Is the story in the New York Post a teaser of something more to come ?
What’s up with the story in today’s New York Post about Governor Chris Christie’s fired Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly? (See “Meet fired Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly” by Erin Calabrese, Jeane MacIntosh and Priscilla DeGregory, 1/10/14, NY Post [http://nypost.com/2014/01/10/meet-fired-christie-aide-bridget-anne-kelly/]). Not much about the GW Bridge-Ft. Lee vendetta — BUT THERE IS A LOT GOING ON BETWEEN THE LINES IN THIS STORY.......
Three Post reporters are doing more than looking into the day-to-day chores of some Ramsay, NJ soccer mom and her Upper Saddle River former golf-pro husband of sixteen years, whom she divorced just a few years ago.
NY Post says after 16 years of marriage, in 2011 she suddenly asked for a divorce.
ReplyDeleteNext year the girl who helped run a phone bank becomes deputy chief of staff.
If its in the Post its gotta be true
I get the feeling Christie is a "Bill Clinton" democrat.
ReplyDeleteTwo big men with two big appetites ...
DeleteThe question is, what did the Governor know, and, when did he know it?
ReplyDeleteSee a bunch of neat remarks about Christie’s “Bridgegate” mess in - “A Bridget Too Far: Gov. Christie's "Bridgewatergate" Scandal Reveals Actual Traffic Study”- a post on the Noshpit blog, http://thenoshpitblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-bridget-too-far-gov-christies.html, like this one, “Emails released through subpoena today by New Jersey Assembly Deputy Speaker and Transportation Committee Chair John Wisniewski prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the top aide in Gov. Christie's administration, Bridget Anne Kelly conspired w/ now ousted Port Authority exec. David Wildstein to intentionally screw the city, the commuters and the mayor of Fort Lee - Democrat Mark Sokolich - for his refusal to support Gov. Christie in his reelection campaign.” Just as interesting is something on the next line, “However, the interesting thing here, is that emails have also surfaced proving there indeed was a traffic study going on.” You should find the rest of what is there to be about as interesting.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: THE “NOW THIS LOOKS OMINOUS” EDITION
ReplyDeleteNORTH JERSEY BLOG SAYS THE WHOLE BRIDGET KELLY STORY DOESN’T ADD UP --- AND THAT CHRISTIE MIGHT WIND UP REGRETTING NOT TALKING TO BRIDGET BEFORE FIRING HER
Bergen Record columnist Mike Kelly opens his post on the North Jersey.com blog with this: “Governor Christie put on his rhetorical hair shirt Thursday and went on the political penance trail. But he couldn’t keep his anger entirely in check. *** In the midst of a nearly two-hour apologia press conference, Christie repeatedly lashed out at a mother of four from Ramsey for ensnaring him in the scandal over traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge, which threatens to derail his second term as governor and perhaps his presidential ambitions. *** Bridget Anne Kelly (who is not related to this columnist) may now be the most notorious gubernatorial deputy chief of staff in America....” (See “Mike Kelly: Image of former Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly doesn't fit resume” by Mike Kelly (no relation), columnist for The Bergen Record, 1/9/14 – updated 1/10/14, North Jersey.com [http://www.northjersey.com/columnists/Kelly_Image_of_former_Christie_aide_Bridget_Anne_Kelly_doesnt_fit_resume.html]).
Mike "No Relation" Kelly makes quite a few other interesting observations and fills in several biographical details about Bridget Anne Kelly; but the best and most provocative part of the whole post was at the end, “...For now...Governor Christie seems sure of his anger, equally sure of his target. ‘I was heartbroken,’ he said of Kelly. “I trusted that I was being told the truth, and I wasn’t.’ *** But the governor who talked for almost two hours on Thursday said he never spoke to Bridget Anne Kelly before he had her fired. *** ‘I’m, quite frankly, not interested in the explanation at the moment,’ Christie said. *** Those may be words that Christie will come to regret.”
Now, what do you think that part is all about ?
Brace yourself, Bridget!
ReplyDeleteAlex, "What is 'Irish Foreplay'" ?
DeleteChristie will be impeached.
ReplyDeleteThe leaking e mails appear to be coming from the NY side of the PA.
ReplyDeleteWhenever a scandal makes a Cuomo starts look like the good guy you know its been a hit job.
UPDATE: THE “IS PAT FOYE SOMEBODY’S ENFORCER ?” EDITION
ReplyDeleteEven though I wanted to take this whole story in a smutty direction with my post above, there are some underlying “more boring” facts that everybody should know. You know, good old-fashioned, plain vanilla, down low politics.
Among the documents recently released by New Jersey Democrat legislators are emails that contain a sharply-worded September messege from Patrick Foye, the Port Authority’s Executive Director. In it, Foye demanded that GW Bridge workers immediately reopen the lanes for Fort Lee (See “Documents Lay Bare Port Authority Infighting, Stonewalling In 'Bridgegate' Lane Closures – State Assembly committee releases thousands of pages of subpoenaed documents”
posted by Keith Brown.1/11/14, The WallPatch Blog [http://wall.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/port-authority-exec-gwb-lane-closures-abusive-decision] .
Foye's concerns about the lane closures were previously discussed in a Wall Street Journal report last month (See “Governors Spoke Privately About Bridge Controversy – Chris Christie Complained to Andrew Cuomo That His Appointee Was Pressing Too Hard for Answers” by Ted Mann, Erica Orden and Heather Haddon, 12/12/13, [http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304477704579254012674389146]). In that WSJ article, it was reported that Christie had complained in a private phone call to Cuomo that the Port Authority head was pressing too hard to get to the bottom of the lane-closure maneuvers.
Communicating on Sept. 13, within days of the closures, Foye promised to find out who was responsible for the “hasty and ill-advised’’ and “abusive’’ decision to close them to traffic. He didn't quibble -- “To be clear, I will get to the bottom of this abusive decision which violates everything this agency stands for,’’ his E-mail stated, adding, “I intend to learn how PA (Port Authority) process was wrongfully subverted and the public interest damaged to say nothing of the credibility of this agency.’’
Pat Foye was appointed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York. Under the Port Authority's rules, the New York governor appointed the executive director, and Christie, the New Jersey Republican, appointed Bill Baroni as his deputy.