Guess who's been tapped to head the new commission? A long time Chris Christie insider who served with all nine of the Christy aides now under subpoena with the legislature.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-government--2
Meanwhile former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to defend Christie and is offended that some of what he said in a radio interview is being read as it he doubts Christie's claim that he knew nothing of the political nature of the GWB lane closings until January 9. Still, it's not so unreasonable that this statement was 'misread.'
"Giuliani, one of Christie’s most vocal GOP supporters, had seemed to suggest in a radio interview that there was a “50-50” chance that Christie knew ahead of time about the bridge lane closures that one of his aides helped orchestrate in an apparent act of political retribution. Christie has adamantly denied advance knowledge of the traffic scheme."
"Giuliani was asked on Geraldo Rivera’s 77 WABC radio program whether an email in August from Christie’s then-deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, about “traffic problems in Fort Lee” implied that earlier discussions with the governor had taken place about the lane closures in the northern New Jersey town.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/rudy-giuliani-offended-by-chris-christie-media-coverage-102906.html#ixzz2rvkXaakn
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-government--2
Meanwhile former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to defend Christie and is offended that some of what he said in a radio interview is being read as it he doubts Christie's claim that he knew nothing of the political nature of the GWB lane closings until January 9. Still, it's not so unreasonable that this statement was 'misread.'
"Giuliani, one of Christie’s most vocal GOP supporters, had seemed to suggest in a radio interview that there was a “50-50” chance that Christie knew ahead of time about the bridge lane closures that one of his aides helped orchestrate in an apparent act of political retribution. Christie has adamantly denied advance knowledge of the traffic scheme."
"Giuliani was asked on Geraldo Rivera’s 77 WABC radio program whether an email in August from Christie’s then-deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, about “traffic problems in Fort Lee” implied that earlier discussions with the governor had taken place about the lane closures in the northern New Jersey town.
The question came during a discussion on the radio program, aired Thursday, about a recent New York Times story detailing Christie’s political operation."
"With the governor?” Giuliani said on the radio. “No, it doesn’t. I mean, no, it’s 50-50. I mean, it leaves you with no possible way of knowing: Did she discuss it with him or didn’t she discuss it with him?”
In an interview later Thursday, Giuliani said his “50-50” comment was taken out of context. The “it” he was referring to in his 50-50 remark, Giuliani said, was the Times piece"
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/rudy-giuliani-offended-by-chris-christie-media-coverage-102906.html#ixzz2rvkXaakn
Ok, that clears it all up-right?
Giuliani said he was “offended” that his remark was being held up as evidence he had doubts about Christie’s veracity. The former New York mayor noted that he went on to praise and defend Christie on the show, making clear that in any government, there is some small percentage of things that go on that the chief executive is simply unaware of.
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“He’d assume they’re doing the right thing,” Giuliani said earlier in the radio interview about Christie’s approach to managing his aides. “It doesn’t make sense to me that they would necessarily share this with him.”
"Giuliani reiterated his support for Christie, whom he called “a good friend” who “is being unfairly treated.”
"I don't know. Saying 'it doesn't make sense that they would necessarily share it with him' doesn't 'necessarily' take away the ambiguity or so it seems to me. Come to think of it, his previous defense of Christie was rather questionable as well. It was the bully defense-surely he would not have bullied reporters asking him about Bridgegate if he realized the stories were actually true. As Giuliani is himself something of a bully, maybe it's understandable he it makes sense to him."
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/01/rudy-guilianis-chris-christy-defense.html
However, it still seems to have something missing: 'I'm clearly telling the truth for why else would I be so arrogant?'
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