Chris Christie is FINISHED: Gave Pieces Of 9/11 Wreckage As Gifts To Political Cronies!
by Richard Rowe
Pssst...GOP.
You want to know why you're failing, and everyone with an ounce of
moral integrity hates you? Because here's something nobody's ever heard
anyone say before. "Sources report that Bernie Sanders gave away twisted
chunks of 9/11 wreckage as gifts to political supporters." You know
what else nobody's ever heard? "Hillary Clinton caught sending $25
million worth of hurricane disaster relief funds to political allies
in areas undamaged by hurricane." And yet, in yet another sick turn of
scandal in a scandal-plagued year, both of those things can be said
about one man: Tea Party darling Chris Christie.
Yes
indeed, the New York Times just reported on yet another Christie
scandal, this one with a truly sickening twist. As head of the Port
Authority, Christie had access to pieces of wreckage from the 9/11
attacks on New York. Prior to his 2013 re-election, Christie disbursed
pieces of the wreckage to certain New Jersey mayors who topped his list
of must-have endorsements in the state.
Those
mayors lower on Christie's must-have list got consolation prizes in the
form of private tours of the National Sept. 11th memorial and the new
WTC construction site; those less inclined toward morbid interests
simply got Port authority money for jobs programs and new firefighting
equipment...even in towns nowhere near any port. And that isn't the
first time Christie's gotten his pound of fat from the deaths of 3,000
New Yorkers: When New York got more than a bit up in arms when Christie
's top appointee Bill Baroni (who has since resigned in the wake of BridgeGate) said:
[box
type="shadow"]"For the Port Authority, the World Trade Center wasn’t
just a building that we built. It was our home. Its rebuilding is a
passion to the Port Authority, and it’s a passion to our governor and
lieutenant governor."[/box]
Baroni
and Christie later managed to wrangle that passion for rebuilding the
Port Authority's home into more than $1 billion in rebuilding funds from
the government. Not to rebuild the towers, mind you...but to raise the
road-bed of the Bayonne Bridge and rebuild the Pulaski Skyway. Not that
Christie hadn't already had some practice diverting funds earmarked for
disaster relief and rebuilding -- e.g. the disbursement of Sandy funds
to political allies. And you can bet that was a contributing factor to
his slow death at the polls -- for the first time, Christie's
disapproval ratings (at 41 percent) are higher than his job approval
ratings. Turn out that those who play with fire get caught in their own
burning buildings.
Is there anything at this point about Tea Party Christie that HASN'T earned the adjective "morbidly" yet?
H/T: Raw Story
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