I've had time to look through Christie's self-exonerating
report and
summary, and it looks like the root of his problems is that he has been undermined by a scorned slut, a nerdy lunatic, and a paranoid incompetent. The good news is, Christie hired only two of them.
Former Deputy Chief of Staff Turned Scorned Slut Bridget "Bridge(t)-Gate" Kelly
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From the summary:
...(I)n August 2013...Kelly had become Deputy Chief of Staff, assuming the post left vacant by her predecessor, (Bill) Stepien, who had departed in April 2013 to run the Governor’s re-election campaign. Because Stepien was her “benefactor,” Kelly relied heavily on him during this transition. And at some point after Stepien’s departure to run the campaign, Kelly and Stepien became personally involved, although, by early August 2013, their personal relationship had cooled, apparently at Stepien’s choice, and they largely stopped speaking...
From the report:
Evidence in Kelly`s personal life may have had some bearing on her subjective motivations. Her first known communication to David Wildstein about the lane closures occurred around the time her relationship with Bill Stepien had cooled. Apparently at Bill Stepien`s behest and Stepien and Kelly had largely stopped speaking. Indeed, that fact may have affected how Kelly and Stepien conducted themselves...
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Kelly gave the order to put a New Jersey town in gridlock because she got dumped? She's been a divorcee since 2012, he's single, and they worked in different departments for Christie, so they had neither a "workplace relationship" nor an "affair." But you know how women are -- she probably mistook the "reliance" Stepien was providing to be a "grand romance."
Former #2 Man at the Port Authority Turned Nerdy Lunatic David "I Don't Have To Show You No Stinking Resume" Wildstein
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From the summary:
...Wildstein started pressing Port Authority engineers to assess the traffic effects resulting from the dedicated Fort Lee toll lanes leading onto the George Washington Bridge...Indeed, Wildstein himself first raised the issue in late 2010. For some reason yet to be determined, Wildstein seemed to be driving this issue again in 2013. It was Wildstein’s “idea,” like so many other “crazy” ones he’d had before that never got off the ground.
From the report:
Wildstein communicated the concept of a traffic study, which Stepien apparently dismissed as one of Wildstein’s “50 crazy ideas.”
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And how did such a crazy person get to be the #2 man at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey? Christie certainly should have provided some advance warning -- they were on the baseball team in high school (Christie as a player, Wildstein as a statistician). More to the point, Wildstein's job was created, and his resume was never required. How could that have happened without the governor's approval?
Paranoid Incompetent Hoboken Mayor Turned Public Fund Extortion Victim Dawn Zimmer
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From the report:
Our investigation found that Mayor Zimmer’s allegations are, in material respects, demonstrably false...the subjective perceptions she may have do not match objective reality, as reflected in the hard evidence uncovered during our investigation...
Even crediting this notebook’s contents as genuine, however, they are only as accurate as the perceptions of the writer...what other witnesses say she then told them is not corroboration either because it is as unreliable as the perceptions she recounts...
Whatever subjective perceptions she may have do not match objective reality, as reflected in the hard evidence uncovered during our investigation.
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As for Dawn Zimmer, she just doesn't know how to play with "the big boys." Having led an anti-gentrification faction that took over Hoboken she's seen her town get flooded twice, including valuable railroad equipment in the train station, and her inability to be taken seriously is leading to delusions. The report contains photos of her talking with Richard Constable and notes, "A person does not normally yawn when being threatened, coerced, or spoken to improperly." But according to them, she's NOT a normal person, is she? And does a normal person accept extortion threats?