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In reply to the discussion: Christie Crime Digest Volume III [View all]rocktivity
(44,572 posts)55. "Receipts? We ain't got no recepits. We don't need no receipts.
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http://watchdog.org/222152/christie-no-expense-receipts/
Details of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christies $82,000 spending spree at NFL games remain a mystery despite a release of expense account receipts by the governors office. Receipts for Christies purchases at New York Giants and Jets home games during the 2010 and 2011 seasons are missing from 597 pages of receipts New Jersey Watchdog obtained through an Open Public Records Act request...
We have produced to you all of the receipts/invoices/bills that we located, stated Heather Taylor, the governors records custodian and chief ethics officer. We are not withholding any records based on an OPRA exemption. ...(A)dded Kevin Roberts, Christies press secretary, Every dollar of expenses associated with the discretionary fund has been tracked and accounted for in full.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calculated the governor could have bought 7,455 hot dog and beer combinations at MetLife...(while) Newsweek figured Christies concessions splurge nearly 1.5 times New Jerseys per capita annual gross domestic product would be enough to buy 13,755 hot dogs or 6,882 brisket sandwiches or 16,518 12-ounce cans of beer at $5 a pop...
...(But) the governors office does not have documentation for more than $247,000 in expenses two-thirds of the $360,000 Christie has spent from his state expense allowance since he took office in 2010...
We have produced to you all of the receipts/invoices/bills that we located, stated Heather Taylor, the governors records custodian and chief ethics officer. We are not withholding any records based on an OPRA exemption. ...(A)dded Kevin Roberts, Christies press secretary, Every dollar of expenses associated with the discretionary fund has been tracked and accounted for in full.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calculated the governor could have bought 7,455 hot dog and beer combinations at MetLife...(while) Newsweek figured Christies concessions splurge nearly 1.5 times New Jerseys per capita annual gross domestic product would be enough to buy 13,755 hot dogs or 6,882 brisket sandwiches or 16,518 12-ounce cans of beer at $5 a pop...
...(But) the governors office does not have documentation for more than $247,000 in expenses two-thirds of the $360,000 Christie has spent from his state expense allowance since he took office in 2010...
Maybe he gave it to FIFA as part of an unsuccessful bid for a U.S. World Cup. Which in turn would explain why FIFA's president is insisting that he should not be blamed for all the corruption going on below him and is in the process of handpicking his successor...
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I know what you mean.. There's been so much illegality in the christie admin and from christie
Cha
May 2015
#9
my first thought when I saw skinny Wildstein was "the people behind Christie radiation poisoned him"
Backwoodsrider
May 2015
#33
Also known as "Christie's Forty-Seven-Percent-Moment" (Good-natured jabs, my donkey)
rocktivity
May 2015
#50
Is Christie's publicly-financed self-exonerating Mastro report about to come back to haunt him?
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#56
You rock Laxman!!! While the non-memories of "Fitzmas" still hurt, I think this is different...
winstars
Jun 2015
#61
I have said all along, he will never get convicted of any crime. He seems to let others....
Logical
Jun 2015
#73
Christie's latest power failure: Another storm, another self-serving response
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#80
UPDATE: (Hillary Supporter) Jon Bon Jovi Says He Gave (Hillary Opponent) Christie Permission
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#85
Christie Confirms Bruce Is Still His Fave NJ Musician, Gets Ovation From Bruce's Fans
rocktivity
Aug 2015
#98
He's Being Funded By A Tabloid? That Explains Why He's Started Talking Like One
rocktivity
Aug 2015
#99
Didn't Christie just fantasize about beating a woman and then serving her with a subpoena?
rocktivity
Feb 2016
#138