Bruce Springsteen Mocks New Jersey Governor

AS this thread closes in on its first anniversary, all I can say is "thanks for giving a shit -- 14,000 times!"

With Christie's presidential outlook looking increasingly murkier, and the series of federal level investigations hanging over him like the proverbial Monty Python 16 ton weight, what will 2015 hold for Governor Soprano? Well, it's not off to a good start:
Exceeding authority, ignoring balances of power, acting unilaterally -- how presidential can you get? This is a perfect example of why it's impossible to believe he knew nothing of Bridge(t)-Gate -- when it comes to political power, he loves having his cake and eating it, too (a metaphor, not a weight joke!).

Break out your hankies and a copy of Blood On Blood: here comes a tear-jerking story about friendship Christie style -- and I DO mean "jerking."


Here's Christie with his old pal David Samson, the guy who resigned the chairmanship of the Port Authority purely out of unselfishness. He was so loyal to Christie he refused to take a salary for the job, scraping by on what he could earn from a law firm he owns that has clients who do business with the Port Authority!

Well, would you believe that those meanies in the New Jersey legislature had the unmitigated gall to question their relationship anyhow? But Samson didn't take it lying down -- on December 9, he filed a lawsuit claiming that New Jersey officials weren't qualified to investigate him because the Port Authority is a bi-state agency under federal jurisdiction. But he withdrew the lawsuit two weeks later. Why? For the answer, we might have to look at one of Christie's other good friends, New York Mayor Andew Cuomo:


That's what the state officials get for interfering in federal business. And you certainly can't blame Cuomo for taking Christie's side, especially since Cuomo has been accused getting a call from Christie about his subordinate Patrick Foye asking too many questions about the bridge closing: gun, meet smoke. Aside from that, the solution to cleaning up the Port Authority is so simple -- they get to fire everyone they hired, and then hire a whole new batch of people!

And through it all, Christie's love for Samson shines through like a diamond. All together now:

Blood on blood, one on one
We'd still be standing when all was said and done
Blood on blood, one on one
And I'll be here for you 'til Kingdom come...

In case you didn't know, Christie is an American football fanatic. His favorite team? Not the New York Giants or New York Jets -- I mean, those teams PLAY in East Rutherford, New Jersey, but just because they feed the state's economy is no reason to support them. No, it turns out that though he did his civic duty when the Giants won the Super Bowl in 2012, Christie's true NFL loyalties run about 1500 miles southwest of East Rutherford:
In return, Jerry has shown Christie nothing less than the best of "down home hospitality":
But in case you're getting any bright ideas about this being improper in any way, you've lost this round:
So nyah nyah and move along, kids, there's nothing to see here...
Ooops...

We last left our hero appearing to have confessed to violating state ethics laws by accepting gifts from Dallas Cowboys football team owner Jerry Jones, who also just happens to own part of a company that is not only doing business with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but got the business with Christie's help. However, our cat on a hot tin roof has yet again landed on his feet:

Well, that makes perfect sense, and here's a pair of official state government press releases to back it up:
Oh, the deal was sealed in March -- that clarifies everything! After all, not meeting with or knowing people personally makes it impossible to have any other kind of relationship with them: it isn't as though there are such things as telephones, electronic correspondence, mail, or online conferencing.

What must have happened is that not wanting to unduly (and possibly unethically) influence Christie (who had no business influencing the Port Authority commission anyway), Jones said nothing of his bidding for the PA contract when they first spoke during the summer of 2013. And note that it's Christie who mentions not knowing who'd be in charge of the specific "concessions" as opposed to knowing who would be in charge of the project's general "development and operation" -- surely that wasn't a mere slip of the tongue.

Meanwhile, some rouge Christie or Cuomo underling wrote press releases that should have made more of a distinction between "calling" on a telephone and a "call" to action (after all, why have a commission if the governors have the power to tell them how to vote? No wonder the governors are considering dismissing their board of directors).

Of course, that works if you believe what Christie told the radio show as opposed to what he told PBS about knowing Christie for five years. If you don't, then shame on you for effectively calling him a liar!

Despite being good enough friends with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to help dump ice water over Jon's head, Christie didn't get an invitation from him to attend this year's Super Bowl -- he spent the weekend in England instead. The questions about his relationship with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones did not dissolve with the Cowboys championship hopes, however -- quite the opposite!

According to Christie himself:
Jones' company won the World Trade Center Freedom Tower bid in March of 2013, and was one of the finalists as of the previous November, with the bidding process beginning months before that. So no matter when their relationship began, anything Christie received from Jones after filing the World Trade Center Freedom Tower bid was unethical because Jones was trying to do business with a New Jersey agency, and anything Christie received after March 2013 was flat out illegal because Jones was by then a full-fledged state contractor. But I wonder if that mutual friend would be willing to verify Christie's story?

That's right -- it's our very own Jon, whom Jones has said would make a fantastic NFL team owner! Well, you HAD to know that he was going to get dragged into this eventually, didn't you? But what should Jon do -- ignore the story and hope that it doesn't get picked up by other media outlets? Deny the story even if it's true, and keep his hands clean? Or confirm the story and nail both Jones and Christie on an ethics violation?


Fortunately, the Jones camp has finally stepped forward to clear things up once and for all. According to a spokesman:
And from Jerry Jones himself:Right you are, Jerry, and here's a case in point: Christie has proposed closing the 19,000-seat Meadowlands Arena and moving its events to the 18,000-seat Prudential Center. And who co-owns the company that helps run Prudential Center? Take a wild guess!

The reviews are in about Christie's Super Bowl weekend in England:

Sorry about that, England -- first Romney says you didn't have what it takes to keep the 2012 Olympics secure, now this...

Chrsitie's aerial adventures aren't quite over. During his Super Bowl weekend in London, this appeared in the New York Times:
Taking your whole family overseas to visit someone whom you've only had dinner with? That was risky -- they could have be drugged and sold into white slavery!

See? All nice and legal. Unethical and sleazy, but nice and legal.


Price: Roughly $5M US. Keep Christie's size in mind, and consider that perhaps he prefers private jets because they have more seat and leg room. And now for the bad news:
That's right, Governor Soprano -- you become President Soprano, and all the luxury first class travel at other people's expense that you don't have to account for goes bye-bye: are you SURE you want to give it all up? As for you, Bono, you don't seem to be Christie's type any more than Bruce does!

You're welcome! I don't live in NJ so I don't feel legitimate to make comments but I find this guy very funny (or interesting?), please keep posting! I first heard about him through his Bruce (ghost) connection of course, especially when Bruce and Fallon sang about this tunnel thingy that had Bruce so desperately needing to take a leak!

Here's a recap list of his "friends" in case you'd missed it
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/1...hangs-out-with

Of course you know that I am a Jersey resident - and this sums up so much of what is going on at the Port Authority right now. I can't say too much but it has become such a farce. Except of course that it's not funny

I did miss this. Thanks so much for posting and contributing and ... uh-oh.

JON BON JOVI, ROCK STAR: The Jersey rocker known for liking Democrats became friendly with Christie after Bon Jovi's daughter nearly died from a drug overdose. When Christie signed a Good Samaritan bill providing legal protection to those who call 911 for drug overdoses, Bon Jovi came to the bill signing. He later gave $1 million to the Sandy Relief Fund started by Christie's wife and toured his Sandy-ravaged hometown, Sayreville, with the governor. They warmly embraced when they saw each other that day.

Now, I know that Stephanie's OD happened in New York, not New Jersey, and that she wasn't criminally charged because New York has had a Good Samaritan OD law since 2011. But there's the potential for a problem here, depending on exactly how much "later" Jon made his Sandy Relief Fund donation.
There is DEFINITELY the potential for a problem here.

Christie vetoed the New Jersey OD bill in mid-October of 2012. Sandy hit in late October. The Sandy Relief Fund came into being in early November. Stephanie's OD was in mid-November. Jon "plays a role" in changing Christie's mind about an OD bill by the following May. Then Jon, who had a twelve-year-old New Jersey charity apparatus of his own, donated a million to Christie's wife's charity in July? The problem is that federal prosecutors might DECIDE it's a problem -- that is, they might wonder if Jon's donation actually "represents" payment for Christie's "changing his mind" about the OD bill!