>>>>>The plot thickens nicely.
>>>>>This one has Watergate written all over it for our rotund leader.
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/christie-aide-tied-to-bridge-lane-closings.html?hp&_r=0
>>>>>
>>>>>It's too bad because he's a pretty good governor.
>>>>>
>>>>>Way back when Cornelius Ryan called it "A Bridge Too Far."
>>>>
>>>>I'm not seeing the big scandal here. It sounds like the work of misguided aide(s) Unless something is proven, I take Christie at his word that he didn't know anything about it.
>>>>
>>>>Full disclosure: I like Chris Christie. Even if he does belong to the wrong party ;-)
>>>
>>>Mike, months ago he was supposed to investigate the matter, and clearly puff-balled it.
>>>
>>>You know I'm not a Democrat, but this is actually quite serious.
>>
>>Exactly.
>>He's a former US Attorney and knows how to dig if he wants to.
>>These emails were accessible to him months ago.
>>
>>There's more news waiting to escape from under this steaming heap.
>>Some of my friends here are well placed in the NJ repub scheme and they have all but kissed his national aspirations goodbye.
>
>Wow. Maybe it's more serious than I think. I'm from the old school and would like to see some kind of evidence linking him personally to the lane closings before saying he is no longer a candidate for President. It's still a ways out but to me it looks like the two serious Republican candidates are Christie and Rand Paul. (As a Democrat I am rooting for Ted Cruz).

FWIW, this wasn't low-level people doing this, but top-level aides. He fired his assistant chief of staff today over this. Also, this has been a local story for months and months, but he never investigated (or at least, never admitted he had). You know how it goes, it's not the event that kills you, but the cover-up.

Tamar