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New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie is in some hot water he just
finished just did
a nonstop just endless press conference
discussing why as he claims his
aids partially shut down access to the George Washington Bridge on the New
Jersey side
all apparently as a means a retaliation
against the mayor of or Lee New Jersey this is unbelievable
according to CBS News and The Associated Press Governor Chris Christie
says he knew nothing a plan by some of his closest aides
to create traffic jams leading to the George Washington Bridge
as political pay-back against the town mayor
the most horrific part of all this
a political stunt that chris Christie says he knew nothing about
lead to emergency responders being delayed
in attending 24 medical situations
including one where a 91-year-old woman was unconscious
due to traffic gridlock caused by these unannounced lane closures
that woman was late getting care
and ended up dying chris Christie asked how he feels about that he says he feels
horribly
and that he can't change history and I think evidence that he can't change
history lewis's in that
if he could change history he probably would have started that absurd press
conference all over again because it was just
under insanity the whole thing is insanity
and and are we really to believe that this was only
orchestrated by his staff I mean that bats
that seems outrageous well let's go let's talk about that at that the key
points from the press conference
are that chris Christie apologize to the people for early in the state of New
Jersey
he is going to go to Fort Lee and personally apologize to the town
he fire deputy chief of staff Bridget and Kelly
and he also ordered bill Stepien to withdraw his name from consideration to
be chairman
the New Jersey Republican Party and also to stop consulting for the Republican
Governors Association
he also said that the behavior exhibited here was
unacceptable he also says he had no involvement at all in the planning and
execution of this
if it is true that chris Christie had no knowledge of this
he may be able to avoid some of the further negative repercussions
if at some point Louis chris Christie is determined
to actually have had some knowledge of what was going on
he is absolutely done oh yeah
no shot whatsoever becoming president if this to if this jury
if this is true then that's perfect because
someone who does this would clearly have no concern
for anyone who is stuck in traffic or had somewhere to be your
your no concern for any other repercussions up doing something like
this
let's also analyze what you wanted to talk about their Louis which is he
just had no involvement in on whether we believe that or not how far does this go
because
ultimately the you know we hear this the buck stops with the elected official
but if the elected official can really be completely
a if they can completely avoid responsibility by saying that their
staff did
well why are we even voting for the elected official we should just be
electing the staff I've never really
bought into the total lack of responsibility I understand you can say
listen
this person was wrong this person has been fired blah blah blah
but I'm taking full responsibility and this idea that he just is not involved
at all seems completely pathetic to me
right I you know in most
businesses in most situations crap flows downhill they say right right
by Dana political role I think it's the opposite I think it I think it goes up
it that
your lets are what what will follow the chris Christie story and see what ends
up happening he's getting hammered Louis by both Democrats and Republicans
left-wing media right-wing media right now
and this could be a pretty bad thing for him