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In reply to the discussion: POLICE UNION IMPLICATED IN BRIDGEGATE OWED HUNDREDS OF JOBS TO CHRISTIE [View all]SunSeeker
(57,911 posts)46. Poor Bill, if only MSNBC would feature Playboy models, maybe he'd still be interested.
Maher can be quite the douchebag at times.
Seriously Bill, Bridgate is like Benghazi? Except that one was a made-up scandal and the other was an intentional stoppage of traffic for a week on our nation's busiest bridge for no other reason than illegal political retribution by the administration of the GOP's leading contender for 2016. Yeah, nothing to see here. Move along.
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POLICE UNION IMPLICATED IN BRIDGEGATE OWED HUNDREDS OF JOBS TO CHRISTIE [View all]
kpete
Feb 2014
OP
"they should have started investigating the day a union backed a Republican."
SunSeeker
Feb 2014
#26
Maybe you should suggest to your friend to look up how much firemen/paramedics make in
okaawhatever
Feb 2014
#43
OOOH that is an excellent point! This particular friend is in Jax Fla....
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#48
Poor Bill, if only MSNBC would feature Playboy models, maybe he'd still be interested.
SunSeeker
Feb 2014
#46
You know, this makes one wonder how much of this kind of shit goes on everyday...
KansDem
Feb 2014
#8
Spin alert: the word "union" is overused, perhaps not even germane, in this article.
Scuba
Feb 2014
#11
I don't know know how the PA interacts with NY & NJ, but how could Christie guarantee
catbyte
Feb 2014
#14
The police and firemen in my town are directly connected to elected officials, as well.
lindysalsagal
Feb 2014
#18
So what do you think they deserve? Other than endorsing Christie what did they do wrong?
A Simple Game
Feb 2014
#22
So it's worse than I thought, they are picking on individual members. n/t
A Simple Game
Feb 2014
#47
I don't disagree with regard to the union leadership, it may be bad and probably is.
A Simple Game
Feb 2014
#60
Police should not be able to unionize for the same reason the military is not allowed to unionize.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2014
#25
In Texas, Rick Perry and Texas AG and Gubanatoral candidate Greg Abbott alternate
Dustlawyer
Feb 2014
#32
