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Old 01-23-2014, 06:43 PM
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This is turning into TV worth watching LOL. There are new allegations daily. Today the FBI is involved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/ny...=nyregion&_r=0
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Lawyer with deep ties to the governor splits with Bridget Kelly over 'conflict of interest'
  • Chris Christie's former deputy chief of staff got the axe over an email that appeared to kick off the 'Bridgegate' lane closures in September
  • She quickly retained Walter Timpone, a politically connected lawyer
  • Now Timpone has cut Kelly loose, citing a 'conflict' linked to his Christie-appointed position on an election law commission
  • If Kelly planned to implicate Christie, it would explain how his interests and hers would suddenly be opposite – requiring Timpone to step down
Bullshit, toro turd, and grade-A male cattle droppings!

Are we supposed to believe that this lawyer took Kelly's case not knowing that technically, he WORKS for Christie? And does Christie think we've already forgotten that he FIRED Kelly, whereas he allowed the others involved in Bridge(t)-Gate to resign? So why in the world did Timpone go within ten miles of Kelly in the first place? My theory:
  • Christie told Kelly he was firing her strictly for appearance's sake, but not to worry, he'd get her a good lawyer. Or
  • Christie arranged for Timpone to approach Kelly and offer to take her case.
  • Kelly and Timpone work up a defense strategy, during which, of course, Kelly pours her heart out about life with "Governor Soprano."
  • Timpone suddenly remembers that he serves under Christie on the election board commission, and therefore has no business doing business with Kelly. He withdraws from the case, citing a conflict of interest.
  • Timpone fills in Christie on Kelly's defense strategy, giving Christie an advantage in coming up with his own defense strategy. Mission accomplished!
I think Kelly was set up with Timpone in order to BE set up. What's that you say -- lawyers aren't supposed to share a client's information like that? They AREN'T supposed to -- but that's why it's called NEW JERSEY politics, baby!
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This is turning into TV worth watching LOL. There are new allegations daily. Today the FBI is involved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/ny...=nyregion&_r=0
Also today, subpoenas have been served upon Christie's re-election campaign and the New Jersey Republican party:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS...n-gop-21640915
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Lawyer with deep ties to the governor splits with Bridget Kelly over 'conflict of interest'
  • Chris Christie's former deputy chief of staff got the axe over an email that appeared to kick off the 'Bridgegate' lane closures in September
  • She quickly retained Walter Timpone, a politically connected lawyer
  • Now Timpone has cut Kelly loose, citing a 'conflict' linked to his Christie-appointed position on an election law commission
  • If Kelly planned to implicate Christie, it would explain how his interests and hers would suddenly be opposite – requiring Timpone to step down
Bullshit, toro turd, and grade-A male cattle droppings!

Are we supposed to believe that this lawyer took Kelly's case not knowing that technically, he WORKS for Christie? And does Christie think we've already forgotten that he FIRED Kelly, whereas he allowed the others involved in Bridge(t)-Gate to resign? So why in the world did Timpone go within ten miles of Kelly in the first place? My theory:
  • Christie told Kelly he was firing her strictly for appearance's sake, but not to worry, he'd get her a good lawyer. Or
  • Christie arranged for Timpone to approach Kelly and offer to take her case.
  • Kelly and Timpone work up a defense strategy, during which, of course, Kelly pours her heart out about life with "Governor Soprano."
  • Timpone suddenly remembers that he serves under Christie on the election board commission, and therefore has no business doing business with Kelly. He withdraws from the case, citing a conflict of interest.
  • Timpone fills in Christie on Kelly's defense strategy, giving Christie an advantage in coming up with his own defense strategy. Mission accomplished!
I think Kelly was set up with Timpone in order to BE set up. What's that you say -- lawyers aren't supposed to share a client's information like that? They AREN'T supposed to -- but that's why it's called NEW JERSEY politics, baby!
Wow - did not know this part - gonna send this to my poor long suffering husband. He may be looking for another job himself he is so sick of the politics in the agency.
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Here's something else I guess "Governor Soprano" didn't know about:

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The Christie administration has fired the contractor in charge of handing out Sandy relief money for the state -- without announcing it to the public

First, the good news: The Christie administration has fired the contractor that's been bungling the distribution of federal Hurricane Sandy relief money.

This Louisiana firm, called Hammerman and Gainer (HGI), got lambasted by Sandy victims at several legislative hearings...It's been faulted for unreturned phone calls and delays in getting people back into their homes -- not just in New Jersey but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

But now here's the bad news: The administration fired HGI last month, and we are all just finding out about this now...

Richard Constable, who oversees the state's rebuilding programs...(is) in charge of these grant programs that HGI was screwing up. Did he not think it necessary to mention this firing when he defended the administration against its critics?...Could this be because the state is now trying to remedy HGI's mistakes?
Richard Constable also just happens to be the other Christie appointee who allegedly told the mayor of Hoboken that she'd get no Sandy funding if she didn't approve her city's land development project!


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Company Also Made Donation to Group Run by Christie

Christie officials - who as recently as two weeks ago gave legislators in Trenton no hint that the contract had been cancelled - wouldn't say on Thursday why the deal with Hammerman and Gainer, or HGI, was terminated more than two years before completion. Last week, Gov. Christie touted the successes of the Sandy recovery at an event on the Jersey Shore.

HGI won its contract last May shortly after its New Jersey law firm, Capehart, made a $25,000 donation to the Republican Governors Association, which is now headed by Christie. The RGA contributed $1.7 million to Christie's re-election campaign.


The state was to pay HGI $68 million in fees to administer a $780 million Sandy program. But the Christie administration terminated that contract in December, and the termination took effect - unannounced - on Monday. Documents posted on a state website say the company was to be paid $10.5 million as an "unpaid balance" — and for work performing during a "transition period" following termination...
By the way, Christie vetoed an effort to add an extra level of accountability to the fund disbursements, claiming it was an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy!
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Air Monitors See Spike in Pollution During 'Bridgegate': The monitor closest to the bridge shut down at the height of the traffic jams

One night before local access lanes to New Jersey's George Washington Bridge were closed last fall in an apparent act of political retribution that sparked miles-long traffic jams for four straight days, an air quality monitor run by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in Trenton abruptly ceased collecting data...(T)he monitor started measuring air pollution again more than two days later – just as a key pollution indicator was starting to decline.

Last fall was not the first time the monitor went down – it stopped transmitting data for several hours on two occasions in June, and it went offline for nearly a week at a time in March and November 2012.

Nevertheless, data collected just as the Jersey monitor came back online...suggest that air pollution reached potentially dangerous levels during at least part of the lane-closure period from Sept. 9 to 12, as thousands of cars, trucks and buses waited for as long as four hours to cross the bridge.
Just a coincidence, I'm sure. But darn it, if that monitor had been working, the pollution readings would have gone up high enough to trigger a response that could have culminated in Christie being notified and the lanes being re-opened. Unless...

Unless the shutdown of the air quality monitor was deliberately engineered by those evil, secretive minions of his -- and precisely because they KNEW that a high reading would probably result in the lane closures being interrupted. Is there no end to their underhanded evildoing, and their cruel soiling of poor, innocent Christie's spotless virtue? Cue the violins!
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Hearings Loom On Decision To Leave One Third Of New Jersey Transit Trains In Hoboken And Kearney During Sandy

As the legislative and federal investigations into the George Washington Bridge lane closures continue, Governor Christie’s administration is now facing another potentially damaging probe, as a state Senate panel prepares to launch hearings to examine why NJ Transit left a third of its fleet in low-lying rail yards during Superstorm Sandy.

...(The) chairman of the Legislative Oversight Committee said on Friday afternoon that he received clearance...to begin hearings into how nearly 400 pieces of NJ Transit rail cars and locomotives were left in flood-prone yards in Hoboken and Kearny, resulting in $120 million in damage.

...(He) said he heard about the explanation Christie offered...last year: that a rogue, low-level employee moved the equipment to the yards on his own, without telling NJ Transit Executive Director Jim Weinstein.

...(But) Weinstein...has said that the agency moved trains into the rail yards because it never expected them to flood and that data available showed the chances of flooding were small...

NJ Transit did commission a $46,000 report that advised on how to protect its infrastructure for a variety of severe weather events resulting from climate change, including hurricanes. The agency received the report four months prior to Sandy making landfall in New Jersey on Oct. 29, 2012, but Weinstein told legislators he didn’t really study the report...
So why was the plan ignored, especially when it was most likely commissioned as a result of Hoboken being flooded by Hurricane Irene in August of 2011? And once again, Christie finds himself at the mercy of a treacherous employee who didn't report to him directly? Woe is him!
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NJ Senate President Stephen Sweeney won't challenge GOP appointment to GWB panel

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney said he will not question the appointment of a Republican senator to a legislative panel investigating the lane closures from the George Washington Bridge, even though the lawmaker's name is mentioned in an email obtained through a subpoena.

State Sen. Kevin O'Toole (R-Essex) is referenced as "O'Toole" in one of the emails obtained by the Assembly Transportation Committee, which was the first panel to investigate the lane closures.

...(O)n Dec. 5, David Wildstein, the Port Authority’s director of interstate capital projects, thanked Gov. Chris Christie's Press Secretary Michael Drewniak "for all of your sound advice last night, I always appreciate your friendship. Spoke with O'Toole this morning and he will talk with you later today."

Wildstein resigned the next day...O'Toole said...he did not recall that conversation with Wildstein...(and that) he did not speak to Wildstein about the Assembly's ongoing investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane closures. "I don't know what that means," O'Toole said of the email exchange.

Sweeney said..."I am not going to say Kevin has done anything — I am not going to prejudge."

Kean (R-Union) today said he stands by his choice of O'Toole. "I have full confidence in Kevin's ability to serve..."

Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), the co-chair of the new legislative panel, said Monday he will consult the committee's special counsel about O'Toole's membership...

Okay, this isn't brain surgery: O'Toole is implicated in the investigation whether anyone likes it or not, and he CANNOT remain on the committee, or he'll be investigating himself. But Christie, O'Toole, and Kean are Republicans: their sticking together is logical if not ethical. Sweeney, on the other hand, is a Democrat -- what's his excuse?

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Chris Christie Tried To Oust Tom Kean From State Senate Position

Christie and his staff lobbied (NJ) Senate Republicans to oust Kean as Minority Leader and replace him with Kevin O’Toole, an Essex senator...

Kean and Sweeney are in the midst of a nasty feud that sprang up when Kean campaigned hard against Sweeney, figuring that Christie's landslide victory at the top of the ticket would give Republicans their best shot at recapturing control of the Senate.

But Christie, realizing that Sweeney's seat was likely safe and knowing he needs to work with Sweeney and other powerful Democrats to get legislation passed, did not actively campaign against him...

Senate Republicans bucked their governor and re-elected Kean...

So by leaving O'Toole on the committee, Sweeney gets to thank Christie for not backing the fellow Republican who ran against him and Christie has a potential spy in the enemy camp, effectively undermining the state-level investigation before it even starts. Which means that O'Toole will either have to recuse himself or be ousted on an ethics ruling:

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Christie Loyalist To Run Ethics Panel That Would Get Bridge(t)-Gate Complaints

The state Ethics Commission, which would rule on any ethics complaints against state officials in Bridge(t)-Gate or other Christie administration scandals, yesterday approved Gov. Chris Christie’s recommendation for its new executive director -- Susana Espasa Guerrero, a former governor’s counsel who served in the governor's office with all nine Christie aides subpoenaed in Bridge(t)-Gate...

Former members of the state Ethics Commission are taking issue with the way Christie injected the governor's office into the hiring of its past two executive directors...Paula Franzese, a Seton Hall law professor...says..."It was always the tradition that the governor's office would not intercede in appointments because the governors were mindful of avoiding the appearance of impropriety.”

William E. Schluter, the former Republican state senator...(who)...formerly served as vice chairman of the commission...said...“This is the whole problem: The commission is supposed to choose the executive director, not the governor...(T)his is the second time that the governor has put in his own choice as executive director. The commission has to have total independence. That was the purpose of the reforms implemented after Gov. McGreevey left office in disgrace...”
Uh, never mind...
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Bruce is in great shape for someone in their mid 60s. He has biceps of someone in their 20s.
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Bruce is in great shape for someone in their mid 60s. He has biceps of someone in their 20s.
I noticed that, too -- if I were Fallon (age 39), I'd be embarrassed to be looking so pale and flabby, LOL!


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