GOP Fund-raiser(as he gets into his Bentley) re: Christie: "little flies on the wall, quite frankly"

[kpete]

Mr. Christie shunned public appearances in Florida, where he is raising money for Gov. Rick Scott, a fellow Republican.

Instead, the New Jersey governor was whisked into an event at the Country Club of Orlando, and, later, a fund-raiser at a Palm Beach home owned by the heir to a sugar fortune.

Inside, Mr. Christie found what must pass, at this difficult moment, as an oasis for him: a group of Ferrari and Jaguar-driving Florida Republicans for whom traffic in New Jersey is a distant thought.

Getting into his Bentley after the fund-raiser, one guest, Geoffrey Leigh, called the controversy over the lane closures “little flies on the wall, quite frankly.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/nyregion/florida-trip-is-no-reprieve-for-new-jersey-governor.html?_r=1

[monmouth3]

1. Upon advice from Counsel....STFU...N/T

[Laxman]

2. Very Telling...

did he also say "I wonder what the little people are doing this evening"?

[Bobcat]

3. Birds

Christie and Scott - birds of a feather..................

[Barack_America]

4. Indeed, sir.

Did he remember to give the valet a quarter?

[herding cats]

5. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean

I know the idiom "fly on the wall" means you wish you were there to listen in, but "little flies on the wall" is a new on to me.

[Beaverhausen]

8. I agree

That person might not know what that phrase means or it's used in a context we don't know.

[herding cats]

12. I guess if you wealthy enough you can create your own idioms.

It doesn't matter if they don't make sense to the "little flies" of the world.

[Arugula Latte]

10. I think he meant it in the sense that the scandal is no big deal, just a minor, petty annoyance

like little flies. Shoo it away, all will be well. Massive life-disrupting and life-threatening traffic jams are for the little insignificant people.

[herding cats]

11. So, we're gnats to him, basically.

Corrupt political figures manipulation of taxpayer funded resources for personal gain, and to the detriment of "little flies," is of no consequence in his reality. How charming.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Pardon me

do you have any Grey Poupon?

[flamingdem]

7. Well buzz, buzz

baby then.

[El_Johns]

9. "heir to a sugar fortune" = Fanjuls? What are those gangsters doing funding an NJ governor?

The brothers also were a focus in the Jamie Johnson documentary The One Percent, which showcases the corrupt use of cane workers and especially "imported" labor. The U.S. Dept. of Labor's "List of Goods Produced by Child or Forced Labor"[5] report lists sugarcane from the Dominican Republic as having child and forced labor. This is a major source of sugarcane[6] for Domino Foods which is owned by Florida Crystals and the Fanjul brothers.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report "Big Sugar"[7] also exposes the slavery conditions of workers at Central Romana with clear footage. Nevertheless the Fanjul interviewed in the report keeps denying this fact with the argument that must correspond to another plantation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanjul_brothers

[Segami]

13. "Little-Flies-on-the-wall" remedies coming soon......

Stand back if you don't want your 'Bentley' crushed........

[Hekate]

14. The 47% tape recording was done by a fly on the wall, so beware....

...you arrogant *hole.