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No evidence linking lane closures to Christie, report says

Ockham

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Fox News said:
No evidence was found by New Jersey lawmakers to show New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was involved in a plot to close lanes near the George Washington Bridge last year.
Investigators found no conclusive evidence of whether or not Christie was aware of the closures. However, the investigation did find that two former aides of Christie acted with little regard for public safety when they closed lanes near the bridge, a 136-page interim report reveals.
A report commissioned by Christie previously cleared him of any wrongdoing and a lawyer for the governor said in a statement Thursday that the report corroborates that investigation.
"The Committee has finally acknowledged what we reported nine months ago — namely, that there is not a shred of evidence Governor Christie knew anything about the GWB lane realignment beforehand or that any current member of his staff was involved in that decision," Christie attorney Randy Mastro said in a statement.
The report will be supplemented if needed because several critical witnesses did not testify and some important questions remain unanswered.
Christie aides Bridget Anne Kelly and David Wildstein acted with “perceived impunity” by closing the lanes, the report says. It also said the Christie administration did not act quick enough to resolve the closures.
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No evidence linking lane closures to Christie, report says | Fox News


This isn't the March 2014 report which was widely panned by Democrats but a new report BY NJ Democrats. This is corroborated by the a piece on The Daily Beast.
Of course, the Federal investigation will continue IMO though 2015 to continue to cast doubt on Christie politically, in case he decides he wants to run for President. So he claimed he wasn't involved and now it's proven he wasn't involved by those who would like nothing better than to link him to the scandal.
 
Ockham said:
No evidence linking lane closures to Christie, report says | Fox News


This isn't the March 2014 report which was widely panned by Democrats but a new report BY NJ Democrats. This is corroborated by the a piece on The Daily Beast.
Of course, the Federal investigation will continue IMO though 2015 to continue to cast doubt on Christie politically, in case he decides he wants to run for President. So he claimed he wasn't involved and now it's proven he wasn't involved by those who would like nothing better than to link him to the scandal.
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TheDemSocialist said:
"But in a detailed chronology, the report argues that the governor had many opportunities to know about the lane closings, the political motive behind them and the involvement of his administration, even as he insisted he knew nothing." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/n...es-comments-on-bridge-lane-closings.html?_r=0
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Amazing how you can spin a report that has not even been issued yet into two entirely different things.
 
Amazing how we can continue to make a galactic size deal out of highway lane closures, but 4 dead men in Benghazi is a witch hunt. :roll:
 
TheDemSocialist said:
"But in a detailed chronology, the report argues that the governor had many opportunities to know about the lane closings, the political motive behind them and the involvement of his administration, even as he insisted he knew nothing." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/n...es-comments-on-bridge-lane-closings.html?_r=0
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Well, Christie has to be guilty of something. Just a matter of finding it. We can easily speculate that Christie might have stolen some cookies in grade school at lunch. After all, we don't know that he didn't, right? Who'd he go to grade school with?
 
American said:
Amazing how we can continue to make a galactic size deal out of highway lane closures, but 4 dead men in Benghazi is a witch hunt. :roll:
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And it's OK for rioters to block an interstate highway.
 
This will cause the Left to stain their underwear. They were sure as **** that Christie was guilty as sin, even before the first steps of the investigation began.
 
I don't think many Americans actually give much of a **** about Christy or this scandal. *Edit: Crazy, hysterical accusations: see Benghazi-gate. This is a nonstory.
 
Roadvirus said:
This will cause the Left to stain their underwear. They were sure as **** that Christie was guilty as sin, even before the first steps of the investigation began.
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It's okay, the federal investigation will go well into 2015 to make sure they continue to stain Christie in case he decides to run for Prez. Can't have that now can we....
 
whysoserious said:
I don't think many Americans actually give much of a **** about Christy or this scandal.
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Given the amount of air time, attention, papers covering it and Democrats squawking about it for the past 9 months - you'd never know American's didn't give a **** about it. Perhaps, as maybe your are implying, the media just need to keep viewers and since it aligns with their ideology....

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Ockham said:
Given the amount of air time, attention, papers covering it and Democrats squawking about it for the past 9 months - you'd never know American's didn't give a **** about it. Perhaps, as maybe your are implying, the media just need to keep viewers and since it aligns with their ideology....

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Maybe it is in some circles. I haven't thought/heard about it since when it first came out. It seemed pretty childish of him, if it were true, but it was never a big story on my plate. I guess I can't speak for all democrats, though.
 
whysoserious said:
I don't think many Americans actually give much of a **** about Christy or this scandal. *Edit: Crazy, hysterical accusations: see Benghazi-gate. This is a nonstory.
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It showed up in the polls in election match ups between him and Clinton

December 2013 polls
CNN/Opinion Research 12/16 - 12/19 Clinton 46 Christie 48
PPP (D) 12/12 - 12/15 Clinton 42 Christie 45
Quinnipiac 12/3 - 12/9 Clinton 41 Christie 42

After Bridgegate January/February 2014

McClatchy/Marist 2/4 - 2/9 Clinton 58 Christie 37
CNN/Opinion Research 1/31 - 2/2 Clinton 55 Christie 39
ABC News/Wash Post 1/20 - 1/23 Clinton 53 Christie 41

Today RCP averages shows Clinton 47.0% to Christie 39.5%

RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - General Election: Christie vs. Clinton

So bridgegate hurt him.
 
Perotista said:
It showed up in the polls in election match ups between him and Clinton

December 2013 polls
CNN/Opinion Research 12/16 - 12/19 Clinton 46 Christie 48
PPP (D) 12/12 - 12/15 Clinton 42 Christie 45
Quinnipiac 12/3 - 12/9 Clinton 41 Christie 42

After Bridgegate January/February 2014

McClatchy/Marist 2/4 - 2/9 Clinton 58 Christie 37
CNN/Opinion Research 1/31 - 2/2 Clinton 55 Christie 39
ABC News/Wash Post 1/20 - 1/23 Clinton 53 Christie 41

Today RCP averages shows Clinton 47.0% to Christie 39.5%

RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - General Election: Christie vs. Clinton

So bridgegate hurt him.
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Ah, that sucks. Kind of like what's his name from before with the "HIYAAAAAAAAA" phrase. It doesn't take much of substance to knock someone down in the polls.
 
apdst said:
And it's OK for rioters to block an interstate highway.
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I was going to post a very similar thing. The protestors in NYC shut down the West Side Highway, and they're cool. They shut down highways in MO, shut down roads in the center of Boston, shut down roads in NYC...but that's okay! Road shutdowns are only nasty, filthy things when the Republican governor of NJ's allies are behind it.
 
whysoserious said:
Ah, that sucks. Kind of like what's his name from before with the "HIYAAAAAAAAA" phrase. It doesn't take much of substance to knock someone down in the polls.
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No it doesn't. Traffic and lane closures are something the average Joe can relate to big time. Much more so than some other obscure scandal that we on DP like to delve into. Knocking Christie down as the Democrats did was just good politics on their part. He was the only one, Republican potential candidate that was not trailing by double digits. In fact he had taken the lead.

Still there is plenty of time left for Christie to recoup if he still does want to run for the presidency. But you can be sure there will be tons of campaign ads still accusing him of wrong doing with the lane closures if he does. This found innocent or not guilty depending on one's partisan point of view will receive little play in the media leaving most of the average Americans still thinking he may have had something to do with it.
 
tres borrachos said:
I was going to post a very similar thing. The protestors in NYC shut down the West Side Highway, and they're cool. They shut down highways in MO, shut down roads in the center of Boston, shut down roads in NYC...but that's okay! Road shutdowns are only nasty, filthy things when the Republican governor of NJ's allies are behind it.
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When Republicans are allegedly behind it. ;)
 
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