...of anti-Semitism.
Remember those documents David Wildstein turned over to the state investigative committee? Parts of them were blacked out, and Wildstein said he could delivered them non-blacked out in exchange for immunity. Well, he has since released the un-blacked out records -- sort of:
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Juicy Details From The Brand New 'Bridgegate' Documents
The new documents include a text message exchange from Aug. 19 in which Christie's former Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, Bridget Anne Kelly, joked with Wildstein about causing "traffic problems" to take revenge against a rabbi who crossed him...
"We cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we?" Kelly replied.
"Flights to Tel Aviv all mysteriously delayed," said Wildstein...
(T)he new documents show other Christie aides discussed how to handle questions from the press and politicians about the closures. There was also an indication an unnamed figure Wildstein referred to as "general" was in on the conversation...Later portions of that conversation were redacted.
A few tipsters have pointed out the "General" may be Port Authority Chairman David Samson...a former New Jersey attorney general...
The newly unredacted documents include an exchange from Nov. 25 where Baroni asks Wildstein for feedback on the testimony. In what seems to be an indication they were indeed in the loop with O'Toole, Wildstein also updated Baroni..."O'Toole statement ready," he wrote...
On Nov. 12 of last year, Baroni sent Wildstein a text that was perhaps indicative of the mounting pressure Christie's allies faced amid growing questions about the closures.
"Are we being fired?" he wrote. Later portions of that conversation were redacted...
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Baroni wondered if he was about to be fired?
That doesn't mesh with what Christie has said:
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You will remember that Bill Baroni resigned from the port authority in December as the Bridge gate scandal was slowly starting to build. Governor Christie announced that Bill Baroni was leaving the port authority. And at the time, he said that Mr. Baroni`s resignation had nothing to do with the bridge controversy at all. The governor said at the time, quote, "this was nothing I had not planned already."
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Christie appeared to have scored a tactical coup by appointing a new head of the state ethics commission.
But maybe not:
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In 2010, John F. McKeon, a New Jersey assemblyman, made what he thought was a mild comment on a radio program: Some of the public employees that Gov. Chris Christie was then vilifying had been some of the governor’s biggest supporters. He was surprised to receive a handwritten note from Mr. Christie, telling him that he had heard the comments, and that he didn’t like them.
“I thought it was a joke,” Mr. McKeon recalled. “What governor would take the time to write a personal note over a relatively innocuous comment?”
But the gesture would come to seem genteel compared with the fate suffered by others in disagreements with Mr. Christie: a former governor who was stripped of police security at public events; a Rutgers professor who lost state financing for cherished programs; a state senator whose candidate for a judgeship suddenly stalled; another senator who was dis-invited from an event with the governor in his own district.
In almost every case, Mr. Christie waved off any suggestion that he had meted out retribution. But to many, the incidents have left that impression, and it has been just as powerful in scaring off others who might dare to cross him...
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Well wave THIS off, Governor Soprano: Mr. McKeon was appointed to head the state's Assembly Judiciary Committee -- which means that while Republicans may control the committee that rules on ethics violations, Democrats control the committee that rules on impeachment proceedings!