Oh Oh looks like Christie is a teller of big huge lies

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Remember the flap about the race for the top grant that New Jersey didn't get because it supplied the wrong data. Then Christie held a press conference stating that the data was supplied but Obama's minions refused to give them the grant anyhow only to have a video tape released showing that the data wasn't supplied. Christie then fired his education secretary and accused him of being a liar. Well, now it turns out Schundler has the emails to prove he told Christie he hadn't given the data to Obama's minions.

http://www.salon.com/news/new_jersey/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/09/02/chris_christie_schundler

But there's a problem with that version, too: Schundler didn't lie to Christie, and now he's going public with e-mails that prove it. The e-mails, between Schundler and Christie's communications director, show that Schundler was upfront with the governor's team about his failure to provide the feds with the correct data. And in a separate personal account of last week's events released with the e-mails, Schundler describes a phone conversation with Christie on the morning that Christie blasted the Obama administration:


The Governor said he was angry about the missing information in our grant application, but that no one was going to lose their job over it. He said he was about to do a press conference about the matter, and that he believed it is always better to be on offense than defense, so he would accept responsibility for the error, and then go on offense against the Obama Administration. He was going to try to make the story about their picayune rules. He was going to say that I gave the reviewers the missing information, but the Obama Administration refused to give us the points we deserved, and that this showed they put bureaucratic rules above meaningful education reform.


end of quote lots more fun at the link (including a link to the emails)

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/ex-education_chief_bret_schund.html

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1. Sadly, it won't matter....

..since his lies are in the pursuit of union bashing, and so many people have been trained and conditioned to look at unions (specifically teachers unions in this case) as the problem I already see fellow NJ people saying "Well none of this would have mattered if the union had done this, that or the other thing to get more points on the applications.

It's disheartening. But unfortunately even people who normally wouldn't totally agree with Christie's politics like the fact that he's aggressive, he fights really hard for what he wants, and he takes no prisoners. Especially given that those qualities are completely lacking in most democratic politicians.

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2. I think lying will get him in trouble

no one likes a liar, especially a proven liar.

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3. One would think so...

...but again I point you towards Bush as an example.