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hobbesmaster posted:Prosecutors have wide discretion to choose not to pursue something. Like Christie, when he chose not to go after GOP donors?
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The X-man cometh posted:Like Christie, when he chose not to go after GOP donors? A job he got despite having zero related work experience. etalian fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Feb 22, 2014 |
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glowing-fish posted:Can they legally, or even semi-legally, do this? It's not that uncommon, I believe Spitzer resigned and wasn't prosecuted according to a similar deal. I agree it's sleazy.
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Feb 22, 2014 15:24
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ufarn posted:Or, Christie will become a repentant Democrat and get a spot as MSNBC.
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ReindeerF posted:Crist/Christie '16 Well Christie has lots of good experience in working with Democrats, he knows what bribes they prefer. The whole state is basically a modern day Tammy hall given how the governor has lots of ways to perform favors for useful friends etalian fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 23, 2014 |
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Feb 23, 2014 05:28
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ReindeerF posted:Crist/Christie '16 The ultimate Crummy Bipartisanship ticket. The media would be all over it.
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glowing-fish posted:Can they legally, or even semi-legally, do this?
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SubponticatePoster posted:Sure. Our corrupt-as-gently caress bribe-taking AG was being investigated by our legislature, the feds, and the DA. He resigned in November and everything ground to a dead halt. So basically it's a cheat code to avoid the final walk of shame?
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etalian posted:So basically it's a cheat code to avoid the final walk of shame? In a lot of cases the whole point of the investigation is to get people out of a position of power that they've been abusing. If Christie has to step down, most people will (wrongly in my opinion) be satisfied that he's at least out of office. Anything past that and you start seeing accusations of witchhunts etc.
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Yeah, a small part of the "two-tiered justice" thing is that you can "punish" an elite by just disgracing them and bumping them down to be a regular person, and other elites generally don't have an appetite for much more than that for obvious reasons. Christie's NJ numbers dropped some more; he's down to 49% percent approval. His "Hero-of-Sandy-recovery" image (is fading and) is tainted. 61% of NJ people think he's being dishonest about the lane closures and 50% think he was personally involved. Honestly, even though I think 100% of informed dispassionate people SHOULD think he was personally involved, I don't know why that number is going up. Seems like most wishy-washy folks should be sick of the story / tuning out, and I haven't noticed a shift in the posture of coverage. http://www.northjersey.com/news/recordpolitics/Christie_approval_ratings_take_another_hit_amid_GWB_controversy_poll_finds.html
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http://www.northjersey.com/news/Previously_redacted_GWB_messages_released_revealing_new_information.html?page=allquote:The private messages that linked Governor Christie’s office to lane closures at the George Washington Bridge also contain jokes about causing “traffic problems” at the home of a New Jersey rabbi associated with the Port Authority, newly released documents show.
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ascii genitals posted:http://www.northjersey.com/news/Previously_redacted_GWB_messages_released_revealing_new_information.html?page=all A culture of abuse of executive powers for petty vendettas. Even if Christie avoids being personally dipped in the poo poo, he's dead as a candidate.
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Even if he gets to speak at CPAC this year, it won't mean poo poo if he lost his initial draw as a candidate (crossover support), does it?
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Even if he gets to speak at CPAC this year, it won't mean poo poo if he lost his initial draw as a candidate (crossover support), does it? Yep. His only hope now is to go full wingnut. I think we've seen some initial steps towards that direction with some of the language involved in the "MEDIA CONSPIRACY!!!" defense of this situation and some unprovoked Obama bashing. His problem with that is that he's trailing the pack in a bad way when it comes to GOP purity. His actual problem of course is that his hurricane Sandy photo shoot with Obama doesn't serve any purpose now other than pissing off Republicans. The way things are going I'm half expecting him to say those photos were a media conspiracy and he actually used their whole time together angrily demanding the end of the ACA
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He's probably going to have a strong showing as supporting him "Sends a message" to whatever Emmanuel Goldstein figure they're hating at the moment.
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ascii genitals posted:http://www.northjersey.com/news/Previously_redacted_GWB_messages_released_revealing_new_information.html?page=all Oh deary me, you do not want to piss off the Jewish bloc in NJ.
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I wonder how smug Barbara Buono is feeling right about now.
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Oxxidation posted:Oh deary me, you do not want to piss off the Jewish bloc in NJ. One morning you'll wake up in a tub of ice and missing a kidney.
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The Entire Universe posted:He's probably going to have a strong showing as supporting him "Sends a message" to whatever Emmanuel Goldstein figure they're hating at the moment. I disagree. It's going to be hard to claim a liberal media conspiracy during the primaries when Marky Marc Rubio and the flunky bunch are calling you out on the exact same thing. I also doubt anyone gnashing their teeth so hard they'd support a primary candidate out of spite for LIBERALS is going to gravitate toward the NJ Governor with a history of conservative apostasy.
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It's the gift that keeps on giving. So gratifying watching this bastard go out in a tail spin. Though I doubt this will make much difference in terms of general corruption here in NJ, but it'd be a spec of sunlight to watch his bullshit be laid out for everyone to see. Also I can't imagine jew jokes are going to be shrugged off easily in this part of the country.
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ayn rand hand job posted:One morning you'll wake up in a tub of Sahlab and missing your wallet. FTFY
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I disagree. It's going to be hard to claim a liberal media conspiracy during the primaries when Marky Marc Rubio and the flunky bunch are calling you out on the exact same thing. I also doubt anyone gnashing their teeth so hard they'd support a primary candidate out of spite for LIBERALS is going to gravitate toward the NJ Governor with a history of conservative apostasy. It's less his positions and more the strength of their hatred.
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No, the original post was accurate. New Jersey Jews will literally steal your organs in the night. It was a whole thing a few years back.
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Oxxidation posted:No, the original post was accurate. New Jersey Jews will literally steal your organs in the night. It was a whole thing a few years back. Not just any Jews. Actual rabbis.
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Oxxidation posted:No, the original post was accurate. New Jersey Jews will literally steal your organs in the night. It was a whole thing a few years back. If we're thinking of the same story. quote:Another man in Brooklyn, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of enticing vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 and then selling the organ for $160,000. Mr. Dwek pretended to be soliciting a kidney on behalf of someone and Mr. Rosenbaum said that he had been in business of buying organs for years, according to the complaint.
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Rabbis also make you irritable and unable to swallow water, and foam at the mouth.
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Andrew Cuomo is exposed (well, again) as being garbage too. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/port_authority_officials_battle_over_toll_hikes_was_all_for_show.html
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Kim Jong Il posted:Andrew Cuomo is exposed (well, again) as being garbage too. the whole democrat NE limousine liberal party bloc is pretty horrible. They even happily tossed Buono under the bus since Christie gave them a offer they couldn't refuse.
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I am shocked, shocked, to see play-acting in my government. Cuomo's gonna be president one day, isn't he? augh.
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Warcabbit posted:I am shocked, shocked, to see play-acting in my government. He also raided $140 million dollars in Sandy energy relief funds to run a new york ad campaign.
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Warcabbit posted:I am shocked, shocked, to see play-acting in my government.
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Warcabbit posted:I am shocked, shocked, to see play-acting in my government. I remember "Cuomo is the obvious choice" talk in the early 1990s, when they were talking about his father. I think Cuomo is one of the many "inevitable candidates" that never get anywhere.
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glowing-fish posted:I remember "Cuomo is the obvious choice" talk in the early 1990s, when they were talking about his father. Cuomo won't end up like his father. He'll at the very least end up actually registering for primaries. edit: Mario was pretty drat reluctant to run for president. He had a lot of grass roots support, but he never capitalized on it. At the end of it all, he ended up as a three term governor and probably has fathered a NY political dynasty. OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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Here's one more nail in Christie's porcupine-like coffin: Christie Gave Pieces of 9/11 Wreckage as Gifts. Apparently the governor helped secure some endorsements by giving away chunks of the Twin Towers that were supposed to be used for memorials.
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:Here's one more nail in Christie's porcupine-like coffin: Christie Gave Pieces of 9/11 Wreckage as Gifts. Apparently the governor helped secure some endorsements by giving away chunks of the Twin Towers that were supposed to be used for memorials. Holy poo poo, that just cost him (re-)election anywhere if true. I also like that the article uses the phrase "the one-time 2016 hopeful" to describe him. Pretty damned accurate.
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Volmarias posted:Holy poo poo, that just cost him (re-)election anywhere if true. Yeah, I mentioned this a few pages back. From what I've read the pieces were given to mayors in New Jersey, most likely for memorials and poo poo in their cities. The issue is more that he gave the pieces out without any of the normal process, not that he gave them out at all so it isn't quite as damning. It is still sick as all gently caress, don't get me wrong.
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Caros posted:Yeah, I mentioned this a few pages back. From what I've read the pieces were given to mayors in New Jersey, most likely for memorials and poo poo in their cities. The issue is more that he gave the pieces out without any of the normal process, not that he gave them out at all so it isn't quite as damning. You did? Are you sure it was in this thread, and not another one? It doesn't look like you mentioned anything about it. And yeah, I think the idea that he gave them out as political favors is going to make for one hell of an attack ad among all of the other things in this thread.  he forgot
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Volmarias posted:You did? Are you sure it was in this thread, and not another one? It doesn't look like you mentioned anything about it. ... Yeah, I just realized I posted it in the USA thread not the Fat thread. 
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People are continuing to hammer nails into the corpse of Christie's political career: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117066/christies-stronger-storm-jersey-shore-post-sandy-ad-cover Those wonderful 'Stronger than the Storm' Ads apparently had to go through a bidding process that was corrupt as all gently caress. Not only did the contract go to a company that was twice as more expensive, there was basically no competition between the more-expensive company winning the bid and the runner up, who had more experience in advertising. The selection committee was, unsurprisingly, chaired by a long-time Christie aid. The paperwork regarding it had the names of the committee members redacted, which is what started the investigation into it, since such things are supposed to be public record.
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