Christie Crime Digest-Volume IV

[Laxman]

128. Why Did It Take So Long....

for the true picture of Christie to come to light? He's just so bad it is incredible. But, at least the piling on has begun. An apt description of the phoney tough guy:

The growling, tough guy who chased and put down hecklers oversaw a coterie of “cowards” who turned Kelly into a sacrificial scapegoat for Christie’s presidential ambitions, according to Critchley.

The profanity hurling, insult doling, bottle throwing coward who saves his most vitriolic outbursts for women. (anybody else notice that?) Just a disgusting slob.

Christie cast in new role on his old turf

For nearly seven years, former federal prosecutor Chris Christie strung together an impressive winning streak of convictions by mining New Jersey’s culture of corruption.

But on Monday, Bridget Anne Kelly, co-defendant in the George Washington Bridge lane closing case, made a last-ditch bid at survival, casting herself as a casualty in the culture of Christie.

During his heyday as U.S. attorney for New Jersey from 2001 to 2008, defense attorneys complained that Christie’s crusading against what he called the “disease of public corruption that spread like wildfire from south to north” made it impossible for their clients to get a fair trial.

On Monday, Kelly and her wily and theatrical defense attorney Michael Critchley played the anti-Christie card on a jury drawn from a public that has turned sour on the once-indomitable Christie, and whose reputation as a bully had long preceded him — and was deepened by the seven-week trial in Newark.

Read the rest here: http://www.northjersey.com/news/stile-christie-cast-in-new-role-on-his-old-turf-1.1685721