Bruce Springsteen Mocks New Jersey Governor

rocknation · #**191** 07-08-2015, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Kathleen

This article ran in the NYT today - once again pointing out how Christie killed the tunnel project - and kept mucho money from the Port Authority.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/ar...ies-below&_r=0

I'm not totally clear on exactly where the tunnels would run: between Penn Station New York and Penn Station Newark, the Hoboken NJ Transist station, or both?

And I hope you had a chance to look at the Star Ledger video. The sight of those hourly rate "no-tell" motels on Tonnelle Avenue bring back such fond memories...uh, of my having to drive past them in order to avoid the tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike, of course!

Kathleen · #**192** 07-08-2015, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by rocknation

I'm not totally clear on exactly where the tunnels would run: between Penn Station New York and Penn Station Newark, the Hoboken NJ Transist station, or both?

And I hope you had a chance to look at the Star Ledger video. The sight of those hourly rate "no-tell" motels on Tonnelle Avenue bring back such fond memories...uh, of my having to drive past them in order to avoid the tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike, of course!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatewa...Gateway_Tunnel

More than you probably ever wanted to know about the Gateway project LOL

And yes - I watched the Star Ledger video (also sent it to my husband). It had been years since I thought of it looking like that LOL.

rocknation · #**193** 07-14-2015, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Kathleen

(Christie) has no right to spend my money on expensive lawyers so they can write a report saying he's clean...

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(But) he might have made a fatal mistake...He used taxpayer money to fund that report, and because of that he might actually have to abide by the subpoena. That might expose records that he doesn't want exposed. I can dream, can't I...

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Talking Points Memo: If interview transcripts exist and repeatedly diverge from the narrative...in the Mastro Report or the interview summaries, it raises the question of what Gibson Dunn has been doing with all that public money and why they were hired by Christie’s team in the first place...

According to the manual for outside counsel that’s put together by the N.J. Attorney General’s office, “outside counsel shall” – not may or might, but shall – “retain pleadings, correspondence, discovery materials, deposition transcripts and similar documents and work product for a period of no less than seven years.”

...If the judge agrees that the transcripts are material to Bridget Kelly’s defense, Gibson Dunn’s legal bills, interview memos, and their compliance with their state contract are all likely to become the target of scrutiny. And if it turns out that Gibson Dunn did indeed destroy documents, (Kelly's attorney) is asking the judge to convene a hearing so he can ask who at the firm did the shredding, when it took place, and who in the Christie administration gave their approval...

Will the Report’s already-strained credibility come under further questioning and seem like a part of the same cover-up that Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni are answering for in court? Could the legislature decide to probe how Gibson Dunn has spent that $7.75 million? They sure could.

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Since the public funded the Mastro Report, I don't see how the judge can say no...It looks like our Kathleen's dreams might actually come true!

North Jersey.com:

A federal judge has ordered the law firm that wrote a report on the George Washington Bridge lane closings for Governor Christie’s office to turn over any handwritten notes or recordings of interviews it conducted with dozens of administration officials during its investigation.

The notes had been requested by attorneys for two former Christie allies who are now fighting federal criminal charges, the governor’s onetime deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, and a former Port Authority deputy executive director, Bill Baroni...

Mastro had previously submitted a letter to the judge stating that the firm had no additional notes or recordings, just interview “summaries” that have already been made public. The 345-page report was based on interviews with more than 70 people.

Mastro has said that investigators did not record or transcribe the interviews, and the “summaries” state that they reflect the “mental thoughts and impressions” of the attorneys who conducted the interviews. Some people who were interviewed later said during legislative testimony that the summaries were not entirely accurate...

So Christie and Mastro are now officially between a rock and a hard place, and have 45 days in which to either produce the documents or explain why they don't exist. They're damned if there's no cover up, damned if there is -- somebody wake up Kathleen!

Kathleen · #**194** 07-14-2015, 10:05 PM

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So Christie and Mastro are now officially between a rock and a hard place, and have 45 days in which to comply. They're damned if there's no cover up, damned if there is -- somebody wake up Kathleen!

I'm awake

I am just waiting for the shit to hit the fan in the press - still hoping it will anyway.

rocknation · #**195** 07-20-2015, 07:08 AM

How goes it with the Christie presidential campaign? As well as can be expected:

Among the top ten declared U.S. presidential candidates, he's #8 on the money-raising list. And among the declared Republican candidates, he polls at #9 -- important because only the top ten candidates will be invited to the first round of nationally televised Republican debates.

Since Independence Day, Christie has hung out in New Jersey just long enough to see a U2 concert with Jon, shrug off a 10% increase in New Jersey Transit fares, and has announced that he won't be doing any more local town hall meetings:

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Gov. Chris Christie once promised he would hold weekly town hall meetings...So why didn’t he follow through?

“To be honest, I got tired of them, so I didn’t do it,” he said. "I just got tired of it during that period of time. I had a lot of other things I was doing...And so when I do a lot of that other stuff, developing national ideas, raising money, all that, that’s done on time that’s outside my workday most of the time. And so the people that really affects are Mary Pat and the kids.”

When a reporter pressed him on the subject, Christie got testy. “You stand up for two hours and do that, OK? Tell me how you feel, buddy,” he said.

Well, standing for two hours might be a problem for him physically -- which might explain why he allowed this New Hampshire town hall attendee to get a word in edgewise:

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NJ.com: Far away from the friendly-faced, Republican-heavy ZIP codes that have defined his New Jersey town halls, Christie almost immediately found his plan to reform Social Security challenged...

"Anybody here want to work a couple extra years?" a woman asked..."Why not just make really rich people pay the same amount as middle class people? Why shouldn't they have to pay Social Security on their full income?" Currently, the 6.2 percent Social Security withholding tax only applies to wages up to $118,500.

"Well, 'cause I'm gonna...Because my plan says they shouldn't get Social Security," Christie answered.

"But why are you asking middle class people to work longer?" the woman continued, unmoved. "It doesn't seem fair."

"What will be less fair is when Social Security goes bankrupt," Christie answered, noting that he planned to phase in the age increase over 25 years. "That's plenty of time to plan for an extra two years of work."

"But you shouldn't have to," the woman said.

"But you do have to," Christie insisted.

"If the really rich people paid on their full amount of their earning -- just like us in here have to do -- " offered the woman...

"There are not enough rich people in the United States," interrupted Christie, "nor enough money, to be able to fund what we would need with a growing population, to be able to have that be the only way you can solve this."

...The woman wasn't having it. "It's always going to be a tax increase," she said, asking, "When is someone going to stand up for the middle class and say, 'You guys have paid enough!' We've put enough in. Let the one per centers, or whoever they are, pay. This trickle down thing isn't working."

Christie, who has lost his patience when continuously challenged in New Jersey town halls, kept his cool..."Are you running for president?" Christie later asked, his voice even and calm, "because I'm not here to debate you..."

On the other hand, maybe Chrisite has been advised to try being as nice to the constituents who can give him votes as he is to the constituents who can give him big donations. But if this is supposed to be Christie's new, improved, non-bullying town hall version, his sarcastic, contemptuous "Are YOU running for president?" doesn't stick the landing: a cool, calm, even-voiced bully is still a bully. Maybe if he did the meetings sitting on a chair, he wouldn't get so tired and cranky.

P.S. Get rid of the Social Security salary cap altogether, and not only would it stay solvent forever, everyone could pay a lower rate.

P.P.S. Note to candidate Donald Trump: Keep it up with the anti-Hispanic sentiment, and Tico may take back the painting he sold you!

Becky · #**196** 07-22-2015, 06:18 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/firs...d-of-the-boss/

rocknation · #**197** 07-22-2015, 08:20 AM

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http://www.nytimes.com/politics/firs...d-of-the-boss/

Where did this reporter learn journalism -- Cracker Jack Box University? There is no mention of Jon's supporting Hillary to the point of hosting a fundraiser for her. And as for it being "impossible to know...just what Mr. Christie had in mind in spurning Mr. Springsteen," the spurning was the other way around -- which the reporter might have figured out by comparing some of Bruce's lyrics to some of Christie's policies!

Old Joysey · #**198** 07-23-2015, 05:42 PM

More fun!

http://www.app.com/story/entertainme...teen/30547961/

Kathleen · #**199** 07-23-2015, 08:28 PM

The pandering in these stories is making me gag

rocknation · #**200** 07-24-2015, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Old Joysey

More fun!
http://www.app.com/story/entertainme...teen/30547961/

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Originally Posted by Kathleen

The pandering in these stories is making me gag

Fun, indeed: the Asbury Park Pander -- I mean Press -- article contains links to three other articles AND an editorial on the subject! Did they give that much attention to the recent mini-Hurricane Sandy, and is this how Christie intends to blow leading Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump off the front pages?

You are both stronger people than I am...

Bruce Springsteen Mocks New Jersey Governor

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