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In reply to the discussion: Christie Crime Digest Volume III [View all]rocktivity
(44,577 posts)53. Bodyguard-Gate Update
Last edited Sat May 30, 2015, 12:52 PM - Edit history (1)
New Jersey Watchdog.Org, 4/21: ...During a town hall meeting in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey...(a) 7-year-old Cub Scout...asked the Governor, How many bodyguards do you have?
There are 30 men and women who work for me, who are in the state police, and theyre members of whats called the Executive Protection Unit, answered Christie...
EPU travel costs reached $492,420 in 2014...22 times more than the $21,704 spent in...former Gov. Jon Corzines last year in office. The total for EPU travel in Christies first five years as governor exceeds $1.15 million. How most of that money was spent remains a mystery...
(A) public records lawsuit is scheduled to be heard May 28...The governors office argues (that it)...would jeopardize the governors safety by disclosing how many troopers are assigned to EPU. Yet thats exactly what Christie detailed at the town hall meeting...and again by posting a clip of the episode on YouTube...
There are 30 men and women who work for me, who are in the state police, and theyre members of whats called the Executive Protection Unit, answered Christie...
EPU travel costs reached $492,420 in 2014...22 times more than the $21,704 spent in...former Gov. Jon Corzines last year in office. The total for EPU travel in Christies first five years as governor exceeds $1.15 million. How most of that money was spent remains a mystery...
(A) public records lawsuit is scheduled to be heard May 28...The governors office argues (that it)...would jeopardize the governors safety by disclosing how many troopers are assigned to EPU. Yet thats exactly what Christie detailed at the town hall meeting...and again by posting a clip of the episode on YouTube...
Whoever replaced Mike Drewinak as spokesman really dropped the ball on this one -- or is Christie planning to testify that he lied to the kid?
P.S. And here's the best part -- two weeks later, the video is STILL there!
New Jersey Watchdog.Org, May 28: ...Judge Mary C. Jacobson on Thursday during a hearing in Mercer County Superior Court...(said that), Im not convinced it is essential to the governors security to withhold details"...criticized his attitude about security as cavalier"...(and that) the video completely undermines Christies reasons for refusing to turn over the documents...
I certainly wish the governor wouldnt have made those comments, agreed Deputy Attorney General Daniel M. Vannella, tasked with defending the governors secrecy claim.
If he made a mistake, they shouldnt have put it up on YouTube, Jacobson remarked.
Before she rules...Jacobson agreed to allow (the) head of EPU to submit a secret certification by June 12 to explain why the state believes the records should remain confidential...
I certainly wish the governor wouldnt have made those comments, agreed Deputy Attorney General Daniel M. Vannella, tasked with defending the governors secrecy claim.
If he made a mistake, they shouldnt have put it up on YouTube, Jacobson remarked.
Before she rules...Jacobson agreed to allow (the) head of EPU to submit a secret certification by June 12 to explain why the state believes the records should remain confidential...
P.S. And here's the best part -- SIX weeks later, the video is STILL there!
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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?
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Jun 2015
#56
You rock Laxman!!! While the non-memories of "Fitzmas" still hurt, I think this is different...
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Jun 2015
#61
I have said all along, he will never get convicted of any crime. He seems to let others....
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#73
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#80
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#85
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Aug 2015
#98
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Aug 2015
#99
Didn't Christie just fantasize about beating a woman and then serving her with a subpoena?
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Feb 2016
#138