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warrior1

(12,325 posts) Sat Jan 18, 2014, 09:37 PM Jan 2014

Oooooo. Must read this

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/nyregion/florida-trip-is-no-reprieve-for-new-jersey-governor.html?_r=0&referrer=

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Inside, Mr. Christie found what must pass, at this difficult moment, as an oasis for him: a group of Ferrari and Jaguar-driving Florida Republicans for whom traffic in New Jersey is a distant thought.

Getting into his Bentley after the fund-raiser, one guest, Geoffrey Leigh, called the controversy over the lane closures “little flies on the wall, quite frankly.”

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Oooooo. Must read this (Original Post) warrior1 Jan 2014 OP

K warrior1 Jan 2014 #1

I think Mr. Leigh should keep thinking that NJCher Jan 2014 #2

Yep, little flies on the wall. Curmudgeoness Jan 2014 #3

yes right like a little fly on the wall harmless .... kydo Jan 2014 #4

SOK, it's your money to lose Mr. Leigh. no_hypocrisy Jan 2014 #5

warrior1

(12,325 posts)

1. K

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2014, 09:50 PM

Jan 2014

NJCher

(35,658 posts)

2. I think Mr. Leigh should keep thinking that

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2014, 09:52 PM

Jan 2014

Cher

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

3. Yep, little flies on the wall.

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2014, 10:34 PM

Jan 2014

And one or two little flies are just an annoyance. A hundred thousand little flies on the wall....well that is something much more frightening and consequential.