Accounts of Petty Retribution Reinforce Christie’s Bullying Image
In other words, Chris Christie is a thug:
In 2010, John F. McKeon, a New Jersey assemblyman, made what he thought was a mild comment on a radio program: Some of the public employees that Gov. Chris Christie was then vilifying had been some of the governors biggest supporters.
He was surprised to receive a handwritten note from Mr. Christie, telling him he had heard the comments, and that he didnt like them.
I thought it was a joke, Mr. McKeon recalled. What governor would take the time to write a personal note over a relatively innocuous comment?
But the gesture would come to seem genteel compared with the fate suffered by others in disagreements with Mr. Christie: a former governor who was stripped of police security at public events; a Rutgers professor who lost state financing for cherished programs; a state senator whose candidate for a judgeship suddenly stalled; another senator who was disinvited from an event with the governor in his own district.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/nyregion/accounts-of-petty-retribution-reinforce-christies-bullying-image.html?hp