No squirm at all. Your false label simply carries no weight.
I said no deaths were associated with the Bridgegate (II) Scandal. I remain correct. YOUR contention is the one that was not supported. The fault lies not in the stars. It lies in your willingness to say stuff absent valid proof.
She died and it was associated with the GWB traffic debacle. End of story. Period.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/nyregion/christie-bridge-inquiry.html?_r=0
TRENTON — As the New Jersey Assembly voted unanimously on Thursday to authorize an investigation into abuses of power by Gov. Chris Christie’s administration, Mr. Christie seemed to be maneuvering against the inquiry,
hiring a high-powered defense lawyer and resisting questions about whether he would cooperate with the LegislatureÂ’s efforts.
Christie admitted that he never questioned the alleged ringleader of the GWB shutdown prior to firing her. That says that Christie already knew everything that she knew about it. Ergo she never lied to him as Christie alleged in the press conference.
If she was the ringleader then what was her motive? To impress her boss would be the most obvious one. That would mean that she would have gone to him and told him what she had done which means that Christie is lying about not knowing anything about this.
Either way Christie is implicated. In order to gain immunity you have to offer the authorities something of value. What he has is still speculative but he obviously has something or his lawyer would be looking to cop a plea instead. Misdirection. It goes to the credibility of Christie in the news conference. He said that he hadn't seen Wildstein and yet there is hard evidence that he did. I never said that he didn't question Wildstein. I said that he didn't question Kelly. The hard evidence is in the form of emails.
I personally don't care all that much. I do not live in NJ and I am not a Christie supporter, in any event. If he goes down, in terms of the GOP's future Presidential nominee, I am actually pleased. What I DON'T like is the orchestration of a smear campaign by the liberal Democratics which comes BEFORE there IS any actual hard evidence.
The hard evidence already exists. Denying that it exists doesn't make it go away and turn this into a "smear campaign".
The irony here is that this is entirely self inflicted by Christie. Either he did it or he fostered it but it is a mistake on his part and it is going to delay his ambitions for the WH by at least 4 years in my opinion.
Ha. Pretty much the entirety of your post stands for the simple proposition that you presume Governor Chris Christie is "guilty."
He might be. I don't know. Frankly, so far, I have not seen evidence along the lines of a so-called smoking gun. Neither have you.
You presume guilt because, politically, you prefer things that way when it comes to almost any government official whose name is followed by the parenthetical "R."
By contrast I FULLY endorse the fact that "subpoenas" are "flying." They damn well should be. The NJ Legislative Branch is (for whatever set of reasons) doing the right thing here.
I hope the investigation is full, unfettered and tireless. In terms of the outcome, I am MORE than happy with it regardless of what it shows provided that it reveals the actual truth. If Chrispy Cream had a hand in the political manipulation of the GWB lane closures, bounce his fat ass out of office for all I care. if he was truly not involved and not aware of the political basis for that stupid move, however, then a full, fair open investigation might actually be in HIS own political interest.
Let those chips fall wherever they may.
But for all of those (like you Derideo_Te) who are rushing to judgment and
pre-judgment, I am content to call "bullshit."