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"Heartbroken" Christie "Surprised At Stupidity"; Apologizes; Fires Bunch Of Staff; "Crazy" To Think He'd Resign
Governor Christie says he is "doing a lot of soul-searching," over the "callous indifference" displayed by his former campaign manager Bill Stepien (since asked to leave) and Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly (since fired). He was "disturbed by the tone and behavior and attitude" of the emails he saw (following his workout). The "heartbroken", "not a bully", Governor accepted responsibility for his staff's actions and is embarrased and humiliated... but "it's crazy man" to think he would resign...
Via The Hill... the problem...
...emails obtained by The Hill and other publications on Wednesday raised significant questions about that explanation. They showed a top Christie aide, deputy chief of staff Bridget Ann Kelly, appearing to collude with David Wildstein, a Christie appointee at the Port Authority, to create traffic in the town.
“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Kelly emailed to Wildstein after the mayor failed to back Christie.
“Got it,” Wildstein emailed back.
Press Briefing Post Mortem
Status and Apologies...
- *GOV CHRISTIE APOLOGIZES TO NJ, FT. LEE, LEGISLATURE
- *CHRISTIE SAYS HE'S EMBARRASSED, HUMILIATED
- *CHRISTIE SAYS DOING A LOT OF SOUL-SEARCHING OVER INCIDENT
- *CHRISTIE SAYS HE WAS 'BLIND SIDED' YESTERDAY MORNING
- *CHRISTIE SAYS SURPRISED AT "STUPIDITY'' OF THOSE INVOLVED
- *CHRISTIE SAYS HE WAS TOLD LANE CLOSURES WERE FOR TRAFFIC STUDY
- *CHRISTIE SAYS HE ASKED STAFF FOR INFORMATION ON LANE CLOSURES
- *CHRISTIE SAYS SENIOR STAFF SAID THEY HAD NO INFORMATION
- *CHRISTIE SAYS SAW EMAILS FOR THE FIRST TIME YESTERDAY MORNING (after his workout)
- *CHRISTIE SAYS THERE WERE POLITICAL OVERTONES IN EMAILS
- *CHRISTIE SAYS HE AND WILDSTEIN WEREN'T FRIENDS OR ACQUAINTANCES
- *CHRISTIE SAYS THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR BEHAVIOR
- *CHRISTIE WILL HOLD PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH SENIOR STAFF
- *CHRISTIE SAYS HE HASN'T COMPLETED STAFF INTERVIEWS YET
- *"I AM HEARTBROKEN'' CHRISTIE SAYS, THAT TRUST BETRAYED
- *CHRISTIE SAYS HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED
- *CHRISTIE SAYS STAFF "FELL SHORT''
Actions:
- *CHRISTIE SAYS ACTION TAKEN AGAINST STEPIEN BY 7 PM YESTERDAY
- *CHRISTIE SAYS STEPIEN WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR PARTY CHAIR
- *CHRISTIE SAYS STEPIEN WON'T BE CONSIDERED FOR NJ GOP CHAIRMAN
- *CHRISTIE SAYS STEPIEN WITHDRAWS CONSULTANCY JOB
- *CHRISTIE SAYS BEHAVIOR OF AIDES UNACCEPTABLE
- *CHRISTIE SAYS BRIDGET KELLY FIRED, SAYS SHE LIED TO HIM
- *CHRISTIE SAYS NOT INTERESTED IN BRIDGET KELLY'S EXPLANATION
- *CHRISTIE SAYS BRIDGET KELLY FIRED BY 9 A.M. YESTERDAY
Kelly and Christie in a better mood...
Next Steps:
- *U.S. ATTORNEY IN NEW JERSEY PROBING CHRISTIE TRAFFIC SCANDAL
- *CHRISTIE TRAVELING TO FT. LEE TODAY TO SEEK MEETING W/ MAYOR
- *CHRISTIE WILL SEEK TO APOLOGIZE TO FT. LEE MAYOR, RESIDENTS
- *CHRISTIE:NOT BEGINNING PROCESS OF CONSIDERING PRESIDENTIAL RUN
And summing it all up...
"Oh, God, no. That's a crazy question, man," says Christie to reporter asking if he ever considered resignation.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 9, 2014
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is Christie over 400 lbs? That is like stacking eight 25lb bags of dog food on a regular 200 lb guy. That guy is insanely obese.
No kidding. I weigh between 170 and 175 for the most part, at 6 ' 2". I once, for a short time was over 185. Felt like a fat slob. Started increasing my workouts to get back down to my preferred weight. I just cannot imagine having to carry that much weight on a pair of human legs. Not to mention, what it must be like when he has to "drop a deuce"! EEK!!!!!
We know he is the "pork-er" but where is the barrel??
So this what US meant when tell about Pork Barrel Politician?
Now I can understand meaning in real
Accountability at the top? What's that? It's everyone else's fault!
Execute this fascist pig already.
If he was that easily "misled," who's the stupid one?
The voters of New Jersey...for voting him in as Glorious Alpha Male Leader.
Truly shocked at my fellow ZH-ers for focusing on this one person. This scandal along with all the others that occur in government need to be pointed out as shining examples of why the Power of Government must be limited. Rogue traffic workers, rogue IRS workers, rogue NSA workers, rogue TSA workers, rogue FBI, rogue ...
Either the workers are not rogue and the actual government control structure directs them to punish the citizens
OR
The workers are rogue and the government control structure cannot control or chooses not to control their workforce from punishing citizens.
Fear the bureaucracy. For it becomes the means to it's own ends. It breeds secrets and hides accountability. It feeds on those who create and those who must deal with it. It stretches from the capital to the lowliest municipal clerk in the smallest municipality. They are dependent on you and therefor must control you and do so with your permission. Pretend you are not a victim at your own peril. Pretend that you are fighting it when it controls you.
Go ahead, assign labels and colors to the nationwide network of ant hills consuming you as they go about their daily business of eating everything in their path.
The chains we dressed ourselves in because no one said, "NO"
sorry citizen, you need a permit, application filed in triplicate, to express or propose to express fear in your local zip code + 3 zip codes distance away and/or within the next 6 months as per by-law bla-blah-blah point six-four.
A fine of $666 per day will be billed to you until the permit is granted.
the permeating stench of NJ Republicans is overwhelming
Overwhelmed only by the MUCH worse odor of NJ Communists, who call themselves Democrats.
"the permeating stench of NJ Republicans is overwhelming "
"Overwhelmed only by the MUCH worse odor of NJ Communists, who call themselves Democrats."
Vastly overwhelmed by the ignorance of those chained to the red/blue delusion. Which of course is why we will have more of the same. Scum by any other name is still scum. No matter the package it is wrapped in.
Trumped even more by the vacuous condescension of those deploying simplistic, cartoon-like terminology such as "chained to the red/blue delusion".
There is indeed not NEARLY enough difference in the current two party set up, and Christie is an absolutely reprehensible RINO, but to deny that there are no "Red" politicians trying to forge a smaller government consensus, is blindly ridiculous.
Even Christie will at least occassionally provide the proper public protests against rampant Collectivism. Not nearly enough, but definitely better than the Democrats' headlong, default rush toward a government that is wholly pervasive.
"but to deny that there are no "Red" politicians trying to forge a smaller government consensus, is blindly ridiculous."
And by that logic, to deny that there are no blue politicians trying to work with red politicians to reach compromise that would be of benefit to "all" people and not just one particular constituency is equally riduculous.
It is never all one way but there are many of both "mainstream" parties spending a great deal of money to have you believe that it is.
You are deluded if you believe that anything can be solved "politically" THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS.
Consensus is not necessarily truth. Agreement is not necessarily truth.
One must be Self Reliant. Instead of seeking to be lead you must lead yourself.
The Government is not God and is subject to the same follies and failures of being Human. They cannot choose that which is better for you.
In fact because of their average IQ of the bureaucracy the best outcome is mediocrity as that is what one gets from the average. There will be nothing noteworthy or outstanding. They are no brighter, on average, than the average. Average intelligence is rather unremarkable.
To expect that which is synergistically better from a bunch of average people is the epitome of the irrationality so prevalent in today's entitlement mentality crowd.
As an example of the delusion that too many have about Government is that the masses somehow believe that the Government's function is to "create jobs" That is not anything near the stated mission of the Government.
It is absolutely irrational that anyone expect something from Government other than abject failure.
Be it dem or rep, the stench is so bad when someone farts in a car they roll the windows up.
its horrifying to see how the populist knee jerk makes you all ape shit ugly in terms of extremist jargonese!
you sure you no be an American Taliban who hates the Commie soviet in 1979 afghan invasion now implanted in NJ ? ; nostalgic thrills of Rambo type USA USA !
You can smell western decadence even across the Atlantic divide. It has the taste of nicotine Mad men days and the smell of Phosphorus bombs on Fallujah plays.
And, its not limited to good ole USa, its coming back like an Aussi boomerang to the Euro-theatre as well where it all originated!
cool.
Can you re-write that in haiku form now?
Old World elitist
Spews crap, drunk on statist myths;
Truth is not his friend.
In his half-mad rant
I see the vile shadow of
AnAnonymous.
did he do his apology at the club " bada bing"? out side jersey city?
I'm suspicious of any male deploying simpering, feminine terminology like "heartbroken".
I could care less about that. What bothers me is that he's a fat fuck politician from NJ. Seriously, you'd have to go to Chicago (or DC) to find politicians that are more corrupt than than the ones in NJ. I don't even really care that much about the fact that he is a fat fuck, except for the fact that it provides quite a bit of entertainment and I get to laugh at all of the jokes.
Agent Fat-Bastard has no shame, and more chins than a Chinese phone book.
One meal away from a cardiac like....
;-)
lol mix.;-
It's starting to look like old politburo crap ala USSR, dirtyratbastardsonsabitches AKA politicians. I don't care what their stripe they are in it for themselves first and their damned second, us wankers come in last again...
Course it is winston, as we know, these fuckers care nothing for the people they represent, only their personal gain.
It is indeed USSR II.
This fat fucking fraud should have done the honourable thing after the oversight of HIS office, and resigned, but no, the leader has fuck all to do with the staff???
Fat. lying, fraudulent cunt, of a waste of space. He should be MADE to stand down, as we would.
Fat greasy cunt, and you know what? When this bastard was born, the Mid-Wife smacked his mother.
:-(
Right after she pulled his tail off.
that's 'cos he was as bad with her as with the mother. Women share their griefs in funny ways!
EPIC FAIL.
The person in charge of an organization is always repsonsible for actions of the organization which are percieved as positive, yet others are resposible for actions of the organization which are percieved as negative.
Absolutely. Just look at the courageous example we have seen all the way to the top of the U.S. government since 2001. Pure "buck stops here" leadership for every scandal/crime/clusterfook.
Mr. Christie, any truth to the *fact* you used to work essentially as Bernie Madoff's lobbyist?
Mr. Christie, did you at any time work on behalf of the [slime covered] Securities Industry Association?
May I remind you that you are under oath Mr. Christie?
Listen, Christie and ALL the ridiculous fake press he gets is controlled opposition.
The democrats/Hillary Clinton need some kind of fake opposition to "run against" and Christie is just the cheapest ass wipe around - He's over the bridge in Jersey.
The last thing the corporate media and the Demo-fascist Party want is to give Rand Paul (or any independent- anti-banker) a seat at the table.
Christie is McCain, is Kerry, is Mondale.
This guy look like he is from Central Casting on his way to the Sopranos set.
I could barely consider this flake to move my refrigerator. The idea that he even gets traction in the republican party just shows how vapidly dead that "party" is.
I have never meet a republican outside of New Jersey that had a sliver of interests in that guy's east coast mafia politics and anti-charisma.
Christie is fake opposition for a blind, obedient, fake media; Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, Disney, etc.
Good God man. Listen to what your saying. Rand Paul will not get the republican nomination. He would be toast for the republican party. But then again, maybe that will be what your referring to as "controlled opposition."
Guarantee Bridgette Kelly will land squarely on her feet somewhere in the GOP Progressive machine. Either that, or she has already been bribed for life with a numbered account in Switzerland to take this bullet for the machine.
Mostly likely an organization outside the machine but with her ties will provide her with a nice living. Why in God's name would they set up an account in Switzerland either? Easy handled through domestic accounts.
the politically elected are cast in bronze...not their staff; they be expendable.
Ask Dianne Feinstein about NSA : I was ill advised...
As are we once voting season is over.
This is just the very first of MANY SALVOS of Ammunition to be fired as Governor Christie, as well as most Governors in the United States, added to the US Representatives, are up FOR REELECTION.
2014 is an Election Year people. It seems to be off to an entertaining start...
Whom benefits from the release of this story?
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
Finally Qui Bono?
I've thought for some time that Christie would make a good presidential candidate for the Democrat Party. These tactics further support this position. Looks like Hillary will have some competition. Watch for a recall election a la Wisconsin.
Why? It is already an Election Year.
Obama has always just blamed everything on Bush and Republicans while never firing anyone.
"Blah blah blah...its everyone's fault but mine!"
The usual.
all the makings of a typical president and a typical white house administration. Someone should face felony charges in the death of the woman denied expedient ambulance service.
Hey, you are right, somebody Died. Maybe he is Presidential material. I bet he has a Birth Certificate, which is at least better than whatever it is we have now.......
Run Christie or Jeb Bush and the Tea Party stays home. Just the facts.
Yep.
Are you the real DB?
I'm reading your book at this very moment.
Fatboy should have used the New Jersey Tax Board to settle scores just like President Dickbreath did with the IRS.
odious pos that one
Two lies in one sentence.
That snatch kelly looks pretty good so I guess it is ok whatever she did, let's let it ride so to speak.....
she can stay at my place if I can fuck her.
shecan get 25$ a week in cash for blowjobs thrown in.
Like Fat Daddy did not know this was going on, hahaha, give me a break, it's NJ.
I don't care. He's really a Democrat. I want Libertarians.
"If you're free, prepare, otherwise vote."
"Are you happy to see me or is that a guillotine in your pocket?!"
If any of us had intentionally made a major bridge unusable for days, we would be charged with terrorism.
That's what this Kelly bitch, and her co-conspirator, did.
The broader problem is that there are thousands of Kellys infecting government all over the nation.
I'm trying to think of something positive to say but this will have to do.
Bridget Kelly will write an expose. The cover art will have Christie as Jabba and Bridgett as Princess Leia
"U.S. ATTORNEY IN NEW JERSEY PROBING CHRISTIE TRAFFIC SCANDAL"
Good. Probe away.
It's a crime against decency to say or write: "probing Christie".
"dizzyfingers" should know better.
They might as well. The only thing probing Bath House is Reggie's schlong.
We are talking about New Jersey...nothing is clean there...but I think he is better than the others.....the amout of time they are speniding on this is amazing....seems to me the Obama IRS thing is just as bad..but that had all of 5 minutes on the news....liberal MSM I guess.....they are the enemy..
Our political class at "work". A hundred other schemes go on as we speak, Christie and his minions simply got caught.
At one point we had a government 'of the people, by the people, and for the people'. Now we have two political parties consisting of extremists on both sides of the aisle, from the top players down through the aides. Christie may or may not have known, but his choice of aides was poor. We basically have no political or business leaders or their aides that look out for 'the people' or try to do things to improve the country - they only look out for themselves and their friends. And even worse, yet again, we see the power of what idiots place onto email, text, facebook, twitter, ZH comment boards, etc... Anyone who is a public or political figure should avoid these things at all costs!!!
hahaha, we have One Party that pretends to be Two Parties.
DRUDGEREPORT.COM has a poll going on now.... let the drones know how you really feel about Crisco Christie....
They have no box for "throw him off a bridge, so I voted "poor."
That poll has crappy choices.
Why bother?
The War on Taxpayers continues. Move along.
What a jerkoff.
I would never in a million years vote for this idiot.
If he is the contender for the socialist lite party, they may as well throw themselves off a cliff now. Please do not make us suffer anymore, assholios! We already know the Comofascist party will run Hitlery, so what difference does it make?
Hitlery was thrown under the bus by Oblameo. Remember Benghazi?
Oblameo plans to run "the Wookie" so he can have FOUR MOAR WHOAR YEARS.
I am almost surprised by the child-like stupidity and naivete on here at times. Of course Christie isn't going to resign over something so relatively-mild and tha he was going to deny any invovlement since there is no 'smoking gun' found so far, set up the standard PR conference, make a few people fail on their swords, and move on.
Governors retaliate all the time against political enemies. Always have and always will. The question you needs to be ask is whether Christie directly orderded this and if so why. If he did, it means he is a pretty vindictive son-of-a bitch even by political standards. It was an incredibly crass to do to a mayor who is politically insignificant in NJ and frankly doesn't matter in the schme of things in a state-level. Somebody with that kind of temperant isn't a quality you want in the Oval Office.
Resign? Are you fucking out of your mind? Never have so few stolen so much from so many for so long. Ima stay for this shit 'till the end.
Hey, it's New Jersey! How come nobody is asking what favor Christie did for the Fort Lee mayor that the mayor refused to repay? This is a pay-for-play state, and retribution like this is not called for unless somebody welshed big time.
And exactly who has been reading those emails and releasted them? Was there a Snowden in the NJ IT organization, or was a search made at the NSA?
It does show how dumb even the best player Republicans are in general. All the democrats seem to know not to use work computers and official email for this kind of nonsense.
Christie is one of the few Republicans who can play the required game here in NJ. He just needed better help. I'd vote for him again in NJ, but never on the national stage.