rssCREW Goes After Chris Christie
Monday, August 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey who has ridden his experience as a U.S. attorney to a healthy lead in the polls, is taking hits from last week’s release of White House memos on the politicization of him and other Bush-appointed attorneys. Now Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has asked the Office of the Special Counsel to investigate whether Christie acted with an eye toward a run for office, based on Karl Rove’s testimony that they discussed this while Christie was still a public employee.
Mr. Rove’s statements demonstrate that while Mr. Christie was the U.S. Attorney, he met with individuals to plan the logistics and strategy of a campaign and to seek support in his efforts to secure the Republican nomination for governor in violation of the Hatch Act. The Merit Systems Protection Board has held the OSC retains jurisdiction over such matters even whereas here, the employee has left the federal government.
At Netroots Nation, Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) called Christie a “lawbreaker” based on initial reports about the Rove connection.
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Comment posted August 18, 2009 @ 10:08 am
A month ago, Mr. Christie made the dreadful mistake of selecting Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno as his running mate (for the post of Lieutenant Governor) instead of choosing the fiscal conservative candidate who ran so strongly against him in the primaries, Steve Lonegan of the Garden State chapter of Americans for Prosperity.
Were Christie smart enough to have done this, he would right now be able to unleash the Lonegan attack machine, which has strong Internet roots all across the nation and years of experience in buttstroking Jon Corzine. Lonegan's partisans are enraged at the National Socialist government in Trenton, and even after his loss in the Republican Party primaries to RINO Christie, his supporters are still highly motivated.
Even though he's by no means a libertarian, Lonegan is one of the very few politicians I think I'd be willing to support if he were active in my part of the country.
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