Watching the Republicans - Runaway Train

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Chris Christie has so far garnered something of an amusing reputation in the media
... at least for a GOP governor and presidential hopeful.

But New Jersey is New Jersey, and politics there are brutal.
There are several examples in Christie's past that show how he operates
...and here is one more.

Wall Street Journal
Ted Mann And Heather Haddon
1/8/13
Christie Aide: 'Time for Some Traffic Problems'

A top aide to Gov. Chris Christie told an executive at the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey it was "time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee"
before the authority closed lanes onto the George Washington Bridge in September,
triggering a week of massive traffic jams, documents show.

The aide, Bridget Anne Kelly, sent the email, dated Aug. 13, to David Wildstein,
a political ally of the governor who was the authority's director of interstate capital projects.
Mr. Wildstein, replied: "Got it."

The email exchange is the clearest sign that a series of lane closures on the bridge in September
were carried out at the behest of high-ranking members of Mr. Christie's administration.
It is in contrast with the original explanation for the closures
— that they were part of a mishandled traffic study by Mr. Wildstein,
a career political operative and friend of Mr. Christie's for years.
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Maybe this is seemingly a trivial political dirty trick.
But Christie's public ridicule of accusations that his "staff were not involved"
actually shows how he actually operates ... 'support me or suffer the wrath'