A question for Mayor Zimmer of Hoboken, NJ [View all]

[markpkessinger]

First, a thousand thanks to you, Mayor Zimmer, for coming forward with this. But here is my question for you. You are reported to have written in your diary:

I thought he was honest. I thought he was moral. I thought he was something very different.

But Mayor Zimmer, why on Earth would you ever think that a person, such as Christie, with his legendary reputation for his nasty, rude, dismissive bullying of anybody who has the temerity to ask an uncomfortable question of him, was an honest broker in the first place? That kind of tactic is not the personality trait of someone who is honest; It is the hallmark of someone who is trying to control a conversation and manipulate perceptions.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why more people don't grasp this simple truth of human nature.