Mr. Christie's Executive Order 24 & The Pinelands Pipeline
On April 27, 2010, Governor Christie signed Executive Order 24. This measure required financial disclosure statements to be filed annually by certain members of the state government. The order contains a detailed list of who must file a statement listing the financial holdings and interests of the employees and their immediate family members. The recently departed Christina Genovese Renna clearly fell within the definition of who is required to file as deputy to Bridget Kelly.
Why is this relevant? Well, the Christie administration threw its weight and influence behind a scheme to ram through a gas pipeline to be built by South Jersey Gas in the environmentally sensitive Pinelands region of south Jersey. Despite protestations that this was a Pinelands Commission matter, the governor's heavy footprints were all over this application, including the fact that Wolff & Samson represented the owners of the power plant this pipeline would serve.
Ms. Genovese Renna was a member of the Governor's staff at this time. Her husband, Michael Renna, was a substantial stock holder and senior executive of South Jersey Industries, the parent company of South Jersey Gas. Clearly. there was a financial interest in anything that benefited South Jersey Gas. The Ethics Commission Database, which you can search for yourself here indicates that she never filed her financial disclosure forms, which would have revealed the financial interest in the outcome of the Pipeline decision. The governor's spokesperson dismissed notions of a conflict of interest as "ludicrous".
Interestingly, Pinelands Commission member Ed Lloyd, a vocal opponent of the pipeline, was forced to recuse himself from voting. Why? Because the governor's office forced the State Ethics Commission to advise him to do so because he is the professor overseeing an environmental law clinic that simply asked for more time for public comment on the project.
So, one more giant moral and ethical failing of the Christie administration. Failure to have a member of his own staff adhere to the rules everyone else has to follow. Having a staff member with a financial interest in the outcome of a project that the governor's office is pushing hard. Trying to ram an environmentally destructive project through a state, national and global environmental treasure. Its a Christie trifecta!
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He and his wife didn't own any South Jersey stock. He didn't get bonus based on the performance of the company. This is a big deal for both the governor and South Jersey Gas but they never discussed it at home. There was never any influence going back and forth. And conveniently, no financial disclosure forms to let the public know this relationship existed. Christie & South Jersey Gas were to tightly connected on this matter without this incestuous relationship! 
that makes it O.K.! I take it all back. If only I had known he was in charge of everything, I would clearly have recognized that there's no conflict of interest here.
O'Dowd, Bridget Kelly, Regina Egea, Chiesa-they all filed their disclosures. Ms Renna/Genovese/Genovese Renna. No dice. And you can search by first name only so the last name possibilities aren't the reason there's no record. Why oh why wouldn't she want anyone to know what her husband did? 
I've got to go to work now.
that the Jersey Devil had internet access and research skills! 
First I'd heard of him (being a West Coaster), but I'm now convinced he exists and wonder of wonders, has internet access. Wow! The FB crew were in the Pinelands looking for their favorite elusive creature, and I was impressed by what a beautiful area it is. I figure Jersey Devil and Bigfoot hang out together, making mischief but rarely seen by humans. Maybe they can stop that pipeline project--one can hope!
And yes, true confession here, I watch Finding Bigfoot. Hey, it's a diversion and who knows? One day the BFRO gang of four might just find him. Meanwhile, it's a kick to observe their quest, plus educational. I now know about the Jersey Pinelands and the Devil that roams there, right? Maybe he even has his own blog!
Cheers!
not to be trifled with so some millionaires can make a couple of more bucks!
Why was it so important to them that it run from Maurice River Township to Beesley's Point?
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thereby making its creation more cost effective? Now I get it.
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A talent for bluster....that's him.
more than the reason people started looking under the rocks. And look at all the creepy crawly things that have come scurrying out!
Rock.. All the better to cover soooo Much Corruption!
The Harder they Fall..
Who will go down? 
And, who will.. 
The Harder They Fall-One and All!
that the other night in dishonor of the chris Christie Admin!
