Why would Christie(or his minions)even BOTHER getting vengeance on "that little Serbian"?

[Ken Burch]

The guy was a Democrat...he didn't OWE Christie an endorsement. And Christie had just won by thirty points anyway.

Why would they care so freaking much about not getting more votes in Fort Lee?

(Were the mad because they couldn't get "Mr. Richard Fedder" to vote for them?)

[TheBlackAdder]

1. You have to see how his parents raised him and who taunted him as a child. n/t

[etherealtruth]

13. Sometimes sociopaths just happen!

[TrollBuster9090]

21. You mean LIKE THIS?

His need to confront and punish some random nobody on the street, who 'dared' to shout something he didn't even hear properly, says it all.

[elfin]

2. They had orders to get blanket Dem endorsement for the Boss

Most likely in no uncertain terms, spare no effort etc. Maybe "get creative" was in the instruction list.

They jumped to please him and indeed jumped off a bridge to do it.

[JoePhilly]

3. I think that's pretty close.

[spanone]

4. gives a hint about the mentality in his 'circle of family'

makes one wonder what else has gone on

[cheyanne]

5. he lives on fear and intimidation.

Needs to know that he can control everyone around him.

also minor megalomania . .

[okaawhatever]

6. Do you really believe the statement you wrote? Are you even the slightest bit familiar with

Christie's reign as a federal prosecutor and his political prosecutions? Don't you need to be on some right wing website?

[Ken Burch]

22. No, I don't need to be on a right-wing website. Just can't understand the overkill here.

If Christie had unexpectedly lost by 300 votes, and Fort Lee had gone against him by 75%, I could make sense of it.

Not sure why you're expressing so much hostility here. I don't live in New Jersey, so I can't be expected to be totally up-to-speed on Christie's "backstory". Chill, dude.

[JoePhilly]

7. Becauae that's what a bully does.

New Jersey politics run, in large part, on favors, and grudges.

My sense is that all of the mayors knew that if you did not endorse Christie, you could expect some negative outcome.

Maybe your paper work for some state level funding gets "lost" or "misplaced" ... maybe your requests sink a little further down the bureaucratic stack.

Think like a mob boss.

Either the store owners pay protection, or they risk some "accident" becoming more likely.

There real is not other reason that I've heard anyone put forward.

"Why did Christie's minions do this?" That is THE question.

The ONLY reason is some form of political retribution. You'll notice no one, not even Christie has some alternative reason.

His staff did this "for him" or on his "behalf".

[Fumesucker]

18. Politics everywhere runs on favors and grudges

I've been peripherally involved in politics a couple of rather different places that aren't New Jersey, one of them was Plaquemines Parish LA, so corrupt even Sixty Minutes noticed. Favors and grudges, I guarantee.

Then I became related by marriage to a politically connected family in another state and got a major education in just how things are done there.

Corruption isn't just endemic to politics, it's pandemic.

[JoePhilly]

19. I'm from philly with family in NJ

and they've been in that area for decades.

NJ, at all levels, runs on a barter system of sorts.

I'm on my phone now, but I have described in other threads months back how people there trade favors and use grudges to prioritize their work.

My brother in law has hilarious stories of how he got season tickets for the flyers.

No one in NJ is surprised here. What they are all doing now is angling for what happens next.

How do I leverage this?

That's what's going on now.

[justiceischeap]

8. I believe I read yesterday that he wanted Democratic endorsement

so he could say he "reaches across the aisle" when 2016 rolls around. This was a move intended to make him look good for a Presidential bid. It backfired.

[countingbluecars]

9. The more endorsements from

Democrats the better. He is/was going to use working across the aisle as his claim to fame when running for president.

[herding cats]

10. To show them what happens when you don't do what Christie says you should?

That is the only reason I keep coming up with that makes any sense. They wanted to intimidate him so he knew not to make that mistake again.

[athena]

11. Take a look at this article for other examples of retribution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/nyregion/accounts-of-petty-retribution-reinforce-christies-bullying-image.html

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 governor’s biggest supporters.

He was surprised to receive a handwritten note from Mr. Christie, telling him that he had heard the comments, and that he didn’t 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.

[jsr]

20. +1.

[magical thyme]

12. to set an example for anybody else who dared cross him?

and because he could. That's how bullies operate.

[Jenoch]

14. Why did Nixon's campaign break into

the DNC headquarters in 1972? Nixon was so far out in front that of course it was not necessary.

[frazzled]

15. Because Christie needed EVERYONE to be in his "circle of trust"

Honestly, he said today he has a "circle of trust."

And all I could think of was Robert DeNiro in Meet the Fokkers.

[arthritisR_US]

16. because they are small and petty. nt

[Fumesucker]

17. Because it's fun?

Bullies ~enjoy~ bullying, they get an endorphin rush from it.