Oops!Analysis: Some evidence seems to contradict Mastro report's findings on Christie

[malaise]

http://www.northjersey.com/news/analysis-some-evidence-seems-to-contradict-mastro-report-s-findings-on-christie-1.753711
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But in the thousands of pages of footnotes and exhibits released Thursday, many documents appear to lend at least some credence to allegations against Christie that the report plainly said can’t be true.

And they include some of the harshest language yet disclosed in the bridge scandal: “I could claw his eyes out, pour gasoline in the sockets and light him up,” Christie’s press secretary wrote about a friend and key figure in the scandal.

There’s also a curt dismissal of the Hoboken mayor who later alleged politics played a role in getting aid for Superstorm Sandy. After supposedly “kissing her ass” for an endorsement, Christie’s campaign team worked to make sure she didn’t show up at one of his political events — a meet-and-greet across the street from Hoboken City Hall.

These raw documents — made public in more than 600 exhibits attached to the report — belie the smooth picture of Christie and his inner circle in the report written by his legal team.

But “allegations accusing Governor Christie of creating a ‘culture of political retaliation’ are unsubstantiated and, indeed, contradicted by substantial other evidence,” the report said.

Yet one of the exhibits released along with the report includes an email exchange between Christie’s campaign manager and his top strategist in a conversation about Zimmer and Fulop.

“We’re approaching a point in time where we have the ‘so what’s it going to be?’ conversation with Zimmer and Fulop,” the campaign manager, Bill Stepien, wrote to Mike DuHaime.

“Are you with us, or against us?” Stepien wrote to DuHaime, in reference to Zimmer and the endorsements.
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Lots of delish stuff at link

[Octafish]

1. Sounds like Sopranos.

It'll keep the masses watching until Jebthro shows up on a bleached horse to save the day, 'round April 2016 or so.

[malaise]

4. I think the dark horse will be Pawlenty

and Stepien just took a job up there

[Laxman]

2. My Favorite Part....

is the e-mail from Mike "the Mouthpiece" Drewniak talking about Wildstein:

“I could claw his eyes out, pour gasoline in the sockets and light him up,” Christie’s press secretary wrote about a friend and key figure in the scandal.

What a lovely thought!

[malaise]

3. Speaks volumes

That is so 'criminal gang' - yep Sopranos works

[Hoppy]

5. Who is DuHaime in this fiasco?

[Laxman]

6. He's The Dr. Frankenstein Who...

created Christie. He's a republican strategist and runs a lobbying operation called Mercury Strategies or something like that. He was Christie's first campaign manager. Stepien is like his "mini me".