Christie Crime Digest-Volume IV

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79. If Barlyn's attitude and job peformance sucked that much

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proving it in court should have been a piece of cake...or should I say, a box of donuts?

NJ.com, June 2013: An intern in the governor's office...brought into the Statehouse a box of doughnuts doctored with the words "Christie Crème" and "Expanding Nationwide in 2016!!!"

Spoofing on the iconic white and green polka-dotted Krispy Kreme design, the box also featured the banner “Serving New Jersey Since 2010,” the year the Republican governor took office.

In a photograph obtained by The Star-Ledger, the box is shown on a table with other desserts.

Christie's spokesman, Michael Drewniak, made light of it, saying the intern simply took a cue from a late-night host 's recent quips about the governor...calling him "Christie Creme doughnut" among other names.

"I think this intern needed to leave the doughnut jokes to Jimmy Fallon," Drewniak said.

NJ.com, Oct. 2016: Renna testified ...about her increasingly troubled relationship with her boss (Kelly) and a pact with a co-worker to quit after being passed over for a promotion...(S)he complained in a text message: "I'm super pissed off. And I'm a grudge holder..."

Renna testified how a group of interns was brought into the office and held a bake-off contest as a team-building exercise...One of the interns brought in a doctored box of Krispy Kreme donuts that said: "Christie Crème. Expanding Nationwide in 2016."

After a photo and story appeared on NJ.com and in The Star-Ledger, Renna said the governor and other high-level staff members "all freaked out" and came down on Kelly. But Renna found out the intern wasn't reprimanded.

"She won the [expletive] contest," she complained to a co-worker. "She didn't get into trouble."

Sure, the intern should have been a little more sensitive to Christie's weight issues and his playing coy about running at the time -- "EXPANDING nationwide?" But, as Renna said, she won the (expletive) contest. Was Renna upset that the intern didn't get into trouble because Kelly in turn "freaked out" and "came down" on HER? What were the presumably older and politically wiser "judges" overseeing the contest thinking, and how did the pic get leaked to the media? Christie and his immediate subordinates were right to came down on Kelly because it happened on her watch. But since Renna was mad at Kelly anyway, shouldn't the incident have made her happy -- or is she THAT good at holding grudges?


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