Republican Chris Christie's Confidant Guilty in Bridge Scandal

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  May 01, 2015 4:11 PM GMT

  NYT: David Wildstein, a high school classmate of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, ordered the closing of several access lanes to the bridge in September 2013. Two more indictments are expected.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/nyregion/christie-ally-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-george-washington-bridge-lane-closing-case.html

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  May 01, 2015 7:17 PM GMT

  Gov. Chris Christie is not presidential material
  

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  May 01, 2015 7:33 PM GMT

  woodsmen said Two more indictments are expected.

  
  They're not just expected. Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly were both indicted on April 24th, but the indictments were unsealed today, presumably waiting for Wildstein to plead guilty. Now comes the fun part: in order to try to reduce his sentence, Wildstein is going to sing like the biggest canary there ever was. And the tune will be music to my ears.
  
  See, Republicans---this is what an actual scandal looks like. Not your fake-ass ginned-up Clinton lies.

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  May 01, 2015 9:12 PM GMT

  NYT: There is a growing risk that the in-your-face instincts that helped make Governor Christie a credible contender for the presidency may put that goal out of reach.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/nyregion/charges-in-bridge-scandal-pose-trouble-for-chris-christie.html

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  May 01, 2015 10:42 PM GMT

  if people love their children i hope Christie dosnt get the nod.

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  May 01, 2015 11:56 PM GMT

  NYT: Brigid Harrison, a professor of political science at Montclair State University who has studied Mr. Christie closely for years, said the indictments of Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni, once two of the governor’s most loyal and trusted lieutenants, spelled the death knell for his national aspirations.
  
  “Even if he is not directly connected to the indictments,” Professor Harrison said, “he is guilty of creating a political culture in which corruption was allowed to flourish.”
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/nyregion/charges-in-bridge-scandal-pose-trouble-for-chris-christie.html?

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  May 02, 2015 12:07 AM GMT

  NYT: Mr. Christie and his staff have a history of punishing those who have crossed him. There was the state college professor whose budget was vetoed after he failed to sign off on a project that Mr. Christie favored. The mayor of Jersey City whose meetings with the governor’s staff were summarily canceled hours after he said he would not endorse Mr. Christie’s re-election. The attempt, even before the lane closings, to freeze out the mayor of Fort Lee for failing to back Mr. Christie.
  
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  May 02, 2015 6:51 AM GMT

  NYT: No matter how Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey spins the George Washington Bridge scandal as he eyes a run for president, one thing should be clear: These are his people, charged with a conspiracy to exact revenge against a local mayor by closing lanes to one of the world’s busiest bridges.
  
  Responsibility for the George Washington Bridge scandal cannot be palmed off on subordinates.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/opinion/governor-christies-people.html

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  May 03, 2015 1:14 AM GMT

  Christie Attempting to Salvage Disappearing Presidential Hope
  
  NYT: As the federal indictments for the lane closings on the George Washington Bridge were announced, Gov. Chris Christie and his aides were reaching out to donors and supporters.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/us/politics/christies-white-house-hopes-seem-to-be-fading.html

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  May 03, 2015 6:23 AM GMT

  WSJ/NBC Poll: 57% of GOP Won't Support Chris Christie
  
  NYT: Even before Friday’s news, Mr. Christie seemed to be facing cemented opposition within his own party. A March Wall Street Journal/NBC poll revealed that 57 percent of Republican primary voters said they could not see themselves supporting him, the highest number among potential candidates except Donald Trump. Mr. Christie’s campaign aides have declined to say how much money he has raised so far this year; unlike many of his rivals, he appears to lack a prominent wealthy donor prepared, at this point, to sustain a campaign with a multimillion-dollar contribution.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/us/politics/Christies-Camp-Mobilizes-to-Salvage-White-House-Hopes.html?

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  May 03, 2015 5:08 PM GMT

  NYT: Influential Republican party figures have started to publicly write him off. After Friday’s indictment, Alex Castellanos, who advised Mitt Romney in 2008, summed up the views of Mr. Christie’s detractors: “Now we’ve learned that his political style is contagious. He infected his own government with it.”
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/us/politics/Christies-Camp-Mobilizes-to-Salvage-White-House-Hopes.html?

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  May 03, 2015 5:25 PM GMT

  Did Mr. Christie have a role?
  
  NYT: Mr. Wildstein (Gov. Christie's boyhood friend) and others have said that Mr. Christie knew about the lane closings as they were happening. The governor himself has given different answers about what he knew, and when. He has forcefully denied knowing about them before they occurred. But even knowing about the closings is not a federal crime.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/nyregion/george-washington-bridge-scandal-what-you-need-to-know.html?ref=politics

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  May 04, 2015 3:54 AM GMT

  NYT: Even a gentle inching away from Gov. Chris Christie would represent a significant departure for New Jersey Republicans, who have tied their fortunes to the governor’s since 2009.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/nyregion/christies-grip-on-republican-politics-in-new-jersey-shows-signs-of-slipping.html?ref=politics

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  May 08, 2015 4:23 AM GMT

  Chris Christie Defends Scandalized Tom Brady
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/07/verbatim-chris-christie-defends-tom-brady/

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