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chris Christie but my to finally done back it might be
totally in utterly over I think it's an outlook he's been surrounded
by controversy someone devastated not only the clothes on a George Washington
Bridge the people were informed did
I it appears under his orders I
any pretended not to know anything about it and found out all my I'm shocked at a
gas to find out they close the bridge for political purposes
and the through a couple min under a bus but that didn't really help us
case too much but then we found out that he was misusing hurricane sandy
relief I'll money which is outrageous
in a lot of cases he was your you know
directing the money the towns that then I get a effected by superstorm sandy
at all okay and sometimes on real estate projects
with allies appears that were political and financial allies
including by the way shaquille o'neill who wind up endorsing a man doing in
add form right before his reelection turns out there was a financial tie
to a real estate property that got that superstorm sandy money
so I mean it's as dirty as it gets in fact
now a revelation show that $25 million dollars over superstorm sandy relief
money
was misused for political reasons
okay that's a gigantic sum and its horrible
now for the George Washington Bridge story it turns out that the
Port Authority that new jersey is obviously happen control over if you
don't know
New York New Jersey run the Port Authority together all the tunnels and
bridges that connect New York and New Jersey
at well he use it as a de facto political operation according to
a story from the New York Times now that near-term story just came out for
something to be the poll numbers before this last devastating turn
for the first time in a long time he is now
in a underwater meaning that he's more on popular popular in New Jersey
forty-one percent approve Chris Caesar job performance
44 percent disapprove that numbers about to get much much worse but understand
that since November he's already lost want the points
in popularity that's an enormous nosedive
ok it's a house going to get worse well that brings us to the New York Times
story
where they explain that chris Christie
used memorabilia from 9-11
for political purposes as gifts to politicians
who endorse a you can recover from that
so here's the new york times explaining for a state that was hundreds of lives
on Sept 11 the gifts or
emotionally resonant pieces of steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center
they're presented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
220 carefully chosen New Jersey mayors who sat atop a list
a 100 whose endorsements Governor Chris Christie
hope to wear are bribing people
with actual steal from the 9/11
wreckage come on man you can't that's
cesses people as it gets in politics you can't recover from that it's over it's
over over over
I mean you think the Democrats would use that against them
in a republican primary they would pose guts out a show to mince
be it is bass are you kidding me they're not gonna let him get away with this is
done it
more from the New York Times turning records have the twin towers in the
politically motivated gives before mister christie 2030 reelection
was only one example the authority became a means to reward friends or hire
them
and punish adversaries and a bank to be use when mister Chris the sought to
avoid raising taxes
so now look this'll be a small part of the story
that won't get talked about as much still talk about how I use 911
wreckage etcetera and that's it eased up okay stick a fork in em
the fat lady sings he's gone ovah over
okay so now but the Polisario will get that much tension is a very endeavor
so he said hi I'm John talk on personal concern about how to raise taxes
so heat but he had to pay the bills are you paying bills
he would close out projects that the state
desperately-needed any would take the money that was allocated those projects
use it as partners are you a bug you believe what I did raise taxes you often
use a port authority to do that cuz he closed down
really important bridges or tunnels they're working on and then take the
money
but he got worse but he also this major policy initiatives such as instituting a
large toll and fare increase in 2011
we're treated like political campaigns to burnish the governor's
image he said well I'm not to raise taxes were due
I'm a razor tolls now who
do who pays the talks middle-class Americans
guys from Jersey who work in New York or
going across the bridge is in the tunnels they gotta pay more for the
tolls
so in one of the cases four dollars and fifty cents burnt red
it's incredibly say expensive so that's a tax
but that's a tax that disproportionately hits the middle class
and not the Rich you the rich could take their bridge and tunnel from Jersey to
New York to
but that's a tiny tiny tiny percentage of their income
if you raised income taxes that would be a much bigger number
rate so you don't raise income taxes thereby she'll the rich
and you take a toll increase which is a de facto tax
and you put on the middle class that's how these republicans do it
that's actually in some ways a bigger crime
because that's how the redistribute the wealth from the poor the middle class
to the rich and by the way chris Christie defy somehow
money to lower taxes on corporations
in New Jersey so you pay more going over the bridge to go to work
but corporations pay less all right now one last part of this
just add a little insult to injury they knew that raising the toll
fees would be really unpopular so get a lot of the trick that they did
York Times explains mister christie instructed the group to propose a plan
for six dollar increase for cars
by 2014 he told them that he would publicly real
against it and the EU si wouldn't agree to a lower number
easing the inevitable political fallout while still getting new income
according to a person who was briefed by an attendee and the participants
and what was said and adds exactly what they did
in the public record you see the Port Authority all we have to one another we
can do we did a study
found out that it we've got a a raise the toll by six dollars
and then by the way New York Governor Cuomo's democrat and chris Christie book
about
outrageous we will protect our taxpayers will protect our citizens
due to lower that number initially remain long in 24 like
look so when get away with four dollars and fifty cents so if the
lower red take increasing it by four dollars and fifty cents
and they say we are champing at the people meanwhile according to the
attendees
they cooked up the whole plant so they could shift the burden onto you
and then take credit for protecting you
now that you know what chris Christie's about you
who in their right mind would vote for that guy