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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone else think that it will be revealed that there are mob connections
in relation to these Christie scandals?
We have, greasing palms, strong arming, construction, developments, pay back..... we just don't have dead bodies...(that we know of)
Seems to go a bit beyond your normal political scandal....
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)as opposed to LOL
Cirque du So-What
(25,980 posts)Christie's wife does that every morning.
calimary
(81,467 posts)DUzy again!!!!!
calimary
(81,467 posts)DUzy!!!!!
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)But will be completely unsurprised. His arm twisting tactics are certainly evocative of such. Of course so were (arguably) LBJ's, difference being he did it to give civil (basic human) rights to African Americans. So, big moral (if not ethical) difference.
spanone
(135,875 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Neither the Calabrian Ndrangheta nor the Scilian Mafia are that sloppy or stupid. Just because he is half Italian American and a fuck up does not mean organized crime is involved.
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)billion dollar real estate developments -- which have a long history of attracting mob interest -- means that it is not unlikely organized crime is involved.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)You really do not know who is behind it. Why must itbe the southern italians.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Once I realized last Tuesday that the Fort Lee road closing was about development/ redevelopment I knew it involved the Mob. Or as it is called in NJ... friends of the Governor.
spin
(17,493 posts)If Christie survives this scandal he will be the prime contender in the Republican presidential primary and might be a strong contender against Hillary or whoever the Democratic Party chooses as their candidate.
The investigation into this bridge scandal will expand and quite likely if Christy has mob connections or has misused his power in the past, it will come to light. In order to survive, he will have to be squeaky clean.
Chances are that Christie's political future will end shortly. If not, we best beware. This guy is not a loser like McCain or Romney.
Of course even if he does make it to the primary races, he might lose. The Republicans may feel he is far too liberal and nominate some ultra conservative who will get squashed in the presidential race.
Cirque du So-What
(25,980 posts)Why can't we be friends,
Why can't we be friends,
Why can't we be friends,
etc.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)written about, but a bunch of thugs nonetheless who tried to use the same methods as the mob to achieve their ends.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)we are seeing absolutely qualify as mob activities. We don't need no Three Lipped Louie, we have Tiny Christopher.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)They break budgets, not kneecaps.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)David Samson's affair (while married) with rich GOP fundraiser Joy Silverman, who was being stalked by a judge who was threatening blackmail for an alleged sex tape of Samson and Silverman.
I couldn't make this shit up if I wanted too.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)then turned around and made her up one of those PA jobs for a quarter of a million dollars.
Where there is power, there is sex aplenty.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,464 posts)Pack your lederhosen boy, you're goin' to Norway.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)good show
Brother Buzz
(36,464 posts)season three is being filmed as I type.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,476 posts)Christie prosecuted a bunch of mayors doing the same thing. He knew the mistakes they made and figured HE knew how to do it right.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)he's involved in something unethical or crooked...miracle if he isn't.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)I tend to agree.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)But these thing are done "most delicately". It's not like certain politicians are actually in the mob or part of the mob... there are just things that are understood and where connections don't happen. In this case, he fucked up big time but mob connections won't show. NJ has always been shadowed by organized crime just like NY, CT, DL, Eastern PA. You don't get to be governor of NJ without some "understandings". It's not much different than the Vatican. Oh! Did I open another can of worms? Probably not.
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)elleng
(131,107 posts)Anyone seen American Hustle?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)2naSalit
(86,780 posts)Is the Pope Catholic? Does Christie operate in New Jersey?
How could it be anything else?
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)The entire economy of the eastern seaboard is an organized crime.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)If you want a mobbed-up state, look at Nevada.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)the safest streets, and the strongest unions in the nation. Ask Harry about the Culinary union, or either one of mine (USW & ITPEU).
Of course you won't because it would clearly show you how wrong you are about damned near everything. At some point you will be smacked in the head by reality and then you might catch a clue.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)People who excrete that kind of ignorant, moronic bullshit are supremely unqualified to judge others on their familiarity with reality.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Didn't want to insult any Jerseyans, but I had to wonder.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)edhopper
(33,615 posts)gambling interests in NJ. I do not know how involved the mob is with NJ gambling, but that could be a connection.
BTW his push to legalize online gambling is a disgrace.
JustAnotherGen
(31,893 posts)If the current mob was involved - they would never have gotten caught.
I find the Tony Soprano analogies very funny though . . .
Look up who Wildsteins pen name is based on . . . Wally Edge.
Then look at NJ politics in the 1920's. Some hinky stuff with Arthur Foran and the Port Authority, "lodge" in Hunterdon county, highways being built, etc etc.
This looks nothing like an episode of the Sopranos. Tony would have knocked them all off before it got this far.
But there's another HBO mob show . . .
fredamae
(4,458 posts)end--but thinking "Big" on this and the speed at which the problems/connections are surfacing, I'd suggest this goes far and widely beyond the boundaries of the State of NJ.
This is a small peek into the greater, widespread habitual governmental/political practices across the country, imo.
It's like we "feel" things are off-we see, identify and experience how far off they are--but we can never quite put our collective fingers on it? Well, I believe the proverbial "egg is cracked".
Were these building projects going to be 100% Privately financed or are there Fed Tax Dollars invested also? Wall Street?