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Chris Christie gave pieces of 9/11 wreckage to his cronies as gifts
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This doesn't look good on your resumé
Scandal-plagued New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) reportedly gave away pieces of metal salvaged from the wreckage of the World Trade Center as gifts to his political allies. According to the New York Times, the twisted chunks of metal were presented to a group of mayors who endorsed Christie ahead of his bid for re-election in 2013.
An investigation into Christies handling of the states Port Authority has revealed that the one-time 2016 hopeful was using the transportation nerve center as a de facto political operation, handing out political favors to supporters and pursuing vendettas long before the still-unexplained closing of George Washington Bridge in 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/11/revealed-chris-christie-gave-pieces-of-911-wreckage-to-his-cronies-as-gifts/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/11/1283940/-Chris-Christie-gave-pieces-of-9-11-wreckage-to-his-cronies-as-gifts
alsame
(7,784 posts)global1
(25,252 posts)this is the most despicable thing I've heard in a long time. Making souvenirs out of the most terrible attack and tragedy in our country. Did he think this was cute? What was he thinking?
His political allies that received these twisted chunks of metal ought to be strung up by their thumbs as well.
Cha
(297,285 posts)giving away tokens of the wreckage to those who endorsed him for gov? The wreckage that happened on bush's watch?
Alameda
(1,895 posts)really gross...with human dust and all. Ewwww...yukk
Cha
(297,285 posts)piece of scrape metal from the 9/11 massacre. asshole.
Christie asked President Obama at the cpac crapfest.. "what are we paying you for?".. I ask Christie NJ is paying him for?
I like how the article says.. "An investigation into Christies handling of the states Port Authority has revealed that the one-time 2016 hopeful was using the transportation nerve center as a de facto political operation, handing out political favors to supporters and pursuing vendettas long before the still-unexplained closing of George Washington Bridge in 2013."
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Was the story pulled?
CurtEastPoint
(18,649 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)Laxman
(2,419 posts)he's been working hard on it for a long time! He shows amazing consistency with his character and behavior.
Sweet Freedom
(3,995 posts)Giver and recipients alike =
How tasteless.
Yuck.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)has a piece of the WTC. They all had residents who died on 9/11 and they all have memorials with a piece of steel as the centerpiece.
Sweet Freedom
(3,995 posts)it's tasteless.
(Sorry, I didn't mean it to come across as insensitive.)
undeterred
(34,658 posts)That sounds like something Giuliani would do.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)apartment reserved for firefighters
Bush sent thousands to their deaths for a lie, Reagan raised taxes, amnestied undocumented migrants, brought crack to our cities, was a slave to his wife's astrologer, never went to church (he said the Libyans would get him, but the WH has a chapel), restricted guns, allied with Iraq, Iran, the USSR, Pol Pot, and gave us the Taliban
but "patert" is just an assigned label decoupled from any action