSHIP: No Smoking Guns Yet, But the Noose Is Tightening Around Chris Christie
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:44:14 -0500 (EST)
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No Smoking Guns Yet, But the Noose Is Tightening Around Chris Christie
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No Smoking Guns Yet, But the Noose Is Tightening Around Chris Christie
Kevin Drum
Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/
no-smoking-guns-yet-noose-tightening-around-chris-christie
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/l2onupf
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The New York Times is pretty clearly expending a lot of resources on the
various Chris Christie scandals. So far they haven't produced any smoking
guns, but they're sure digging up some stuff that doesn't look good for
Team Christie. First up is a look at the Christie political team, which
was apparently obsessed with winning votes in Democratic-leaning towns.
This wasn't because the votes themselves were all that critical to
Christie's 2012 reelection campaign, but because winning in these places
"would validate the governors argument that he would be the most broadly
appealing Republican choice for president in 2016":
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The point of this piece is to demonstrate three things. First, winning
votes in cities like Fort Lee really was important to the Christie team.
Second, they were pretty ruthless about going after those votes. Third,
Christie himself met regularly with his team to discuss their tactics in
minute detail. The strong inference is that (a) Shutting down lanes on the
George Washington Bridge to intimidate a mayor who wasn't playing ball was
right up their alley, and (b) if they did this, Christie almost certainly
knew about it.
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The story doesn't contain even a speck of proof that Christie had anything
to do with the bridge closure. But it sure paints a suggestive picture.
There's obviously more to come on this.
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The second piece ran on Wednesday, and it's about Hoboken mayor Dawn
Zimmer's claim that the Christie administration held up flood aid from
Hurricane Sandy unless she approved a redevelopment project supported by
Christie. However, Wednesday's story starts with an anecdote about a more
recent flooding:
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[Zimmer] dashed off a letter to Gov. Chris Christie, imploring him to
help with Hobokens ongoing flooding emergency, and attached photos of cars
in water up to their hoods. She was due to meet the next day with
officials of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, when
she hoped to talk about protecting Hoboken from the next catastrophic
deluge to come.
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But according to newly obtained emails sent among the participants,
the first topic of discussion on the agenda was review of concepts for
flood control measures at Rockefeller property, a reference to a
billion-dollar office complex proposed at the north end of town. The
developer, the Rockefeller Group, which had long been trying to gain
approval from local officials, sent two executives, two lobbyists and an
engineer to the meeting.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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