2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumChristie's already been caught in one big fib about his high school pal Wildstein.
Remember how Christie was tossing his friend overboard, saying that he didn't know him in high school? Bragging that he was Class President and athlete, and he didn't know what Wildstein was doing -- they traveled in different circles? That they weren't even acquaintances?
Those lies have already come back to bite him.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116177/chris-christie-did-know-david-wildstein-high-school-coach
Christie:
Well, let me just clear something up, OK, about my childhood friend David Wildstein. It is true that I met David in 1977 in high school. He's a year older than me. David and I were not friends in high school. We were not even acquaintances in high school. I mean, I had a high school in Livingston, a three-year high school that had 1,800 students in a three-year high school in the late '70s, early 1980. I knew who David Wildstein was. I met David on the Tom Kean for governor campaign in 1977. He was a youth volunteer, and so was I. Really, after that time, I completely lost touch with David. We didn't travel in the same circles in high school. You know, I was the class president and athlete. I don't know what David was doing during that period of time We went 23 years without seeing each other. And in the years we did see each other, we passed in the hallways.
I recently spoke with Tony Hope, the former coach of the Livingston High baseball team, the Lancers. He recalled Christies years as the teams catcher. He also recalled that David Wildstein was right there on the team with Christie:
David Wildstein was our baseball statistician. He was a very quiet, unassuming, brilliant kid. Hed do the baseball stats like you wouldnt believe. He gave you the stats from the previous weeks games, he had a brilliant mind for numbers and figures .And he was doing it without any of the computers you have today. Hes doing it all with a calculator, none of the fancy technology You know, averages against righthander and against lefthander, that sort of thing He knew the game but he wasnt at all a player. I mean, not at all.
Yes, young Wildstein was into sabermetrics before it was cool, sitting on the bench and providing the Lancers with data that helped make them one of the best teams in the state. The classic loyal geek. And decades later, he was still doing what he could behind the scenes to help the big man on campus, Chris Christie. Except it was again in Christies interest to look right past him. Didn't travel in the same circles. "Not even acquaintances." "Passed in the wallways." Nice knowing you, kid. Or not knowing you.
JI7
(89,248 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Nothing got by him..
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Hope he's rethinking just how good of an idea it was for him to blather on for hours during his presser. He tripped himself up more than once - the consequence for being in love with the sound of your own voice.
dballance
(5,756 posts)Um, what happened since then?
And I'm not fat shaming. I've been fat and lost tons of weight to be in the A-list crowd. Now I'm fat and old.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)I don't know if that was it.
Sorry.
But they are respected athletes in Japan.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)dionysus
(26,467 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)Thank you, dear. I'll save it for the next polar vortex. It's pretty warm around here today (57), although it's been raining on and off all day.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)One can never have too many bankies.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)I will have to try it.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Christie a pass.. he didn't know wtf was going on back then with his good buddies.. anymore than he know wtf is going on now.
Or so "I am Not a Bully" Christie says. When his record of history puts a lie to that utterance.