No one is explaining WHY B. Kelly would take it upon herself to exact political retribution

[stg81]

makes no sense

[warrior1]

1. nailed it

[stg81]

3. I find it impossible to believe she did this strictly on her own.

So she broke the bridge, and thought Christie would never find out??? That's NUTS.

[LAGC]

2. Even if we were to believe she really did do it behind his back...

It just goes to show that she THOUGHT he'd approve.

This is his top adviser we're talking about here.

She must have been paid some serious hush-money to fall on her sword like that.

[global1]

4. The Kochs Have A Crap Load Of Money......nt

[stg81]

8. is it wrong to think something like an episode of Scandal happened in NJ yesterday?

[calimary]

31. Nope! And Welcome to DU, stg81!

Glad you're here! A very celebratory day around here, indeed!

Is it bad that I'm smiling?

[stg81]

5. EXACTLY

[madashelltoo]

7. Out of the Sandy Fund, no doubt.

[elfin]

6. Yes, and has she lawyered up yet?

Will there be hush money? Will that be engineered by Christy's mega-bucks financier wife? A sweet job at Pox?

No reports that she has been fruitlessly contacted by press yet.

[stg81]

9. you'd think if she didn't lie she'd sue the pants off Christie for saying she did

…unless arrangements have been made????

[NJCher]

18. she might go into a NJ psychiatric institute

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Think I'm kidding? I'm not. I'm a college teacher in NJ and a couple years ago I had a student who was a psychiatric aid in one of NJ's institutions. She told me and the rest of the class that it was routine for people to come in (usually women, btw) and the staff could immediately tell they didn't belong there.

These people were taking the fall for some political figure (usually male) who had been caught with their hands in the till. They would stay until the scandal died down, usually about six months or so. My student got the impression they'd been paid off for their time and who knows what else. It's a way to keep reporters away from them by saying their are suffering "depression" or some other type of psychological illness.


Cher

[elfin]

21. She has four kids, which might make that more difficult

Don't know if she is a single mom or not. No mention of a husband in articles I have read about her.

[riverwalker]

10. he just said

he has not even spoken to Bridget Kelly since the emails came out ????!!!! Earlier he said he spent all day yesterday "investigating" the matter. Yet he never called Kelly to ask "WTF did you do?"

[stg81]

12. YOU have just identified the string that, if pulled, will unravel this whole thing

[stg81]

23. so he fired this long-standing associated without even speaking to her?? I don't buy it.

[Tanuki]

28. Probably on advice from his attorneys. What if she showed up "wearing a wire"? n/t

[Skittles]

33. he cannot ask her because he knows what she would say

[SummerSnow]

11. Reporter just asked him why did kelly lie to him?

he says he doesn't know why and he never asked her and he isn't interested in knowing and not seeking a explanation That's such a bullshit lie. Your political career is on the table and YOU don't want an explanation of their actions and betrayal? WTF.


He is getting agitated.lol

[stg81]

13. and she has worked for him for years, part of his "staff-family"

and he hasn't even spoken to her about what happened - just took someone else's hearsay??

[SummerSnow]

17. Now he is saying he had no knowledge of an pursued endorsement from FT Lee mayor

and wonders why Kelly would have a personal vendetta against him.



You're right Christie, she didn't have a personal vendetta against Ft Lee mayor, you did. lol

[stg81]

19. yes

[stg81]

20. I wonder if Fort Lee mayor has evidence Christie DID seek an endorsement from him

[SummerSnow]

24. Hope there is email or a letter

[stg81]

27. or was it simply understood - endorse, or else

[Jim Lane]

37. Sokolich said that he didn't recall a request for endorsement.

It wasn't an ordinary election campaign, though. Literally scores of elected Democrats endorsed Christie. Quite a few others either made no endorsement or gave a pro forma endorsement to Barbara Buono without lifting a finger to help her.

Under the circumstances, the absence of a formal request wasn't that big a deal. There was such a major Democrats-for-Christie movement that it was reasonable to ask, with regard to each elected Democrat, what he or she had done. A Democratic mayor wouldn't need a letter or an email to know that Christie wanted his endorsement.

[SummerSnow]

14. Strange how he keeps making this just human error..

this was pre- meditated . He is so contradicting himself

[Stagecoach]

15. Evidently he didn't talk to the person who lied to him

Since he first found out about this yesterday, and hasn't talked to her since.

[infoviro]

16. so what does Kelly get for falling her sword and keeping quiet?

[SummerSnow]

26. a nice severance package

a really nice package

[SodoffBush]

35. maybe she's afraid of Christy

I wonder how she would behave under oath.

[truebrit71]

22. And THAT is the most important question to ask...

...let's see if any of the lapdogs in the Stenographers pool think to ask it..

[Whisp]

25. woah, big Yeah... n/t K&R

[bettyellen]

29. ha has no plans to ask, either.

[Mr.Bill]

30. For a former prosecutor,

he's not very good at investigating things, is he?

[PM Martin]

32. Ehrlichman and Haldeman too had kept Nixon "in the dark" on their actions.

I don't believe Christie at all. The only way his staff would act in such a manner is because he wanted them to do so.

[Skittles]

34. would love to see Ms. Kelly's resume

reason for leaving last job

[moondust]

36. Tacit approval.

Working closely with a micromanager, one tends to learn to anticipate what a despotic boss would approve of and what could get one fired.

[markpkessinger]

38. The obvious answer, of course . . .

. . . is that she did it to curry favor with the boss. But that brings up a second question: why, then, would she not inform her boss that she had done so? If indeed she didn't let Christie know she had done it, then what would have been the point in the first place?

[herding cats]

39. Or why Christie didn't grill her on why before he fired her.

If I were lied to, made a fool of, and suddenly in a position where my career was in jeopardy, I'd be demanding to know what exactly took place.