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TexasTowelie

(116,813 posts)
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 01:43 AM Sep 2016

At Bridgegate trial, Fort Lee mayor tells of wooing by Christie campaign

NEWARK— For nearly a year, they courted Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich.

There were tickets to New York Giants games at the Governor's Box at MetLife Stadium. Private tours at Ground Zero for visiting relatives. An invite to a taping of MSNBC's Morning Joe at Fort Lee High School. A personal gift from the governor of an American flag that had flown over the World Trade Center site.

And despite assertions by Gov. Chris Christie in the aftermath of the Bridgegate scandal that the mayor "was not on my radar screen," and that he had never heard Sokolich's name "until all this stuff happened," there had been a private lunch with the governor at Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion in Princeton.

"Absolutely I went," Sokolich testified on Tuesday. "That's a bucket list item for a small town mayor—to have lunch with the governor."

Read more: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/the_bridgegate_trial_a_failed_courtship_and_then_t_1.html

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At Bridgegate trial, Fort Lee mayor tells of wooing by Christie campaign (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
Immature assholes. madaboutharry Sep 2016 #1
Christie is as big a narcissist as his new boss Trump vlyons Sep 2016 #2

madaboutharry

(41,361 posts)
1. Immature assholes.
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 01:56 AM
Sep 2016

What kind of people would do that? They pull a stupid stunt that endangers public safety. And Christie is a liar. He should be prosecuted.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. Christie is as big a narcissist as his new boss Trump
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 02:27 AM
Sep 2016

His ego is so out of whack, that it never occurs to him that his lies won't eventually get revealed. This is a good Catholic boy. Did the nuns at his grade school forget to teach him that good character is what you do, when no one is looking? The moral corruption of republicans never ceases to amaze me. Deplorable!

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