JCMan8 wrote:

The 20 subpoenas issued by a special New Jersey committee investigating the "Bridgegate" scandal include key members of Gov. Chris Christie's administration and campaign, ranging from a fired deputy chief of staff to the man picked to be the new attorney general, according to media reports.

user1111 wrote:
Stack said he doesn?t believe that any benefits Union City receives from the state ? last year, it won a $2.9 million grant from the Port Authority, which the New York Times noted this week does not operate in Union City ? has anything to do with his support of the governor.

The money was needed to rehabilitate a portion of New York Avenue. Though the roadway is not known as an access road to and from the Lincoln Tunnel, Stack says it is, and defends the city receiving the cash.

Now that is funny!

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MDM wrote:

The leader of the state Assembly's new special committee to investigate the September lane closures on the George Washington Bridge said about 20 new subpoenas will be issued today.

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Br6dR wrote:
This guy is a crook.

15 Christie controversies you missed:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/stor ... -101999.html#.UtFp-9C3Pfq

I think Christie's political career is over. Running for President in 2016?
FUGETABOUTIT!

Pebble wrote:
Christie is quickly running aground as the worst governor we've had since Florio.

It is a shame McGreevey pulled that bonehead move of hiring his lover in a position that the guy was grossly unqualified for. We likely wouldn't be in a position with one of the most corrupt governors NJ has ever seen...

When it comes to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?s (R) bridge scandal, it?s clear the governor wants the public to believe that the misconduct was a rare lapse, completely at odds with the above-board way in which the governor?s team generally operates.

The problem, of course, is that Fort Lee wasn?t the only community targeted for political retribution. Yesterday, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop (D) produced emails documenting what happened after he failed to endorse Christie?s re-election campaign. As Rachel explained on the show last night, the governor?s team, led by none other than Bridget Kelly, arranged a series of meetings for Fulop to meet with department heads and state agencies to discuss his community?s needs: ?The state commissioner of transportation, the state treasurer, the guy who?s heading up post-Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts for the whole state, the commissioner who handles all local government issues, the head of the economic development authority for the whole state. They?re all going to come to Jersey City to meet with the new mayor.?

That is, right up until the Democratic mayor says he?s not going to endorse the Republican governor?s campaign. Within an hour, agency heads cancel their meetings with Fulop without explanation. Within a few days, literally all of the meetings between Jersey City?s mayor and the state officials ? discussions that had been months in the making, dealing with departments in state government that had nothing to do with the campaign ? were off.

F.B.I. investigators do not believe Internal Revenue Service officials committed crimes in the unusually heavy scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, a law enforcement official said Monday.

But another thing I want to point out about this who debacle supposedly set up to make the Fort Lee mayor look bad, it just doesn't make any sense to me and whoever thought they were going to make the mayor look bad is about as idiotic as they come, because:

1. Hundreds of thousands of cars go over the GW Bridge every day - only a fraction of those people live in Fort Lee and could vote for the mayor.

2. Even the small fraction of people from Fort Lee who might have been inconvenienced by the traffic jam who bother to vote would be angry at the Port Authority, not the mayor - he has no control over the bridge.

Whoever decided to to create this traffic jam should take new lessons on making politicians look bad, because they obviously didn't learn anything the last time. It all makes no sense.

CdeCoincy wrote:
My neighbor Ben didn't go to work today. All the beans he ate yesterday left him too gassy.

This filled me with ire since after work we usually skate.

That's the best I can do Atsushi