GOP ponders scandal's toll on Christie's future (link added oops)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By ANGELA DELLI SANTI and PHILIP ELLIOTT

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Fellow Republicans are assessing the damage of new allegations that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides earlier than he has acknowledged.

Some say any presidential aspirations will be hurt if the scandal lingers. Others were quick to discredit Christie's accuser as a disgruntled former loyalist.

Former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive David Wildstein claims to have evidence contradicting the governor's assertion he learned about the lane closures after they were over. Christie's office denies that.

Republican operative Matt Beynon says Christie will have trouble running for president if the scandal remains an issue a year from now.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140201/DABML9A83.html

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First lady Mary Pat Christie, left, laughs as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie greet volunteers and family and neighbors outside a renovated home that was heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy in a town near MetLife Stadium, where Sunday's Super Bowl game is to be played, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, in Moonachie, N.J. The Christies moved some furniture to help a family move back into a home rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy. The volunteer event Friday was part of the NFL-sanctioned Rebuilding Together event. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

[Stuart G]

1. What LInk?????

[Demeter]

2. What future?

I see orange...lots and lots of orange....like a zeppelin....

[cstanleytech]

3. I'm still waiting for them to find any solid evidence that he knew of it before hand or

at the very least evidence that shows he knew soon after it happened and tried to assist in covering up by keeping quiet.

[beachbum bob]

4. don't need solid evidence if you believe Christie was an hands on govenor

its all about the wink and the nod. No deputy chief of staff precedes on their own accord EVER, you are smoking dope if you think otherwise

[cstanleytech]

7. You need it if you want to get him impeached because opinion is not going to

achieve that.

[tofuandbeer]

14. Yes. And if he overcomes this, it can be very bad. The GOP would put BILLIONS behind him.

[dawn frenzy adams]

6. Well...

The fact that he will throw down the gauntlet at every turn to avoid turning over those documents. That's a clue.

[George II]

9. There were LOTS of black stripes across those emails that were disclosed...

....wanna bet "Christie" was under some of those black stripes?

[cstanleytech]

11. Black lines still dont = evidence of wrong doing on his partthough George and

there are legit reasons for redact information like that especially when it has issues that deal with privacy.
I mean heck the copies I have seen of my fathers old service records when he was in the navy are redacted big time and he was just a lowly cook on a ship who never saw a day of combat.

[George II]

12. The joint committee has requested unredacted emails - we may never see them but...

....the committee members will. Kind of like the Nixon tapes that Sirica ordered released to the committee that was investigating Nixon. Moments after the unedited tapes/transcripts were released, even Nixon's biggest supporters called on him to resign. We didn't see what was in those edited transcripts until weeks after he was gone.

I see huge parallels in this situation.

[Berlum]

5. "He's not giving us a bad name. We already earned that the old fashioned way." - Repubbies (R)

[blkmusclmachine]

8. 9/11 happened on Bush's watch, and NOTHING came of that...

Well, for Bush, anyway! (The rest of us are still paying DEARLY.)

[DeSwiss]

10. Just the chance he's been waiting for......

- K&R

[tofuandbeer]

13. :D +1

[zonkers]

15. Fried. Extra Cristi.