Chris Christie-Slippery As A Greased Pig.....
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He is the master of a new art form-Emergency Revisionist History. Please make note that honest people generally stick to their stories and don't massage the facts on an ongoing basis to meet the legal or ethical questions the truth may present. How many different stories about when he first learned of the GWB lane closures? (at least three that I can put my finger on). Did you know David Wildstein in high school or was he just some anonymous photo-bombing "nerd" in the baseball picture in the Livingston High yearbook? Pension management, property taxes, Sandy funds, the Port Authority, David Sampson, Hoboken-Christie's got a new story for all of them whenever the truth becomes dangerous or his old story inconvenient. Just make up a new story that keeps you out of trouble-don't worry, nobody will remember the old one.
Last night Chris Christie told his audience on the weekly Ask The Governor radio show that he and Jerry Jones didn't meet until September 2013 and that's when they immediately became good friends-got it!
Jerry Jones and I first met in September of 2013,” Christie said on his monthly radio call-in show on New Jersey 101.5. He added that by his recollection, he only first spoke to Jones on the phone in the summer of 2013.
The governor said the men connected only after a mutual friend called him to say that Jones understood Christie was a fan of the Cowboys, and wanted his cell phone number. Christie gave his friend the number, and shortly after Jones called.
“We were at the beach house one weekend, and I got a call from Jerry Jones,” Christie said.
But, on December 22-only a couple of weeks ago-he told NJTV host Steve Adubato they had been friends much longer:
Christie offered that he'd been a Cowboys fan since he was 9 years old, and always would be, before adding: "I’ve become friends with Jerry over the last five years -"
Adubato, looking a bit surprised, remarked on how Christie said he was on a first-name basis with Jones, saying, "‘Jerry’?"
"Yeah. 'Jerry,'" responded Christie, "He allows me to call him ‘Jerry’. I don’t call him, ‘Mr. Jones.’ I call him ‘Jerry.’ And I’ve become friends with Jerry over the last five years. And you know, we were together at the game together in Philadelphia two weeks ago. And then Mary Pat, myself and the children all went down to Dallas this weekend, and we went to the game yesterday [December 21]."
What changed in the past couple of weeks? Well, what everybody knows, that's what. And the facts call for some historical revisions. You see on December 22 he was only defending his Cowboy fandom. Way back then (3 weeks is ancient history with this guy) he and Jerry were old friends-going back 5 years or so- sharing a love for his favorite team. Then folks started to think, what was this guy doing in Jones' private jet, in the owner's box, taking expensive gifts-and didn't Jones get a lucrative Port Authority contract? In the famous words of Scooby Doo-ruh-ro!
So we get the carefully crafted new story-they've been friends (so the gift is O.K.) but just long enough that they weren't friends when the Port Authority contract was awarded in March 2013. Boy, you've only known Jerry a little more than a year and he's already flying your family around on a private jet! You must really be a good guy Mr. Governor to make fast friends that quickly. So here's Christie, trying to thread the needle, just like Romo trying to fit one in between the deep safety and a cornerback.
I hope somebody's paying attention down at the U.S. Attorney's office. Paging Mr. Fishman, Paging Mr. Fishman, we have another made up story! This is basic Impeachment of a Witness' Credibility 101! Do I really have to do your jobs for you? If so, I believe I'm due beer and travel money.
Here are the links for the stories:
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/christie_again_revises_start_of_jerry_jones_friend.html#incart_m-rpt-1
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/12/watch_gov_christie_discuss_nj_challenges_tonight_at_8_with_steve_adubato.html
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his inept handling of Sandy, still think he is da bomb? Low information voting is an epidemic that needs to be stamped out.
It's not looking like that's going to happen here.
It's amazing, there's usually a hard core of Christie supporters trolling the comment section at NJ.Com. They're nowhere to be found on this one. It's a hard one to defend. I live in the Christie homeland where the locals worship him. Even his real friends are saying he screwed up on this one. (of course they're willing to let him slide on it) It's got to be sinking in to people who even pay marginal attention that he's got more stories than the Naked City.
Ever heard of telephones? Or web conferencing? Or corresponding by postal or electronic mail?
The bottom line is that in March 2013, Jones got a deal with the Port Authority to run the observation deck of the World Trade Center, rendering him ineligible to render any gifts to any New Jersey public officials. Is Christie having ANOTHER attack of personnel amnesia? It would be one thing for Christie to deny that he helped make the deal happen. But since he and NY governor Cuomo issued a joint press release about the Jones/PA deal, it's hard to believe he didn't know about it!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6046484
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