Top 5 Instances of Chris Christie Being a Bully

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/top-5-instances-of-chris-christie-being-a-bully.html

by Robin Marty January 11, 2014

According to a press conference this week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has absolutely no idea that members of his staff purposefully jammed the traffic on a local bridge in order to evoke “payback” on a New Jersey mayor that wouldn’t endorse him for his reelection.

Sure he didn’t.

If the Republican Governor did know what was going on and authorized it, he’s once more reinforced his image as a major bully. Even as he declares he was misled and lied to, many are finding it hard to believe. “I’m actually rooting that the highest elected official in the state of New Jersey isn’t involved in this, but I will tell you I’m beginning to question my judgment,” said Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, whose city was targeted by the stunt.

Why is it so difficult for people to take Governor Christie at his word? Probably because this wouldn’t have been the first time he’s bullied adversaries. Here are the top five instances of him strong arming the opponent.

1. Christie bullies a reporter.

FULL story at link.

[Cha]

1. thanks Steve.. Chris Christie's past coming

back to let everyone that he's a liar when he says.. "I am not a bully" and a vindictive asshole.

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2. He's more than a bully - he's a nasty, vindictive ReTHUG scumbag

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024318707

[BumRushDaShow]

3. I still point to his inauguaral act of big $ bullying

by halting the tunnel from N. Bergen to Manhattan in 2010.

Some critics said they suspected that the governor had decided to divert the money in highway tolls that the state would have spent on the tunnel to road and bridge repairs. The state’s fund for such transportation improvements is nearly empty and the governor has ruled out raising the state’s gasoline tax to replenish it.

“Two decades or more in the planning and then 30 days or less to kill it,” said Kate Slevin, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a group that had advocated building the tunnel.

Ms. Slevin said Mr. Christie’s sudden turnabout was unprecedented. “We’ve seen delays on transit projects before,” she said, “but never when the financing was as solid as it was on this.”

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The tunnel was a pet project of Mr. Christie’s predecessor, Jon S. Corzine, and the state’s two senators, Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez. Those three Democrats were joined by some Republican legislators at a ground-breaking ceremony in North Bergen last year that was intended to demonstrate bipartisan support.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/nyregion/08tunnel.html

and then lied about why - http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4301060

Because of this, the state has to repay $95 million of the $271 million originally required as a give-back to the federal government.

I have gone over the GW bridge and through the Lincoln Tunnel many times and they really really REALLY need something to mitigate the traffic. If anything, the tunnel was to allow for more trains (rather than for cars).