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Bridgeaplooza :Reader says MSNBC should be covering this, and so should Fox

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Bridgeaplooza : Reader says MSNBC should be covering this, and so should Fox.

Has anyone been watching Fox news one could say that they have a bias towards Christie. They keep comparing it to Clinton’s Benghazi problems. The difference is that New Jersey can not investigate the Benghazi problem, only what happens in New Jersey. Do you want New Jersey to act like the Federal government and ignore how New Jersey investigates Christie because things like the IRS scandal, Benghazi and the NSA are ignored? I don’t think so.

Coming to Christie’s defense is X NY Mayor Giuliani, and why is that? Look at all of the Subpenas sent out in New Jersey, and look at how many of the Christie staff involved were past Giuliani employees. Maybe this is highlighting what Giuliani was like in office and he is afraid many people will draw that conclusion. or perhaps he figures if he defends Christie and he becomes president he will have a great government gig in his administration.

Also as much as many of you may dislike the Bergen Record they have done a good job of linking Christie’s bullying behavior back to his College days. Christie has a continued history of putting his friends in place and having them do what ever he wants verses what is best for the people he serves.

The really important question is Why would Bridget Kelly order a traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge? What was her motive? Was she having a personal relationship with the Mayor of Fort Lee and got mad at him and caused the problem? Was it just for kicks that she woke up one morning and decided to create chaos for the hell of it?

Why would Wildstein just do what ever Kelly wanted without even questioning the request? Then he pleads the fifth and looks for immunity? isn’t that an admission of guilt? or is he fearful of Christie retribution?

The emails clearly showed that several of those who are in Christie’s closet circle knew what was going on. Samson knew about all of this so why wasn’t he asked to step down? Why wasn’t Drewniak fired?

Kelly and Stepien were the sacrificial lambs. Fire somebody and the public will think that the problem is solved. The big question that needs to be answered is Why it all occurred.

As for Zimmer, she is a naive small time Mayor who is now learning the hard way about politics. Remember she is only the mayor because the previous mayor was found guilty of taking bribes.

MSNBC may be covering these things because others aren’t. Just as Fox was covering Benghazi because others weren’t.

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Bridgeaplooza Democrats are wary of overplaying their hand on Christie…oops too late

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Bridgeaplooza Democrats are wary of overplaying their hand on Christie…oops too late

Democrats, especially those outside New Jersey casting an eye toward the 2016 presidential race, are excited that investigations sparked by the George Washington Bridge scandal might bring down Governor Christie.

But the reality, some Democrats say, is that the investigative committees created in the state Senate and Assembly face a risk of shooting too high and missing, thus giving Christie a way to say he’s done nothing wrong.

“We have to be careful that this isn’t seen by the public as just a political game, a game of ‘Gotcha’ against the governor,” said Rep. Rush Holt, D-Mercer.

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., the Paterson Democrat whose district includes Fort Lee, was more blunt.

“If we make this a Democrat versus Republican thing, we’re stupid,” Pascrell said. “We need to simply get the facts out and let the chips fall where they may.”

What happened with Bill Clinton may provide an example. A broad swath of the public was outraged that the president had sex with an intern and lied about it. But after a failed attempt led by Republicans in Congress to impeach Clinton for lying in a civil deposition about cheating on his wife, public opinion eventually turned, to the point that today Clinton is arguably one of the most popular Democrats in the country.

To be sure, the comparison has flaws. Clinton’s redemption took a long time, and his offense could never be explained away as the act of overzealous aides who played hardball politics a little too roughly. (Jackson/The Record)

https://www.northjersey.com/columnists/Democrats_are_wary_of_overplaying_their_hand_on_Christie.html#sthash.bh8weC6Q.dpuf 

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Bridgeaplooza : Bergen Record Continues to Push Hoboken mayor’s tenuous claims

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Bridgeaplooza : Bergen Record Continues to Push Hoboken mayor’s tenuous claims 

Hoboken mayor worried no one would believe Christie threats

SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY JANUARY 19, 2014, 10:44 PM
BY  MINJAE PARK
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

HOBOKEN — Mayor Dawn Zimmer said she didn’t go public with her claim that the Christie administration threatened to withhold Superstorm Sandy aid if she didn’t fast-track a politically connected real estate project because she feared no one would believe her.

In interviews on Sunday, many of her constituents said her story rang true, especially after the scandal that has emerged related to the September traffic jam in Fort Lee caused by closures to access lanes to the George Washington Bridge that have been linked to Christie’s former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/hudson/Hoboken_mayor_worried_no_one_would_believe_Christie_threats.html#sthash.fTqNDueW.dpuf

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Readers Question Blog Coverage of Bridgeaplooza

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Readers Question Blog Coverage of Bridgeaplooza

Let me get this straight. This political blog is based in New Jersey and after 20 subpoenas are issued for the office of the Governor of New Jersey, you only have one article and its about the Governor’s fall girl. Ok, so much for Laissez-faire Point of View to New Jersey State. Nothing to see here. You must think she dreamed the whole thing up herself. She’s a secretary, for crying out loud. What makes anyone think she makes policy decisions like shutting down the George Washington Bridge. She gets coffee and relays messages for the Governor. Anyone thinking she has anything to do with this is delusional. Is Christie that big of a con man that he can convince one person that this rogue employee hatched up some scheme of political payback that looks eerily similar to all the payback schemes he has been involved with. He is vindictive, petty, a bully and I can only hope that she finally wakes up and spills the beans on her “fine” boss.

Unfortunately John people are more worried about the lunch delivery ban at the High School , perhaps if the press would have put half the energy they have in this story in to the last 500 corruption scandals in New Jersey over the last 20 years and far bigger ones at the national level you might actually have a point but alas the media particular the north jersey media has ignored over looked or po po-ed everything so the public is just numb to it.
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Bridgeaplooza :The scandal is MSNBC

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Does anyone else think its hysterical that someone from Hudson County would call anyone a crook? 

Bridgeaplooza :The scandal is MSNBC
BY JENNIFER RUBIN
January 18 at 7:00 pm

The bridge scandal started out as a test for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). Now it has become a test for the media. MSNBC, which long ago stopped being a news outlet in the sense of going out to find facts and is largely indistinguishable from Democratic Party talking points, has been going 24/7 since the bridge story broke. No surprise. But then Saturday MSNBC decided to throw even the pretense of journalism overboard.

Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer speaks to the media in 2009. (Mel Evans/Associated Press)

It ran with a claim from Mayor Dawn Zimmer of Hoboken claiming Christie withheld Sandy relief funds to gain approval for a business development. Christie’s office put out a quick denial of the allegations, as did the developers. MSNBC says the mayor has a personal diary that corroborates her claim — a diary that has yet to be released, reviewed or verified. Rather than, you know, investigate the story, MSNBC threw it out on the air hoping others would follow. The Hill had the good sense to note this mayor had changed  her story from earlier claims that the funds were denied for not backing him for governor.

Then Saturday afternoon Christie’s team had enough. It put out a written statement:

MSNBC is a partisan network that has been openly hostile to Governor Christie and almost gleeful in their efforts attacking him, even taking the unprecedented step of producing and airing a nearly three-minute attack ad against him this week. Governor Christie and his entire administration have been helping Hoboken get the help they need after Sandy, with the city already having been approved for nearly $70 million dollars in federal aid and is targeted to get even more when the Obama Administration approves the next rounds of funding. The Governor and Mayor Zimmer have had a productive relationship, with Mayor Zimmer even recently saying she’s ‘very glad’ he’s been our Governor. It’s very clear partisan politics are at play here as Democratic mayors with a political axe to grind come out of the woodwork and try to get their faces on television.

In short, the Hoboken mayor  has been all over the place, claiming different things have been for retribution. With no correspondence or other documented communication with the governor, we’re supposed to take a personal diary that could have been written at any point in time as reliable? A professional news operation must be more than simply a bulletin board for partisans.

The scandal is MSNBC

BY JENNIFER RUBIN

January 18 at 7:00 pm

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The bridge scandal started out as a test for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). Now it has become a test for the media. MSNBC, which long ago stopped being a news outlet in the sense of going out to find facts and is largely indistinguishable from Democratic Party talking points, has been going 24/7 since the bridge story broke. No surprise. But then Saturday MSNBC decided to throw even the pretense of journalism overboard.

Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer speaks to the media in 2009. (Mel Evans/Associated Press)

It ran with a claim from Mayor Dawn Zimmer of Hoboken claiming Christie withheld Sandy relief funds to gain approval for a business development. Christie’s office put out a quick denial of the allegations, as did the developers. MSNBC says the mayor has a personal diary that corroborates her claim — a diary that has yet to be released, reviewed or verified. Rather than, you know, investigate the story, MSNBC threw it out on the air hoping others would follow. The Hill had the good sense to note this mayor had changed  her story from earlier claims that the funds were denied for not backing him for governor.

Then Saturday afternoon Christie’s team had enough. It put out a written statement:

MSNBC is a partisan network that has been openly hostile to Governor Christie and almost gleeful in their efforts attacking him, even taking the unprecedented step of producing and airing a nearly three-minute attack ad against him this week. Governor Christie and his entire administration have been helping Hoboken get the help they need after Sandy, with the city already having been approved for nearly $70 million dollars in federal aid and is targeted to get even more when the Obama Administration approves the next rounds of funding. The Governor and Mayor Zimmer have had a productive relationship, with Mayor Zimmer even recently saying she’s ‘very glad’ he’s been our Governor. It’s very clear partisan politics are at play here as Democratic mayors with a political axe to grind come out of the woodwork and try to get their faces on television.

In short, the Hoboken mayor  has been all over the place, claiming different things have been for retribution. With no correspondence or other documented communication with the governor, we’re supposed to take a personal diary that could have been written at any point in time as reliable? A professional news operation must be more than simply a bulletin board for partisans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/01/18/the-scandal-is-msnbc/