Monday Open Thread [4.7.14]
I missed this on Friday because I was busy with work, but the US Attorney in New Jersey has convened a grand jury to investigate Governor Christie’s involvement.
“The convening of the grand jury is evidence that the U.S. Attorney’s investigation has progressed beyond an inquiry and moved to the criminal phase.” Newark Star Ledger: “Legal experts say the hearing of grand-jury testimony is an important development that means U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman has accumulated enough evidence to move past a preliminary inquiry into the controversial lane closings and into a grand jury investigation of them.”
Indeed. If there wasn’t something there, there would be no grand jury investigation. Another question: why did Chris Christie’s administration trash
Bridgett Kelly in their “independent” report? She seems to be a key player in all of this, and could sink Christie if there really is something there there. It seems stupid to antagonize her.
Well, the trashing of Kelly and the convening of the Grand Jury tells me that Kelly has flipped and is providing state’s evidence. So now Christie et al are trashing her credibility.
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“If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus-odd times.” – Sen. Angus King (I-ME), in an interview on MSNBC, on Vice President Cheney defending the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA under the Bush administration.
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GEORGIA–GOVERNOR–Landmark/Rosetta Stone: Gov. Nathan Deal (R) 43, Jason Carter (D) 39, with 18% undecided.
PENNSYLVANIA–GOVERNOR–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY–Franklin & Marshall: Tom Wolf 33, Rep. Allyson Schwartz 7, Other candidates 10, Undecided 46.
LOUISIANA–US SENATE–Magellan Strategies (R): Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) 39, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) 26. Louisiana holds its open primary election on the date of the general election everywhere else for reasons passing understanding. There are several other Republican candidates running besides Cassidy, but they are all “in the low single digits.”
Could Louisiana hold their elections this way because their laws are based on the Napoleonic Code? Like the run-off elections in modern-day France? Dunno, just wondering.
Has it occurred to anyone to even start an investigation of Karen Weldin Stewart, Gene Reed, and INSRIS for wrongfully seizing Indemnity Insurance, ousting its CEO, Jeff Cohen, and looting the previously solvent company’s assets because Mr. Cohen supported Mitch Crane in the 2012 primary? Politically motivated retaliation, same as Christie who’s been hounded from day one. The damages from KWS’s actions far outstrip those caused by Christie’s but that doesn’t seem to matter.
Oh wait…Christie is a Republican (although in name only) and KWS and her cronies are Democrats. Of course nothing will be done. Nothing is ever done about corrupt Democrats in one-party Delaware, except if they’re a threat to some other politician, like Chip Flowers. Being as stupid as she is corrupt, KWS is a threat to no one. Hope you’re all looking forward to her third McDowell-enabled term in a couple of years.
Yet again, please provide evidence to relevant parties. Allegations without evidence is pissing into the wind.
If you’re not going to provide evidence, kindly shove your comment back where it came from.
“Again” what? Relevant parties have the evidence. Unfortunately for you, you’re not one of them.
Academy of Dover is the worst elementary school in Delaware. DO NOT send your child there.
“Again” because another “anonymous” has been telling — but not showing — everyone that KWS is crooked for years now.
Why is it “unfortunate” for me that I”m not one of them? I want to see this information come out, and I don’t care who brings it forward. Who are the parties you have given the evidence to? Media? AG’s office?
“Politically motivated retaliation, same as Christie who’s been hounded from day one.”
If your information is as false as this statement, I understand why you won’t present it. Chris Christie had been anything BUT “hounded from day one.” Quite the reverse. Rupert Murdoch spent millions trying to promote him as presidential timber, and his many sins were forgotten the moment he was elected governor.