What does Bridget Anne Kelly do?

[longship]

According to e-mails released today, she is the one who ordered the lane closures.

Here's the question. About when David Wildstein received those orders "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" from Bridget Anne Kelly and he responded "got it", can anybody credibly claim that Wildstein did not see this as an order from the Governor? And since he apparently knew precisely what Kelly's terse sentence meant, and what he was being asked to do, can anybody credibly claim that Kelly and Wlidstein had not discussed this precise action previously?

And here's the core issue. How many Christie staffers are involved? And at what level are they? All of them are closely tied to the governor either personally or professionally (as in his office). Can anybody credibly claim that Governor Krispy Kreme was ignorant of this?

It boggles the mind why anybody would believe him.

The governor asks you to take the fall to protect his office. This might include criminal prosecution. It might even mean jail. So what do you do if you are Bridget Kelly?

[jsr]

1. It was premeditated and preapproved.

Kelly also worked on something else, according to this post:

[longship]

3. There's little doubt of that.

But what does Bridget Kelly do?

That is key. Amazingly, she has not been fired yet. So there are many possible scenarios happening within the governor's office.

As the investigation proceeds, and things start getting closer to a criminal investigation, would you fall on your sword and take a jail term for Chris Christie?

She's going to sing like a canary.

[jsr]

5. I don't think she'll sing. She'll cooperate and move on to another cushy job

unless she wants to end up in a barrel. Jersey is Soprano country.

[Ikonoklast]

6. She will have to avoid criminal indictment before taking that cushy job first.

A conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce is not something the federal government ever takes lightly.

There already have been calls for hearings by the appropriate Senate committees that oversee transportation and commerce.


You do not fuck with interstate commerce at the state level unless you have a political death wish, or are very, very stupid.

[GeorgeGist]

8. There's also a dead woman.

[Cha]

10. I'm better on the later for one Bridget Kelly. Guess she

was calling the shots from the gov of NJ Office if Christie didn't tell her to give the go ahead to Wildstein.

[NJCher]

7. holy smokes!

I didn't know about this!

Who can believe anyone would be so petty--and spending our tax dollars playing NSA!


Cher

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Spill, baby, Spill!

[MADem]

4. Bridget shuts down Bridges....!

If she's smart, she'll demand a major golden parachute and insist that Big Boy, there, hook her up with a no-work job with some large pocket donor who can afford to carry her on the payroll for an indefinite period of time.

[Cha]

11. Exactly.. that's what we first heard about what

she does. She gets the Shutting down of the GWB in motion.. assuming it didn't come from Christie first. Is he that stupid? Or just his chief of staff?

[Cha]

9. Really. Or does Bridget Kelly call the shots around the gov of NJ's office?

What was going on with all the redaction in the emails, anyway?

[malaise]

12. Who Is Bridget Anne Kelly?

Bridget Kelly
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According to the Star-Ledger, Kelly joined Christie’s staff in 2010 as director of legislative relations, managing the Christie administration’s relationship with the New Jersey Legislature. Since then, she has been promoted to Christie’s deputy chief of staff for legislative and intergovernmental affairs, for which she is paid $114,000 annually.

The Star-Ledger also reported that Kelly received a political science degree from Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md. Kelly reportedly began her career in government working as a legislative aide for Assemblyman David C. Russo. In 2002, she was promoted to Russo’s chief of staff. In the past, Kelly has served on several municipal government boards and on the parent faculty board at her children’s school.

A Google cache of Kelly’s now-deleted Twitter account reveals few personal details about the Christie staffer, except that she routinely interacted with officemates and friends, and enjoyed posting photos of her children on Twitter. No results for Kelly turned up on Facebook or LinkedIn, indicating that Kelly either never maintained profiles there or that she deleted them around the same time she deleted her Twitter account.

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Why were those accounts deleted?